EU bans pulse beaming from July 2021 – 42 licences to be withdrawn this year Electric pulse beam trawling effort will be slashed by 50% this year, and the method will be banned from July 2021, reports Tim Oliver EU co-legislators…
EU takes hard line on trade and fishing in Brexit deal Fishing moved centre-stage last week in the Brexit negotiations, with the publication of the political declaration, and statements from the EU and from French president Emmanuel Macron linking fisheries…
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…
Gains and losses in 2019 TAC proposals Proposed TACs for 2019 show increases for 27 of the 89 stocks involved, 35 to stay the same, and decreases for 22 stocks, reports Tim Oliver Of the main stocks of interest to…
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…
Minister under Brexit pressure from Commons committee The UK must take back total control of its waters and fisheries resources from day one of Brexit under the terms of the UN Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and not start negotiating…
Major study spells out dangers to sector A major new report on the shellfish trade, aimed at the UK government, warns of severe impacts on the UK shellfish sector if there is no Brexit deal It emphasises the importance of…
Small-scale fleets will be hit hard, warns LIFE MEPs and the EU Commission expressed polar opposite views on the landing obligation (LO) and choke species last month, reports Tim Oliver EU fisheries commissioner Karmenu Vella was uncompromising on the fact…
Commission ‘complicit’, claims Bloom green group The green group that is campaigning to ban electric pulse beam trawling in the EU has accused the Dutch government of failing to declare large subsidies it has given to the Dutch pulse fleet,…
Transition ‘worst possible’ deal for Scotland ‘Very serious objections’, Scots minister tells Gove Scottish fisheries minister Fergus Ewing has slammed the transitional Brexit agreement and its effects on Scottish fishermen, and questioned the UK government’s approach to the forthcoming negotiations…
