The document discusses how Brexit could revive the UK fishing industry by allowing the UK to control its own fishing quotas. Currently, the EU Common Fisheries Policy allocates most fishing quotas in UK waters to other EU nations like France. After Brexit, the UK would be able to allocate more quotas to its own fishermen. This could boost the UK fishing economy and coastal communities that rely on fishing. However, Brexit may also limit UK access to EU waters. The document proposes creating a fishermen's training school to educate young people in modern fishing techniques and help ensure the future success of the local fishing industry after Brexit. It outlines the school's curriculum and spatial needs to achieve this goal.

1. A Fisherman’s Brexit

2. “The quota system is one of the biggest sources of frustration for British
fishermen, who were among the most vocal supporters of the June 2016
vote to leave the EU.” - The Independent

3. A post-brexit fishing industry
North Devon:
Brussel’s determined fishing quotas have affected hugely the UK’s fishing indutry, this has made it impossible
for fishermen to land enough fish to make a decent living , despite the UK’s rich fishing grounds.
The extent of the problem:
“For the last 34 years, the Common Fisheries Policy quota has given 84 per cent of the
cod in the English Channel to France and just 9 per cent to Britain, for example, ac-
cording to Britain’s National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO).” - The
Independent
Brexit will allow for the UK to take back control of its waters. Through doing so they may loose access to
European waters, however it seems this is the only option in regards to reviving the UK’s fishing sector and
many of its seaside towns as a consequence.
“Clearly it could be cheaper to eat fish that has been caught in the UK than imported from
wherever else. I think the market in fish will change” - McAngus, who is researching UK fisheries
post-Brexit.
Brexit will most likely cause for an abundance of native fish available to our vessels, but also increased tariffs
on EU trading, therefore requiring for the Brits to become more adventurous, as more of our native, ‘exotic’
fish will reach our plates.
“I think fishermen would definitely be looking to invest in boats, modernise them, and
get them ready for a post-Brexit future” - David Stevens (UK skipper)
The fishing industry must therefore be prepared; this concerning the youthful recruits required on the vessels
with new and progressive knowledge of sea fishing, allowing them to prosper in aid of the local economy and
quality of life of coastal towns.

4. Programme
Fishermen’s Training School
Taught on the basis of SQA’s sea fishing qualification, thus replacing the equivalent
secondary education for adolescents aged 16-18 years old.
Capacity for 30 students, requiring the following staff:
A Marine researcher
A technician
A construction specialist
A chef
Two teaching qualified fishermen
Admin
Part-time specialists e.g. first aid training
Indoor Programme:
Vessel construction and maintenance - Requiring boat access
Equipment handling and maintenance
Sustainable fishing with Marine Biology - Researcher in residence
Health and Safety Protocol Training
Navigation, Communication and Meteorology
Catch operations
Fish Mongering and Catering with associated a restaurant
Outdoor Programme will involve the schools boats at sea or within the harbour.
Learning Outcome - Highly proficient seafarers engaging with contemporary ideas of
fishing and current technologies allowing for the port to thrive post-brexit.
Open programme Community Hall(s)
Possibility of holding a Fish Market, Theatrical and Sea Cadet Gatherings.
(Visual Access to sublime setting)
Restaurant associated with school
Additional:
Parking Facility

5. Spatial Requirements
Community Hall Permenent
Stage
85m2
Single Court
180m2
261 seats
Double Court
306m2
496 seats
Storage
40m2
Tug boat
Large Classroom
62m2
for 30
ICT rich Classroom
62m2
for 30
Specialist science laboratory
90m2
for 30
Commercial
Kitchen
Teaching Kitchen
104m2
for 24
Construction Workshop
97m2
for 16
Small fishing boat
Drill Hall / Spill Construction Workshop
180m2

6. Commercial
Kitchen
45m2
Restaurant (full service )
50 persons
70m2
Teaching Kitchen
104m2
for 24

7. smokehouse and open marketproposal
Site
Vicotrican Paviliion, Ilfracombe
Open Programme Hall will offer opportunity for gathering, central to my thesis proposition.

8. Thesis
The emotional potential of construction;
Through detailing I will engage in ideas concerning humanism; architecture that is able relate to people of all orienta-
tion, transcending the specifics of culture and perception.
I will apply the use of excessiveness and restraint of construction; making sacred the activities performed in the spaces,
these processes becoming the architectural language and further, providing a quality of space within which people are
able to take ownership and comfort in their building.
Peter Smithson references the Quakers ‘spaces’, where the language of architecture is restrained. Meetings take place
in rooms which lack ornament, relating to their ideas of stripping the church of excessiveness and ‘unnecessary’ ritual.
The space becomes empty, leaving it to engage with the quality of timber bench and panelling as well as the beliefs of
the people occupying the room. This openness has parallels to Ilfracombe’s current inward, chaotic practicing of archi-
tecture and thus would make a proposition more successful in contributing to the community.
This language will provide for a house in which cooperative action of community can occurs under, producing a
strengthened community at the periphery, directly involved in the revived fishing industry.
Three defined members:
The ‘seafarer’: a person that comes into contact with the reality of his setting, experiencing intimately both it’s terrors
and beauties ; a person who’s livelihood depends on the sea’s existence.
The ‘romantic’: A person with a tainted view of reality; the tourist, the poet, the writer, the artist - that all engage with
and discuss their heightened perceptions.
The ‘passive’: An ambiguous relationship with the sea; a relationship depended upon at times and rejected at others.
The sea, a body over which to contemplate,where emotions run high; a place that makes and hold memories; a natural
playground; or just a distraction from reality.