A Brexit transition period for the UK -- which would see it adopt the common fisheries policy to beyond 2020 -- "would make no sense whatsoever" for the fishing industry, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation has said.   "All the practical international processes for the UK to become an independent coastal state, exercising its rights and responsibilities accordingly, are already in place," the association said.   Further postponement would erode, if not endanger, the UK's emergence as one of the primary oastal Stsates in the North-East Atlantic, the association argued.   "There is a genuine fear among fishermen that any extension to the UK’s time in the Brexit waiting room would be used by the EU to place conditions on the return of fish stocks that are rightfully ours via long-term agreements that would be difficult to disentangle in years to come," it said [...]