Seems like we catch more Migrants than fish....

Why is the interviewer so keen on letting EU take our fish. Brussels Broadcasting Corporation.

bbc.... Boris ditch the license fee, and let this gutter broadcaster, sink into the sewer, were it belongs.... imo

If the EU catches 65% of fish in British waters, can the British have 30% of French vineyards and 35% of German industry? Sounds quite reasonable

Didn't even show Grimsby where the town is ghetto due to lack of fishing because of the European Union quota bs.

Typical BBC see there needs to be something done about paying this extortion to them. Why do we have to fund an anti-british establishment

The BBC needs to be rebuilt with normal people

BBC - what % of fish can the EU legitimately claim from UK waters? Answer - legitimately ? .....Errr, well that's zero isn't it?

Can not wait until the licence fee is scrapped until then i will keep watching sky news Australia for the real news

The EUBBC at it again , bias against Brexit bias against our fishermen

Was this film made by the EU or the BBC or are they one of the same now???

Hopfaly we can let the fish recover a bit .

The BBC wouldn't know impartiality if it smacked them in the face.

This BBC clone sounds like a true remainer, I'm glad he does not represent the UK

BBC appeaser was more concerned about European fishermen that British fishermen.

could this program be any more anti-brexit?

Why does the bbc prosecute the argument for European fisherman

Lobsters 30 tonnes no wonder us in the UK can't Afford to buy any foreign ships getting most

Well said Neil Parish, Stephen Sackur calling him absurd, it's so obvious that we need to take back on this control of our waters, the BBC's viewing stats have diminished in recent times, you would have to say on this showing, it's pretty evident.

" I DONT CARE" WELL SAID THAT MAN.

I remember visiting Boulogne in the 1970's .. it didn't look like that, it looked like the North East does now. Strange what removing National boundaries can do for one and to the other 75 years after putting them back.

wow, what a remoaner bias this presenter has

The answer is obvious, Our reduced fishing fleet just fish what the British public will buy, the other types of fish will rebuild their stocks and then swim into the areas where the foreign boats operate, may take a few years though, tough shit France !

good old BBC reporting, always knocking Brexit and on the side of the EU

One sided BBC again

it didn't need BBC in the title to know who made this documentary

Love the Scottish Captain! That's how to cut through nonsense questions! I hop you get your quotas Sir!

Dissapointed with the interviewer seems to be EU friendly.

Brilliant ...love the Scottish captain's response to the stupid Sackur's inane statement about the poor French fishing industry... 'So be it' ..the BBC is a disgrace ...secure our waters and scrap the licence fee ..

Aren't the brits selling quatas to Belgium among others.

How’s this brexit going These days? I haven’t followed it for a while

and where do we sell it?

Ohhhhkay. This has me extraordinarily confused. I'm from Denmark. Apparently we have been benefiting from a deal made in the EU where we are allowed to fish in British waters. Did not know that untill today. Where the hell does EU get off trying to say that Britain needs to let other nations fish in their waters? No! Just no! Herp derp "We have been doing it since ancient times!" So what? Are we China now? The deal that was in place was dependent on something else. This other thing (EU membership) no longer applies so the fishing deal is void! Britain has every right to decide what happens in their waters! Period! The flip side of this of course is that the EU has the right to decide what they allow to be imported to it's countries without a tarrif. So... EU can of course negotiate with Britain about fair use of the waters, but should stop demanding anything.

stopped watching this half way through,........ when I realized that it was cleverly dressed up propaganda by the BBC......

This reporter is blatantly pro europe it's painfull

Well said Neil Parish - yes, we must absolutely tell the French they cannot threaten us...…..and if that means no deal, then no deal it is. They will not want tax on goods any more than we do !

"we have fish coming from 22 countries" by which he means "we have fish from UK waters fished by 22 countries"

It’s British territorial waters, what’s not to understand about that

Simple solution: We Brits should eat more fish, forget social distancing and line up the local chippy. Why make it complicated? Just an idea.

if it is hard to get fish unless they buy it from our fishermen they would hardly put a tariff on something they will have to import

Lousy reporting, Sakar. And your logic is flawed: If the majority of fish in that huge French distribution center is caught in British waters...and now that fish disappears from there...who’s going to be hurt more? How are the British hurt when they have the fish, and the distribution center doesn’t? Plus, do you think it’s so difficult to open processing and distribution centers in the U.K.? We’re not building the Space Shuttle here. These are low tech, quick start-up, and low investment required industries. At the end of the day, the Brits will have the fish, the French and others won’t, and the talk of tariffs is irrelevant.

Collaboration is just the word for the BBC.

@19:30 is this a glimpse of "The Office 2030"?

My neighbour stormed at me that we’ve got to ‘get control of our waters.’ I told him I was sorted and he needs to get ‘Tena for men’ too and just chill out a bit.

Brussels broadcasting corporation at it again I see.. Stop paying your licence people.

The French say that without access staying the same "not one UK fish will be allowed into France".So the "most important fish processing and distribution centre in all of Europe" in Boulonge will have very little to process. Makes you want to laugh!! At 16:41 "British sea food will be less attractive" - not a word about the loss of 65% of stocks from French, Spanish, Dutch, Belgian, German, Danish boats who won't be landing fish there! Then Msr Mulot says it's quite alright for frog fishermen to break the law and blockade the ports. 21:37 - "it's absurd to say we Britons have a right to all the fish, - we don't have the fleet or processing capacity" So confirming that since the EU destroyed our fishing industry THEY have the inalienable right to carry on doing that. What a pillock!!!

if you're deaf and trying to work out what they sell at the fish market, it's first sale "haddock, whiting and cod, and after that what we call the 'rough' - monks [monkfish/catfish types?], megrims (?) etc". Auto subtitles has some weird and some missing stuff.

Do you have a _Roame?_

Who gives a flying F about what the EU want, the fish are British and always will be.

Yet again the BBC working on behalf of Brussels! It makes me sick im paying for the BBC. Scrap the licence fee now. 👎

I am looking forward to Cod and Chips 6 nights a week (Haddock on Sundays) at 2/6 (12.5p for you young ones) per portion. I am a real unicorn and proud of it.

Over fishing time to the Max. Taking back control of fishing for unicorns.

OK so I eat Cod on average once a month... Now I intend to eat Cod twice a week ...I love Cod and Haddock Mackerel etc..I suggest we keep all our fish for us British, sell it to N.Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and maintain our healthy lifestyles by eating our home produced seafood. I am sure after a few weeks or months the decline of huge stockpiles of British fish will hurt the Boulougne warehouses , and all across Europe, and lets see us commence separate trade with each and every EU country that wants our seafish.. and the rest of the world...when the EU soon crashes...our waters by historical right. Thank goodness for Brexit and common sense. Lets also see the UK Government issue interest free loans to our seamen who want to start up new business by building and or buying a new fishing fleet get our fishing industry up to strength by urging our Seamen to invest in new fishing vessels, equipment, and large warehousing/distribution so that we can benefit financially from this golden opportunity, dont give our waters away - dont give an inch. Britannia Rules The Waves., and Aye Aye for fishy pie.

The EU has destroyed the UK fishing industry. They did not care! Typical BBC reporting!

He says it is all about symbols but I doubt he means the symbols on the sides of the tanks driving down the Champs-Élysées on the 14th June 1940.

I am a bit confused with the processors position cause if tariffs or duties are imposed, why would it be such a hardship for them if it’s placed on the EU side not UK. As for the argument that it’s going to make more expensive less competitive where else would be able to cope with over fishing and that losing its fish stocks for ever with over fishing. The only long term effect would be higher prices in the EU short term will be hard on till the tariffs are removed, but it will allow fish stocks to replenish short term and, long term.

These guys risk their lives so I can enjoy a fish meal, they deserve a better deal, so bo**ocks to Europe they have been ripping our fishermen off for years!

I LOATH THE PRO EUROPE BBC!!!!) MICK GRAY ALNWICK.

The reporter is right, we don't have a big enough fleet to fish our waters, but maybe that because the French and the Spanish are fishing our waters as well so there is not enough to go round, this will change if Boris does this right and maybe more people will come back to fishing. The man who runs the processing plant is wrong as well if the UK is the only county fishing our waters we will be the only ones with a certain supply of the fish that they EU wants so puts us in a better position when trading in that fish, which is why the EU is scared of not getting to fish in our waters.

It's all good just heard a French fish business went bust the other day in debt to my workplace 250k. They are already in talks to supply crabs/crab cakes/cod/haddock/monk fish to a Dutch company

Sell the fish to other countries then

The pseudo-intellectual there doing the interview should focus on the main stuff and ask proper questions. Nobody wants to hear his opinion on that case. He should ask questions, do research, and publish it. Really ridiculous to watch ... Is this guy an Activist or Journalist? As he behaves like the first-mentioned category.

I am struggling to hear what the fisherman said

Is Stephen Sackur thick or does he just act thick? If the UK regains controls of 80 percent of their stocks then clearly thy would expand their fishing fleets taking it back to what it was prior to joining the U forty-eight years ago.

We should export the BBC... in its entirety

Destroying the livelihoods of EU fishermen! BOO HOO They did that to the UK fishermen in the 70s and never gave a second thought. BRITISH FISH FOR BRITISH FISHERMEN

Why don’t you sell your fish in uk ? I can’t get any fresh fish where I live. I live in the south coast. How shocking is that.

I just dont get why the reporter does not get the basics of the UK's position. We take back 100% of our fish. We offer that to the UK fishermen on an annual basis. If they can only harvest 60% then the other 40% can be offered to the EU, at a price! If next year the UK fleet has expanded and can harvest 80% of our fish then the EU will get 20% and so on. Its exactly the same as what the EU did to us back in the day ! Its time to look after our fishermen and the communities they live in.

This item did not age well, Wonder if anyone seen that coming.

OMG I absolutely detest the BBC.

It's all British fish they have 😂😂😂😂it's the French who needs our fish lol.. They can still buy them.

Interesting to note that the U.K. in gross tonnage is number 2 in European fishing fleets. As fish move north they will move out of U.K. waters. Norway and Iceland are not in the EU and in the 1970’s Iceland kicked U.K. boats out of their waters and they have not let back in. Norway, Iceland are in the EEA along with the EU so who will they be backing?? Scottish Salmon will face tariff, U.K. fish processors process EU fish and export it back into the EU market.

BBC seem to be very biased towards the French and EU in this film.

Two points: Point1 the assault you show on French fishermen was about scallops which French were forbidden to fish to conserve marine life when British having no such law came to fish near French coasts. It is not at all French invading UK waters. This took place very close to France. Point 2: Of course UK is free to do what they want with their fishing zone and we French (and most Eu) are free not to purchase it from British exporters. You also complain about Cheap labour coming from Europe so when this labour is gone your fish prices will increase. Prices will further increase with new import duties (UK is not in the EU anymore) add so in short both UK and Europe will loose. Your choice UK.

Skipper James Stephen says it like it is -keep fighting the good fight!

A few questions: What percentage of the current UK waters are Scottish? How much of the current share of quotas in the Channel and North Sea are based on negotiations and treaties that already existed and were not changed when the CFP was agreed? Were UK waters overfished and the UK fleet in decline before UK joined the EU? Have UK governments systematically favoured the big fishing boats, encouraged the concentration of quotas in the hands of a few big companies (mostly Tory party donators) and acted against the interests of the smaller boats? How much of UK catch is actually eaten in UK? Is there a simple solution to the complex problems of the UK fishing and seafood industry?

Lets understand how this works. 80% of fish in UK waters caught by other EU countries, and most of the fish caught by them is processed by the French. Most of the fish sold in the UK is Cod and Haddock, caught by the other EU countries, and its sold to the UK because we don't catch enough of that fish ourselves. Fish caught by the British is caught outside the UK waters and is sold through the French to the rest of the EU. The British fleet is small compared the rest of the EU and it seems sensible for our fleet to fish our waters, but they can’t because of the EU Quotas. So in short we are buying our own fish from the French, and the rest of the EU because we are not able to catch enough Cod and Haddock for the UK markets, that's caught by the French or EU in general. Answer Take back control of our own waters so we can catch the fish we need for our market. This would probably mean we need a bigger fleet to take up demand. That would mean that the French won’t matter any more because we will supply ourselves from our waters, and process our own fish. If we need more fishthan we can catch, we then purchase them from the EU at a higher price because they will impose tariffs. That's assuming they have waters to catch them. Until we build the British fleet to where we need it again, we can of course negotiate an arrangement with the EU, and licence some of their ships on a short term basis as long as it suits us.

Good old BBC sticking up for the EU once again.They can pick up the BBC in Europe but do the BBC make them get a licence

very bias this on the UK fishing side NOT once did he mention most of the fish the French catch is exported to UK so are they going to export to us and stop us exporting to them .. there are two sides to a story but this bias reporter on hit the British.

You have to ask yourself is Sackur British?

We do not do Kilometers in Britain, we measure distances in Miles. Get is right BBC.

From an Australian perspective this is disgusting, why do our Brit cousins stand for this.

Total BBC remain. No thought to the fishing fleet and processing capacity growing back to pre-EU levels.

What, exactly, does "taking back control" actually mean? How would the UK "control" the waters?

BBC employee worrying about the French. Let them fish their own waters

This is such a PRO EU video, SHAME ON THE BBC, AGAIN!!

Wots a 1000 km?

i live in Hong Kong and can go to any supermarket or sushi restaurant and buy fresh Norwegian salmon. It's nearly twice the price but is actually one of the cheapest options (despite being flown in huge water-filled containers still swimming about). If Europe won't buy our fish, there's over a billion asians near me who will pay top dollar.

I wonder whose side the BBC will take here?

You only have to apply the boot to the other foot to see how unfair the claims from the eu are .If the uk asked the same of them what sort of deal do you think we would get !

If the euros don't want British caught fish caught by Britons "Let them eat cake"

What is it with the Brixiteers and fish? The ENTIRE sector accounts for about 1/10th of 1% of the UK's economy... And the vast majority of the limited range of fish that British people eat is imported... The entire sector could vanish tomorrow, and hardly anyone in the UK outside a couple of fishing ports would even notice...

You do wonder how long the EU will be around anyway, we've got out just in time. Be good to give the fish a chance to breed anyway.

Well he's an obvious EU supporter.... The interviewer that is... Biased or what?

BBC guy forgets that UK's fishing capacity decline is partly as a result of this restricted quota affected British fishing communities and towns. This consequence can't possibly be a reason for maintaining status quo; it may only be a matter of time for UK fishing capacity to grown and even match French's once getting back control is achieved.

After listening to this BBC documentory, the tone, the compasion and overall leaning of the reporting, the BBC should relocate to the EU and good riddance.

It is ridiculous that the EU can set quoters to our fishermen, we need to have this unfair agreement sorted out once and for all.

Surely the point is that after we leave the EU it is up to the UK to determine who can fish in UK waters and how we should licence this. Why should the EU expect that the current basis will remain in place? The reality is that the UK and the EU are not longer under one administration - we are two separate sovereign nations and both sides should respect that.

Bravo BBC. Typical Balanced Informative reporting, finding remoaners on both sides of the channel & concentrating on their perspective.!

Get over it Channel 4; Japan had to re-negotiate with Russia after the 200 mile zone was introduced, so now does the EU....