Time is not on our side. The acid test of whether ”Brexit means Brexit” is Fisheries. While there is no doubt that competency will return from Brussels back to Westminster when we leave, there is a real danger that the […]
A resource such as the marine life – fish, shellfish, and mammals in the 200 nautical mile/median line zone – belongs to the UK, not to Westminster parliamentarians. They are, however, responsible for how it is administered. Furthermore, fishermen are […]
To recap: Some politicians knew right from the start that the CFP amounted to a betrayal of our fishermen When National Fishery limits were extended from the 3 nautical mile limit to 12 and then 200/median line in the 1960s […]
A good fisheries policy could be a means of binding the UK together, mitigating the worst aspects of devolution and maybe even hastening the decline of the Scottish nationalists. Before looking at the reasons why, for the benefit of any […]
Thanks to our membership of the European Union, there are now no “British waters”. Whereas independent countries have control of an area which stretches out 200 nautical miles from the low water shore line (or to the median point when […]
It would be easier for Fisheries if the UK would invoke Article 50 and do nothing more. This would mean that at the end of two years, we would start with no baggage and a clean slate. We would obviously […]
