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Nearly 200 jobs at risk as Iceland Seafood says Grimsby no longer ‘a strategic fit’.
Fishermen overwhelmingly supported Brexit, and it came back to bite them. / There was a vast disparity between the promises made by the pro-leave campaign to British fishermen and the fisheries deal that was ultimately struck.
‘We’re pretty much in the same position as we were before. Maybe we’re a little worse off’
Business chiefs and economists say huge disruption lies ahead if Downing Street triggers Article 16.
“We were sold a lie by Westminster,” he said in a break in bidding at the market, one of Europe’s largest, but operating at less than one quarter capacity when The National visited.
It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as failure to award enough licences to the French mean our government is now loathed by fishermen on both sides of the channel.
According to the Bank of England, higher borrowing during the pandemic is to blame for putting more businesses at risk.
A new detailed cost/benefit analysis of the outcome of Brexit for UK fishermen has found that the industry is on track to lose hundreds of millions of pounds by 2026, unless changes are secured through international fisheries negotiations.
UK fisheries are facing £300 million in losses, a report by the National Federation of Fisherman’s Organisations has revealed.
Government promises that the fishing industry would benefit to the tune of tens of millions of pounds from Brexit has been challenged by analysis by a fishermen’s trade organisation, which says it will make multi-million pound losses every year instead.
THE UK fishing industry will lose a massive £300 million by 2026 as a result of the UK Government's Brexit deal, industry experts have predicted.
The Brexit trade deal hailed as a £148 million boost to the UK fishing fleet over the next five years will instead punish the industry to the tune of more than £300m, a new report says.
Fishing crews have been "disastrously let down" by the government's failure to reach a deal with Norway, UK Fisheries chief executive has said.
Talks on quotas collapsed on Friday, endangering jobs and threatening to push up price of fish and chips.
Exclusion from Norwegian seas could be ‘nail in coffin’ for distant-water fleet.
James O'Brien said "I do feel for you" to a fishermen's union chief who confirmed his industry is "worse off" due to Brexit.
British fishermen have accused Boris Johnson of dishonesty and betrayal over his Brexit fishing deal.
The chairman of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations said he feels ‘betrayed’ by the Prime Minister.
The UK’s fishing industry has accused the EU of using a “nuclear option” to secure a Brexit deal, warning that it is prepared for blockades by the French if trade talks collapse.