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Pacifico
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Fishing wars Apr 15, 2024 17:33:29 GMT Vinny likes this

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Post by Pacifico on Apr 15, 2024 17:33:29 GMT

Seems EU fishermen are up in arms over having to follow the higher environmental standards in British waters - rather makes a mockery of the remainer claims that Brexit would lead to lower standards..

Charles Clover, executive director of the Blue Marine Foundation, a conservation charity in the UK, said the TCA permitted restrictions on fishing provided they treat all countries’ boats equally.

“The UK is not only within its rights to prohibit trawling in certain MPAs: it is legally required to. Many of these sites were designated under EU laws — laws that many EU member states are not following,” he said.

He added: “There is, perhaps, a deep irony that the only European country that is even trying to follow the EU habitats directive at sea is the only country to have left the European Union.”

The NHS - A Socialist Behemoth with a small country attached.

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Fishing wars Apr 15, 2024 20:38:38 GMT Vinny likes this

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Post by wapentake on Apr 15, 2024 20:38:38 GMT

Apr 15, 2024 17:33:29 GMT Pacifico said:

Seems EU fishermen are up in arms over having to follow the higher environmental standards in British waters - rather makes a mockery of the remainer claims that Brexit would lead to lower standards..

Charles Clover, executive director of the Blue Marine Foundation, a conservation charity in the UK, said the TCA permitted restrictions on fishing provided they treat all countries’ boats equally.

“The UK is not only within its rights to prohibit trawling in certain MPAs: it is legally required to. Many of these sites were designated under EU laws — laws that many EU member states are not following,” he said.

He added: “There is, perhaps, a deep irony that the only European country that is even trying to follow the EU habitats directive at sea is the only country to have left the European Union.”

Is that what can be called a net gain?

We had new labour and the catastrophe Blair was we now have new labour mk2 a wooden PM surrounded by cardboard cut out ministers, all we need now is a blue Peter washing up bottle made in to a budget,oops we already have.

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Fishing wars Apr 16, 2024 6:58:27 GMT Vinny likes this

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Post by buccaneer on Apr 16, 2024 6:58:27 GMT

Haha, it's typical of the exceptionalist standards the EU pretend to uphold.

Charles Clover, director of the Blue Marine Foundation, a UK-based conservation organisation, said the TCA clearly permitted fishing restrictions provided they were applied equally.

“This is hypocrisy by the French,” he said. “They are not looking at the small print.

“They are playing a ludicrous ideological game against their own rightwing parties, grabbing back support from the trawlermen and not looking at what the rules are.”

The Paris-based environmental group Bloom said it would consider legal action against France if it continued the dispute.

Claire Nouvian, head of Bloom, said the French president, Emmanuel Macron, was showing the world his true ideological stripes.

“It is an embarrassment for France, who say they are champions of the world’s oceans, to do this,” she said.

“It highlights the discrepancy between their words and their actions. If they keep going down that route, we will look into litigation ourselves to sue the French government.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/15/environment-conservation-france-protest-uk-ban-bottom-trawling-fishing-uk-eu-trade-deal-tca