And in brute economic terms, even the british fleets at the height of their world hoovering arrogance weren't making as much money as a single oil rig.

Their political significance was partly employment (though mechanisation of fishing is a limit on that), but mostly symbolic.

That Mail article is just the latest iteration of the mythology of Drake and Good Queen Bess.

Well, actually, as per Brexit, half the country hated her.

There is also the problem that Mr Hannan strategically pretends to stupidity about Fishy immigration...

As if fish changed ownership every time they crossed a line on a chart.

Fishery management always means international agreement; grownups realise this makes no sense at all: