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The politics of fishing in the waters around the UK and Ireland is long and complicated. Here's just one example: http://britishseafishing.co.uk/atlantic-dawn-the-ship-from-h...

I believe there have been other examples where the Irish fishing quota was expanded by the exact amount of tonnage as whatever new supertrawler just got built.

It's also true that the British government have had their own issues when it comes to fishing policy but I still believe that the end result in total will be better with a single government (the UK) managing those waters rather than them falling under the EU's fishing policy.