Re: 3yr transition for fishing???
[QUOTE=Donkeyman;1974480][QUOTE=Solasch;1974474]
Originally Posted by
Donkeyman
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I cantbremember any sale Solly?
I remember we were required to sign up to an over complicated
system called the CFP in order to belong to this 'free' trading bloc
called the EEC, Under this agreement the eu undertook to administer
ALL the members fishing business!
The rest is history as they say !!
BTW. What is £6 billion times 40?? kiss my arse!!
Donkeyman! 👍👍😁😁👍
You must distinguish between fishing rights and quota.
The UK got the right to fish on species X,Y and Z in EU waters, the EU got the right to fish on species A, B and C in UK waters. UK govrrnment gave these rights to their fishingmen (companies).
Subsequently each year the total catch was determined for all countries.
For some species, for which english fishermen held the right to fish, the allowable catch was zero (for fish stocks to replenish). When EU fishcompanies came along, prepared to pay handsomely for those rights with no quota, fishermen were eager to sell. It was a sale between private people/companies, so of course you haven't seen them in the news, and can not remember.
When after a decade the EU policy of replenishment paid of and fish stocks were abundent, those EU fishermen with fishing rights which now got quota to catch, had a bonanza. And the english got jealous. Not blaming their own shortsighted decision to sell, but blaming the EU fishermen who had gambled and won big time.
It is easy to understand that those fishing rights now constitute a much bigger value. Buying back will cost, unless your government is going to steal them.