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Originally Posted by jonbxx
How will Brexit stop DEFRA giving/selling fishing rights to companies like this? It wasn't the EU who divvies up the rights to vessels, it's the UK Government
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Brexit returns the entire regulatory framework to exclusively British control. It is that British control that allows us to set (or re-set) our quotas and the licences that divide them up. It also allows us to make rules about who can buy rights, and how long they can hold them. Within the EU, the UK had no sovereign means of bringing those quota allocations back under UK control. Outside, we do.