Quite remarkable that it didn't appear to occur to anyone that leaving the EEA would mean losing access to Norwegian and Icelandic fishing waters, and that neither country has any particular reason to offer the UK concessions.

"We'll evict those damn foreigners from our waters but they'll still let us fish in theirs"

which is remarkably like "We'll stop those damn EU migrants coming here but we'll still be able to live and work in their countries", isn't it?

And if the UK government responds to the failure of negotiations by imposing tariffs on Norwegian fish exports to the UK, it will succeed only in raising the price of fish & chips for British consumers.

The fishing communities are angry about being barred from their "traditional fishing grounds". But those "traditional fishing grounds" belong to someone else. And the fishing communities voted to end the agreement that gave them access.

If you are a tenant in someone's house for twenty years, and you serve notice that you intend to leave, you can hardly complain if the landlord won't let you carry on living there after the notice has expired.