How Brexit failed Britain's fishing industry | Times Reports 

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Who’d have thought that an island nation imposing an economic blockade on itself would suffer negative consequences. If only some experts had warned them.

Mugs who blamed EU for their problems and believed in the magic beans being sold.

They were warned and still voted for brexit. Boris Johnson was a well know liar and they still voted for Brexit. Sorry but Stupidity doesn't deserve respect, so live with it...

I am not sorry for them....they all voted LEAVE without thinking what it really means....NOW they have to suffer that...... THINK before to believe someone => Thats´s it

Theres no fish left, so we need a bigger quota????😂😂😂😂. And this guy is allowed to vote???

The power of the Faridge rhetoric. So many were conned. And yet he keeps rolling on. It’s mystifying

"...Official statistics on the economic output of the fishing industry are volatile and can be significantly revised from year to year. According to the ONS, in 2021, the sector contributed around 0.03% of total UK economic output and around 5% of the broader agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors...".

British fish from Norway ? Norway is not in the EU . I feel sorry for the fishermen but they got what they voted for

Brexit was a promise that could never and will never be forfilled. If the UK had got its own way on everything and the EU had agreed to it. Then Brexit would have been the best thing that has ever happened to the UK. As thats never going to happen , nor is Brexit.

Cry me a river. Ever heard the Brits NOT complaining 😂😂

Is there any aspect or facet of Brexit that has been successful?

Blame Farage.

So... it all went pretty much as any sensible person thought it would?

Now they want you to vote Reform 😂😂😂

Bientôt les mêmes problèmes pour la pêche française, pauvre de nous...😢

farage out

"British fish is the best ... Everyone wants British fish" ... yeah ... except that for the last 50 years that "British" fish was actually Norwegian fish, since no one in Britain wanted ACTUAL British fish, caught in British waters. Sorry, but that's still the same daft rhetoric as before the Brexit vote ... when WILL they finally learn?

4 millions Brits still voted for Farage, I mean maybe you people deserve it?

Wasn’t Farage on the EU fisheries committee when he was an MEP ? Did he , or did he not , attend the committee only once ? Did he claim that attending was a waste of time ? Was he paid to attend to represent U.K. fisherman’s interests ?

they got exactly what they voted for..... and the EU isnt responsible for their decision, the Brits alone are responsible..... and Fartage and his Russian backers!

Who would have thought so? Boris Johnson seemed so trustworthy

Yes the Government as failed the fishing Industry. But the Fisher men were always moaning about the EU and we want our waters back. They voted for Bixit. So they only have themselves to blame.

We are fishing less so EU fisherman are doing better. The complete reverse of what Farage and Boris promised.....and people are going to vote REFORM. There is no helping this country.

I have every sympathy for the unfortunate British people who got sucked into the Brexit fiasco. However the fishermen are one group that I have no sympathy for. Those fishermen had no problem with the decimation of the fishing industry, had no problem with fishermen being poorer and had no problem with the likelihood of jobs being lost in the industry. No problem at all just so long as it was EU fishermen who were suffering. I remember seeing Grimbsy fishermen on television with Pied Piper Farage and them laughing and gloating, yes gloating at how they were going to destroy the EU fishing industry post Brexit. Karma, wonderful karma!!!

You were warned by the Governor and board of the Bank of England. The Independent actuaries.. The heads of almost all the FTSE 100 companies. But you chose to listen to politicians.. A self serving reality TV star and the BREXIT party which was actually a private company. What could have possibly gone wrong?

The Brits failed themselves with their religious levels of self-importance. Don’t blame others. Look in the mirror instead.

Who was the British mep on the eu fisheries commission for all those years ??? Attended just one meeting ?!?!

Farage was elected by voters to represent them in the European Parliament - and he failed them spectacularly. Up to June 2016, UKIP leader Nigel Farage had the worst voting record of any active MEP in European Parliament. Analysis of the MEP voting records placed Farage 745th out of 746 MEPs on the register - with only Brian Crowley, a MEP in Ireland who has NEVER voted, below him. It’s almost as though he couldn’t care less about the will of the people who he represented, but used the mandate given to him to play petty politics.

Can't they all retrain as fruit pickers?

If you fell for the Brexit con trick, don't fall for Reform. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

You left the EU, the EU looks after its members, why would they give the UK a higher quota,

Brexit was like shooting at own foot. Everything is costlier. Trust me fish is now out of reach for commons it's now a luxury.

Fishing industry voted for brexit and destroyed themselves. "Sunlit uplands". Welcome to the brexit!

British fish the best? Everybody wants British fish? This is the dillusional thinking bordering on madness. If people can get convinced by such rhetoric,they can be convinced by anything they want.

Brexit was never going to help UK fishing.

You reap what you sow. #Brexit

Turn it into a "How Brexit failed Britain's XY industry" series and you've got 1000 episodes right there xD

I love when people pay the consequences of their stupid choices

I bet the fishermen vote reform, this time round,

The market for the UK fish was the EU, what on earth did he think was going to happen? The EU sells the fish that the British like to eat and it has for a very long time. That fish has flown the coop, to mix a perfectly good metaphor.

But didn’t the traitors do well.

Four years after Brexit, the British are still waiting for the benefits of Brexit.

They enjoyed being lied to, in there hearts they new something was wrong, they listened to farage, as the people of Clacton are doing now,

British fish..... Caught off the coast of Norway?

British fish caught in the Arctic…

No sympathy for fishermen that voted for brexit, they make it sound they are a honest bunch but 'IF' it went according what was promied, UK would have ruined EU fishermens lives without a second thought................they got screwed over for trying to try take more then they were willing to share, simple really, Uk tried to draw the first blood and EU responded

Watching this is eye-opening! 🐟 It's heartbreaking to see the impact on Britain's fishing communities. Let's hope for positive changes ahead! 🌊

I've seen many post Brexit impact videos now, and they all follow the same basic script: Brexit supporters in [Insert industry] thought Brexit would be good for them, and to their dismay, find out that its actually terrible. There is plenty of sad music to accompany the human interest focus on how hard-done by these same people are, and it would garner sympathy if it weren't for the fact that the actual audience for these videos, I suspect, are largely Remainers who come for a dose of schadenfreude. What none of the videos seems to talk about is what led up to people voting for something that seems so obviously self-destructive - and not just in retrospect. Basically everybody who could reasonably be labelled an expert was screaming warnings about Brexit, to little avail. The real story here, and the real continuing danger, is the persistent devaluing of expert opinion in favour of populist opinion. Who wants to hear that good governance means making tough choices that don't always sound great, when there are plenty of people selling the lie that you can indeed have your cake and eat it! As long as we continue to ignore expert opinion in favour of whatever happens to make us feel good, we can expect more Brexit-like decisions to come.

Not only fishing industry has failed. More bad news will come. BEGRET

I prefer Mediterranean fish to "British" cod fished in Norwegian waters...honestly you shot yourself in the feet by believing the lies that were spewed on the EU. And oh the Irony, eating last night dinner in Malta (EU) and listening to 4 pensioners who voted Brexit but live in Malta - hence in the EU. These are the people who decided to ruin your fishing industry.

I'm amazed about the GB citizens still listening to that Brexit Liars. 😂 Brexit Party is coming home now 😅 Congratulations 😅

Still think British is British Empire, No more, British has to work with others countries to survive. Can't work alone nowaday. 😮😮😮

This is why I can't back Farage in the slightest and get worried when I see his popularity coming back. He did all this, got Brexit and then just left when the difficult part was actually was coming up. Theres no substance to the man.

Promises, promises, promises... and who is responsible? Nobody. In the end, it's the little people who were taken for a ride. Suckers we are. 😮

People always vote out of ignorance because most people have no political awareness and cannot measure, even when obvious, the extent of the consequences of their own choices. Polititians didn't fail, people did!

So you're an island that is depending on trade. And you chose to cut yourself off from the most beneficial trade regime in the world. Hm, what could possibly go wrong?

Didn't the Times tell those same people how great Brexit, and Johnson would be? And call any dissenting 'expert' on these things doomsayers and traitors? Maybe we need press reform so lies aren't sold to the public as undisputed fact, and the electorate can't be conned into voting against their interests again.

How treacherous politicians and civil servants betrayed the British fishing industry perhaps ?

Chickens voted for christmas and now complaining that christmas has come...

I was and am a uk citizen who chose and chooses to live abroad ..I find it hard to feel any sympathy for fisherman and farmers who voted for brexit …against my interest…for their greed ..oh we will be alright.. enjoy yer brexit all the best from Spain

I mean, you get what you vote for..... The UK did nothing but whine and moan about the EU. The UK left, and the EU is stronger than never! I truly hope we never allow them to return!

The consequences of your actions 🤷🏽‍♂️

Tough one. People don't want to go back and the EU has no interest to give any fishing jobs to 3rd parties. Why would Norway give away their fish when they can ban the UK fishermen and sell fish to the UK directly? We cannot expect miracles from the politicians. We live in a new reality and there are winners and losers.

I was at the supermarket here in the Netherlands yesterday wondering how Australian and Canadian products including fish are on the shelves here but the British products aren't?

Brexit is a slow puncture! Worst mistake ever!

Leave the fish alone. Fiexit must come after Brexit. Save the fish.

It’s not ‘British fish’ if it’s Norwegian is it?

Here is an idea: a person vote counts as much as their IQ. If you IQ is 120 your vote counts 120 points, if you IQ is 80 your vote counts 80 points. That would solve all our problems.

The fishing industry is worth less than Games Workshop....where are the rallies to protect them?

Super interesting that he says ‘the government’ conned the fishermen. Everyone’s forgotten the detail of the campaign and it makes you wonder who knew anything in the first place.

Correction: How the Traitorous Tories failed Britain's fishing industry

Why were they so gullible?

"They're taking our market". No, the Tories gave it to them. You'll never learn.

UK: Are people regretting Brexit? How is Brexit affecting the economy? Was Brexit a mistake? Did Brexit make things better or worse? How did Brexit impact the fishers and farmers? EU: Brexit? Oh, that was years ago. What's done is done.

I think the right-hand photo shows Farage embracing of his more intelligent followers....?😂

Yet Farage is such an honest and good man after all Clacton voted for him.

From Spain, I work in the fish marketing sector. Spain is one of the largest consumers of fish in the world. There are many species of fish that are not appreciated in the rest of Europe and that are highly priced here. I can never understand why English fishermen voted in favour of Brexit, when Europe and Spain in particular were the destination of most of their catches and at prices they had never dreamed of. I remember that when Spain joined the EU our fishermen complained about the competition from fresh fish brought in from Great Britain. Today, our largest supplier of fresh fish outside the EU is Morocco, which has replaced Great Britain, with fish of equal quality and better price. Other great beneficiaries have been French fishermen. My company still imports fish caught by British fishermen, but in much smaller quantities and paying lower prices at source than those paid before Brexit. The biggest problem with bringing fish from Great Britain is not the customs bureaucracy, it is that the comercial chain has been broken. Before Brexit, there were Spanish buyers based in Great Britain, joint ventures, regular fish transport... now everything is less normalized. British fishermen, as we say in Spain, have thrown stones on their own roof

I really dont understand why the uk decided it was better to have less trade...all nations trade more with their neighbours (for example the US trades 350bn with Canada and 330Bn withMexico...number three ? china with 120bn....they trade more with Canada and Mexico than with the following 10 countries put together)....I really cannot understand how they could shoot their own feet like that. Small case: I used to buy whisky from a firm in Scotland that had great offers every december. I dont do it anymore...taxes killed the offers : (.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. Sing Lofty...

Cod fishing isn't fishing it's mining seaweed forests, should be banned the trawlers sunk.

Farage, like Boris, talked a lot....but do nothing. Theyre not problem solvers, just talkers !!

Finally some good news about the Brexit. Fishing is the new beef as we understand the oceans are greater carbon sinks than forests and oceans are destroyed faster than forests, we need to stop animal products to save the planet. not only climate wise, even if you don’t believe in climate change. We made pigs and cattle the biggest marine predators as fish meal is fed to livestock along with human food like grain and soy, and as it takes 15 calories of feed to produce 1 calories of meat, fish, meat&dairy are the leading causes of worldhunger. 10,000+ children starving daily, it can all be fixed by eating plants directly

From Germany: i love the UK but i have no pity with these guys. Your fault that you believed liars as Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage

thanks Conservative Party, some Labour Party members & Reform Party for making Brexit come true, i've never seen a decadency like the one i've seen from 2016-2019 onwards.

Funny how this forgets to mention the UK selling its fishing rights, and the massive export of fish Britain won't eat.. Gutter journalism, cherry picking information.

Let me get this straight…you voted for Brexit to separate yourself from the EU…and you thought the EU and Norway would reward you for that by giving you more fishing quota in their waters??? Maybe instead of fishing you should start exporting whatever you guys were smoking that made that like of reasoning make remote sense, seems like it must have pretty potent stuff.

This is what happens when you’d rather believe in charlatans and populists than doing your own research. Leaving EU because you thought you could do better outside just on its face was always a ruse. Time to correct the mistake and show Nigel and Boris where they can stick Brexit

‘The British government told us they’d take back fishing’ no they didn’t and it’s disturbing to see these people take no ownership of the problem they created. No lessons learnt from destroying the country.

The constant betrayal is getting very whereing. .. we need starmer out.. if not the labour party will lose so much support it won't be able to run taxis,nevermind a country

Brexit was a conservative grift on poor people to convince them to vote counter to their own best interest. I do have to disagree with British fish being the best fish on the market. Sure, it may be in Britian but anytime fish is fried its flavor is killed. The best sashimi-grade fish comes from the US, Japan, and Australia.

You Brits were so amazing and fantastic that you couldn’t be in such a little worthless organisation as EU… are you Brits Happy now?

Blunt reality is that the British government hasn't valued fising for decades, 5 decades. We British people dont vale fish. We dont eat it much. The end.

It used to be 250 ships and now they only need 1 to catch, process and freeze more fish than those 250 boats combined!

I kinda have no sympathy for them. They believed farage, and unless they start blaming farage and the other brexiteers why give them sympathy

Absolut Arrogance and Will the believe every obvious lie, brought the Brits there, no pity for such behavior!

No offense, but the fishing industries are facing an existential crisis on a global scale. The fact that this British trawler has to travel to Svalbard, instead of the Norwegian coast also has to do with the fact that there are no more fish off the coast of populated areas.

I disagree. Australian butterfish makes the best fish and chips. I did not know of any creamier fish meat.

Nigel Farage?. What a buffon, everething is joke for him. He lives from politics.

The chickens are coming home to roost .