Modern Day Hanseatic League Issues

Hello everyone another post, this time I thought I would like to expand the discussion on the last post. Which was about how the Hanseatic League would eventually dissolve in the 1400s. This time I found an article talking about the issue with herring fishing since Britain just recently left the EU. I quote 2 sentences from my last post, "During the 1300s the League mostly made its money from herring fishing in the Danish Straits. But once the herring moved into the North Sea profits began to dry up." The fish are still in the North Sea today and the issue now is that since the North Sea is along the UK's entire eastern shoreline, and is mostly British waters. Britain believes they should still control most of the fishing there, but the fish are used to feed a majority of other European countries. There is even a formula that the EU came up with to share the herring, mostly over fishing patterns. The EU doesn't expect Britain to completely turns its back on all herring shipments and hopes the status quo will remain in place. Unfortunately in the meantime, Scottish fishermen will continue fishing while they figure out the system. There is a huge issue with what the UK is doing, and the fact that 92% of fishermen voted for Brexit. There is an obvious connection to why they would support it. More profits for the fishermen since the EU regulated the market on fishing. It is unfair to others since in the 80s and 90s, the herring lived on the Norwegian side of the North Sea instead of British waters. The politics on these fish has been a hugely debated topic and will continue to be. Hopefully they can figure out a system because in the 70s overfishing led to a temporary ban on the UK herring. I don't think that would be good today.
-Noah
Sources: https://www.ft.com/content/4f21072a-c87f-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e

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