By Jonathan B

EU Bureaucrats often pride themselves over their ‘brilliant’ Common Fisheries Policy, yet fail to recognize that the whole system just isn’t working.

Currently, the Common Fisheries Policy allows any member state of the European Union (EU) the right to fish the waters of any coastal state of the EU, whether that country is landlocked or not.

The influx of trawlers from these EU states in waters such as the North Sea adds immense pressure on an already over-fished area. This over-fishing means that the prices are kept low, and the profits are very much lower.

You’d think that over-fishing was the only problem with the Common Fisheries Policy… You’re wrong; There is another bit of legislation which means that trawlers fishing the sea’s around Europe are only allowed to take a certain amount of each species of fish, which is increasing the very endangerment of some of Britain’s well loved varieties of fish.

It is shown that 40% of all fish caught off the coast of Europe are dumped overboard in an attempt to avoid fines for breaking EU law, so you can imagine why we are losing vast stocks of fish.

It is time that we left the ludicrous undemocratic governance of the EU and got on with our own prosperous nation?