EU plunders UK EEZ
13th July 2020
EU vessels landing even more from UK waters Catches up 60% from 2011-2018 – UK up only 17% EU vessels have been increasing the amount of fish they catch in UK waters at a much faster rate than the UK’s…
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Pulse ban challenge
28th October 2019
Dutch legal challenge to EU pulse ban Dutch fishermen have mounted a legal challenge to the EU ban on electric pulse beam trawling, reports Tim Oliver Dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten has filed an application with the European Court of…
‘UK can’t protect EEZ’ – ‘We can’t protect our waters after Brexit’
19th August 2019
Government admits lack of enforcement capacity The government doubts that Britain will be able to control fishing in its 200-mile EEZ when we become an independent coastal state after Brexit, reports Tim Oliver This was made clear in a memo…
Brexit fisheries sell out
19th November 2018
Brussels links fisheries access to trade The Brexit deal agreed last week explicitly gives the UK control of its EEZ as an independent coastal state, ending the automatic right of EU vessels to fish in UK waters, and relative stability…
Fisheries Bill: ‘watershed moment’ for industry
30th October 2018
Fisheries Bill: ‘watershed moment’ for industry By Michael Gove, Secretary of State Some of my earliest memories are of joining my dad at the fish merchant’s business he ran in Aberdeen. It was set up by my grandfather, and generations of my…
Eustice: UK wants quotas that reflect EEZ resources
14th August 2017
But fair treatment for foreign vessels in UK waters. Fisheries minister George Eustice spelled out last week that when the UK leaves the EU, under international law, the responsibility for managing fisheries within the UK’s 200-mile/median line exclusive economic zone…
‘Some banned fishermen will fish in UK EEZ after Brexit’
3rd July 2017
EUFA leader warns against sudden changes. An EU fishermen’s leader says he does not want to see EU fishermen breaking the rules of any new Brexit agreement that bans them from their former grounds in UK waters, reports Tim Oliver.…
Danger of fisheries being sidelined in Brexit talks
2nd January 2017
Lords report: ‘Expectations may be hard to deliver’ A new Parliamentary report on Brexit and Fisheries says the government faces ‘a huge challenge’ to achieve a successful outcome to the Brexit negotiation on fisheries, reports Tim Oliver. Above: Map showing…
