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Originally Posted by Thrombosis
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They are not able to stop trawlers like this fishing UK waters because there are no UK waters in the EU.
Oh yeah, the CFP has been fantastic for the impact of fishing on the environment hasn't it? In 1960, before the CFP, the size of the UK catch from the North Sea was 340k metric tons while Denmark's was 285k metric tons. In 1980, 10 years of CFP management, the UK catch was up to 390k metric tones, while Denmark's was 1,800k metric tons. Overfishing happened because of EU mismanagement and until we take control back of our waters it will always be the case.
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The foreign trawlers overfishing and exceeding their quotas is a separate issue to our own government ignoring our local fishermen in favour of domestic super companies; There already are tools to deal with these issues, yet they aren't dealt with, so I don't expect this issues will be properly addressed post Brexit either.