EU fisheries policy 'costs families £200 a year'
EUROPE'S fisheries policy is adding nearly £200 a year to the average family's food bill, it was claimed yesterday.
A report published by the Taxpayer's Alliance and Global Vision said the 25-year-old EU deal, which carves up annual fish quotas between the member states, has cost more than 97,000 UK jobs – 9,000 in fishing and 88,000 onshore in dependent industries.
As the report was unveiled, banner-waving protesters paraded around the European Parliament's London headquarters in Westminster, dumping dead fish donated by Essex fishermen and demanding the return of fisheries policy to national control.
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