Fisheries minister did not read deal as she was ‘very busy organising local Nativity trail’
13/01/2021
Boris Johnson’s “sea of opportunity” promise to fishermen has turned into a “nightmare”, with hundreds of thousands of pounds of sales lost due to new red tape, the SNP’s Westminster leader has said.
The head of a major seafood company in the Scottish Borders says Brexit has "more or less finished" his business.
Scottish fish prices ‘collapsing’ by as much as 80% due to Brexit bureaucracy, industry warns
12/01/2021
Exporters are struggling to get their produce across the EU border in time due to additional safety checks and administration.
Post-Brexit trade: Fish prices 'collapsing' in Scotland as red tape hits UK exports to EU
11/01/2021
Post-Brexit red tape is causing some UK exports to the EU to grind to a halt, industry bodies have warned, as the new rules that came into force at New Year begin to bite.
Aberdeen-based exporter John Ross says the last few months have been the company's hardest in 30 years.
UK fishermen were facing a growing crisis today as they were forced to halt exports to the European Union because of a mountain of bureaucracy.
CUSTOMS arrangements in the wake of Brexit are causing delays as “entire trailers” need to be checked rather than samples, members of the Scottish seafood industry have said.
Seafood exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs arrangements are causing delays as "entire trailers" need to be checked rather than samples.
Marks & Spencer has warned that up to 15% of its food product lines could be unavailable in its Northern Ireland shops in January.
Fish and chip shops facing shortages and job losses unless UK strikes new deal with Greenland
19/11/2020
About one in 10 fish battered and sold in Britain’s takeaways comes from the Arctic territory.
Fresh seafood and baby chicks will be the only goods allowed to skip hours-long customs queues at UK border
05/08/2020
The two perishable products have been exempted from rules on how to manage traffic approaching the port of Dover.
Claims by Boris Johnson that regulations imposed by “Brussels bureaucrats” were damaging the trade in kippers have been debunked by the European commission, which said that the food safety obligations criticised by him were due to rules set by Britain.
The EU has accused UK leadership hopeful Boris Johnson of fake news over his complaint that "Brussels bureaucrats" made life hard for smoked herring sellers. It emerged that the rules were made by the UK, and not the EU.
British rules to blame for kipper 'plastic ice pillow' that Boris Johnson blamed on EU in bizarre rant
18/07/2019
Boris Johnson’s claim that British kipper producers are being hit by EU food safety rules was branded "fake news" by Brussels, after it emerged the regulations had been imposed by the UK government.