The Common Fisheries Policy began as a land (or rather, sea) grab, evolved into a stitch-up and grew into an environmentally devastating and commercially disastrous scandal. The EU, UK government and avaricious commercial interests are all to blame – and […]
Earlier this month, Michel Barnier stated that while the UK would regain full sovereignty over its waters post-Brexit, the fish in those waters were ‘another story’. Unfortunately for Barnier, international law proves him completely wrong on this point, writes CIB […]
Fisheries expert John Ashworth explains why the issue of fishing access in the UK-EU negotiations is all about sovereignty. The UK’s fishing waters are as much a part of the UK as the land mass. We wouldn’t gift the EU […]
The government’s draft Fisheries Framework Agreement, the text that sets out the UK’s position in negotiations with the EU over a future fisheries agreement, has now been made public. On a positive note the broad context outlined here looks good […]
With the EU’s demand for undiminished access to UK fishing waters unsurprisingly causing deadlock in the negotiations on the future relationship, Dimitri de Vismes of the French UPR (Union Populaire Républicaine) party provides a useful French perspective on fishing. A […]
Think tank The Red Cell recently published a collection of essays devoted to Fishing and Brexit entitled Net Worth. Over the next few weeks we will be publishing abridged versions of some of those essays, to give our readers a […]
