Has the Brexit fishing promise come true?
06/02/2023
Even though fishing is a tiny part of the UK economy, it was a key issue in the Brexit campaign with promises to "take back control" of British waters. / At the end of 2020, Boris Johnson announced his new Brexit trade agreement with the EU, promising that "[we will] be able to catch and eat quite prodigious quantities of extra fish".
“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.
Scottish fishermen are taking their catch to Denmark rather than selling it at home in bid to battle Brexit bureaucracy [3 mins]
05/02/2021
The crew of Scottish trawler Daystar are becoming accustomed to the two-day crossing to Hanstholm, a port on the North coast of Denmark.
James Withers, chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, said the situation is a ‘real crisis’ for exporters.
The north-east fish processing industry could be relocated to Poland after Brexit, a trade expert has warned.