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02-07-2017, 07:12 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/02/uk-take-back-control-london-fisheries-convention-michael-gove
UK to 'take back control' of waters after exiting fishing convention
Environment Secretary Michael Gove announces withdrawal from London fisheries convention and claims leaving EU fisheries policy will be good for environment
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The government has announced its withdrawal from an arrangement that allows other countries to fish in British waters. The environment secretary, Michael Gove, claimed the UK was “taking back control”.
On Monday ministers will trigger withdrawal from the London fisheries convention, signed in 1964 before the UK joined the European Union, to start the two-year process to leave the agreement. The convention allows vessels from the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands to fish within six and 12 nautical miles of each other’s coastlines.
“We will be saying we’re taking back control,” Gove said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. “We will have control. We can decide the terms of access.”
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The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
Gove said leaving the European Union would involve exiting the EU common fisheries policy, which allows all European countries access between 12 and 200 nautical miles off the UK and sets quotas for how much fish nations can catch.
“When we leave the European Union we will become an independent political state and that means that we can then extend control of our waters up to 200 miles or the median line between Britain and France, and Britain and Ireland,” he said.
“One critical thing about the common fisheries policy is that it has been an environmental disaster. And one of the reasons we want to change it is that we want to ensure that we can have sustainable fish stocks for the future … I think it’s important that we recognise that leaving the European Union is going to help the environment.”
According to 2015 figures, the UK fishing industry is made up of more than 6,000 vessels, landing 708,000 tonnes of fish worth £775m. About 10,000 tonnes of fish were caught by other countries under the London convention, worth an estimated £17m.
Barrie Deas, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, welcomed the government’s decision, saying it was “an important part of establishing the UK as an independent coastal state with sovereignty over its own exclusive economic zone”.
Absolutely fantastic news.
Now get to work and reinstate our 200-mile EEZ which, as an island nation, is absolutely huge. Our fishing industry was and should be like Japan or any other island nation - bar the Europeans from fishing what is rightfully ours.
When we joined the EEC coastal fishing towns from the south east right up to Scotland were destroyed. Those fishermen who joined the referendum 'Battle of the Thames' will be made up today. :)
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Thoughts?
UK to 'take back control' of waters after exiting fishing convention
Environment Secretary Michael Gove announces withdrawal from London fisheries convention and claims leaving EU fisheries policy will be good for environment
881443759841521664
881423942002593792
The government has announced its withdrawal from an arrangement that allows other countries to fish in British waters. The environment secretary, Michael Gove, claimed the UK was “taking back control”.
On Monday ministers will trigger withdrawal from the London fisheries convention, signed in 1964 before the UK joined the European Union, to start the two-year process to leave the agreement. The convention allows vessels from the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands to fish within six and 12 nautical miles of each other’s coastlines.
“We will be saying we’re taking back control,” Gove said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. “We will have control. We can decide the terms of access.”
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8be392717719cd94d392bbf1a66ecd6e
The 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
Gove said leaving the European Union would involve exiting the EU common fisheries policy, which allows all European countries access between 12 and 200 nautical miles off the UK and sets quotas for how much fish nations can catch.
“When we leave the European Union we will become an independent political state and that means that we can then extend control of our waters up to 200 miles or the median line between Britain and France, and Britain and Ireland,” he said.
“One critical thing about the common fisheries policy is that it has been an environmental disaster. And one of the reasons we want to change it is that we want to ensure that we can have sustainable fish stocks for the future … I think it’s important that we recognise that leaving the European Union is going to help the environment.”
According to 2015 figures, the UK fishing industry is made up of more than 6,000 vessels, landing 708,000 tonnes of fish worth £775m. About 10,000 tonnes of fish were caught by other countries under the London convention, worth an estimated £17m.
Barrie Deas, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, welcomed the government’s decision, saying it was “an important part of establishing the UK as an independent coastal state with sovereignty over its own exclusive economic zone”.
Absolutely fantastic news.
Now get to work and reinstate our 200-mile EEZ which, as an island nation, is absolutely huge. Our fishing industry was and should be like Japan or any other island nation - bar the Europeans from fishing what is rightfully ours.
When we joined the EEC coastal fishing towns from the south east right up to Scotland were destroyed. Those fishermen who joined the referendum 'Battle of the Thames' will be made up today. :)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7516884-3x2-940x627.jpg
Thoughts?