That romantic image of a Scottish fishing village doesn’t exist. Commercial harbours are full of rusty modern boats landing tons of fish for the factory and making as much cash as possible. They have fished themselves out of business over decades due to greed. Most of the workforce have now gone to the oil and gas sector to make money offshore. The wind turbines…probably give fish a haven from the trawlers but their power is pumped south to Grimsby in a new cable, the people in Scotland pay more for their power than the southerners. You are spot on where the problem lies though, Westminster.
In 2017 Gove said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: "We will have control. We can decide the terms of access. And then we will also be able, when we leave the EU we’ll become an independent coastal state and that means we can then extend control over our waters to 200 miles.” When did Gove apologise publicly for his incorrect forecasts?
@@lesigh1749. No it didn’t. P.S. what was Farage doing on the EU Fisheries Committee ? Nothing. He only attended once. Since I suspect my reply below will be not shown, I replied “Take it up with Her Farage “
@@californiadreamin8423 Really now? So you don't think the EU CFP quotas system which forced UK trawlers to throw back tons of fish to come in under the limits had an impact on their viability as a business? And you don't think that the same EU CFP which allowed huge factory trawlers from some EU member states to overfish stocks in the north sea had an effect on Fishing? No surprise at all. Being a quisling requires absolute devotion to the propaganda.
As a Scot the fishing crisis is simply one of many betrayals coming from Westminster,yes Brexit didnt help them,i pray in my diminishing life my fellow Scots awaken and see what is happening.
As a mere Sassenach, I can understand Scottish anger. I don't think it's any coincidence that the Scottish Referendum on independence was held BEFORE the EU one, you have Cameron to blame for that. Imagine what the result would have been for the independence referendum if it had been held after 62% of Scots had voted to remain in the EU, but the UK was leaving the EU anyway. As ever, timing in politics is critical.
The Scottish Fishing Community voted for Brexit and did so in the face of clear-cut rational arguments. It was obvious that fishing would lose its main market and that would devastated the industry. I had discussions locally with farming/fishing business people in the NE and it was obvious that the glitter of lucre was in their eyes. Yet again. Don't blame the rest of Scotland who voted with their brains instead of their pockets on Brexit. It's taking a long time for the rest of the UK who foisted this economic disaster on our backs.
Yes as a Highlander i can confirm the fishing industry has been hung out to dry, you'll struggle to get a job working on the boats traditional jobs have evaporated yet the influx of hard drugs into our communities has been devastating.
@brianferguson7840 The drugs if they come by boat are far further south the police are constantly arresting people from Liverpool and further afield I'm sure some arrives directly up here but the majority is pushed by gangs from the big cities this is an undeniable fact.
@julianshepherd2038 You ought to be ashamed of yourself. People from all walks of life voted for it imagine having the gall to display such contempt and arrogance especially for the older generation who got sold a lie shame on you.
I remember just after brexit , some fishing processing company cant recall exactly now, they were advertising deliveries direct to the customers within about 50mile of the factory as the export market had collapsed. I also remember the fishing industry proclaiming the advantages of brexit before a quick 180 deg turn afterwards. The fact Scotland voted to remain in the EU after the promises given in the independence referendum reminded me of the lies about the oil revenues in the first referendum, just lies lies lies.
Returning from Isle of Lewis, I met 7 great Romanian lads, all off 1 boat. No foreign workers no crew. A Canadian company is trying to set up a new shellfish farm. They only have 30% of the staff they need. Trying times indeed. Cheers 🥂. Happy New Year.
Scotland and NI voted in majority to stay in the EU, and yet were dragged out against the majorty of each countries voters wishes, and now this is their reward, now where is Farage, Johnson and Mogg?
I don't believe that result. Sturgeon and her SNP can't be trusted and I think the claim of most voting remain is a lie. Also if you are a true Scottish patriot why would you vote to keep political control in the hands-off a foreign criminal power?!!! Voting to remain in the EU is called treason.
Agreed. England and Wales voted Leave, so you can argue they got what they wanted. But Scotland voted 62% Remain, NI around 55%. Luckily for NI, the current agreement is giving them the best of both worlds, while Scotland gets no benefit whatever, save 'sovrinty' (sic) and unicorns.
This is the first I have heard of this. Yours is the only comment not flush with political emotion. Living in Maine USA I remember the collapse of the Grand Banks fishery. Overfished period! One of the great fisheries on the planet. Had been fished for centuries. Cod were as plentiful as any fish anywhere. The factory ships with giant nets swept them up freezed and packaged them aboard. The inshore lobster fishery survived only because of strict regulation that many fishermen fought every step of the way. It is still healthy and thriving.😊
No other industry voted in comparable numbers to leave the European Union. "Europe" protects it's own fisherman, british fisherman used to enjoy that protection and financial support. The renegotiated fisheries agreement wil be the last nail in the coffin of the industry. But don't worry, we in Europe have plenty of fish to sell to you....... At a price !🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Actually it was the off shore trawler who voted for it, the in inshore pot fleet didn’t vote for it so just like life nit every one voted leave only the greedy gits who thought they held all the cards, pity it was only jokers they held
Farmers & fishermen were told what was going to happen by the remain campaign,but it was drowned out by the leave campaign,with there 'project fear' chirp. I'm sorry,but I have little sympathy for farmers & fishermen.
Likewise. As for farmers, expecting them to elicit the same sympathy as NHS workers received, no one will be clapping for the farmers at 7 pm on a Thursday night. Also it wasn't a good look to drive to Westminster using up low tax red diesel in a newish tractor costing £150K or more, while wearing waxed jackets costing upwards of £1000 each.
I was thinking a video with guest actuary to show how much Scotland has taken from England and Wales per the Barnett Agreement for oil that was owned by Orkney Shetland and Hebrides, and then how much Scotland itself contributed to the Union and how much on break up it would owe the rest of the UK in adjustment ?
@markwilkie3677 Oh no, oh no... read about Shetland wanting independence from Scotland if Scotland get (pseudo) independence from the rest of the UK. And they were always owned by Scandinavia anyway in the past so are really more sympathetic to Scandanavia historically than Scotland. Hebrides I think historically, were more Scandanavian as well. I really don't think that mainlanders have thought this independence through sufficiently. They do produce entrepreneurs like Michelle Mone and Souter though and a lot of others who care about them... As a wry commentator said that at the opening night of Braveheart they were really weeping for Scotland ... Before they hopped back to Monaco Tax exile ...
@@ScruffyTubblestotal crap. They speak gaelic, were only part of Norway for a short time and you read that in a paper. Think you'll find they don't as it would mean a dramatic increase in Taxes, like 30% hike. Why are sassanachs always the experts on a country most haven't visited?
2 actuaries. One to counteract all the rubbish that comes out of WM regarding money raised in Scotland that somehow “magically” (🙄) becomes revenues accredited by England. That would open a lot of eyes though, so we cam’t have that, can we?@@ScruffyTubbles oh no, oh no…….
Fishing fleets were decimated by the EU when we were forced into it without a vote, the way to get our fishing fleets backs again is to take full control of our waters as Brexit will allow us to do and have British fisherman fishing British waters, tell us about what happened to the fishing fleets of Britain when joined the EU, inform the schools of fish that hang off you every word and so swim in the wrong direction because of it about the size of the UK fishing industry pre EU and how it was decimated on joining the EU
Ah, but you had the lucrative "same day" continental market dealers at our fish ports taking the prize fish at good prices. Keeping fishing stocks viable was a plus of the CFP and was enforced by the MMO - they are still doing so now to prevent over-fishing. Now the same prize fish which the home market values less are bought far less than the white fish (cod, haddock etc) imported from Norway, Island etc.
Hello Professor. In Scotland, we have an expression, "Hell mend them" ("Hell mend ye" for an individual). It's commonly used for people who knowingly do something that could cause them harm. It is an appropriate expression regarding most people who voted to leave the EU. 1,018,322 of those who did were Scots. It's likely that some of them were fishermen. Sympathy may be warranted - but it's in very short supply.
Why did people not understand that Brexit would remove our fishermen from their main Continental markets? 80% of Brixham's prize fish and cuttlefish went to buyers from France, Spain and Italy: a lesson learned too late, and sadly we in the south-west have lost out.
Imported fish from other countries is the biggest problem to the UK fishing industry , cheap imports , I have a fishing boat and I am on the committee of a deep sea fishing club and as a sea fishing club we are not allowed to sell our catch and our local pubs they would be happy to be allowed to buy our catch but as UK law stands we are not allowed to Also we have stricter size rules in witch commercial fishing are not governed by , Bass in a supermarket is tiny in comparison to what we are allowed to keep , Problem Being with Brexit was people believed the compulsive liar being Boris Johnson
Wind farms don't kill fish. Fish move about. This is bs from Big Fishing who exploit illegal immigrant labour, la d fish abroad and offshore profits not hard working wee fisher folk.
Ah, the Good Old Days. My mum and dad used to tell me about 'Knocker Uppers', people who used to tap on windows to wake up mill workers at unearthly hours of the morning. All long gone, along with blokes who used to light the street gas lamps. Nostalgia sure ain't what it used to be. When I look at places I used to work in industry, all the companies I worked for before I set up my own company (now retired) no longer exist, in most cases their premises don't either, left derelict in one case.
Scotland is beautiful and some of the fishing villages are even more so this is incredibly sad.... But it's been coming for a while.... My thoughts go out to the people who fish and put their lives on the line every time they go out to work and their families....
Brexit has nothing to do with it, don't be ridiculous 😂. The UK has a higher share of the Total allowable catch since Brexit. The remoaners in Parliament blocking and trying to implement Brexit in name only have a lot to answer for... It's fair to criticise the Labour and Conservative establishments for not looking after UK fisherman's interests
When did you last buy... Gurnard, Garfish, Weaverfish, Dogfish, Horse Mackrell, SeaBream, Grey Mullet, Conger, ?? All excellent cheap fish and in plentiful supply but shunned by the British in favour of cod and haddock. Here in the European Union we appreciate the fish that the British fishing industry dumps dead back into the sea to rot.
Yes, many people don't seem to realise that cod and haddock, the UK's preferred fish, are scarce in UK waters, they're to be found further north. That's what the various Cod Wars between the 1950s and 1970s were all about, as British trawlers fished Icelandic Waters and the Icelanders claimed territorial rights, which were then enforced by law, preventing UK trawlers from fishing in most of the region.
Brits only eat these fish when they are on holiday in Spain and the can order a fish meal and after a few glasses of the red stuff they complain: why don't we have this back home?? 😂😂
Many industries vanish over time. I too don't like to see Scottish fishing get hurt, but recognise that all things end and change with the times. Renewable energy is deemed more important.
How come they can afford to buy our fish in Spain. But they can barely afford to eat it in the UK. We must be the only island nation where the locals don't eat fish.
No brexit let them down... and the fishermen's own belief that experts telling them this would happen was just FUD. No sympathy. They knew what they voted for
When Trawler Fleet Owners approached Margaret Thatcher for funding to upgrade their minimum standards that the EEC insisted on. And she Voted for. Sonar. Ship to shore radio. Life jackets for all Trawler Crews. She said No. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
Oh come on professor, the EU common fisheries policy was the main factor in the total decimation of UK fishing fleets over the decades we were in there. Trying to blame Brexit for the collapsing industry now in extremely disingenuous. The EU put a pillow over UK fisheries face and pressed down, the UK government just didn't bother to give CPR after forcing them to stop.
@@waltermcphee3787 He was on a committee that had no power to alter fisheries policy. The MEPs in the EU have no legislative or amending powers, its a fake parliament.
@@waltermcphee3787 He was on a committee that had no power to affect fisheries policy. No MEP has power to propose or amend legislation in the EU, its a pretend parliament.
@@lesigh1749Why do you still defend Farage, he was almost never in Brussels and enjoys a fine retirement from the EU. This is the definition of a freeloader.
@rebecca_noble So you think the UK is situated in the Trans Atlantic ocean? With the Brexit all voices that their country should leave the EU has been muted. Why do you think this happened? Yes truth hurts. Hope you can explain to the fishermen, farmers, small exporting business owners, The City, people from Northern Ireland + Gibraltar + Scotland + Falklands, people working in the car industry,... why you voted Brexit. Farage can't.
Less than half a percent of GDP, unfortunately, so the Brexiteers don’t care a jot about the fishing industry.. They were played and dumped along with farmers. (Put it this way; Farage won’t even talk about Brexit these days so you’ve no chance of seeing him anywhere near a fishing port anymore)
They were lied to, just like the rest of us. Some were smart enough to see through the lies but the lure of greed caught plenty. Farmers and Fishermen will be ruing the day they were sucked in by greed.
Regulars of channels such as A Different Bias, Max Robespierre, Marcus at All Shorts etc. know me for my regular Brexit related sign off; We tried to warn them. But they wouldn't listen. 'We hold all the cards...' One was 'Jack', the other 'Shit'.
In the gulf coast of Lousiana there are many abandoned oil rigs .These prove to be magnets for Redfish and Red Snapper.I dont understand why that would not be the same around these wretched wind turbines unless the noise they create scare the fish away.
@lesigh1749 The UK could sell seafood in Europe. It could catch cod and sell it in the UK. Now all the cod on the UK is imported from Scandinavian countries. Now there is no seafood as we can't process it in the UK, or send it through borders to Europe in time. Fishing and selling fish in the EU wasn't perfect but is a world better than now. UK fishermen wiped out. EU fishermen who earn a great living in the single market take over fisheries. Brexit job done.
Irrelevant compared to the hundreds of trawlers going out of business every year under that policy. The UK fishing fleet used to be ten times the size it is now just before we joined the EC, after exiting the EU our fleet has collapsed while France still has theirs at our expense. Fisheries and farming within the EU are Frances domain and all others must give way. That's what you were wanting for us.
@@markwilkie3677 In theory having left the EU should mean we can prioritize UK fishing waters for UK boats and restrict access to large factory trawlers from the EU. However people like YOU run the UK and never wanted Brexit in the first place, so have deliberately refrained from taking advantage of such ability and left UK fisheries in the same sad state as they were before Brexit. The moment we get people like you out of decision making roles and prioritize our own fishing fleets access to our own waters, it will improve.
This is the way it was always going to be. The lies were believed, and now someone has to sort out the mess one way or another. I don't know what you mean by the government paying back their 'friends'. But it was only one government that borrowed it in the first place and will always have to be paid back.
The wind turbines are actually saving fish for future generations, they give safe areas for sea life to flourish, which is probably more than the trawlers have done
So Scottish fishermen claim that EU boats from more than 1.000km away work in their coastal regions (and they obviously make a profit, or else they would not do it) and they still cannot compete? Their real problems are absolutely others. Too old and too small ships, not enough capital, over-aged staff and no young ones wanting to take over, so in the end the same problems as with all the rest UK economy. The idea that there is a real competition between fishing and wind farms is of Trumpean naivety. In the very long run, these few restricted areas for wind farming could become the most important breeding grounds for overfished species...
Many EU boats are large factory trawlers which cause ecological damage and overfish stocks. We don't use those, we should not allow their use in our waters. That's why its hard to compete with them.
@@lesigh1749 I'm not an expert of the TCA but i guess that would be prohibited as i do not think that EU based ships are in breach of this contract in large scale or else the UK border guard would have done something for a long time as that would have satisfied the UK populists.
@@uweinhamburg A lot of things are possible but our governments for the last decade have all been of the same globalist stock and uninterested in enforcing UK borders in any respect. your use of the term "UK populists" is sneering suggests that you aren't a fan of democracy.
I remember you saying that Prof. and; it shocked me a man of your intelligence did not see the ramifications in the detail of what THEY were actually attempting! It wasn't as simple as a switch you can turn off and on again; *Jus' like that a whoosh or a phoomph and it's gone? #WDIDW Have a nice day {/}
The world is changing, more quickly than at any other time I should think. Adapt or die seems to be the order of the day. No help unless you're a billionaire or a bank
UK governments have been failing for many decades now. Our two top priorities must surely be food and energy. If we run out of either then our world stops dead in its tracks. So what does the new Labour government make its priority? It wants to give the Chagos Islands away!! You really can't make this stuff up! What happens to food? Well, they seem to believe that it was a good idea to give away our fisheries. Fish typically feature strongly in any islands thinking but not here for some reason. What happens to farms? We need to impose taxes that, over time, will eliminate all our small farmers. If you are a farmer who finds that he needs to pay an extra £million or so in tax then he will have needed to make that money beforehand by increasing food prices. There is no other way. My guess? All the land will be bought up by Big Business. They might keep on farming and play the "too big to fail card" like the banks do when they go broke, or they will sell the land to developers. Many developments will be required because we need a new large city every year to cope with immigrants and we need hundreds of square miles of renewable energy farms.
The fishing industry is a very small part of the UK economy yet it was a major part of the argument for brexit. However brexit hasn't been a universal success as the industry is split into many sectors like whitefish/shellfish, inshore/offshore, east coast/West Coast, mobile fishing gear/static fishing gear, live markets/ processed markets ect ect ect, one the biggest issues at the fishing side of the industry is attracting people to crew the vessels. This is mainly because of an outdated share system that could result on crew having low incomes or no incomes for lengthy periods when due to modern day pressures most responsible adults have got increasingly high outgoings. The amount of money that would be need to be generated to pay these hard working men what would be regarded as a good income by today's standards is simply not achievable. For almost the last 2 decades our boats and harbours have been swarming with Labour allowed into the UK from Africa and Asia in an attempt to bring down wage costs. You will find that most of the boats that were flying the brexit flag highest are the same boats that have incouraged African /Asian labour. As they were recruited mostly for cheap labour thus pulled down the value of this type of employment and few locals would put themselves in this labour market to work their way into poverty so chose to look towards oil/gas or shore based employment. I believe there are over 500 non European workers on Scottish vessels alone.
Brexit, per se, is not the issue here. The issue is with the way deals were negotiated in the name of Brexit. The UK should have just taken its fisheries back. No negotiations required but what our politicians actually did was work overtime trying to give as much back as possible. They were aided and abetted by our loyal Civil Servants. I bet the next set of negotiations will give even more back if Starmer gets his way. The pursuit of Net Zero and the space consumed by renewables has nothing whatever to do with Brexit. It has always been know than renewable energy is a space gobbling solution. People who can do sums can easily work it out. Find out how much energy we can get from a typical, say, solar farm in a year and compare that to how much energy we used to get from a coal-fired power station. It is not hard but no-one seems able to do it - particularly anyone in government. To obtain the same amount of energy as we used to get from Drax power station will take over 200 square miles of land. Now, use some common sense and ask yourself where will we put all the renewable energy sources? Boris suggested off-shore wind but that is so much more expensive than on-shore wind and the effect on the creatures living in the sea is not completely known. Maintenance is also an issue. At some point, if the UK were to be totally powered by renewables then ships would be sailing out every single day to replace some wind turbines. It would be a continuous effort like painting the Forth Bridge but rather more expensive. If we had responsible politicians they would work all this out first and not just travel hopefully while basking in the the reflected glory of the virtue signalling.
All fisheries are in real danger at this moment in time , not due to Brexit, not due to Wind Turbines but due to overfishing. Since the 1950's factory style fishing has destroyed fishing stocks worldwide. Trawling is an environmental disaster, Deep water fishing is horribly damaging and yet Fishermen continue to blame anyone but themselves. There are ways of fishing sustainably but the industry chooses not to use them, witness the Lyme Bay project, we need to protect our fisheries even if it means leaving them fallow for five or ten years so breeding populations can recover. Sorry Professor but you are uninformed about the state of not just our, but the worlds fisheries.
I honestly don't see what the obsession with fish is about or that these communities are doomed. Fishing doesn't give that much to the national economy, and as for the communities, sad for sure, but that's capitalism for you (sad neither approvingly nor disapprovingly). Weaving and spinning went, and so did the communities based on them. Same with mining. Get another one, tourists, trips to see wind turbins up close? (Not a serious suggestion). But as a boy raised under Thatcher, if circumstances change and your industry can't support you , we'll...and in a slightly callous aside this is what you voted for.
holding brexit responsible for everything is short sighted, brexit was overwritten by the pandemic, no one knew that was coming and its affect on the nation and the world was catastrophic, brexit was never completed, we still panda to the unelected eu and wef quangos.
Bad wolf y own your vote you got to vote on the terms of the oven ready withdrawal agreement and that’s exactly what you got ! I assume you like IDS couldn’t be bothered to read the oven ready deal ! The country would be bank rupt if you had your way with no one to sell anything to ! Just two new trade deals that have devastated the Uk farmers and had the whole southern hemisphere laughing at us !
l must admit detesting wind turbines.... they ruined the sky-line where l once lived. They are as much of an eyesore pylons ever were/are. If they are not on an open plain they festoon rolling hillsides for mile upon mile...awful damn things, besides being overrated in their usefulness...
Brian Leslie it in the eye of the beholder it’s all at sea and buried in NE Scotland no pylons ! You need to try living next to a fossil fuel generator ! Billowing out smoke and steam ! Or try living next to a nuclear generator? Having been in the fallout zone twice in my life !
Fish has gone the way of decent steak and lamb, both of which now tend to be security tagged in supermarkets, due to their high cost. The way it's going, fish will be protected that way any time soon, if it's not already.
Sparky you what ? Once bitten ? Are you insane or is this a wind up ? He told you don’t vote for me vote Tory and the oven ready deal ! Just released again bye Max a caller to Farage at his LBC days look it up his ignorance of how the eu or trade with any country works is just outstanding ! This was about vets certificates
Yeh! COVID.., A direct result of BREXIT and Borris Johnson. If only we had some europeans in charge we could have avoided the national debt resulting from COVID.
@bartvanderheijden7055 The UK *totally REJECTS EU border management.* We REJECT ECJ. We REJECT ECB. We REJECT ANY EU INTERFERENCE with uk domestic matters. If you want Spanish workers to come to Gibraltar to work, you do it on OUR TERMS. Simple.
This government is more interested helping people abroad, illegal immigrants and the stupid net zero targets, than it's own people. If we had left the EU in full like we were supposed to none of this would have happened!
Westpoll your prejudice just makes you look Cupid 💘 there were no boats before the Brexit referendum less than 1300 before we left and 140,000 since we left if you hadn’t noticed the Tories were in power all that time you need to own your vote ! You got to vote on the oven ready withdrawal agreement and the country decided giving it a Tory 84 seat majority ! You’re just another 💦💦😭😭😭brexiteers who can’t own up to your vote or reality
The two issues you raise: BREXIT and offshore wind are not linked. BREXIT was, is, and will continue to be, a complete disaster for Britain. It will lead eventually to a breakup of the UK. it is only an advantage for the owners of the banks that operate in the City of London. Offshore wind is also a disastrous policy. Not only is it pretty much useless as a source of electrical energy, it is also hugely expensive, and short lived. The clearly better means of generating electricity is by nuclear power. Unfortunately an inevitable effect of Thatcher's destruction of the CEGB was the demise of Britain's nuclear power industry. Offshore (or onshore) wind is a virtue signalling hobby horse pursued by politicians and their followers who are clueless about engineering and physics. The fishermen were lied to about BREXIT just as everybody else was."Sovereignty"; you pillocks; what sovereignty have you gained? You are now back under the boot of the Disneyworld British political system instead of the professional managers of the EU. Britain was always despised, now it is isolated both politically and economically, set on a course of irreversible decline.
Irreversible decline.., really just for voting BREXIT? Yeh! What actual decline that goes on unceasing forever and ever. Yeh! What we'll have to actually reverse all technological and medical advancements just for voting BREXIT? Yeh! Just for actually voting BREXIT, we'll have to send all the immigrants back to their country of origin and reinsate a heathen warrior king just for voting BREXIT? YES!.., get it! We'll have to eat our own young and then decline further YES!
Disappointing but not surprising, Brexit has failed to deliver and the fisheries would still be in the same boat if we had remained. I cannot see anything other than an obsessive drive for yet more wind farms and I expect there has been no significant impact analysis on these. What about access for boats, the impact on currents and silting from huge lumps of concrete in seas so shallow you can almost stand up in them?
Lots of analysis on them all over the planet. You will not find that if you dont look for it. It doesn't sell! Hardly any impact. In some cases a positive impact. Think with your head not your emotions. The fish have been fished out!!!! Has happened all over the world in places.
That romantic image of a Scottish fishing village doesn’t exist. Commercial harbours are full of rusty modern boats landing tons of fish for the factory and making as much cash as possible. They have fished themselves out of business over decades due to greed. Most of the workforce have now gone to the oil and gas sector to make money offshore. The wind turbines…probably give fish a haven from the trawlers but their power is pumped south to Grimsby in a new cable, the people in Scotland pay more for their power than the southerners.
You are spot on where the problem lies though, Westminster.
👍 True, only thing you missed was having on board migrants (slaves) running some of the boats.
In 2017 Gove said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: "We will have control. We can decide the terms of access. And then we will also be able, when we leave the EU we’ll become an independent coastal state and that means we can then extend control over our waters to 200 miles.”
When did Gove apologise publicly for his incorrect forecasts?
Oh so Gove lied? How v e r y political of him. He'll be arguing he didn't use drugs, next. Snifffffff!
Never he’s a weasel and self interested still apparently were better together, but the SNP aren’t even doing a sterling job 😔so were screwed up here
You do understand that being in the Eu was the factor which decimated our fishing industry though. When will you apologize for that?
@@lesigh1749. No it didn’t. P.S. what was Farage doing on the EU Fisheries Committee ? Nothing. He only attended once.
Since I suspect my reply below will be not shown, I replied “Take it up with Her Farage “
@@californiadreamin8423 Really now? So you don't think the EU CFP quotas system which forced UK trawlers to throw back tons of fish to come in under the limits had an impact on their viability as a business? And you don't think that the same EU CFP which allowed huge factory trawlers from some EU member states to overfish stocks in the north sea had an effect on Fishing?
No surprise at all. Being a quisling requires absolute devotion to the propaganda.
As a Scot the fishing crisis is simply one of many betrayals coming from Westminster,yes Brexit didnt help them,i pray in my diminishing life my fellow Scots awaken and see what is happening.
Gerry yet so many voted Tory! Have a look. At Aberdeen
@@nickryder9669 Scots haven't voted a Tory majority since 1955!
@@nickryder9669 Yes true but how many who voted were actually Scots.
As a mere Sassenach, I can understand Scottish anger. I don't think it's any coincidence that the Scottish Referendum on independence was held BEFORE the EU one, you have Cameron to blame for that. Imagine what the result would have been for the independence referendum if it had been held after 62% of Scots had voted to remain in the EU, but the UK was leaving the EU anyway. As ever, timing in politics is critical.
The Scottish Fishing Community voted for Brexit and did so in the face of clear-cut rational arguments. It was obvious that fishing would lose its main market and that would devastated the industry.
I had discussions locally with farming/fishing business people in the NE and it was obvious that the glitter of lucre was in their eyes. Yet again. Don't blame the rest of Scotland who voted with their brains instead of their pockets on Brexit. It's taking a long time for the rest of the UK who foisted this economic disaster on our backs.
Yes as a Highlander i can confirm the fishing industry has been hung out to dry, you'll struggle to get a job working on the boats traditional jobs have evaporated yet the influx of hard drugs into our communities has been devastating.
They hire Philippinos and Indians because locals are off their heads on drugs.
Very unreliable.
I wonder which boats are bringing in the drugs ?
@brianferguson7840 The drugs if they come by boat are far further south the police are constantly arresting people from Liverpool and further afield I'm sure some arrives directly up here but the majority is pushed by gangs from the big cities this is an undeniable fact.
And who voted for Brexit.
Seemed to be farmers, fishers and rich folk
@julianshepherd2038 You ought to be ashamed of yourself. People from all walks of life voted for it imagine having the gall to display such contempt and arrogance especially for the older generation who got sold a lie shame on you.
I remember just after brexit , some fishing processing company cant recall exactly now, they were advertising deliveries direct to the customers within about 50mile of the factory as the export market had collapsed.
I also remember the fishing industry proclaiming the advantages of brexit before a quick 180 deg turn afterwards. The fact Scotland voted to remain in the EU after the promises given in the independence referendum reminded me of the lies about the oil revenues in the first referendum, just lies lies lies.
Returning from Isle of Lewis, I met 7 great Romanian lads, all off 1 boat. No foreign workers no crew. A Canadian company is trying to set up a new shellfish farm. They only have 30% of the staff they need. Trying times indeed. Cheers 🥂. Happy New Year.
And why was the huge trawler margris allowed to decimate the coastal fishery I believe she is now in Australia doing the same 😮😮
Scotland and NI voted in majority to stay in the EU, and yet were dragged out against the majorty of each countries voters wishes, and now this is their reward, now where is Farage, Johnson and Mogg?
I don't believe that result. Sturgeon and her SNP can't be trusted and I think the claim of most voting remain is a lie. Also if you are a true Scottish patriot why would you vote to keep political control in the hands-off a foreign criminal power?!!! Voting to remain in the EU is called treason.
We all where Farage is … firmly inserted in the Orange rear passage….
They are doing very VERY nicely thank you.
Agreed. England and Wales voted Leave, so you can argue they got what they wanted. But Scotland voted 62% Remain, NI around 55%. Luckily for NI, the current agreement is giving them the best of both worlds, while Scotland gets no benefit whatever, save 'sovrinty' (sic) and unicorns.
Getting rich
Overfishing is a problem whether we were in or out. Some of these areas need protecting so stocks can recover.
We don't need Westminster demolishing the Scottish fishing industry so stocks can recover.
Brianhewson well said
This is the first I have heard of this.
Yours is the only comment not flush with political emotion. Living in Maine USA I remember the collapse of the Grand Banks fishery. Overfished period! One of the great fisheries on the planet. Had been fished for centuries. Cod were as plentiful as any fish anywhere. The factory ships with giant nets swept them up freezed and packaged them aboard. The inshore lobster fishery survived only because of strict regulation that many fishermen fought every step of the way. It is still healthy and thriving.😊
If the fish stocks collapse, then who has the right to fish for them becomes "Two bald men fighting over a comb"
If you'll remember, a large majority of Scotland voted against Brexit. It is a complete mess and will never be right
Fishers and farmers were big Brexit voters.
Those areas are still Reform, relative, strongholds
Because they were more intelligent and less greedy than the fishermen!.
@@paulbird3235 Dunning Kruiger syndrome.
If things were dandy in the EU.
We would have voted to stay.
@@paulgibbons2320 Some of us did vote to stay, and the majority now want to re-join my friend.
They got used to selling into the EU..
No other industry voted in comparable numbers to leave the European Union. "Europe" protects it's own fisherman, british fisherman used to enjoy that protection and financial support. The renegotiated fisheries agreement wil be the last nail in the coffin of the industry. But don't worry, we in Europe have plenty of fish to sell to you....... At a price !🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Actually it was the off shore trawler who voted for it, the in inshore pot fleet didn’t vote for it so just like life nit every one voted leave only the greedy gits who thought they held all the cards, pity it was only jokers they held
@@brianferguson7840 yes plenty from British waters.The Eu absolutely ravaged this country.
Farmers & fishermen were told what was going to happen by the remain campaign,but it was drowned out by the leave campaign,with there 'project fear' chirp. I'm sorry,but I have little sympathy for farmers & fishermen.
Likewise. As for farmers, expecting them to elicit the same sympathy as NHS workers received, no one will be clapping for the farmers at 7 pm on a Thursday night. Also it wasn't a good look to drive to Westminster using up low tax red diesel in a newish tractor costing £150K or more, while wearing waxed jackets costing upwards of £1000 each.
@paultaylor7082 agree 💯%.
It’s a review NOT A RENEGOTIATION
Big difference. But of course, we hold all the cards... don't we?
Great video how about a video on a free Scotland without england robbing all our assets
I was thinking a video with guest actuary to show how much Scotland has taken from England and Wales per the Barnett Agreement for oil that was owned by Orkney Shetland and Hebrides, and then how much Scotland itself contributed to the Union and how much on break up it would owe the rest of the UK in adjustment ?
@@ScruffyTubbles Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides are Scotland.....
@markwilkie3677 Oh no, oh no... read about Shetland wanting independence from Scotland if Scotland get (pseudo) independence from the rest of the UK. And they were always owned by Scandinavia anyway in the past so are really more sympathetic to Scandanavia historically than Scotland. Hebrides I think historically, were more Scandanavian as well.
I really don't think that mainlanders have thought this independence through sufficiently.
They do produce entrepreneurs like Michelle Mone and Souter though and a lot of others who care about them...
As a wry commentator said that at the opening night of Braveheart they were really weeping for Scotland ...
Before they hopped back to Monaco Tax exile ...
@@ScruffyTubblestotal crap. They speak gaelic, were only part of Norway for a short time and you read that in a paper. Think you'll find they don't as it would mean a dramatic increase in Taxes, like 30% hike. Why are sassanachs always the experts on a country most haven't visited?
2 actuaries. One to counteract all the rubbish that comes out of WM regarding money raised in Scotland that somehow “magically” (🙄) becomes revenues accredited by England. That would open a lot of eyes though, so we cam’t have that, can we?@@ScruffyTubbles oh no, oh no…….
Fishing fleets were decimated by the EU when we were forced into it without a vote, the way to get our fishing fleets backs again is to take full control of our waters as Brexit will allow us to do and have British fisherman fishing British waters, tell us about what happened to the fishing fleets of Britain when joined the EU, inform the schools of fish that hang off you every word and so swim in the wrong direction because of it about the size of the UK fishing industry pre EU and how it was decimated on joining the EU
Absolutely right.
Personally I don't give a damn who catches the fish as long ask get it at a reasonable price.
@@Ricimer671 And you would, why wouldn't you if its caught and landed here
We can't take back control of the channel, let alone the North Sea. 🤔😆😁...
Ah, but you had the lucrative "same day" continental market dealers at our fish ports taking the prize fish at good prices. Keeping fishing stocks viable was a plus of the CFP and was enforced by the MMO - they are still doing so now to prevent over-fishing. Now the same prize fish which the home market values less are bought far less than the white fish (cod, haddock etc) imported from Norway, Island etc.
Hello Professor. In Scotland, we have an expression, "Hell mend them" ("Hell mend ye" for an individual).
It's commonly used for people who knowingly do something that could cause them harm.
It is an appropriate expression regarding most people who voted to leave the EU.
1,018,322 of those who did were Scots. It's likely that some of them were fishermen.
Sympathy may be warranted - but it's in very short supply.
62% of Scots voted to remain in the EU so be quiet!
A perfect saying for the SNP supporter then.
So what, 62% of Scots voted to remain in the EU.
Why did people not understand that Brexit would remove our fishermen from their main Continental markets? 80% of Brixham's prize fish and cuttlefish went to buyers from France, Spain and Italy: a lesson learned too late, and sadly we in the south-west have lost out.
Oh FFFS those fish don't come from anywhere else but British waters, why do you think those fisherman come here
@@johnsmith8410sorry the fish come from Norway, Germany, Denmark and migrate to the UK waters.
Imported fish from other countries is the biggest problem to the UK fishing industry , cheap imports ,
I have a fishing boat and I am on the committee of a deep sea fishing club and as a sea fishing club we are not allowed to sell our catch and our local pubs they would be happy to be allowed to buy our catch but as UK law stands we are not allowed to Also we have stricter size rules in witch commercial fishing are not governed by , Bass in a supermarket is tiny in comparison to what we are allowed to keep ,
Problem Being with Brexit was people believed the compulsive liar being Boris Johnson
Problem is they believed the compulsive liar Remoaners who have allowed the EU to continue fishing UK waters.
If the UK fish stocks collapse, then who has the right to fish for them becomes "Two bald men fighting over a comb"😢😢
Wind farms don't kill fish.
Fish move about.
This is bs from Big Fishing who exploit illegal immigrant labour, la d fish abroad and offshore profits not hard working wee fisher folk.
Ah, the Good Old Days. My mum and dad used to tell me about 'Knocker Uppers', people who used to tap on windows to wake up mill workers at unearthly hours of the morning. All long gone, along with blokes who used to light the street gas lamps. Nostalgia sure ain't what it used to be. When I look at places I used to work in industry, all the companies I worked for before I set up my own company (now retired) no longer exist, in most cases their premises don't either, left derelict in one case.
Scotland is beautiful and some of the fishing villages are even more so this is incredibly sad.... But it's been coming for a while.... My thoughts go out to the people who fish and put their lives on the line every time they go out to work and their families....
Brexit has nothing to do with it, don't be ridiculous 😂. The UK has a higher share of the Total allowable catch since Brexit. The remoaners in Parliament blocking and trying to implement Brexit in name only have a lot to answer for... It's fair to criticise the Labour and Conservative establishments for not looking after UK fisherman's interests
Maybe you study first how the business model worked when the UK was still in the EU before making a comment.
Grimsby
When did you last buy... Gurnard, Garfish, Weaverfish, Dogfish, Horse Mackrell, SeaBream, Grey Mullet, Conger, ?? All excellent cheap fish and in plentiful supply but shunned by the British in favour of cod and haddock. Here in the European Union we appreciate the fish that the British fishing industry dumps dead back into the sea to rot.
Yes, many people don't seem to realise that cod and haddock, the UK's preferred fish, are scarce in UK waters, they're to be found further north. That's what the various Cod Wars between the 1950s and 1970s were all about, as British trawlers fished Icelandic Waters and the Icelanders claimed territorial rights, which were then enforced by law, preventing UK trawlers from fishing in most of the region.
@@paultaylor7082
Absolutely correct in all respects !!
Mackrell and grey mullet are amoung my favourite fishes, but they are oftern quite hard to get. Especially grey mullet.
You have a valid point but education and cooking programs using these cuts of fish may help, a lot of fish are chucked back in which shouldn’t
Brits only eat these fish when they are on holiday in Spain and the can order a fish meal and after a few glasses of the red stuff they complain: why don't we have this back home?? 😂😂
Many industries vanish over time. I too don't like to see Scottish fishing get hurt, but recognise that all things end and change with the times. Renewable energy is deemed more important.
How come they can afford to buy our fish in Spain.
But they can barely afford to eat it in the UK.
We must be the only island nation where the locals don't eat fish.
@@paulgibbons2320 who wants red snapper and chips? It was the French who liked the Strange fish from our side of the Chanel,
Apart for the most part, from cod and haddock the British don't eat fish.
Strange for an island nation.
@@brianferguson7840 Grimsby processed frozen Icelandic cod for sale throughout the EU.. They voted for Brexit. Now the Dutch process it instead.
@@brianferguson7840 exactly my point. We have the finest food source in the world and we don't eat it.
@@johnrussell3961 Most folkes in the UK wouldn't know what to do with a snapper.
Which is a shame it is delicious.
Leaving the fish alone is the only truly sustainable option.
Uk Government let Scottish fishermen down to get there Brexit done.now the are left with all red tape so they can export there fish.
No brexit let them down... and the fishermen's own belief that experts telling them this would happen was just FUD. No sympathy. They knew what they voted for
In what world could the UK leave the EU but still fish in EU waters ????
When Trawler Fleet Owners approached Margaret Thatcher for funding to upgrade their minimum standards that the EEC insisted on. And she Voted for.
Sonar. Ship to shore radio. Life jackets for all Trawler Crews. She said No.
🇮🇪🇪🇺
That's because it was private business and the EEC clearly didn't offer either
Plus SNP and Milliband are working so hard to kill Gas and Oil Industry..
Oh come on professor, the EU common fisheries policy was the main factor in the total decimation of UK fishing fleets over the decades we were in there. Trying to blame Brexit for the collapsing industry now in extremely disingenuous. The EU put a pillow over UK fisheries face and pressed down, the UK government just didn't bother to give CPR after forcing them to stop.
Farage was the UK fishing rep. In the EU.
@@waltermcphee3787 He was on a committee that had no power to alter fisheries policy. The MEPs in the EU have no legislative or amending powers, its a fake parliament.
@@waltermcphee3787 He was on a committee that had no power to affect fisheries policy. No MEP has power to propose or amend legislation in the EU, its a pretend parliament.
@@lesigh1749Why do you still defend Farage, he was almost never in Brussels and enjoys a fine retirement from the EU. This is the definition of a freeloader.
Overfishing was the problem not the EU.
Nothing to do with Brexit, Prof. everything to do with far left governments. If Brexit had been honoured UK fishing would be safe.
They were offered fishing apprenticeships to get crew trained and ready.
Why do Brexiteers not understand how business models work, especially for the fishing industry???
@bartvanderheijden7055
Why do eu anti brexiters think they can meddle with uk domestic matters?
Here's your nose back 👃.
It was stuck in OUR BUSINESS.
@bartvanderheijden7055 the UK REJECTS THE CFP.
WE REJECT IT.
We do not want EU "business models". EVER.
Understand?
@rebecca_noble So you think the UK is situated in the Trans Atlantic ocean? With the Brexit all voices that their country should leave the EU has been muted. Why do you think this happened? Yes truth hurts. Hope you can explain to the fishermen, farmers, small exporting business owners, The City, people from Northern Ireland + Gibraltar + Scotland + Falklands, people working in the car industry,... why you voted Brexit. Farage can't.
Anything with Ed Milliband Fingerprint on it is SUSPECT
Just like Johnson then.
It's like everything professor, mining,ship building, steel, manufacturing, the dairy industry, and on and on,👍 happy healthy peace ✌️
The Spanish and French fleets are the priority not the UK and the Irish
Less than half a percent of GDP, unfortunately, so the Brexiteers don’t care a jot about the fishing industry.. They were played and dumped along with farmers.
(Put it this way; Farage won’t even talk about Brexit these days so you’ve no chance of seeing him anywhere near a fishing port anymore)
Gosh who could have thought cutting off your main customer was a bad business model.
The fishermen who voted for Brexit did not understand the business model they were working to ie sell fish to the EU.
If we had Brexit there would be no French/Spanish boats ruining our fishing stocks. The EU just hoovers up UK fish, now they have destroyed the Med.
@@UtubeRwokeLefties The tapering agreement (the price for a TCA) is coming to an end soon.
The EU are now demanding more access to OUR EEZ.
They were lied to, just like the rest of us.
Some were smart enough to see through the lies but the lure of greed caught plenty.
Farmers and Fishermen will be ruing the day they were sucked in by greed.
@rebecca_noble So we say no and tariff French produce until the Farmers make them give up.
@@UtubeRwokeLefties What do you mean by "tariff french farmers"?
This is allowing foreign fishing fleets into these waters who then sell the fish cheaper. NOTHING to do with brexit.
Regulars of channels such as A Different Bias, Max Robespierre, Marcus at All Shorts etc. know me for my regular Brexit related sign off;
We tried to warn them.
But they wouldn't listen.
'We hold all the cards...'
One was 'Jack', the other 'Shit'.
just dont ask a politician to resolve the issue!!
In the gulf coast of Lousiana there are many abandoned oil rigs .These prove to be magnets for Redfish and Red Snapper.I dont understand why that would not be the same around these wretched wind turbines unless the noise they create scare the fish away.
I remember that "Fishing For Leave conference in Aberdeen". Greetings to Nigel Farage and George Eustice, the main protagonists at this event ;- )
Brexit bites again
Explain how the Eu common fisheries policy was benefitting Scottish fishing.
@@lesigh1749 Explain how leaving the EU has benefitted them?
@lesigh1749 The UK could sell seafood in Europe. It could catch cod and sell it in the UK. Now all the cod on the UK is imported from Scandinavian countries. Now there is no seafood as we can't process it in the UK, or send it through borders to Europe in time. Fishing and selling fish in the EU wasn't perfect but is a world better than now. UK fishermen wiped out. EU fishermen who earn a great living in the single market take over fisheries. Brexit job done.
Irrelevant compared to the hundreds of trawlers going out of business every year under that policy. The UK fishing fleet used to be ten times the size it is now just before we joined the EC, after exiting the EU our fleet has collapsed while France still has theirs at our expense. Fisheries and farming within the EU are Frances domain and all others must give way. That's what you were wanting for us.
@@markwilkie3677 In theory having left the EU should mean we can prioritize UK fishing waters for UK boats and restrict access to large factory trawlers from the EU. However people like YOU run the UK and never wanted Brexit in the first place, so have deliberately refrained from taking advantage of such ability and left UK fisheries in the same sad state as they were before Brexit. The moment we get people like you out of decision making roles and prioritize our own fishing fleets access to our own waters, it will improve.
This is the way it was always going to be. The lies were believed, and now someone has to sort out the mess one way or another. I don't know what you mean by the government paying back their 'friends'. But it was only one government that borrowed it in the first place and will always have to be paid back.
Lovely news ... Maybe sell fish to Australia ..or NZ with the amazing awesome huge trade deals ?? 😂😂
Well, plenty of evidence of Australian lamb at our local supermarket, along with Polish mushrooms and, at one point, tomatoes from Israel.
The wind turbines are actually saving fish for future generations, they give safe areas for sea life to flourish, which is probably more than the trawlers have done
So Scottish fishermen claim that EU boats from more than 1.000km away work in their coastal regions (and they obviously make a profit, or else they would not do it) and they still cannot compete?
Their real problems are absolutely others. Too old and too small ships, not enough capital, over-aged staff and no young ones wanting to take over, so in the end the same problems as with all the rest UK economy.
The idea that there is a real competition between fishing and wind farms is of Trumpean naivety. In the very long run, these few restricted areas for wind farming could become the most important breeding grounds for overfished species...
Many EU boats are large factory trawlers which cause ecological damage and overfish stocks. We don't use those, we should not allow their use in our waters. That's why its hard to compete with them.
@@lesigh1749 The UK is sovereign to do so within the limits of signed treaties.
@@uweinhamburg So we should use that sovereignty and banish EU factory trawlers from UK waters. permit only sustainable fishing.
@@lesigh1749 I'm not an expert of the TCA but i guess that would be prohibited as i do not think that EU based ships are in breach of this contract in large scale or else the UK border guard would have done something for a long time as that would have satisfied the UK populists.
@@uweinhamburg A lot of things are possible but our governments for the last decade have all been of the same globalist stock and uninterested in enforcing UK borders in any respect.
your use of the term "UK populists" is sneering suggests that you aren't a fan of democracy.
Brexit promised.They Lied and Lied.Its all about the fishing here.
I remember you saying that Prof. and; it shocked me a man of your intelligence did not see the ramifications in the detail of what THEY were actually attempting!
It wasn't as simple as a switch you can turn off and on again; *Jus' like that a whoosh or a phoomph and it's gone? #WDIDW Have a nice day {/}
The world is changing, more quickly than at any other time I should think. Adapt or die seems to be the order of the day. No help unless you're a billionaire or a bank
UK governments have been failing for many decades now. Our two top priorities must surely be food and energy. If we run out of either then our world stops dead in its tracks. So what does the new Labour government make its priority? It wants to give the Chagos Islands away!! You really can't make this stuff up!
What happens to food? Well, they seem to believe that it was a good idea to give away our fisheries. Fish typically feature strongly in any islands thinking but not here for some reason. What happens to farms? We need to impose taxes that, over time, will eliminate all our small farmers. If you are a farmer who finds that he needs to pay an extra £million or so in tax then he will have needed to make that money beforehand by increasing food prices. There is no other way.
My guess? All the land will be bought up by Big Business. They might keep on farming and play the "too big to fail card" like the banks do when they go broke, or they will sell the land to developers. Many developments will be required because we need a new large city every year to cope with immigrants and we need hundreds of square miles of renewable energy farms.
The fishing industry is a very small part of the UK economy yet it was a major part of the argument for brexit. However brexit hasn't been a universal success as the industry is split into many sectors like whitefish/shellfish, inshore/offshore, east coast/West Coast, mobile fishing gear/static fishing gear, live markets/ processed markets ect ect ect, one the biggest issues at the fishing side of the industry is attracting people to crew the vessels. This is mainly because of an outdated share system that could result on crew having low incomes or no incomes for lengthy periods when due to modern day pressures most responsible adults have got increasingly high outgoings. The amount of money that would be need to be generated to pay these hard working men what would be regarded as a good income by today's standards is simply not achievable. For almost the last 2 decades our boats and harbours have been swarming with Labour allowed into the UK from Africa and Asia in an attempt to bring down wage costs. You will find that most of the boats that were flying the brexit flag highest are the same boats that have incouraged African /Asian labour. As they were recruited mostly for cheap labour thus pulled down the value of this type of employment and few locals would put themselves in this labour market to work their way into poverty so chose to look towards oil/gas or shore based employment. I believe there are over 500 non European workers on Scottish vessels alone.
Brexit, per se, is not the issue here. The issue is with the way deals were negotiated in the name of Brexit. The UK should have just taken its fisheries back. No negotiations required but what our politicians actually did was work overtime trying to give as much back as possible. They were aided and abetted by our loyal Civil Servants.
I bet the next set of negotiations will give even more back if Starmer gets his way.
The pursuit of Net Zero and the space consumed by renewables has nothing whatever to do with Brexit. It has always been know than renewable energy is a space gobbling solution. People who can do sums can easily work it out. Find out how much energy we can get from a typical, say, solar farm in a year and compare that to how much energy we used to get from a coal-fired power station. It is not hard but no-one seems able to do it - particularly anyone in government.
To obtain the same amount of energy as we used to get from Drax power station will take over 200 square miles of land. Now, use some common sense and ask yourself where will we put all the renewable energy sources? Boris suggested off-shore wind but that is so much more expensive than on-shore wind and the effect on the creatures living in the sea is not completely known. Maintenance is also an issue.
At some point, if the UK were to be totally powered by renewables then ships would be sailing out every single day to replace some wind turbines. It would be a continuous effort like painting the Forth Bridge but rather more expensive.
If we had responsible politicians they would work all this out first and not just travel hopefully while basking in the the reflected glory of the virtue signalling.
All fisheries are in real danger at this moment in time , not due to Brexit, not due to Wind Turbines but due to overfishing. Since the 1950's factory style fishing has destroyed fishing stocks worldwide. Trawling is an environmental disaster, Deep water fishing is horribly damaging and yet Fishermen continue to blame anyone but themselves.
There are ways of fishing sustainably but the industry chooses not to use them, witness the Lyme Bay project, we need to protect our fisheries even if it means leaving them fallow for five or ten years so breeding populations can recover.
Sorry Professor but you are uninformed about the state of not just our, but the worlds fisheries.
Not just Russia which is collapsing it seems
As soon as the giant Spanish boats were allowed in to fish our waters we knew it was over
But this is because the quota owners sold them some or all of their quotas years ago
@ yup. That’s when it was over for our small boat fleet. And when were quotas brought in?
I honestly don't see what the obsession with fish is about or that these communities are doomed. Fishing doesn't give that much to the national economy, and as for the communities, sad for sure, but that's capitalism for you (sad neither approvingly nor disapprovingly). Weaving and spinning went, and so did the communities based on them. Same with mining. Get another one, tourists, trips to see wind turbins up close? (Not a serious suggestion). But as a boy raised under Thatcher, if circumstances change and your industry can't support you , we'll...and in a slightly callous aside this is what you voted for.
Fishing is what gives breath to our coastal communities and a LOT OF HOSPITALITY and TOURISM.
LOL............brexit again eh LOL
holding brexit responsible for everything is short sighted, brexit was overwritten by the pandemic, no one knew that was coming and its affect on the nation and the world was catastrophic, brexit was never completed, we still panda to the unelected eu and wef quangos.
Bad wolf y own your vote you got to vote on the terms of the oven ready withdrawal agreement and that’s exactly what you got ! I assume you like IDS couldn’t be bothered to read the oven ready deal ! The country would be bank rupt if you had your way with no one to sell anything to ! Just two new trade deals that have devastated the Uk farmers and had the whole southern hemisphere laughing at us !
l must admit detesting wind turbines.... they ruined the sky-line where l once lived. They are as much of an eyesore pylons ever were/are. If they are not on an open plain they festoon rolling hillsides for mile upon mile...awful damn things, besides being overrated in their usefulness...
Brian Leslie it in the eye of the beholder it’s all at sea and buried in NE Scotland no pylons ! You need to try living next to a fossil fuel generator ! Billowing out smoke and steam ! Or try living next to a nuclear generator? Having been in the fallout zone twice in my life !
@@nickryder9669 Well, l guess its okay if you believe looking at hundreds of Wind Turbines machine across a once unspoiled landscape.....
They need to get British eating fish.
An wages so people can afford too.
Fish has gone the way of decent steak and lamb, both of which now tend to be security tagged in supermarkets, due to their high cost. The way it's going, fish will be protected that way any time soon, if it's not already.
@@paultaylor7082 No lies are spoken. You are right. Minimum wage Minimum proteins.
Ah brexit, such a good idea wasn't it ?
Newlyn, Cornwall. We're fed up with powder puff leaders. We're all voting for Farage.
farage will do nothing but deliver the Coup de Grace to Gran Britannia.... he's certainly got you brainwashed.......
Sparky you what ? Once bitten ? Are you insane or is this a wind up ? He told you don’t vote for me vote Tory and the oven ready deal ! Just released again bye Max a caller to Farage at his LBC days look it up his ignorance of how the eu or trade with any country works is just outstanding ! This was about vets certificates
@@nickryder9669 We don't deal with vets here. We deal with fish.
And they dont make cartoons the way walt disney did any more changing westeren world i dont like it but theres nowt anyone can do about it
Brexit means Brexit. By now you must know what it brings...
BREXIT has given us the opportunity to take full control of OUR EEZ.
And opportunity SQUANDERED by ANTI BREXITERS.
Yeh! COVID..,
A direct result of BREXIT and Borris Johnson. If only we had some europeans in charge we could have avoided the national debt resulting from COVID.
It brings a COVID eperdemic OBVIOUSLY!
No as not all rules are in place and Gibraltar hasn't been settled yet.
@bartvanderheijden7055 The UK *totally REJECTS EU border management.*
We REJECT ECJ.
We REJECT ECB.
We REJECT ANY EU INTERFERENCE with uk domestic matters.
If you want Spanish workers to come to Gibraltar to work, you do it on OUR TERMS.
Simple.
This government is more interested helping people abroad, illegal immigrants and the stupid net zero targets, than it's own people. If we had left the EU in full like we were supposed to none of this would have happened!
It really is a cult isn't it?
This is the 21st Century mate.
Scots voted 62% remain and wont forget this betrayal.
@davefave4351 The remoaner cult. You're right.
Lose a democratic vote but want their way anyway.
Self centered idiots.
Westpoll your prejudice just makes you look Cupid 💘 there were no boats before the Brexit referendum less than 1300 before we left and 140,000 since we left if you hadn’t noticed the Tories were in power all that time you need to own your vote ! You got to vote on the oven ready withdrawal agreement and the country decided giving it a Tory 84 seat majority ! You’re just another 💦💦😭😭😭brexiteers who can’t own up to your vote or reality
It was a lie fed to us all,
The two issues you raise: BREXIT and offshore wind are not linked.
BREXIT was, is, and will continue to be, a complete disaster for Britain. It will lead eventually to a breakup of the UK. it is only an advantage for the owners of the banks that operate in the City of London.
Offshore wind is also a disastrous policy. Not only is it pretty much useless as a source of electrical energy, it is also hugely expensive, and short lived. The clearly better means of generating electricity is by nuclear power. Unfortunately an inevitable effect of Thatcher's destruction of the CEGB was the demise of Britain's nuclear power industry. Offshore (or onshore) wind is a virtue signalling hobby horse pursued by politicians and their followers who are clueless about engineering and physics.
The fishermen were lied to about BREXIT just as everybody else was."Sovereignty"; you pillocks; what sovereignty have you gained? You are now back under the boot of the Disneyworld British political system instead of the professional managers of the EU. Britain was always despised, now it is isolated both politically and economically, set on a course of irreversible decline.
Irreversible decline.., really just for voting BREXIT?
Yeh!
What actual decline that goes on unceasing forever and ever.
Yeh!
What we'll have to actually reverse all technological and medical advancements just for voting BREXIT?
Yeh!
Just for actually voting BREXIT, we'll have to send all the immigrants back to their country of origin and reinsate a heathen warrior king just for voting BREXIT?
YES!.., get it! We'll have to eat our own young and then decline further YES!
Prof is a 🤡
Disappointing but not surprising, Brexit has failed to deliver and the fisheries would still be in the same boat if we had remained. I cannot see anything other than an obsessive drive for yet more wind farms and I expect there has been no significant impact analysis on these. What about access for boats, the impact on currents and silting from huge lumps of concrete in seas so shallow you can almost stand up in them?
Just keep burning fossils and soon they will be too deep to stand up in so no worries there...
We can no longer sell shell fish !
Lots of analysis on them all over the planet. You will not find that if you dont look for it. It doesn't sell!
Hardly any impact. In some cases a positive impact. Think with your head not your emotions. The fish have been fished out!!!!
Has happened all over the world in places.
Brexit just keeps on giving !! 🙄