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Michael Gove Giving Away UK Fishing Rights 🐟

763 views · Published 4 August 2017 · 4:35 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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Just when you think that the UK is on the right track with taking back control over its fishing waters post-Brexit, when along comes Michael Gove, our secretary of state for the Environment, Food and Rural affairs, who says well actually …..
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I thought that UK ministers were at last showing some backbone after Michael Gove declared a while ago that we would be taking back control over our Exclusive Economic Zone, or EEZ, out to the 200 mile limit after Brexit day.

But now it seems that isn’t quite the case.

No sooner had he loudly trumpeted that there would be no foreign fishing vessels in our six to twelve mile zone, let alone the EEZ, than he is, according to reports, off to Denmark to tell the Danish fishermen that UK waters are open to business for them after Brexit Day in March 2019. Because he says, we don’t have enough of an industry to deal with all the fish that can be caught.

The British fishing industry is a poster child for all that is wrong with the EU for the people of the UK.

It shows in stark relief how the rules and deals within the EU can have such a profound effect on one section of our society. It took much needed jobs and income away from our coastal ports and villages and redistributed them to foreign shores. And those living in the Westminster bubble cared not one jot, as it was as far away from them as it is possible to get.

A resurgent UK fishing industry would go a long way to redistributing wealth and jobs more evenly across the UK as it would bring a prosperous future to most coastal towns and villages. Here we have a potential growth industry under our noses and what’s the response?

The answer from a government minister is to throw the opportunity away!

Where’s the vision? Where’s the drive?

If we were talking about the tech industry minister would be leaning hard on banks to lend and invest in up and coming start-ups, infrastructure, training and equipment. The government might even put taxpayers’ money in to pump prime it.

While Michael Gove is happy to make grand pronouncements about the future of electric cars in the year 2040 and ministers fight against all sanity to keep the white elephant HS2 project afloat, they are happy to stand back and let the UK fishing industry sink under a tidal wave of inactivity when we have less than two years to act.

Here we have an almost turnkey solution to boosting the UK economy and ministers don’t want to know. Is it because it’s not something you can do from a chair in the City via a computer? Is it because the fishing industry is a traditional hard graft, fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work trade that puts our so-called masters off? Is it because it won’t be a route for a few people to make vast sums of money and move quickly on?

The country has a huge opportunity to build something here that will help bind communities and families together as well as re-introducing the people of the UK to its island heritage.

Please don’t let us throw this opportunity away!

What do you think of Michael Gove’s approach to our fishing industry? Please leave a comment below.

Thank you.

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