A visa programme for experienced fishermen from outside the EEA would throw a lifeline to an industry which is vital to many coastal communities.
Plans to make rehabilitation the primary legal purpose of the system seem to have been dropped after the general election.
During a meeting with other disgruntled Conservative MPs, George Osborne allegedly told the Education Secretary: “Now you see why I didn’t do this.”
The Brexit negotiations and the lack of an obvious successor are likely to keep her in place at least until we leave the EU in March 2019.