Ball says he would still vote leave today, adding: “I just think they’re bullies.”
He said it was not Brexit that was the problem but the agreement that was made.
“Hopefully in the future we can tear that agreement up and get another agreement,” he said.
He said fishermen feel betrayed by what has happened and he hoped for a change adding that if things don’t change, “inshore fishing just doesn’t stand a chance”.
Jim Partridge, from Monteum Ltd, a fishing company in Shoreham, voted to leave the EU but said of Brexit: “We really haven’t had it.”
He said the UK was “meant to be freed from Europe”, but French fishermen were still operating in the Channel up to six miles from Sussex.
The current fishing boundary is set at six miles from the UK based on “historical rights”, he said, but UK fleets wanted “a line down the middle” of the Channel.
Partridge said French boats were taking fish stocks, leaving “very little” off the Sussex coast – an area where there should be Dover sole, plaice, cod in season, brill and turbot.
After 69 years of selling fish, stocks in the Channel now, compared to when he started at eight years old, were like “chalk and cheese”, he said.
Partridge said since Ted Heath took the UK into Europe, fishing fleets had “been suffering ever since”.
“The best fish stocks have been off the UK,” he said, and “that lot over there want it”.
When asked about calls to rejoin the EU, he said: “Europe is not performing and people think we would perform better with them.”
Partridge said there was “no question” when he voted to leave 10 years ago, and “no question” he would do the same again.
