Have you got a reference for that?
Firstly I probably should have expanded on my comment as to what I was referring to, you mentioned the cod wars of the past but that has been superseded by the mackerel wars that are still going on to some extent, the UK were a heavy fisher of mackerel and the story behind this is very complex but here is a link below, basically Iceland were set to join the EU but the financial crash bankrupt Iceland, they resorted to replenishing their fishing industry and ignored all agreed limitations on quota's, they fell out of favour with the EU and withdrew their application to join, meanwhile they imposed restrictions on fishing for other breeds from the EU within their waters and also forced the hand of the EU which left our fisheries badly damaged.
The point of bringing all this up is that the EU left us high and dry and failed to balance fishing within our own waters following the damage done by Iceland pulling out of the game, we put our complaints to Brussels but we were ignored and all those countries making a tidy profit in our waters voted down our plea, hence I said Karma - the coin has turned and now these same nations are saying we cannot take our waters back because it would badly damage their own industries yet they sat back and watched ours go and failed to offer even a small olive branch.
It is a long read and really doesn't get to the point until the header 'The conflict escalates' and what also badly damaged us 'Loss of marine stewardship'.
Brexit is our chance to reboot the industry under our own terms and sell to a new world trade that is heading our way, so even if the EU puts heavy tariffs on fish it will not do any damage, we simply fish for our new market all of which will generate thousands of jobs regardless.
The Mackerel War is an on-going and so far unresolved dispute between Britain (backed by the European Union and Norway) and the combined forces of Iceland and the Faeroe Islands.
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Why are you getting bent out of shape over the fishing industry when it’s less than the turn over of HA RODS? Won’t be any fish left soon with the over fishing. We’ll all be vegan soon anyway.
The turnover is not the way to look at this, it is the jobs it can create if we can get back our fishing industry, a large company can employ 100,000 people and make a profit of £1000 and fall below the tax line, this still means the company is viable and 100,000 people are in payed jobs and will spend their wages which puts back into the economy.
If we can take back our waters then the boost to fishing industry also creates jobs down the line for new and old companies in the supply chain, your error here is reading into a figure and % of what the fishing industry directly generates to the total economic figures, this is often deliberately played out this way for political reasons and bias, brexit has exposed so much bias in the media and this is a prime example, what the pro EU bias fail to promote and is what is important is that the jobs it will generate is the key thing, pitting the % of national revenue is irrelevent.
