Posted on 01/20/2021 2:16:57 AM PST by Cronos
Europe’s biggest fish market has been turned into a ghost town by Brexit, an industry head has said.
James Withers, chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, said that even during the height of the pandemic, thousands of boxes a day were being landed at Peterhead fish market in Aberdeenshire – but that this has dwindled significantly since the UK left the EU.
He tweeted pictures of the “sad sight” of the fish market hall lying mostly empty apart from a few crates and said that exporters are being “crippled” by the situation.
It comes after seafood hauliers protested against the Brexit fishing deal by stacking lorries in central London on Monday.
In his tweet of the images, Mr Withers wrote: “Europe’s biggest fish market in Peterhead like a ghost town. Built to deal with 10,000 boxes/day but with a few hundred.
“Boats tied up, exporters crippled. No Brexit image of lorry queues, it’s the sight of trade that isn’t moving at all.”
...Mr Withers said about £750 million worth of Scottish seafood goes to the EU every year and called for political intervention at UK level to sort out the situation.
...A spokesman for Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said: “Boris Johnson and his Tory colleagues are 100% to blame for the catastrophe now facing the Scottish seafood sector – and their shameful bid to try and shift the blame won’t fool anyone.
“Brexit is their policy and this is their mess.
“So instead of mocking the plight of the industry, as Jacob Rees-Mogg has done – or admitting they were too busy preparing for Christmas to read the details of the Brexit deal, as another Tory minister has done – they should be doing everything they can to help fix it.”
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Because once Brexit happened Europeans stopped eating fish.
“Boats tied up, exporters crippled. No Brexit image of lorry queues, it’s the sight of trade that isn’t moving at all.”the lack of preparedness on the British side is inexcusable. They knew the checks were coming once they left the common market, but didn't prepare adequately
British ports on Monday called on the UK government to begin an “urgent discussion” with France to reduce Brexit-related bureaucracy when exporting fish to the EU.
In a letter to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, the British Ports Association blamed a shortage of UK environmental health officers and the “extremely strict application” of the new EU import rules for the delays.
The good news , at least , is that it gives fish populations a chance to recover.
Many EU nations are discovering that the EU, eurozone and Schengen zone are too big to manage. EU suffers from many different problems, open borders, shared economies and different ideas and cultures and it is proving to be a huge hindrance. Some other nations are considering forming smaller unions of free trade and travel as well.
““So instead of mocking the plight of the industry, as Jacob Rees-Mogg has done – or admitting they were too busy preparing for Christmas to read the details of the Brexit deal, as another Tory minister has done – they should be doing everything they can to help fix it.””
SO, they took Pelosi’s advice...they passed it to find out what was in it.
not really for the "EU" or "schengen". Both the common market, common standards and regulations AND the schengen zones are really treasured by different countries in the EU. The schengen yes - few of the non-euro countries want to join the eurozone.
EU suffers from many different problems, open borders, shared economies and different ideas and cultures
The open INTERNAL borders wasn't a problem except for Covid.
The different economies are a problem only for the eurozone countries.
Different ideas and cultures is not a problem for the different countries - because many of them already HAVE different cultures. For example - within Germany the Schwabian culture is quite, quite differnt from Berliner culture. Ditto the Galician culture and Madrid differ, that of Brittany and Cote D'Azur or Wrocław and Białystok (lesser but still different)
None of the EU countries are considering forming smaller unions of free trade and travel.
Changed in a month?
The EU could have signed a trade deal that simplified the whole process.
The reason the other massive union worked is that members joined as their countries were created. And even that one is not cracking at the seams. The only thing holdint it together is that unlike the EU, the US has a huge military.
I buy a LOT of maceral and Sardines from Costco these days. It’s a miracle food. I really like the flavor of Sardines, but Maceral is a more neutral flavor for adding into other recipes.
So the fish prices across the British Isles should drop accordingly... right?
EU wanted to punish Britain for leaving. That is one of the reasons it took a couple years to negotiate BREXIT.
Nope.
The fish in British waters aren’t the fish that Brits seem to like :)
While they are the fish that the French and Italians like!
er.. no, that wasn’t the case.
The rules were that there are 2 years to negotiate from the point the request to leave was made.
The negotiating period began on 29 March 2017, when the United Kingdom served the withdrawal notice under Article 50. Withdrawal was then planned to occur on 29 March 2019, two years after the date of notification, as specified by Article 50.
The UK requested twice to delay this - in March and in April. Then in October once more the UK asked to delay it to 31 January 2020.
There was no “punishing”
The EU offered a trade deal. The UK rejected it.
Allow me to clarify. The EU should have signed a deal instead of proposing a ludicrously bad deal.
Why was it a bad deal in your opinion?
It wasn’t the deal you’d offer a sovereign nation. It was closer to the status quo where the EU had a greater say in the fisheries than they deserved. Even this deal stunk.
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