NUTFA Statement

Opportunities and Challenges Introduction:

Under ten metre fleet & Brexit   Whilst the only certainty with regard to the post Brexit landscape [seascape] for fisheries is that there is no certainty, it does however provide the opportunity to start from a clean sheet on which to design our future. The previous Fisheries Minister, Richard Benyon MP rightly made clear on his accession to the position and on inheriting the shambles caused by previous CFP’s and other factors that “if I was starting then it wouldn’t be from here’. His successor, George Eustice MP does have the very real benefit of his ‘here’ being potentially unencumbered with the historic wrongs endured by Richard and in a recent meeting, George, together with Andrea Leadsom MP made it clear that they and their staff were open to comment and suggestions as to the way forward for the industry and the country. So, notwithstanding the aforementioned certainty of a plethora of uncertainties, we can only proceed on the basis that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ and therefore consider what the future should hold for the inshore fleet, irrespective of what might be the end result following the exit negotiations. Click here to read more