25 May 2021
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 […]
04 May 2021
Defra ‘There has been widespread coverage in the news see BBC News Online, Intrafish following yesterday’s conclusion of the bilateral fisheries negotiations with Norway on fishing opportunities for 2021. Discussions concluded without the parties reaching an agreement, meaning for 2021 neither will have access to fish in the other’s waters.’ A Defra spokesperson said: “We have always […]
30 Mar 2021
This Seaspiracy film sustainable More details here including the trailer. is already controversial highlighting a view on the scale of the problem of overfishing including a call to action not to eat fish because no fishing is sustainable. And there has been plenty of reaction. Seafish ‘Responding to Seaspiracy: 10 reasons to feel good about […]
09 Jan 2021
New report finds bottom trawling taking place in 98% of UK’s offshore Marine Protected Areas Date posted: 6 January 2021 Marine Conservation Society ‘We’ve released our Marine unProtected Areas report which found that bottom trawling is taking place in a worrying 98% of the UK’s offshore Marine Protected Areas designed to protect the seabed. As a result of […]
09 Jan 2021
Following the end of the Brexit transition period, our latest White Paper explores what the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement has to say on fisheries. At the eleventh hour, the EU and UK agreed a deal to govern relations between the two parties when the Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020. Throughout the […]
30 Dec 2020
The Brexit Trade Deal & Fisheries This is the text of the Trade deal – fisheries is 14 pages out of 1246, see page 261 Defra have responded to the press coverage The implications of the Brexit Deal for fisheries was first published by the BBC And also the Guardian who described the fishermen’s reaction […]
24 Nov 2020
Reality seems to be dawning – last week it was the fishing industry complaining about the increase in forms they’d have to use to export to Europe New Economics Foundation (NEF Blog): Deal or No Deal? Are the scales now tipping back in favour of the status quo for UK fishing? Chris Williams 19th […]
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