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Troubled Waters – British Fishermen and Brexit
More than two years after Brexit, British fishermen are angry. They were promised more control over fishing rights in British waters, but what they’ve gotten is reduced income. Many of them voted Leave, but now they feel they’ve been let down. The fishing industry overwhelmingly supported Brexit. Darren Kenyon is a fisherman from Grimsby in North East England. He believed in the government’s Brexit promises – including more control over fishing rights in British waters — and voted Leave. But two and a half years after Brexit, he feels betrayed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Kenyon’s income is lower than it used to be and there’s more red tape than ever. >click to read< 12:10
Meet one of Grimsby’s last-remaining active fishermen and step on board his boat
Casting his weary eyes over the sparse setting of Grimsby Fish Docks, the face of jovial fisherman, Darren Kenyon, crumples into a frown. When I look around it’s depressing – absolutely depressing. When you look at the current situation, you have all of these buildings being knocked down and no one investing any money into the jobs,” he says.,,, In a location which has seen some of the most drastic industrial change in the county over the past 40 years, few have witnessed that change more explicitly than Darren has; his plot on the North Quay lies just a few yards away from the bases of Dong Energy and E.ON’s Humber Gateway Offshore Windfarm. click here to read the story 10:52
