17 July 2018 The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee holds the final session of its inquiry into Fisheries. The Committee will ask how potential changes to the fisheries and seafood trading arrangements between the UK and the EU will affect fishers, seafood processors, consumers, coastal communities and the environment. Watch Parliament TV: Fisheries Inquiry: […]
The Government have launched their long awaited thoughts on how fisheries will look post-Brexit in a white paper and have set a consultation in motion. The details of these and links are set out below. There seems bound to be a flood of commentary on this and the links below set out some of the […]
Scottish Fishermen’s Federation set their response in relation to Brexit Client Earth https://www.clientearth.org/2018-fishing-limits-set-high-herring-whiting-ministers-continue-ignore-science/ Pew: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/ending-overfishing-in-northwestern-europe Marine Conservation Society Fishing levels continue to be set too high in penultimate December council meeting before date set for Brexit says UK’s leading marine charity Following the annual fisheries negotiations at the European Council of Ministers in Brussels to […]
Thanks to Keith Hiscock for this news. Persist with the Plymouth Herald site you’ll get to the video eventually. This article describes the still shocking realities of discarding of bass and the candid video of a local Plymouth fisherman. Fishermen have thrown £120k of dead fish back in sea in a week The fisherman say […]
In terms of economics the seafood supply chain is far larger than the catching sector and so this report, one of a number developed to inform the post Brexit arrangements, is very important. Seafood 2039 has brought together stakeholders from across the seafood supply chain in pursuit of a single, compelling goal. This document is […]
Thanks to Richard White for the heads-up on these: The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee are carrying out an inquiry into ‘…how potential changes to the fisheries and seafood trading arrangements between the UK and the EU will affect fishers, seafood processors, consumers, coastal communities and the environment. ‘ Two session collecting oral evidence […]
‘Delivering world leading fisheries management in the UK’ In preparation for the publication of the Fisheries Bill, White Paper on fisheries and Parliamentary scrutiny The Pew Trusts have published their recommendations on ‘Delivering world leading fisheries management in the UK’
In an interview to the Times Michael Gove has set out various points about fisheries (see below). ‘The source told the Times: “You have to take everything they say with scepticism because this is a negotiation.’ Meanwhile the NFFO are looking elsewhere for ideas from Norway, Australia and a group of international scientists. We MUST […]