>> Was it here that someone said they sold their quotes to foreign fleets some years
>> back and made handsome profits and seemed to be expecting to be gifted them back?
I've certainly read more than once that when EU fishing regulations and quotas came in a lot of British fishermen sold their allocation to Dutch, Danish or French boats and retired on the proceeds. I believe there was a similar trade in milk quota where smaller farmers sold their quota but then complained of being forced out of the business and having to sell their milk cows for slaughter.
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