Greenpeace's new film, High & Dry, follows the Operation Ocean Witness crew as they observe the impact of industrial fishing on the UK's Marine Protected Areas. %
By Jonathan Silberman April 19, 2021
Militant/Jonathan SilbermanAndrés Mendoza, left, Communist League candidate for London mayor, talks to Lee Colgan March 12 in Hastings, south of London. Colgan, a small fishing boat crewman, said because of U.K., EU restrictions, he “can’t make a living as a fisherman” and has to work a second job.
HASTINGS, England “The first thing you need to know is that the commercial fishing industry is divided between those fishing from boats shorter or longer than 10 meters,” Paul Joy told Andrés Mendoza, Communist League candidate for London mayor when they met here March 12. Joy has fished off the south coast of England for 48 years and is the chair of the Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society.
LARGE sections of Britain s fishing industry are facing imminent disaster as a direct result of the trade deal signed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, an industry chief has warned.
BORIS Johnson has been put on the spot over Environment Secretary George Eustice s attempt to blame the EU for the ban on shellfish exports to the EU - with Labour arguing the situation is in fact the result of negligence by the UK Government.