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The destruction of another historic United Kingdom industry.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/foodnews/price-of-fish-and-chips-could-rise-amid-strike-by-icelandic-fishermen/ar-AAmSSMz?li=BBoPWjQ This is not about the price of Fish and Chips. We have fishing boats in mothballs for many years or broken up for scrap. We have men from the fishing ports of Grimsby, Hull, Fleetwood, Whitby and a hundred other ports around the country who used to fish the waters around the UK, but who now stack shelves in Tesco or draw unemployment benefits. Our fishing industry has been systematically destroyed, not in the name of conservation, but to meet "quota's" imposed by European bureaucrats who no nothing about fishing but much about regulation. Regulations, which in any case have historically been ignored by French fishermen and other European partners, with no visible sanctions taken against them. In the meantime, the "regulations" have enforced the grotesque "policy" of throwing Cod, Haddock and other fi...