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kiwiqpr said:
Navy fishing protection fleet prepares to triple its strength

Oliver Wright, Policy Editor
Thursday February 06 2020, 12.00am GMT, The Times
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The Royal Navy fisheries patrol fleet will grow in case no trade deal can be done
FRASER GRAY/REX
Ministers are getting ready to triple the number of boats in Britain’s fisheries protection squadron to police territorial waters in the event of a no-trade-deal Brexit.

The government has already given the go-ahead to hire two more maritime protection ships and two aerial surveillance aircraft to be operational by the end of the year. The Royal Navy’s fishery patrol squadron at present has five offshore patrol vessels and one helicopter.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has also recruited 30 extra fishery enforcement officers to inspect fishing vessels and make sure they have the right to be in UK waters.

Ministers are now preparing to redeploy a further 22 boats, which patrol coastal inshore waters at present, if needed,
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We’ll also be stopping British fish from swimming abroad and vice versa.
 
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Sooperhoop said:
Something to look forward to...

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Straight out of the 1970's. Dawn Butler was on LBC this a.m. getting publicity for her deputy leadership bid. She said we don't have enough strikes in the UK, and used France as the example of where we should be headed. It makes me wonder what planet they're on.
 
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