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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I think there's also been a deliberate positioning of necessary stock management in order to cultivate anti-EU sentiment. I more than appreciate that Brexit is not about economics.
Obviously, fishing impacts small areas quite dramatically which is why it does not make sense for French fishermen for the switch to be turned off overnight but to ensure a managed change to a new system or for British fishermen to lose access to the markets where most of its catches are sold.
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It didn't help that Defra sold large chunks of the UK quota to large multinationals so the UK small boat fleet which is 77% of the UK fleet has 4% of the quota. 49% of the English quota is owned by foreign companies. National governments distribute their quotas as they see fit.
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/201...-michael-gove/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52420116
Of course, we will have a catch 22 situation where, if talks collapse over fishing rights, then UK the UK fishing industry will not have agreed quotas with the EU but fish landed in the UK will be subject to tariffs and possible non-tariff barriers if exported to the EU so we win one one hand and lose on the other.