Britain's Fishing Industry Post-Brexit

[Khandro]

If you would like to protect the future of British fishing you can sign here;
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/204098

[DTCwordfan]

the industry is ***, not worth the effort and political cost - leave them ship their micro-quantities, they give away most of the good fish to the French and Spain to begin with......50 years ago, Newlyn, Whitby and Brixham wouldn't have even featured in the top five - Fleetwood, Aberdeen, Grimbsy etc - they are Division IV ports when you see the likes of Santander.....

[DTCwordfan]

and where are Hull, Lowestoft, Milford H and N Shields today - just about long gone when it comes to fishing.

[KARL]

Togo, no need for a reminder - British vessels need fish in the sea, Icelanders have plenty in theirs and so far as I am aware they have no designs on the poor, struggling stocks in UK waters. They fish in their own waters and the UK has no say at all as to what they catch there which hasn't stopped the UK trying to suggest the fish there actually belongs to the UK (as I explained). That particular attitude reminds you of "What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own" doesn't it ?

[Togo]

//"What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own" doesn't it ?//
It certainly remind me of the EU attitude I must admit.

DT where does the majority of this catch come from do you suspect. Yessss you are correct.

[Togo]

Plus of course the EU will have no objection whatsoever to "giving back" our traditional fishing rights, after all the bleedin fish can go and live over there as well can they not? But guess what the fish don't have a vote on who is allowed to catch them either.

[Khandro]

"The combined EU fishing fleets land about 6 million tonnes of fish per year, of which about 3 million tonnes are from UK waters. The UK's share of the overall EU fishing catch is only 750,000 tonnes." wiki

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make DTCwordfan. Harping back to half a century ago and more like shaneystar, the fishing industry has moved on since then.
What happened was that under the EU policy, individual fisherman, like individual dairy farmers, were given 'quotas' which many soon realised were a negotiable item and when approached by the large Spanish fishing companies (for example) offering them cash sums for their quotas, many saw it as an opportunity to get out of the business, grab the money and retire, which is what they did.

[Togo]

We were bought out by our own money Khandro. The people who "sold" were sick and tired of the political uncertainty and lack of British leadership in the face of a concerted, EU, long term gangster policy.

[Old_Geezer]

"If the UK rescinds its membership of the CFP its EEZ will revert to the exclusive use of UK trawlers."

What's the betting that some deal will be made that involves allowing some access to the EU in exchange for something else ?

[New Judge]

“…but if it has been overfished and mismanaged for many decades (since before joining the Common Market/EU, as shaneystar2 points out) then it will be a long time before it can generously yield sustainably.”

Yes, but as always, it was our decision to over-fish it (if indeed that was what happened) because it was our responsibility and our decision. The CFP took that responsibility and decision away from us. So once again (as with many things to do with the EU) it is not the decision itself that is the issue but rather who is entitled to make it. There is no reason whatsoever why anybody other than the UK Parliament should decide who fishes for what in UK waters. But membership of the EEC/EU has taken that decision away from the UK.

If you believe those decisions are best taken by unelected foreign civil servants then the EU is the place for you. Fortunately the majority of those who voted in our referendum decided otherwise.

[EDDIE51]

It will have exactly zero consequences one way or the other. We have virtually exhausted the supply of fish in European waters. It is already much cheaper to source fish from the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina over 5000 miles away than to fish for it in European waters.
All the fish used for things like fish cakes fish fingers and all other mass produced fish containing food already gets the fish from Argentina anyway.