Why Labour needs to fix British fishing – will it stand by its principles now it is in power?

Labour thought the public interest lay in opportunities being taken away from the “quota barons”, the “slipper skippers”, the supertrawler owners and all those who had acquired a quasi-property right from a free state handout in the late 1990s, when British officials were under pressure to get rampant overfishing by the industrial fleet under control – and underestimated the needs of the inshore fleet.