Re: Fishing Industry Berates Westminster
Originally Posted by
Julie1962
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With them all the way, they have been treated dreadfully for years entire communities ignored so politicians can get their snouts in the trough of the EU coffers.
Couldn't agree more, Julie. The CFP has decimated coastal towns, destroyed our fishing industry and caused immense damage to our fish stocks.
Check out the Fish Fight Campaign with Hugh Fearnley Whitingstall (of River Cottage fame) and how the EU ignored the votes of thousands and thousands of UK fishermen, the general public and conservationists who wanted to change their abhorrent quota based CFP. The EU wouldn't even talk to them...
Conservation and climate change are always front page news now and what is the EU doing about changing the CFP ? Nothing ...time and time again tonnes and tonnes of fish are thrown overboard, dead in favour of more profitable fish being caught and landed instead. This happens every day, over and over again so that in some years, more whiting (for example) has been put back dead in the sea than actually landed. How is that good for the environment and marine conservation ???
So let's take back control of our own territorial waters and sort out our fishing industry, marine conservation and coastal towns once and for all, starting on 1st November 2019.
Check out information by June Mummery (Brexit Party MEP) who has been part of the Lowestoft Fish Market Alliance and a real heavyweight in the fight to take back our territorial waters. No career politician here - MEP June Mummery has years and years experience and really knows her stuff.
Get involved people !