Originally Posted by
racedo
Interesting a comment from EU fishermen regarding brexit and a claim that will not be fishing in UK waters.
Response was "How are they going to stop us" and when told it will be by a "Fisheries protection vessel / RN Warship". They just responded "20 trawlers over a 1000 sq mile ocean area can not be all arrested and a single arrest means vessel has to escort trawler to shore. We are part of a fishery coop, therefore arrested trawler gets a share of what they other 19 catch."
Pity we can't do the same as the opposition in the Cod wars and just cut their nets without boarding but that would have required prior planning to obtain the necessary equipment to do it.
Mind you nowadays there's probably some H&S reason why we can't do it anyway.
