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Hey there. 👋 We just spent five months trying to find out who owns the UK's fishing quota. And we found out some pretty wild stuff. This is going to be a thread. 1/

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unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fis…
So it turns out that more than a quarter of the UK’s fishing quota is owned or controlled by five families on the Sunday Times Rich List. 2/

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*Half* of England’s fishing quota is held by foreign owners. 3/

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fis…
And *more than half* of Northern Ireland’s quota is hoarded onto a single trawler. Voyager. 4/
One of the flagships of the “Brexit flotilla” - which sailed up the Thames in 2016 - is among the UK’s 10 biggest quota-holders. 5/
Over half of the UK’s 25 largest fish quota-holders are linked to one of the biggest criminal overfishing scams ever to reach the British courts 6/
The ‘black fish’ scandal could be a whole thread in itself. It involves loads of mackerel, secret weighing machines, and underground pipes. 7/

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
All this matters because the chance to reform UK fishing rights was seen as a major reason to leave the EU.

But for the time being, the government has said its new fisheries bill will not see any redistribution of the UK’s existing quota rights. 8/
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