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I’m not totally sure what happens to the fish caught here but I doubt it’s on the scale you’re thinking - these are tiny boats (under 10m) and by all accounts the catches and quotas are tiny too. It looks as if most fish are traded locally and I would be surprised if any leave the south east tbh.
The local guys are shafted by quotas but it’s nothing to do with the EU.
Dramatic_Hammer-
A few of my mates and my dad have all lost their fishing boats because of quotas enforced on them making it not financially viable to fish; and the harbor I grew up in is a shell of what it was with the few remaining boats surviving by taking rich Londoners out for a days angling. They all voted to leave because that's what the fisheries say when they slap more quotas on them: "ahh it's that EU malarky making us stop you fishing". You are correct, most of the fish is sent up to London for the restaurants and what not.
dirac
No point catching it if you can’t process it (foreign labour) or sell it (we may face significant obstacles getting into the EU market for fish).