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The EU have just negotiated their new fishing quotas. The quota for cod catches for 2015 will increase by 5% on last year - UK fishermen will also be allowed to catch 15% more prawns than last year and 15% more plaice in the North Sea, while the haddock catch has been increased by 6%. But in the Celtic Sea, fewer cod and haddock will be allowed to be caught and in the South West of England quotas for cod will be cut by 26% and haddock by 12%. Caz Graham goes to Scarborough to talk to ex fisherman and founder of the National Federation of Fishermen about the new deal. He says it is disastrous and an end of an era for fishing on the Yorkshire coastline.

Conservationists aren't happy about the deal which has been struck over quotas - The Marine Conservation Society tells Charlotte Smith that it is a missed opportunity and accuses the British government of ignoring the science and pandering to lobbying from the fishing industry. Farming minister George Eustice defends the deal and says it is scientifically based.

Anne Hornigold runs the Whitby Fishing School. She trains young people who want to enter in to the industry. She says that they will have to diversfy from traditional fishing methods in order to keep making a living from the sea.

Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Ruth Sanderson.