Gove has the face smacked of a wet fish and swims with the tide. Frankly I wouldn't expect anything less from a Tory.
No doubt where his allegiances lie regards LEAVE, and he very likely tells a different account of why his adoptive labour-supporting father sold his fish processing business, but there is little honest jornos around these days so who really knows..? What I do sense from his tone and wet fish expression is that he sees the fishing industry in the North/North east as not much worth bothering about. He may be right as it currently stands, but that's no talk of a true Brexiteer, that's the Tory in him speaking. Its up north see... where the roots still hold true not forgotten by those doing proper jobs. Not from any lack of recoverable fish stocks - neither from the damage done from the meagre share we receive in quotas or the incentives offered by EU Funding to buy-out fishermen to reduce fleet size. We have few resources left. Lets build this one back up.
A declining industry and skills shortages are no reason to use it as a bargaining chip in Brexit negotiations. European trawlers fishing one of the most fertile grounds - must have took its toll and - must have negatively affected our trawler-men's livelihoods. The evidence speaks for itself regards the common fisheries policy - an environmental disaster some might say. Throwing back dead fish over the quota is madness. The industry elsewhere is thriving thanks to the taking by others of what is rightfully ours.
The combined EU fishing fleets land about 6 million tonnes of fish per year, of which about 3 million tonnes are from UK waters. The UK’s share of the overall EU fishing catch is only 750,000 tonnes. (Wiki)
As for no fleet or cutters and gutters to speak of, we should buy Falklanders fish in the interim. They are desperately looking for new buyers in case they find themselves not able to sell into the rest of Europe.
