Drowning, not waving?

Michael Gove, leader of the official Vote Leave campaign group, was grilled in turn last night after the previous night was that for the prime minister.  Sky News, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was commendably even-handed in roasting both of its guests and impressively selecting audiences instinctively critical of the respective debaters (debaters with host Faisal Islam).
Many have focused on the absence of facts in Vote Leave - essentially The Jungle Book's Ka singing 'Trust in me" - but I would like to laser in on something which few have tackled - Gove's epiphany about the demerits of European integration, when his Aberdeenshire father fisherman "was driven to the wall" by the strictures of the Common Fisheries Policy (a board which has MEP Nigel Farage on it, yet he never attends a single meeting to put the British case, 'out of principle').
The Grand Banks Collapse of the early 1990s was when over-fishing drove the cod-rich seas (known to mariners for at least 500 years) to extinction.  Now all fishing is banned there, driving all fisheries in the region into bankruptcy.  There is a slim hope that the Grand Banks may one day recover but not within the working lives of the fishermen who once harvested the sea.  Billy Joel's Downeaster Alexa references the lack of fish before the final collapse.
The Commons Fisheries Policy was designed to prevent such a disaster in European waters.  Like a lemming population, there were too many fishermen operating too big trawler nets for all to survive.  In previous days, the technology (and demand) hadn't been there, so sustainable fishing was possible.  So in essence, Gove would like to take us out of the EU because that would take us outside the remit of the Common Fisheries Policy.  For his Aberdeenshire father (and others who sadly lost their business) to continue to fish, Gove would have sold subsequent generations of fishermen down the river so to speak, for with a North Sea collapse, all would suffer.  Like Vote Leave wish to do with subsequent generations of British citizens overall.