In a letter to Mr Johnson, the NFFO said that the UK\/EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement has not served to enable the UK fishing industry to \u201cbreak free of an asymmetric and fundamentally exploitative relationship with the EU\u201d.<\/p>\n
The NFFO said Mr Johnson \u201ctried to present the Christmas eve Agreement as a major success when it is patently clear that it is not\u201d.<\/p>\n
Quotas not fair<\/strong><\/p>\n Comparing the UK\u2019s deal with the EU\u2019s fisheries relationship with Norway shows its inadequacies, said the NFFO.<\/p>\n \u201cQuota shares do not reflect anything like the resources within our EEZ, and access will not be through annual negotiation but will continue to be an automatic right for the EU fleets, even to within 6 miles of our coastline,\u201d the organisation pointed out.<\/p>\n Mr Johnson\u2019s focus on when the 5 and a-half-years adjustment period expires is not helpful, suggested the NFFO, adding that the EU could keep the UK tied into a CFP-type arrangement on quota shares and access.<\/p>\n \u201cDepressingly, we will remain tied into a neo-colonial relationship with the EU on fish, despite our rights under international law, for long into the future,\u201d the NFFO added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NFFO (National Federation of Fishermens Organisations) has urged UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to concede that he has failed to strike a Brexit deal with the EU that gives the UK fishing sector independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5182","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\/5182","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=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}