When I first read
the title of this article I thought that I'd strayed on to the BBC food site; as I've said on a number of occasions, the BBC site really does need to employ more proof readers.
However, more seriously, I'd say that British fishermen are on to a hiding to nothing over these, or any other, proposed restrictions. Sad as it is to say, they were sold down the river many years ago when the EU common fisheries policy was agreed; they simply haven't enough electoral or financial clout, and British governments, Conservative as well as Labour, have been quite prepared to ignore their interests.
In addition, the fact that we British are willing to make at least a vague attempt to obey the law, as opposed to the French and, especially, the Spanish fishermen, who couldn't give a damn, doesn't help.
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