French Fishermen Fear For Their Fishing 'rights'

[twix123]

Makes you weep when you think about what has happened to the British fishing fleets and ports over the last 40 years !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/12/brexit-could-boot-french-fishermen-out-of-british-waters/

(I apologise if this has already been discussed)

[Togo]

Gromit, that will now cease. The EU quota system will become a UK quota system. i.e. No quota for Spanish, French, Dutch, or other EU slave nations without OUR say so. It is called negotiation, not the enforced requirements designed to enrich the mandarins (and to provide lavish lifestyles and massive pensions) enforcing the edicts of the EUSSR.

[retrocop]

The French should be banned from fishing in any water. French fishermen are ecological pirates. Go and look at the market stalls and see the size of much of their fish and crabs. Tiddlers. They just hoover them up and if too small just bung in a bouillabaisse instead of returning them to the sea.

[shaneystar2]

The big fishing fleets were finished long before the EU came along with their quotas .
I live near what was one of the biggest fishing ports on the east coast and my Dad was a trawlerman .The herring fishing was in serious decline already in the 1950's .The last big fleet sailed out of here around 1955 and my Dad was out of a job as were many others like him.It had a huge knock on effect to the fishing industry as a whole . The gutting sheds where the scots lassies ,who came down from Aberdeen,used to gut the herring became a factory making fish fingers using imported cod .Most of the herring was exported to Russia and Germany anyway.Shame my Dad is no longer here to tell it like it was.
They had fished the sea dry!!
Little history lesson:)
http://www.gorlestonhistory.org.uk/fishing/fishing.php

[Old_Geezer]

I think the point being made was that we had a quota already yet already assign it in a way that doesn't favour the small fishermen, but worse, allows foreign ships either flying our flag, or not, have the lion's share. Whilst a change of control may be a psychological point too make change, there wasn't any reason not to do it differently before and one has to expect nothing will much change after.

Whether the fish levels are already beyond help is another matter. Fishing still goes on, so we have to believe the stocks either has recovered or can slowly recover if the will is there. Lower catches could well increase the cost of fish, but if it does it would only indicate fish was being sold too cheaply before and man was abusing the resource.

[Old_Geezer]

...point to make...