Compare & Contrast: ‘No Fish’ business collapses with this shocking report of Bass dumping. Jerry Percy made it crystal clear that the ‘no fish’ scenario is putting UK fishers out of business at the Coastal Futures conference – see his speaker note below. Then look at this link to bass dumping in the channel Is […]
Is Fly Shooting the new Electric Pulse? Jerry Percy: ‘NUTFA has been receiving reports of the increasing number of fly shooters operating initially in the eastern Channel but now fishing as far as western waters for a couple of years now. From initial reports of relatively small numbers of these vessels taking significant quantities of […]
Daily Express – Jerry Percy Director, New Under ten Fishermen’s Association ‘Brit fishermen STARVED by EU mega-trawlers blockading UK waters – COMMENT FISHING was the undoubted poster boy for Brexit, underpinned by expansive promises from senior Government officials of taking back control, being an independent coastal state and benefitting from a windfall of hundreds of […]
Covid 19 and fisheries. Jerry Percy, Director of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association [NUTFA] gives a personal view. The impact of the Coronavirus has almost overnight largely decimated those companies reliant on high end products such as dive caught scallops, lobster and crab, whilst prices for the main finfish species have crashed. The vast […]
Covid 19 and fisheries. Jerry Percy, Director of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association [NUTFA] gives a personal view. The impact of the Coronavirus has almost overnight largely decimated those companies reliant on high end products such as dive caught scallops, lobster and crab, whilst prices for the main finfish species have crashed. The vast […]
Access to UK Fishing waters: What’s the deal? 12 February 2020 The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee takes evidence from academics and fishing industry representatives on how changes in access to UK fishing waters will affect the industry. Parliament TV: Access to UK fisheries post-Brexit EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee Witnesses Wednesday 12 February 2020, Committee […]
Fishing for Justice: England’s Inshore Fisheries’ Social Movements and Fixed Quota Allocation Jeremy W. Anbleyth-Evans and Chris William’s paper develops thinking about the need for a fairer allocation of quota to the under 10m fleets and the work of the Coastal Producer Organisation English inshore fishers have long campaigned to have a fair share of the […]