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| What happened to the 12 mile exclusive limit? |
The Brexit reset deal is being described as “an astonishingly bad deal” for UK fishing — a deal that hands away 12 years of access to our waters, strips the industry of its best tool for growth, and replaces evidence-based fisheries management with political spin and sentiment.
What does this mean for the future of British fishing, food security, and our coastal communities? In this episode, we dig into why many believe this deal drags us back to the past just as the industry was poised to move forward.
Mike Cohen, Chief Executive of the NFFO, calls Sir Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset an “astonishingly bad deal,” giving away UK waters, undermining the future of British fishing, and replacing evidence-based management with politics and sentiment.
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