Grafenwalder wrote:Cannydc wrote:Guest wrote:We can reclaim our fishing rights.
The ones we sold off to the highest bidders years ago ?
lol
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.
Grimsby asked for a "Brexit exemption" after shooting themselves in the foot first.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ ... -70/08/11/
No doubt Sunderland, the North East, all farmers and farmworkers, swathes of Wales, workers in the car industry, Cornwall and others will be looking for similar treatment.
If they voted leave, fuck 'em. Good old karma.