Rejected petition In 1973 the Government sold out the fishing industry.

This cannot be allowed to happen again. Under the terms of paragraph three of Article 50, all treaties including the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) will “cease to apply” to the UK, and Britain's waters will be protected by a 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) under international law.

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"This will mean that there will not be such a thing as “jointly fished stocks” when we leave the EU. “Anything less than getting back full control of our waters post-Brexit will be another utter betrayal of the fishing industry and the people of the coastal areas that was decimated by our mps it's not the government's asset to bargain away it ours.

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Date submitted 15 February 2017
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