Without wishing to broaden the bloody thing out more than it needs, for a very long time I've had a particular view about fishing. To me, there are three overriding aspects. First, there must be international oversight of fishing that has the primary, non-political intention of preserving stocks that must be based on science. Second (do read on...), I think that any nation that is surrounded by ocean has the inalienable right to claim an area around their country as their exclusive fishing ground. I mean, if you have oil, gas, coal, timber or any other resource that is the upshot of your geography, well it's yours and yours alone, and I don't see why fishing should be any different. Every country is lucky in the resources it has in many different ways. I don't expect Madeira to be obliged to share its lucky avocados or the Dominican Republic to share its lucky bananas, so why should the UK or Iceland have to share its lucky fish resource? So I think that the UK, and every other maritime nation, should be able to draw a line half-way between it and the next-door nations and say, this is my fishing ground and you don't fish here unless you're OK with our navy sinking your boats, even if you're Russia or Japan. Of course, there are tiny islands in vast oceans that could claim millions of square miles on that basis and that would need to be sensibly negotiated, and there's the matter of breeding grounds that would complicate simplistic territorial claims, which is my third point. Of all policies that need world-wide wisdom in order for it to to operate in the interests of every nation, it's fishing.