committee's activities.

"If you're looking for media and controversy, that's not the committee to be on," said a Republican familiar with the discussions about Bachmann's appointment.

Bachmann, on her Facebook page, said she was "honored to have been selected by Speaker-designate John Boehner to serve on the House Intelligence Committee. As a mother of five biological children and 23 foster children I pledge to do whatever I need to do to keep your family, my family, and the United States safe from harm."London (CNN) Putt-putting out into the Portsmouth channel on England's south coast, the small vessel is soon swallowed by the early morning fog.

To the uninitiated, the mist appears to cloak any landmark, bar the occasional cormorant marking time atop a buoy, but the boat's captain isn't fazed.

"You're a hunter but you can't see anything. It's like hunting bears with a blindfold."

This is how Matt Varndell describes his day at work fishing for clams. However, given its political dangers, economic risks and the uncertainty that still haunts the process, "blindfolded bear hunting" sounds like a metaphor for Brexit and the UK government's attempts to leave the European Union (EU).

While it only accounts for 0.12% of the UK economy , fishing has been at the heart of the rhetoric around