Re: EU Overfishing UK waters??
Originally Posted by
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Your quotas from Norway are based on zonal attachment as ours will be. Your celebrating failure again.
We don't need reciprocal quota and we aren't in the single market like Norway is (although that looks to change soon and the UK and Norway will control pretty much all the fisheries).
My bet is Norway leave the single market altogether because it gets nothing the EU as well.
Then you will have nothing.
Remains the fact that the UK has no fishing rights in norwegian waters. Worse still, there are no negotiations going on between norway and the UK, while norway is busy talking with the EU.
Your so called new concept of zonal attachment is based on scientific data, which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has begun to calculate for the UK. But it rarely gives a precise answer to the question of what fish belong where – which is perhaps why the
EU and Norway, which have claimed to apply the zonal attachment principle for four decades, have never disclosed the exact methodology behind their calculations. Imagine a herring which is spawned in Norwegian waters, spends some time off the Dutch coast, and then is eventually caught in the UK’s EEZ. Which zone should it be counted under?
The answer – and thus the exact split of quotas between the UK, the EU, and Norway – could be amenable to political fudge.