If The Uk Pulls Out Of The London Fisheries Convention How Will The New Exclusion Zone Be Policed?

[sandyRoe]

http://news.sky.com/story/uk-pulls-out-of-london-fisheries-convention-to-stop-countries-fishing-in-british-waters-10934022

[Old_Geezer]

Naval gunboats. Do we get the same area as ours as Iceland does ?

[sandyRoe]

It's an area between 6 and 12 miles offshore. I think Iceland claimed a far bigger area.

[scooping]

The key is to make the penalties so severe - like the confiscation of a £3million vessel and the catch - that it tends to police itself to a large degree, with the aid of aerial serveillance, coastguard vigilance, a few fisheries protection vessels and communication with the British fishing fleet.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps,if we push the zone edge back to Calais, the French could police it for us.

[mikey4444]

Send a gunboat !

[ToraToraTora]

it's police itself, the British boats will report the foreigners, big fines, confiscations etc, simples.

[mikey4444]

Doesn't Britain already have fisheries protection vessels ?

[anotheoldgit]

Just as we did before we became a member of the EU.

[Gromit]

It won't have to be policed, it will be business as usual.

Foreign trawlers will register and be flagged as British, and fish the British waters, but land their catches abroad. This is already happening.

Take the case of the Cornelis Vrolijk. It operates out of Hull under a British flag. The British Government (not the EU) have allocated it 23% of the total British quota, while small boats get a fraction or none of the quota. It is a Dutch owned vessel, and lands its catch in Holland.

Of course the London Convention works both ways. British vessels that currently fish in Irish, French, Spanish and Dutch waters, will now be barred from doing so.

[Gromit]

The 'Cornelis Vrolijk' is currntly hoovering up fish off the coast of Scotland. And will continue to do so when we break the London Convention agreement.

http://maritime-connector.com/ship/cornelis-vrolijk-8707537/

[Gromit]

Rather than ramping up our ability to police our own waters, the Government has been busy cutting funds to the organisation tasked with monitoring, capturing and prosecting illegal fishing.

// Far fewer pirate fishermen are being caught in English and Welsh waters, with prosecutions, warnings and inspections all plummeting in recent years following cuts at the enforcement agency.

The reduction in action against illegal fishing, a multimillion-pound activity, is putting marine life at risk and allowing “blackfish” to become a normal catch for some rogue operators, according to experts. Those convicted of major fishing crimes are also free to continue fishing afterwards.

The steep drop in activity is revealed in data that the enforcement agency, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), released to Greenpeace in response to freedom of information requests.

It shows that the annual number of prosecutions fell to 14 in 2014 and 2015, compared with an average of 23 in each of the three years before. Written and verbal warnings have fallen by 66% and 53% respectively over the last five years. Inspecting the lorries carrying fish from ports is also vital to prevent fraud, but these checks have fallen by almost half since 2013. //

The announcement on the London Convention is little more than propaganda to cheer up the Conservative Party's Brexiteers, it won't actually protect 'British' fish.

[sandyRoe]

Gromit, are you saying many of these 'British' fish will have had their chips?

[Gromit]

No.
I am saying that when we roll back the Common Fisheries Policy, we are going to get battered.

[weecalf]

T May has it sorted ,she will call a snap election and leave it to Jeremy to sort out .

[Togo]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-to-take-back-control-of-waters-after-exiting-from-fishing-convention/ar-BBDzH3U?li=BBoPWjQ

Plus two great big shiny aircraft carriers. :))

[Togo]

//Gove said that leaving the European Union would also involve exiting the EU common fisheries policy which allows all European countries access between 12 and 200 nautical miles of the UK and sets quotas for how much fish nations can catch.

“When we leave the European Union we will become an independent political state and that means that we can then extend control of our waters up to 200 miles or the median line between Britain and France, and Britain and Ireland,” he said.
“When we leave the European Union we will become an independent political state and that means that we can then extend control of our waters up to 200 miles or the median line between Britain and France, and Britain and Ireland,” he said.//

[Togo]

//Foreign trawlers will register and be flagged as British, and fish the British waters, but land their catches abroad.//

Easy, new conditions of licence stipulate that all fish caught in British waters are landed in ........................errrr Britain.

[Gromit]

// Easy, new conditions of licence stipulate that all fish caught in British waters are landed in Britain. //

It might be easy, but that is not how the Government currently run things. They prefer to work with one Dutch vessel landing a quarter of all the UK quota, instead of thousands of small British boats getting that quota. I suppose granting and processing one license, instead of thousands is 'easy', and less work and expense than precessing thousands.