Leave the EU and save Fish & Lives.
Leave the EU and save Fish & Lives. If the United Kingdom leaves the EU then it will give this nation the opportunity to save lives in the fishing industry and preserve fish stocks in the Atlantic Ocean. If the nation remains chained to this bureaucratic behemoth then there will be continued death and destruction of fisherfolk, and their communities, and an inevitable ecological disaster for fish stocks in the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. In the past decade, 94 fishermen have died at sea in the UK, 529 fishermen have suffered serious injury and 210 fishing vessels have been lost. There have been 3,326 accidents on UK fishing vessels in these last 10 years. The United Kingdom has approximately 12,000 fisherfolk and they are engaged in what is the most dangerous occupation there is other than warfare. Our membership of the EU has done nothing to correct or alleviate this continued tradegy; membership of the EU has exacerbated the situation in many ways. Sadly, while the fatal acc