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IT migrations are always likely to encounter unforseen issues, eg TSB. Just be thankful this wasn't a Government IT application.

Wes, I don't disagree about the state of UK fisheries with regard to how the EU affects and impacts on it, especially as I have direct local knowledge of how the Fleetwood fleet has disappeared completely. I just feel that Brexit will not deliver an effective change unless much more direct intervention is seen from the Government, and given that we are talking about an industry that represents less than 1% of the economy, other priorities will divert the Government's attention in the coming few years.

The 6th former Trump aide to face prosecution.

The CFP determines how much of the total fishery in the EEZ is allocated to each EU member state, and each state then makes it's own decision as to how to apportion it's share. The UK Government has passed responsibility for the quotas for Scotland and NI to the devolved assemblies, whilst merging the Welsh share, which is minscule, wth England's. Within the Anglo-Welsh arrangement the overall quota is split between Producer Organisations, generally collectives of fishermen in specific home ports, and then this is distributed based on Fixed Quota Allocations, calculated on boat size and historic landing data. However, the Government enabled a market in FQAs which meant that individual allocations coud be traded, and consequently most of them have been accumulated and consolidated by a small number of companies, several of which are foreign, who then lease the allocations to their own boats. For instance, the FQA for the Fleetwood PO was sold off to a Spanish company, which moved the quota to it's own ships, and now means that whilst Fleetwood remains as a registration port for fishing vessels, none actually sail from there any more. When we leave the CFP, we will control 100% of our defined fishery, but the FQA system will remain, as it is nothing to do with the EU. Therefore, to regain 'control' the UK Government will need to address the market in and ownership of transferable quotas. ( I think this is how it works. )

Write to BoJo and suggest he follows Australia's example. They outlawed super-trawlers after the Margiris was spotted fishing in their waters.

Patti Smith covers Midnight Oil.....

stencil

Not forgetting the sheer literary gold, and historically important social commentary, that is the PTS.

"I took my car into a Jewish garage and asked them to Simonize it. They cut 2 inches off the exhaust pipe."

There is nothing there to suggest that the vessel is doing anything other than what it is legally permitted to, under UK law and within UK quotas. I agree that fisheries should be sustainable, and perhaps Brexit may help towards this, but anybody who thinks there will be a post Brexit boom in UK fisheries is going to be greatly disappointed.

I think you may have a long wait for the Government to consider buying back the English quotas from foreign ownership. And it is quite likely that UK vessels currently fishing for particular species in EU waters are not equipped to start catching other species in UK waters, once the EU and UK pull up their respective drawbridges.

The EU don't 'plunder' our waters. EU companies own more than half of England's quotas, ( the Government sold it off ), and most of the fish caught in UK waters is exported because it is species that are not commercial on UK markets.

How do you know that, in it's entirity, the EU deal on offer isn't 'better' for the UK ? Just because you don't like it ? Because of our proximity, economically and geographically, there are bound to be things that the EU want to include; they are protecting their own interests, as are we. Anything yet in the news about German car manufacturers 'beating down the doors' of Angela Merkel's official residence ?

Proper computers........ I started on ICL kit, ( and an old Honeywell with 32K of main memory ), in 1982.

Japan, Canada, and South Korea don't have issues over their coastal fisheries, as their coastal waters aren't shared with the EU; Canada is nearest, at about 2500 miles away, rather than half the width of the English Channel. Nor do any of them trade approx 50% of their total with the EU.

As stated above, neither name is Geographically accurate. "Spanish flu" was first detected in the USA, "German measles" was identfied as a seperate strain of Rubella by Geman researchers but was already a globally widespread disease.

I hope you don't try to do this as a matter of course; Spanish Flu didn't start in Spain, and German Measles isn't German in origin.

"If you don't tidy your bedroom I'll make you sit and read MLG's posts on the "Duck Blasphemy" thread, over and over again".

Eden

Have you come on here to hijack this thread as well ? If you want a dedicated thread about ducks, start one.

He can, I wasn't reading what I typed.

Got to watch out for those fat bottomed girls though.

Old skool

Got to be a good bloke, he went to Lancaster Royal Grammer School.

With a Quija board and Tarot cards ?