700,001 tonnes?According to the UK's Marine Management Organisation, EU boats land 700,000 tonnes of fish from UK waters annually, but Britain’s 6,000 vessel fleet land a higher figure than this as a result of their ability to access EU waters."
I'm always suspicious of such deliberately obtuse statements.
There's also the fact that 80% of our fishing vessels are under 10 metres in length, tiddlers by today's fishing vessel standards as our 12,000 fisherman show, only two per boat.
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