fisheries - caught in the eu net
WORKERS, JUNE 2003 ISSUE
After the European Union's Common Fisheries Plan — essentially the hijacking of Britain's fishing grounds for the EU — even landlocked Austria got a claim on the North Sea — comes the Common Fisheries Agency.
By early 2004 the EU will create an EU-wide fisheries police agency to oversee catches, inspection, vessel sizes, licences etc.
The EU has taken the arguments of British fishing crews about preservation, unfair competition, sovereignty, etc and stood them on their head. So-called preservation will aid those who have ignored and devastated not only British but also African fishing grounds.
"Unfair competition" will aid those fleets (Spanish) which have seen vast subsidies while Britain's fleet has been scrapped.
The establishment of a multi-national police inspectorate — reporting to Brussels — will further undermine sovereignty.