Fact Check: is 80% of UK fish given away to the rest of Europe?

This features checks the accuracy of a statement made by Nigel Farage, UKIP leader, on the 2015 general election campaign trail in which he said that as a result of membership of the Common Fisheries Policy, the UK was now allowed to catch less than 20% of the fish that swim in British waters. The other 80% the UK has given away to the rest of Europe.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The strange silence over Brexit http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-strange-silence-over-brexit-the-uks-general-election-a-fundamental-change-to-uk-eu-relations-where-is-the-british-election-taking-europe/

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