NOT FROM THE NATIONALS

CRINA BOROŞ, FREELANCE JOURNALISTBIRMINGHAM, NOVEMBER 2016

GREENPEACE: Big Fish Quota Barons Squeeze Out Small Fishermen

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FINDINGS: No real transparency in who owns Britain’s fishing rights

despite the FQA register Nearly half of England and Wales’ quota is owned by only 3

companies. All fishing rights in Wales PO were owned by Spanish (at the

time of research) 61% of England’s quota was owned by just three companies Some companies held fishing quota on boats that never cast a

net Johannes Jacob Colam – 26%, England; H&S issues Dutch-owned Cornelis Vrolijk Holding BX – 23% England Andrew Marr International – 12% Enagland

GREENPEACE: WHY TINY BOAT HAS MORE FISHING RIGHTS THAN TRAWLERS

Have you seen Nina May?

Plus… UK fishing industry worth £1 billion (University of West England) Impossible for small scale (under 10m boats) fishermen to

sustain a business with the little quota left for them Leasing quota – unregulated prices; a desperate game; little

profit Despite European practices, the UK does not give environmental

and social weight to how the quota is distributed The under 10s are slowly but surely squeezed out of the

business

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