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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Should we just call them bar stewards, then?
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Once we leave the EU, all the fish in our territorial waters will be ours. Why is this so difficult for the EU to understand?
We are leaving, but it seems the EU cannot understand the concept of separation.
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From the Express
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/co...ssports-brexit
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A HUGE fuss is being made over the “betrayal” of Britain’s fishing industry with foreign boats allowed to continue harvesting our waters for 21 months after we leave the EU
But it turns out that foreign firms already own a big slice of British fishing rights and will continue to do so permanently. Why? Because British companies sold their quotas. Spanish firms own 88 per cent of Welsh fishing rights and most of the quota from the Bristol Channel to the Scottish border.
Dutch and Icelandic firms control most of our East Coast fishing. European seas are split into sectors and governments hand out quotas specifying how much of each type of fish can be caught. Unlike in other countries the Environment Department allows any or all of its quotas to be sold to foreign trawler firms.
“England and Wales have mismanaged their fishing quota and Brexit will do nothing to put it right,” says law lecturer Tom Appleby.
The fishing industry has largely gone the way of so much of British business, manufacturing and utilities that have been sold off to Chinese, American and other foreign investors with the approval of successive governments.
No use moaning about it now because the family silver has long gone in return for a quick but one-off profit.
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