I don’t want to state the bleeding obvious, but Britain is an island and our coastal communities have been fishing for millennia. Indeed, the sea and fishing are part of our DNA. It was natural, therefore, that one of the causes front and centre of the Brexit campaign was fisheries. We and, more importantly, our fishing industry were told leaving the bloc would mean taking back our fishing stocks from the European Union. Today though, our fishermen have every right to feel disappointed and deceived, because, when we did leave the EU, we didn’t take our fishing stocks back or reinvigorate our f…
