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Howburn Digger
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Re: Gunboats ordered to protect our fish stocks
Mar 30, 2018, 20:28
Just in case anyone is wondering the value of the catches made by the Belgian Fishing Fleet (65 boats) out of British Waters. As a rough guide, a 27 boat fleet from say Gardenstown might land around £100 Million over the year. So the Belgians might be looking at a £250 Million loss in the future. Or they can do what the rest of the world does... and Buy a Fishing Permit from the UK. Easy peasy... but that is not what this is about.

British (and particularly Scottish) Pelagic fleets have much higher overheads than those of the Belgian Sole Scoopers. The Belgians want to continue slurping at the easy trough. Recent weirdness towards the Shetland Mackerel Fleet is a prime example of how Brussels and London can (with their fingers in their ears and shouting "La La La" very loudly) use regulation, enforcement and rule-mongering to wring the life out of a fine sustainable fishery. Not only does the Shetland Pelagic Fleet now have to land around 50% of their quota in January alone, but they have to then return at least half of those catches to remote designated landing ports (incurring massive road transportation costs) and some Scottish Processing Plants which cannot cope with the massive glut of Mackerel over those few short weeks.

Through constriction, inflexibility and the enforcing of ever more twisted regulation, Brussels and the EU hopes to continue and complete what they started... the total eradication of the UK Fishing Industry to be replaced with Belgian Sole Scoopers and Dutch Pulse Blitzing.
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