UK fishermen face new uncertainties over post-Brexit trade deal

UK fishermen face new uncertainties over post-Brexit trade deal

One major sticking point during months of post-Brexit trade negotiations was the issue of EU access to UK fishing waters. In the end, London signed off on a deal that returns just 25 per cent of the European quota to British fishermen. And that's left many in the dark about what to expect come January. The fishing town of Brixham, Devon, on England's southern coast is a perfect example of somewhere caught in the net of the fisheries debate.Driver and his son Simon come from a long line of Devon fishermen. They get a good haul of Atlantic seabass. But more than half of the fish that has been caught this morning won't be finding it's way to anyone's plate.“If you've got 20, 30, 40 boxes of seabass that's perfectly sellable, that's dead that you have to throw back. That's the heart destroying thing about it,” says Dave Driver, skipper of the Girl Debra fishing boat.On Brexit, Driver and Simon disagree with their Cornish crew mate, Max – a Remainer – who sees few positives for fishing post-Brexit.“The thing that annoys me, a lot of the issues that we're seeing now weren't portrayed to the general public at the time