- Large fishing companies own nearly half of England and Wales' fishing quotas, squeezing out small fishermen - Three large companies - Johannes Jacob Colam, Dutch-owned Cornelis Vrolijk Holding BX, and Andrew Marr International - collectively own over 60% of England's fishing quotas - There is a lack of transparency around who actually owns Britain's fishing rights, despite the quota registration system, and some companies hold quotas without actually fishing

1. NOT FROM THE NATIONALS
CRINA BOROŞ, FREELANCE JOURNALIST
BIRMINGHAM, NOVEMBER 2016

2. GREENPEACE: Big Fish Quota Barons Squeeze Out
Small Fishermen
Picture Credits: Getty Images

5. FINDINGS:
 No real transparency in who owns Britain’s fishing rights despite the
FQA register
 Nearly half of England and Wales’ quota is owned by only 3 companies.
 All fishing rights in Wales PO were owned by Spanish (at the time of
research)
 61% of England’s quota was owned by just three companies
 Some companies held fishing quota on boats that never cast a net
 Johannes Jacob Colam – 26%, England; H&S issues
 Dutch-owned Cornelis Vrolijk Holding BX – 23% England
 Andrew Marr International – 12% Enagland

6. GREENPEACE: WHY TINY BOAT HAS MORE
FISHING RIGHTS THAN TRAWLERS
Have you seen Nina
May?

8. Plus…
 UK fishing industry worth £1 billion (University of West England)
 Impossible for small scale (under 10m boats) fishermen to sustain a
business with the little quota left for them
 Leasing quota – unregulated prices; a desperate game; little profit
 Despite European practices, the UK does not give environmental and
social weight to how the quota is distributed
 The under 10s are slowly but surely squeezed out of the business

9. BLACK SEA / JOURNALISM FUND.EU

10. INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INVESTIGATIVE
JOURNALISTS (ICIJ)
CROSS-BORDER
REPORTING EFFORT

11. newsPeeks

12. Thomson Reuters Foundation

13. CIJ

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