(2 Jun 2016) As the British referendum on membership of the European Union draws closer, fishermen angered by EU fishing quotas expressed their support for leaving the single market.
Fishermen in North Shields on Britain's North East coast said they were fed up with regulations that divvy up European waters and set limits on how many fish can be caught.
North Shields white fishing industry has been in decline and for many of the fishermen, catching prawns and lobster is the only way to make a living.
They can't afford to buy shares of the transferable quota, because they would be working for around two pounds per box of white fish, so they are sustaining during the winter with prawn fishery, fisherman John Rogers explained.
Alan Jenkins, who has worked for 55 years as a fisherman, said there was "no future in it" and expressed his hope that conditions might change if Britain was operating outside the single market.
However, European politics professor Laura Cram said that quotas and other fishing regulations would still be in place whether or not the UK was part of the European Union.
The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisation (NFFO) did not take a formal position on the upcoming referendum and refused to comment.
The International Monetary Fund said in May that a vote to leave the EU would lead to a "protracted period of heightened uncertainty" as Britain would be forced to negotiate bilateral trade deals with its former European partners and countries around the world.


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