THE UK fishing industry is challenging candidates in the general election to pledge their support for its priority of restoring control of UK waters.
Fishermen’s leaders insist that exiting the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the only way of ending the farcical situation under which the country is forced to give away almost two-thirds of the fish from some of the richest fishing grounds in the world.
Candidates in all 650 parliamentary constituencies will be invited to sign the pledge prior to the election on June 8.