Summary
David Lucas makes the utterly predictable UKIP response to the Asda comment about "repatriating" the fisheries. Both he and Asda have short memories, or possibly none.
Long before the Common Fisheries Policy good fish were being dumped at sea, in Cornwall as elsewhere, from the mackerel gluts of 1905-07 to the 1970s, when the CFP was devised. The CFP has not been wildly successful, but nor were the national authorities before. Experience shows that purely bureaucratic approaches will never work; not quotas, nor limiting days at sea.See the full content of this document
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Time for Total Ban On Trawling Seabed
Experience does show that technical methods can work. Enlarging the mesh size of trawls and designing meshes that do not close up under the strain of being towed have had some effect. But dragging nets across the seabed...
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