Source: Oliver Smith / Telegraph

The Telegraph.co.uk report that:

In an interview with a travel industry magazine, Mr Farage – himself a keen fisherman – suggested that the West Country could become an angling destination to rival Florida.

“I think the UK is missing a trick in a huge way,” he said. “Angling is the biggest participant sport in Britain apart from football.

“We should be doing the same as Florida – three miles off the shore, we should place some old car tyres and concrete bits on the sea bed and we would have a whole eco-system thing with lots of fish. We could do it in the West Country and South Wales – it would be the most incredible boost to tourism.”

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