Fishing for Leave founder Aaron Brown told Nigel Farage that the deal on fishing during the transition is not acceptable and UK fishermen are “going to be sold out” in Brexit talks.
Speaking on LBC, Mr Brown said: “It’s an absolute abject betrayal of Britain's fishing industry and coastal communities.”
“We were sold out on the way in and now we're going to be sold out on the way out.
“All they had to do was say no and as they acknowledged themselves, we would become an independent coastal state.
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We were sold out on the way in and now we're going to be sold out on the way out
"We'd have left the Common Fisheries policy, have equal access to a common resource and we'd have reverted to being like Norway and Iceland.
"We'd have worked with our neighbours but we'd have control over our waters for our benefit to rejuvenate our communities.”
The Fishing for Leave campaigner said a “huge worry” among fishermen is that the EU will prolong the Brexit transition to keep control of UK waters.
He said: “The problem is, isn’t that we leave with Article 50, which gives us a clean slate. The transition ceases and they put us into a new internationally binding treaty, which will be called the transition treaty.
“Our huge worry is that this will end up going on in perpetuity and MPs today and they are really worried there is no guillotine clause there to finish the transition.
“That the EU will try to claim for continuity of rights under the Vienna Convention, where, if you don’t have a guillotine where it says the Treaty cease, like what we have just now, then everything we have given them in the transition will just roll on forever more.”
In response to the Brexit transition deal, Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg is heading along the River Thames on Wednesday towards the House of Commons alongside a group of fishermen in protest of the “death sentence” transition deal.
Mr Rees-Mogg, who leads the influential European Research Group (ERG), will join fishermen condemning the Brexit transitional deal that was announced in Brussels on Monday.