Matt from Watchet landing a Turbot aboard Optimist from Brixham
Landing a Turbot on the Skerries Bank by Matt from Watchet aboard Optimist skippered By Nigel Lihou from Brixham
BRIXHAM FISHING UPDATED 1966-74
Showing the trawlers running out of Brixham at the time:- Confederate, Trevarth, Leon Jannine, Donna Capel etc......
Ep.14 How it was first time - sailing in Cornwall
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FISHING BREXIT - EU CFP Leaves Only Two over-10metre Trawlers On Whole West Coast of England
The disastrous EU CFP has driven British fishing to its knees.
The EU taking 75% of the Total Allowable Catches (TACs) - although Britain provides half the waters - was a catastrophic loss of resources.
EU mismanagement and a quota system that fores fishermen to discard half what they catch to then keep fishing & discarding to find what their quotas allow killed more
As quotas only allow fishermen to land and record what their quota allows - not what they catch - science, and quotas based on the science, have become ever more inaccurate leading to cuts, closures and more discards.
EU 4-freedoms allowed big EU companies to register 'Flagships' in Britain. Hoovering up half the entitlement to the 25% share Britain does get from struggling British fishermen.
Inept UK allocation of EU quotas through a corprotized FQA entitlement system drove consolidation to a few big companies or Flagships.
Shore based slipper skippers have corralled entitlement to fish and rent it at extortionate prices to active fishermen - this is strangling the industry, investment and new entrants.
Our industry and way of life has been slaughtered by being sacrificed on the alter of the EU by complicit politicians helped by corporate self interest who wanted consolidation to a few.
We can have a £6-8bn sustainable industry to support a next generation in rural coastal communities...
...BUT the government wants to betray taking back control by signing up to re-obey the CFP post Brexit. Fishermen fear a second betrayal.
MPs and the government MUST;
- Make a lean Brexit by Chucking Chequers and the Transition - not sign up to re-obey all EU laws post-Brexit - Take back control of Britain's waters and our rightful share of resources. - Allocate repatriated resources to all fishermen and communities not a corporate few. - Ban slipper skipper and lamp down on flagships - Scrap the cause of discards - quotas - and move to more sustainable fishing under limiting fishing time at sea. Allowing vessels to land and record all catches whilst catching less overall.
Do these and we can have a Brexit boom. Do them not and what's left of Britain's fishing will go Bust.