Am surprised, or maybe not, there has been no comment on this. Perhaps no one wants to be seen to criticise the EU in the current political climate. Maybe, just maybe, the one positive aspect of withdrawing from the EU is regaining control over the UK fishing industry. Pulse fishing is a cause of great environmental concern, compared closely to fracking, seems to be driven primarily by the Dutch.
To be informed please read this paper, originally written in 2012 but extensively rewritten this year in light of current developments:
http://britishseafishing.co.uk/pulse-trawling/
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For the UK the prospect of Brexit and leaving the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy offers the possibility of regaining control of British territorial waters. If this was done then it would be perfectly possible for the UK government to ban all forms of pulse trawling and electro-fishing within UK waters, if the political will to do so was there. Professor Daniel Pauly, the world-renowned fisheries scientist is a prominent critic of the way that the EU has managed its fisheries and believes that Brexit offers the opportunity for the UK not only to ban pulse trawling but also to rebuild its fish stocks. He spoke about pulse trawling at a conference in London in January 2017 saying:
“The opportunity you have now is to do better than the EU has done . . . Trawling is very destructive gear, pulling everything in and destroying habitat and so on . . . But you can make things worse. You can add insult to injury by electrifying this thing. So the animals that would slip under the net get a spasm of electricity. They jump up and they are caught. So you can add to the things that you catch: the last worm, the last little shrimp in the sea. That is literally scraping the bottom of the sea” (12).
