The shocking depth of EU fish theft of UK waters

[@Gilaffa137]

Dont give them any access, sell the fish back to the EU at top dollar.

[@thetoad7367]

AMnesia HAze and then in return the eu sell us everything at top dollar and then we deffo wont be able to afford fuck all.

[@fornicateu2]

Theres a big wide world out there to trade with, something we did successfully for over a thousand years, we buy from the EU these days because its a protection racket, our farmers are handed free cash to not grow produce as that would reduce the prices paid for EU muck, its not your fault you were born into an era where Britain was forced to stop production due to membership of this club but we are leaving and if that means protecting our waters as well as our borders then thats what will happen, we don't need this parasitic club and never did before you were born, all of this garbage was forced upon the public by the political class, change is coming, welcome the work it brings.

[@fornicateu2]

Tell us what we buy from the EU we cant produce ourselves moron.

[@fornicateu2]

The markets are down due to instability, remainiacs are causing this nobody else.

[@funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871]

trident3b joining the EU didn't get us back on our feet. The winter of discontent occurred after the UK joined the common market. Margaret Thatcher got us back on our feet. It has to be said that EU worked better when each country had its own currency. Now its just grinding along.

[@davidadams5744]

We don't need sodding great aircraft carriers and overpriced flying scrap, to play in foreign wars. What we do need is a fleet of coastal patrol craft and the will to use them, when necessary, along with dedicated intercept aircraft. Bollocks to the EU and bollocks to the Middle East, as well.

[@ReformedJon75]

Yep, and sink all trespassers.

[@winstinwin7650]

David Adams well said

[@pumbar]

'Just use the pay from those traitorous criminals in the House of lords to pay for a coastal patrol fleet...' - Not just that, get all of the sods from both houses and the civil service out there in boats and pursuing illegal immigrants to clear up some of the utter mess they've created. After that they can get rescinding some of the passports that they've been dishing out like sweets for the past twenty years.

[@farmerned6]

David Adams In 1982 WE DID we're replacing 4 carriers with 2 (and F-35b are overpriced, upgraded sea harriers and drones would have been enough for our needs), While we shouldn't involve ourselves in foreign wars - we are one of the few countries to nut up to help in times of crisis's , and that wont change (historically Labour is More Warlike than the Tories), only question you need to ask is if you want British forces deployed with or without air-cover and helo lift capacity & casevac? but Knocking out some small corvettes with Goalkeepers as coastal patrol & war time fleet air defence would be a great idea

[@leighwillz8913]

English Heart I'm Welsh. I Agree 100%.

[@medalinaciri6589]

I'm not even British yet I find this proposturous to say the least as my blood boils for the extent to which the british people are complying to EU Tyranny! People need to rise up for crying out loud, the british people are supposed to be a proud lot with a long tradition of overcoming adversities ffs, what on earth happened to what was once the biggest empire to ever grace this earth ...

[@arcturus8218]

are goverment and are media dont giv a shit about are apinion or are country jus there messed up anti british agenda. sad

[@dropperknot]

Keyzepher-- Too much interbreeding my friend. The same thing happened to the Romans. They are now extinct. You can only water things down so far and then it becomes insipid.

[@medalinaciri6589]

What do you mean exactly by interbreeding?

[@dropperknot]

Keyzepher-- You are having a laugh aren't you? If you interbreed racehorses with Shetland ponies they are not going to win many more races

[@medalinaciri6589]

I find that fascinating. Mind elaborating on the matter? I was under the impression Britons were mainly white.

[@lawxxxx9853]

Down here in Sussex, a few weeks ago, I spoke to a commercial fisherman who told me about a Belgian beam trawler that came over recently, switched off all its electrical beacons, then proceeded to hoover up everything it wanted, about half a mile offshore. There was zero chance of it being caught, let alone fined...!

[@fornicateu2]

Its happened all the way up our North sea coast too, this area was great for sea angling and now you're lucky to get a bite when fishing from the shore, its ridiculous what our govt has allowed to be done to this country to benefit the EU.

[@eliminator74]

time to teach them a lesson.

[@bushwhacked7112]

Walk-in any Spanish supermarket see the scale of the fish counter. Wiped their own seas clean, and are doing the same to ours.

[@danganbeg7225]

Bushwhacked 71 Brit fishermen depend on Spain buy their catch. Nobody in Britland buys the fish they land.

[@JK-ux9du]

Bushwhacked 71 You are right and I know as I used to live there.

[@stueyapstuey4235]

Bushwhacked - you are absolutely right on everything. Except the facts.

[@herewardthewake5502]

May has to go she has sold us out on ALL THINGS related to our national interests.

[@markyoung8109]

With Jelly Legs May at the helm what could possibly go wrong!

[@comprehensiveboycomprehens8786]

EU: sliperryer than an eel.

[@stueyapstuey4235]

and even more slippery is your spelling.

[@numbersix100]

The U.K. fishing communities have been decimated by EEC/EU membership

[@master-bevs4208]

JUST PULL OUT AND STUFF THEM..EU IS FALLING ANYWAY..LETS NOT GO DOWN WITH THEM

[@belindakennedy5828]

Am voting UKIP next time I have had enough .

[@stueyapstuey4235]

Enough of? Democracy?

[@barbaramiller4698]

@@stueyapstuey4235 apparently our government have had enough of democracy they're only to willing to give it away.

[@neilhedley6947]

We voted to take back control of our waters and this has been given up

[@stueyapstuey4235]

Sold - years ago. You want the right back, you're gonna have to pay for them.

[@pamelakingwell2155]

That fisheries minister won't answer the percentage question, therefore, I do not trust him!

[@SnowyNI]

Sold out by our very own red herrings, also known as MPs (or traitors). :(

[@davidedbrooke9324]

No fishing in our waters unless you are a uk citizen, full stop.

[@master-bevs4208]

4 GODS SAKE..PROTECT OUR WATERS..RULE BRITANIA

[@gazzaclarkson2547]

It would help if you could spell Britannia. And know how to use apostrophes. We need to uphold standards.

[@petercrawford8548]

Gazza Clarkson don't be petty

[@NewsRedial]

They should get nothing. It's our waters and our fish and is for our fishermen and our people. If there is surplus fish then more 'BRITISH' fishermen will go out and catch them and 'sell' them to the highest bidder.

[@belindakennedy5828]

We are a island and we need our fishing grounds , the EU CAN FO.

[@orton507]

Thank You Robin!

[@boptah7489]

It is not acceptable to have our fisheries as part of the trade negotiation.. We need complete sovereignty. not partial.

[@stueyapstuey4235]

The UK govt have complete sovereignty. That has never been given up. But your govts also have to agree with the contracted agreements and treaties formed with other nations. That's not the EU - that's all international law.

[@boptah7489]

According to article 50. " the treaties shall l cease to apply". nobody s suggesting that the EU has no right to ask for quotas to fish in our waters. but the terms and conditions of their asking are down to the UK not as part of an EU agreement. This is sovereignty.

[@janetwilson6069]

Great guy, Andrew Neil. Always keeps the debate on track, and like a sharp barrister, never lets them woffle themselves off the hook.

[@TheTaterTotP80]

Poor Fish. We shouldn't be harming or killing them at all. We have no need to.

[@dollyjeanstevens]

Still screwing us over, we want our waters back, ex fisherman newlyn Cornwall!

[@bnlbnl8892]

We ll just allow the French to fish the baby fish while still in EU waters, then no adult fish will swim to UK waters ... UK screwed again. Lol

[@geoffcollins2094]

Any news on the pulse trawlers? Odd the greens dont complain about them

[@Kapsones33]

0:01 what is that piece of hair on his forehead? 😂🤭

[@atomicwedgie8176]

A gill?

[@adrianmartin6974]

HolyHandGrenade it’s called denial

[@uberdude2555]

Just as lopsided as free movement and the disproportionate access to our benefit and healthcare system.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

Pretty soon it will just be chips...but, no fish!

[@morethanmeetstheeyei8018]

Stop this fishing shambles. All a big CON. LOLLLLLĹLLLL. LEAVE MEANS LEAVE. Take our local waters back & stop logistics of our fish to EU. FRESH CHEAP FISH FOR UNITED KINGDOM. EU, CAN FISH IT'S OWN WATERS.

[@peetsnort]

After the next food price hike due to the weather. We are going to be thinking twice about the given quotas to Iceland which was only about the submarines of the usa getting access through the Iceland waters. Very little about the eu. We were making a decision about the cold War

[@spfbaits]

He almost couldn't bring himself to say "territorial waters" like it's an alien concept. These are our waters ffs.

[@101fairplay]

is the host slurring due to one too many?

[@jakarta5080]

"Remember the war johnny" "yeh still haunts me" " one died he shouldn't have gone fishing in international waters"

[@geoffcollins2094]

This is the fisheries minister who cant tell a mackerel from a cod...

[@Belfreyite]

All this is irrelevant to the fact that Fish is over priced and under sold in the UK. All the pelagic fish, mackerel, herring and sardines are sold in France and Spain where fish is a huge element of diet and corespondingly cheap. It is an utter disgrace that UK supermarkets have recently closed their wet fish counters in yet another kick in the teeth to discerning consumers. They would much rather sell their junk food burgers, sausages and rubbish bacon than the most nutricious and tasty food on the planet. I was lucky enough to be born just after WW2 when you could still buy cheap Herrings with soft roes in. I'm trying to say that the fault is not all with foreign fleets. British food retailers and fishermen are bloody greedy and it serves their purposes to sell their catch to a ready european market without trying to develop a home market. This is abundantly clear by the superemarkets latest antics. If and when they do sell fresh fish, it is ridicilously over priced and it's why no one buys it!!!

[@johnharding6394]

If EU boats are allowed to fish our water they should all go through our fish markets or they will cheat the only way is to land all fish in the UK.

[@vincentmckenna281]

What eu waters? There's nothing in them

[@firsteerr]

the Spanish and Italians and french fished their waters to extinction , we managed ours until the EU took over now we are short of fish because they use dredgers and kill the environment and over fish and take the wrong size fish ignoring regulations , Iceland has masses of cod simply because they manage their fishing and the fishermen are on board for the long run !!

[@Andrew-is7rs]

‘Negotiating’ after the implementation??? NO. WE TELL THEM we WE will ALLOW. No bloody negotiation AFTER we leave in 21’. It’s OUR sovereign water, we tell them what we will allow.

[@LouiseKernow2024]

Yet Scotland want to STAY IN the EU and keep the status quo forever.

[@kevinlongman007]

Well if the SNP had their way the Scottish Fishermans Federation would be under the EU rules forever!

[@jeffreyholmes4083]

We want a no deal now. We want our waters back and total freedom from the dictatorship which is the EU.Mrs May gives away too much, we need a strong brexit leader such as JR Mogg.

[@steveforster9764]

Comming from a fishing village in the North East of England I was back home for a visit every single Newbiggin boat was in harbour just od shore were three masive EU trawlers.

[@davidellis279]

The Government had no right to agree to these thieves about fishing rights,they've plundered the fishing grounds for years at the expense of our fishermen who had to scrap their boats while the likes of Spain built new ones,it's crazy putting our fishermen out of work and giving it to Spain, there is no logic to this madness,if they want our fish let our men do the job and then sell it to the EU,they must think we're right mugs for letting them do this and their Right.

[@Cu5t4rd_G4me5]

And Norway’s fishing industry is booming. What a surprise

[@adelarsen9776]

Rule Britannia. Strong borders make strong nations. Good fences make good neighbours. Great Britain First, Foremost, Front and Centre.

[@zac3473]

That fringe is holding on for dear life

[@philip013]

Weren't there licenses issued to fishermen that allowed them to fish an agreed quota and these licenses could be sold on to other fisherman? If that happened we can't now complain that they're fishing in our waters with these licenses.

[@James79243]

The thing about sovereignty is that it must be exercise for the benefit of the national citizens that will be affected. I'm afraid that the city dwellers will use the fisheries as a bargaining chip for their own benefits and coastal communities be dammed. Let the Brits fish their waters and sell it to the Europeans and vice versa. I'm afraid these is nothing but a deal to protect some big transnational investors at the expense of the national fishers.

[@beautifulchlorophyll2285]

The thing I don't understand, perhaps through naivety, is what exactly we're getting from the EU in these negotiations. So they have their trade agreement, fair enough, but that's productive for us AND them not just for us therefore it makes their position weak. What else are we getting? when they say the EU wouldn't budge, what if we didn't budge? then what? perhaps I'm missing something and I'd welcome somebody to point it out but it seems the EU would be forced to blink first.

[@PrivateAckbar]

Bertie just sounds like a man whose accepted Brexit and is excited about having sovereign waters. But he's disagreeing with someone who still wants EU common market policy.

[@mhappy01]

What ever May gets for the UK fishermen (which won't be much) the question is not relevant. She will not spend the money to defend and protect our fishing zones, she won't even do it for our borders!!

[@stevebbuk]

Buckshee..you have to have a soft spot for Mr. Eustace.

[@alanhaldane8115]

Letting government gamble our people's livelihoods for their own benefit is WRONG give the rural Scottish villages the chance to do what they done b4. giving the BEST Scottish people jobs to contribute more for Britain overall the current deal damages these rural communities most. THE FISHERMAN WHO PROVIDE AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION UP AND DOWN THE COAST FOR OUR COUNTRY THE WATERS BELONG TO THEM NOT POLITICIAN'S.🇬🇧👍👍🇬🇧👍👍🇬🇧

[@Noseypoke-mr7th]

Let's hope Eustice don't turn out to be USELESS

[@Horizon344]

One look at his face throughout this interview should tell you the score, he is.

[@Taporeee]

Did he say bakshi @ 5:58-6:08

[@Taporeee]

Eric Viking aye, derived from hindi I would think. never heard it used in English before.

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

@@Taporeee Buckshee, rhymes with 'free' from the Persian root word Bakhshesh, used commonly in many countries in variations. It relates to charitable giving, tipping, gratuities or bribes. In English usage context it means free, without charge, and gets pronounced 'buckshee', which is a play on the rhyming word and meaning 'free', but it isnt to my suprise part of cockney rhyming slang, its coincidence. Apparently the word was adopted into common parlance via the Army, through India and referred to either receiving an extra drink ration or a wound that wasnt too bad but got you off duties. It's used in common parlance though in it's original language context of giving or receiving something for free.

[@Taporeee]

@@shelleyphilcox4743 thanks

[@seangreene64]

What has happened to the great in Great Britain.

Britain sold their fishing rights.

[@Scott.f]

Not what we voted for. Eu should be paying us for fish from uk waters. No deal.

[@mikesull4637]

but our politicians are letting them do it.you need to sack May right now she's in on it we're not stupid we have known from day one .and I thing she's going to be in big trouble if we don't get out of the European union.and so are a lot of other politicians for what thay have done

[@bobadadius1663]

Who sold fishing quotas to EU companies? Where they fishermen or politicians? Talking about "hoping quotas".

[@pelvis777]

Do it like italy, dont pay EU nada...

[@christinegower9177]

This is about the China Trade Route which comes down the East Coast of UK

[@neilhedley6947]

Doesn't matter,just protect the City and the square mile which are important

[@thelife2242]

UK Fisherman should just ignore what the EU say. It's clear the Government is scuppering Brexit negotiations because ultimately the PM and Chancellor want to remain.

[@deeratr]

The great lion is probably the weakest nation around these days. Afraid to offend anyone

[@Taporeee]

Stop Captain Bird's Eye from being EU Raped

[@petermiller475]

UKIP all the way from now on

[@mike-ology22]

Whenever Holland does anything they call it the EU. Dutch fisherman are the ones doing this not EU fisherman. Just like the Dutch VOC slave traders we beat many years ago they call it European slavery. We need to stand up for ourselves

[@departacus.departacus.1671]

It to late the government are not worried about the English people ?

[@secondchance6603]

Britain fell for it hook line and sinker.

[@marklloyd3536]

No mention of the sale of British quota by British owners to EU operators so a self inflicted position due to British greed and lack of investment in efficient boats. Where are the fish spawned? If it's off Iceland and Norway then doesn't a coordinated fishing policy make sense otherwise uk stocks could disappear

[@geoffcollins2094]

WHAT RIGHT DID THERESA THE APPEASER HAVE TO GIVE AWAY THE UK S TERRITORIAL FISHING RIGHTS BEYOND HER TERM OF PRIME MINISTER!!

[@rrp6405]

is it theft when we gave it away? time to get it back, or at least charge them for it...

[@gerpool7]

there is so much the uk can make sure they have a better deal with the eu. only if the uk government show some balls

[@oriel229]

Went out recently from Dover and it was pathetic fishing. Nine rods caught two mackerel. TWO. The things are supposed to live in shoals, like sardines.. Everywhere we looked you could see the nets the French leave to catch anything that moves. Did we kill the last two mackerel alive in the English Channel?

[@nouvalari]

Pretty much agree with lots of the comments,what i get uptight about is people thinking we would be treated any better by the EU if we capitulated.We take back the waters,we take back control and we deal only with the individual countries seperately.We will have to deal with France,Spain,Holland,just get access to European roads.So there is one bargain we need to make,we also need to charge like the French for using the arterial routes, in order to assist in distribution.We need to do so many things,but most of all we need to bury our petty differences,face facts,and work together, or give the remainers fuel and the EU the pleasure,of saying we told you so! For those that don't want that..........Fuck off then!

[@simonjohn9525]

It all depends on what we are calling British waters. In 1964 the then British government signed away British waters by allowing the signatories of the London Fisheries Convention to fish between the British 12 mile limit and the 6 mile limit. It was under these arrangements that we entered the Common Market. At the time the British government considered everything outside the 12 mile limit to be open to everyone. This was the basis of why we had 2 'Cod Wars' with Iceland, one when the Icelandics extended their fishing waters from 12 miles out to 50 and again when the Icelandics extended their fishing waters out to 200 miles. The 200 mile exclusive zone for fishing was not established until 1975 but by then of course EU fishing boats were fishing to within 6 miles of the British coast and with the British government's agreement. I expect that what are now called British waters extend out to the 200 mile, or median line, limit. This is an area of sea that the British government has never claimed before and to which British fishermen have never had exclusive access. This maybe why it looks like EU boats are catching great quantities of fish in what are now claimed to be British waters. Another reason may be that the catches of foreign owned but British registered and crewed boats are counted as catches made by non British boats. Traditionally catches have been totalled by the where the boat is registered rather than owned. So when these figures are bandied about it needs to be made clear what source material is used to collate the data.

[@drg111yt]

UK fishermen for UK waters. Any quibbles and send in those two shiny new aircraft carriers.

[@djames5813]

Of course they will be sold out, they always have.

[@manuelodabashian]

This is disgusting why wait another three years?

[@sensibledriver933]

Other European countries catch fish in the UK, land the catch in their ports and then sell it back to us. Should the fish not be landed in the country where they were caught? At least the country whose fish are caught gets some benefit from their stocks. I really don't believe the UK gov will pretect fishing over the banks.

[@sensibledriver933]

Why do we not register boats in other EU counties like they do? What really pisses me off is if you go to one of the buildings in Grimsby port there is a sign that says part funded by the EU!

[@robertvalence7899]

We should manage this: allow some EU fisherman, especially if there's a tit for tat arrangement which benefits our coastal communities: BUT they must fish according to our rules: 1. Fish caught count towards their allocation - NO fish may be thrown back. 2. Electric shock/pulse fishing is out: nets & rod only! 3. We regulate net size....etc..

[@agnesdei2846]

So logically I can pop over to France and harvest 60% of the crops in a field for my own use. Sounds fair to me. I am sure the French won't get upset.

Take back complete control of our country and all associated assets. Fuck the eu they have fleeced us for decades !

[@jnaughton9501]

If that wasn’t enough we’ve got Romanians & Poles stealing our carp from our lakes. They are eating them. Article in DM today 16 June.

[@vulkanofnocturne]

'depth' I see what you did there. I love dry humor.

[@EnglishVeteran]

Remember The “Cod War” with Iceland?

[@HRPFayetteville]

Food and water should be locally sourced if countries did this and supplemented with imports this would be the best state of all countries the eating any food from across any oceans is just stupid

[@PoolieladHDGaming]

''EU wont budge on that''. .... So tell them they get 0% catch quota, is it really that hard. If they catch 600,000 tonnes more than we do in their waters. They need to be in our waters more than us in theirs. Get a back bone.

[@delboytrotter8806]

Eurobastards..........

[@sammyfitt7269]

How did things get so bad ..an who's gonna be held responsible???..gov scum

[@MrMwhiting]

Leave means leave sign the UK open petition for a no deal Brexit 299, 499 at present MBGA

[@peetsnort]

So that is why we get such cheap fish in Spanish restaurants

[@91Durktheturk]

My country (NL) indeed fishes in UK waters. Perhaps time for the fifth Anglo Dutch war, as some kind of Brexit afterparty

[@The_dauphin]

Sure. We won the first and fourth Anglo Dutch wars.

[@91Durktheturk]

@@The_dauphin Time for a new round then ;). Maybe involve the French and the Bishop of Cologne as well, as we are on our best when we're attacked from all sides....

[@The_dauphin]

@@91Durktheturk the french will be on your side as they’re part of the EU (french and Spanish fishermen fish in our waters aswell) so they’ll both be on your side just like the fourth Anglo Dutch war.

[@91Durktheturk]

@@The_dauphin The French would very likely start backstabbinb us. Its how the French are unfortunately.

[@The_dauphin]

@@91Durktheturk no it’s not the french are one of the most noble peoples in Europe.

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

Commercial fishing needs to be banned

[@elizabethbowers2031]

the wet lettuce caved in the trollope out means out our fishing folk come first not the e u trollopes

[@unvaxxedirishpureblood6102]

Its simple. UK waters for UK fisheries. Sell the rest to europe.

[@H4WK6969]

Hwo catches Hwat and Hwere

[@nealthedeal1]

British territorial waters only extends 3 miles out to sea, and the international waters starts after 12 miles. When the UK takes back it's fishing rights it will only extend 3 miles out not 200 nautical miles also because most of Europe is inside the 230 normal miles you stated. , Non of the western side of the UK waters because of Ireland to the south and east France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, and Norway are within 200 nautical miles and there 230 normal miles would over lap this supposed limit. So you will still have to share the same fishing waters with the EU anyway, buy a map or look at google maps and see how far you can go with this idea. Really Northern ireland and Scotland are the only 2 countries with an opening here to the North East and North but then again scotland might leave the UK so the The UK will be an Island with no territorial fishing waters of 230 miles because it will in some way overlap another European countries 230 mile limit as well, For Your Information, Calais is only 23 miles away from dover and Harwich to Hook van Holland is only 126 miles away how do you intend to stop Dutch fishing in their legal 230 mile limit when in theory they could actually fish another 100 miles inland from the Harwich coastline. Your ideas are as stupid as going fishing in a corn field in Oxford. Actual distance 231 miles. Peterhead in Scotland to Egersund, Norway 293 miles. Quite a lot of overlap there isn't there. Try some distances out for yourselves with this app tjpeiffer.com/crowflies.html and you can do the maths on exactly how much the UK will benefit from this 200 nautical mile or 230 normal miles boundary. If the EU and UK agree on this 200 Nautical mile debacle. Neither will fish in eithers 200 nautical mile limit then. 1- 1 = None. Great for the fish who live there i guess but not so great for the people in Grimsby. Grimsby Uk to Den Helder, Netherlands 205 miles. Oh so close to having your very own fishing area.