On Sunday briefed the Minister of environment, food and rural development Michael Gove, whose statement cited the official government website. "The withdrawal of the London Convention on fisheries is important because we return control of our fishing policy. This means that for the first time more than 50 years, we will be able to decide who can have a permit in our waters", the Minister said.

He called this a historic step by the government towards the construction of a new national policy in the field of fisheries and competitiveness in the industry at the stage of exit from the EU. According to Gowa, 3 July official London will inform the other signatories of the Convention on the launch of the biennium out of this agreement.

The government will develop a new law on fisheries, which will determine the rules of access to fishing vessels of other countries in the territorial waters of the Kingdom and will set production quotas.

The London Convention on fisheries was signed in 1964. The Convention allows the Seiners and trawlers Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and France to produce fish at a distance of 6 nautical miles from the British shore. Fishing ships of other EU countries can carry out fishing activities no closer than 12 miles from the shores of the United Kingdom.

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