Strange one this, I can see the lunacy and I can see the sticking point.
On one side most British fishing fleets sold their quotas to the French and sold their boats. The French take fish we dont eat and sell it in Europe. Inshore we harvest shell fish and sell it in Europe.
In short all our inshore fish goes to Europe. The deep sea fish we eat comes from Iceland (not the supermarket) and the french say they wont allow imports of our fish, the fish we wont be catching because we dont have the boats, but means we loose the shellfish market we do sell.
On the other pro brexit side, It is legally our waters, as an independent nation we would'nt be selling off quotas of our field for the French to come over and take our potatoes.
Either way, the fishing industry in the Uk that Farage wants to protect and everyone voted for does not currently exist, and wont exist because there wont be a market. Fishing communities ceased to be fishing communities half a lifetime ago. ,
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 18 Dec 20 at 18:47
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