The UK’s export market suffered a total fall of £750 million - a 75.5 per cent decline from the previous January, the FDF said.

Post-Brexit red tape must be urgently simplified to eliminate damaging delays in exporting Scottish salmon to the EU, according to industry leaders.

Exports of fish and meat from the UK to the EU saw a dramatic dip in January compared with the previous year, compounding the chaos following the end of the Brexit transition period.

HMRC figures reveal huge year-on-year falls in trade, with whisky, cheese and chocolate worst hit.

Salmon farmers are, like all of us, anticipating the arrival of the United Nation’s COP26 conference in Glasgow later this year and are actively engaging with the Scottish Government’s target of net-zero emissions of all greenhouse gases by 2045.

New figures reveal Scottish salmon farmers have seen losses plunge by £11 million as firms incur costs of hundreds of thousands of pounds a month due to Brexit “confusion”.

Bureaucracy, paperwork, delays and confusion leaves Scottish producers counting the cost.

Tavish Scott, chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO), has again urged the UK Government to fix post-Brexit export problems which farmers say have caused reputational damage due to unreliable delivery times.

Exports of Scottish salmon fell sharply last year after being hit by the Covid pandemic, according to new figures.

Fish farming companies are being allowed to breach environmental limits and pollute lochs because of export problems caused by Brexit.

Aberdeen-based exporter John Ross says the last few months have been the company's hardest in 30 years.

Taxes cut on birds’ eggs, raw hides, fur skins and ultra-strong spirits – but UK does not export them anyway.