04 May 2021

Fisheries and Seafood Scheme MMO & Defra  ‘The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme will provide financial support for projects in England that secure sustainable growth across the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors, and that protect and enhance the marine environment. Aims of the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme will provide financial assistance […]

15 Mar 2021

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 […]

15 Mar 2021

In line with Defra’s support for sustainable fisheries, the project builds on the commitment in the Sustainable fisheries for future generations White Paper (2018) to “consider new criteria to define low impact inshore fishing vessels to replace the current ‘under 10 metre’ category”. What constitutes ‘low impact’ is not currently well defined and therefore there is a […]

09 Feb 2021

From EORI numbers, to manually entering 149 different lines of data that was not previously required, export health certificates, a ‘statement of value’ and an “export pack” which includes 22 invoices to show at the checkpoint, the paperwork for the one truck load of fish described in this article came to 71 pages. Click here […]

02 Feb 2021

Last week, fish and seafood exporters protested in London against the ​‘Brexit trade deal’. While a no-deal would have been the final nail in the coffin for the struggling industry, this trade agreement, does not live up to the expectations of UK fishers. The New Economics Foundation has shown that not all fishers are in […]

26 Jan 2021

Bryce Stewart: Here is a blog just after the deal was announced https://ukandeu.ac.uk/fisheries-trade-deal/. Since then a much larger report has been published by UK in a Changing Europe. I wrote the fisheries section for that as well, which is on pages 26 and 27. The Trade Deal: A Sellout on Fish but maybe not on enforcement […]