Brexit and the Uncertain Future of Fisheries Policy in the United Kingdom: Political and Governance Challenges
Brexit and the Uncertain Future of Fisheries Policy in the United Kingdom: Political and Governance Challenges
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英国脱欧和英国渔业政策的不确定未来:政治和治理挑战
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10.1163/9789004426214_003
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2020
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Huggins C
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Huggins C
In June 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) by a slight 51.9 per cent majority. 1 While only representing a small proportion of the UK’s total economic output, at around 0.04 per cent of GVA, 2 fisheries is an important political issue in the Brexit debate.The prospect of leaving the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been broadly, though not universally, welcomed by UK fishers. 3 However, the fisheries issue is inherently complex and has become bound to a range of wider political and policy concerns in the Brexit debate, including environmental policy, international trade, international relations and devolution. With these concerns in mind, the implications of Brexit for UK fisheries policy are inherently political, 4 and go far beyond fisheries management. A range of legal issues serve to complicate the implementation of any post-Brexit fisheries policy, both in terms of managing constitutional relationships between the UK government and the devolved