Fishing - A Nail Biting Time In Amsterdam?

News from Mannin Branch of the Celtic League:

‘It’s going to be interesting now as the UK scrabble for terms. Will the Johnson - Farage axis sell out the fishing communities on England and Wales for a trade deal’

A nail biting time for the rapacious fish moguls of Amsterdam as with the UK Brexit looming large the possibility of denial of access to quite a series of lucrative fishing grounds around the United Kingdom looms large (see pdf):

http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0044/00449633.pdf

We have focused a great deal of late on the so called ‘super trawlers’ which in reality are gigantic floating factories capable of catching and processing between 150-200 tonnes of fish a day.

We plotted them off the West of Scotland, in the Channel and SW Approaches - all areas which would technically on the basis of a British EU exit be denied to them.

All the trawlers although they are registered in a variety of EU States including Lithuanian, Holland, Germany and the UK are owned by Dutch conglomerates. They have been busy ‘hoovering’ the seas for a decade indeed in addition to the EU EEZ area poor countries in West and South West Africa have been leaned on to accommodate these ‘beasts of the sea’ (see maps at this link):

http://britishseafishing.co.uk/…/common-fisheries-policy-c…/

It’s going to be interesting now as the UK scrabble for terms. Will the ‘Johnson - Farage axis’ sell out the fishing communities on England and Wales for a trade deal.

Will Nicola Sturgeon in an attempt to woo the EU put fishery concerns – a live issue in Scotland – to one side?

Somehow I think the Amsterdam fisheries mafia can stop biting their nails because shamefully if past track record is anything to go by the Fishermen of Britain will be sold out!

BERNARD MOFFATT
Public Relations Officer Mannin Branch

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26/06/16

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