Re: BOE Prepared for NO DEAL!! HOORAY!!
Originally Posted by
Donkeyman
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Like Barry, l was for getting a so called deal was the way to go,
If we dont get complete control of our fishing groundss then our
leaders have failed us AGAIN !!
Donkeyman! 😟😟😟
Perhaps first a few facts donks?
But Dr Emma Cardwell, from the University of Glasgow, told the BBC that an enforced change in ownership would be "legally tricky" for the government.
Many parts of the quota were sold by English fishermen in the 1990s when fishing rights were cut dramatically. Cod fishing, for instance, was almost entirely stopped for several years.
Foreign companies then bought it up as a long-term investment, and experts say the quota market has been allowed to develop in an unregulated way ever since.
"There's a lack of clarity on the legal status of fishing rights," Dr Cardwell said, "meaning the government is very vulnerable to litigation if it tries to reallocate quota.
"Any foreign fishing companies that purchased UK quota in good faith would be very likely to sue if this was now taken away from them."
As fishing is a devolved policy, the way the quota is managed differs around the UK.
England and Wales, where a majority voted for Brexit, have both allowed foreign ownership of more than half their fishing quota.
In Wales, which is allocated a tiny share of the UK quota, the figure is as high as 85% of the annual value - most of it held by one big industrial trawler.
But in Scotland, which is responsible for about 60% of the UK quota, only 4% of the annual value in 2019 was in foreign hands. In Northern Ireland the figure was 2%.
"The Scottish fishing industry is largely made up of family-owned businesses," said Elspeth MacDonald, from the Scottish Fishermen's Federation.
"These businesses have developed the industry during the good times and have had the desire and resolve to hold on through difficult times, when others have not."
In conclusion, the loss of fishing rights is mainly an english problem for which they have only themselves to blame.
https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116?in...eporting-story