Referring to the recently agreed transition agreement, which applies from the UK\u2019s EU exit date of 29 March 2019 and will see quotas and access rights continue and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) rules remain, NFFO said the deal means the UK fishing sector will be excluded from crucial decisions.<\/p>\n
NFFO said: \u201cHolding the Prime Minister and her government to account\u201d on a commitment to leaving the CFP and rebalancing quota shares, \u201cwhich will shape the future of fishing for decades ahead, will be the focus of the main UK fishing organisations and their allies in Parliament, over the next few critical months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coastal state<\/strong><\/p>\n When the UK leaves the EU, it will become an independent coastal state under international law and the UN Law of the Sea will provide fisheries management rights but NFFO stressed: \u201cThere is no escaping, however, that the transitional agreement is a reverse and a humiliation for the UK on fishing.<\/p>\n \u201cAnnual decisions on quotas will be made next year by the EU with only a notional obligation to consult the UK, although much of the fish will be caught in UK waters and the UK is, by far, the largest net contributor to the pot of resources.<\/p>\n \u201cDecisions made with the UK outside the room will apply to the UK, in their entirety, for the period of the transition.\u201d<\/p>\n NFFO said a major concern in fishing ports will be that following final negotiations, which must be completed by the end of October this year, the UK will be faced with terms favouring the EU or an abrupt exit, as it believes it did with this most recent arrangement, and \u201cwith the same outcome for fishing, as the price that the EU will seek to extract for a preferential trade deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Federation of Fishermens Organisations (NFFO) has claimed the Brexit transition arrangement has \u201cpatently humiliating and disadvantageous terms on fishing\u201d for the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}