UK to take back control of waters after leaving fishing convention

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https://www.theguardian.com/environm...n-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

DEFRA Secretary @michaelgove on taking back control of our fisheries policy post-Brexit pic.twitter.com/SWIfVvreaf

— BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) July 2, 2017

Today we’ve taken the first step towards a new #fishing policy by withdrawing from London Fisheries Convention https://t.co/nM6k4Sr0yW pic.twitter.com/DjG7lbzvEL

— Defra UK (@DefraGovUK) July 2, 2017

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.”

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.

Thoughts?

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This is definitely the thing I was most worried about in the entire Brexit process I'd been so worried about the fish..............................................


in all seriousness nice to see the first big thing signed off now!

[FlyingJesus]

BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH FISH

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Nice to see Ireland still being left tbh

[FlyingJesus]

Nice to see Ireland still being left tbh

Think there might be a bit of noise about it if we tried stealing other people's territories

Also just looked up Rockall after seeing that map, what an absolutely pointless place it is lmao

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Think there might be a bit of noise about it if we tried stealing other people's territories

Also just looked up Rockall after seeing that map, what an absolutely pointless place it is lmao

Oh there would be noise! Just thought it was an interesting shape! Especially with Northerm Ireland being uncertain whether to remain in Britain or not

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Telegraph reporting HM Government *will* take back the 200-mile EEZ.

Britain to take back control of 200 miles of fishing waters, MEPs told #premium https://t.co/hxFL4iAvEa

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 3, 2017

Britain will take back control of all fishing rights within 200 miles of the coast after Brexit, according to a Government briefing paper seen by The Daily Telegraph.

The UK will no longer be bound by Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy when it leaves the EU, meaning it will revert to UN rules on fishing, which provide for the 200-mile zone, compared to just 12 miles of protected waters under EU policy.

Remember people used to try and be philosophical and say "UHH WHAT DOES TAKE BACK CONTROL ACTUALLY MEAN??"

This. This is what it means.

Oh there would be noise! Just thought it was an interesting shape! Especially with Northerm Ireland being uncertain whether to remain in Britain or not

Hmm not really, that is well overblown by the media as is the Scotland/Brexit situation.

Support for joining the Republic remains at a small 20% or so!

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Telegraph reporting HM Government *will* take back the 200-mile EEZ.

Britain to take back control of 200 miles of fishing waters, MEPs told #premium https://t.co/hxFL4iAvEa

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 3, 2017

Remember people used to try and be philosophical and say "UHH WHAT DOES TAKE BACK CONTROL ACTUALLY MEAN??"

This. This is what it means.



Hmm not really, that is well overblown by the media as is the Scotland/Brexit situation.

Support for joining the Republic remains at a small 20% or so!

I personally, as a Republic citizen and living close to the border, would hate a unified Ireland. A soft border and trading agreements would be be best suited. A border would simply not work in these areas. If it was to UNIFY with Republic of Ireland this would have serious implications for both sides of the border.

[FlyingJesus]

What's "other", become part of Iceland?