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June Mummery told Express.co.uk that the UK taking back control of British waters would result in an employment surge in the fishing sector as well as job creation in other industries. The former Brexit Party MEP added that Britain will need more jobs to be generated due to the economic impact the coronavirus pandemic is going to have on the economy.  

Ms Mummery said regarding the fishing sector only making up 0.5 of the UK’s GDP: “The reason that GDP is so low is because we gave it away.

“We wear the crown, but we have given the diamonds and emeralds to the EU.

“That is the only reason why that GDP is low.

“At the end of the day once we take back control the projected GDP then will be £6.6 billion to our economy and that is without all the other jobs that go alongside fishing.”

“Let’s remember that is just at sea, so one job at sea is eight on land because once you rebuild the industry we will need boats built, we will need to be able to build boats in this country.

“So from that you will get other employment, welders, electricians, engineers.

“Let’s face it we will need it because we are heading for bad times.

“So the more work that we can have and the more work that is generated in the UK the better.”

Earlier this month The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was grilled over the importance of the British fisheries in the Brexit trade deal despite the sector be worth less than 0.5 percent of the UK economy’s GDP.

Michael Gove outlined the importance of the issue regarding the broader matter of independent sovereignty for Britain during the Lords’ European Union committee.

Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge asked: “Given that fisheries make up less than 0.5 percent of UK GDP can we really envisage the partnership failing over this issue?”

Mr Gove replied: “What proportion of the Dutch, French, Belgian and Spanish economy is fisheries as well?

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“If it is the case that the current size of an industry’s GDP is the determinant factor, then it would be the case that the EU themselves would have taken a more conservative and less ambitious approach.

“The broader point is this is a matter of sovereignty.

“It is a matter of principle.

“Why would the EU not want to give the UK the same degree of sovereign independent status as it would to the Faroe Islands?

“That is at the heart of it.”

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