The company states that the UK government, instead of delivering a Brexit Bonus, has succeeded in sinking British distant waters fisheries. The UK has no rights to fish in Norwegian sub-Arctic waters in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very black day for Britain. George Eustice owes our crews and the Humberside region an explanation as to why Defra was unable even to maintain the rights we have had to fish in Norwegian waters for decades,\u201d she said, commenting that the boasts of a \u2018Brexit Bonus\u2019 have turned into a disaster.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn consequence, there will be no British-caught Arctic cod sold through chippies for our national dish \u2013 it will all be imported from the Norwegians, who will continue to sell their fish products to the UK tariff-free while we are excluded from these waters. Quite simply, this is a disgrace and a national embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board of UK Fisheries will now meet to decide what presence it can have in Hull with no viable fishing opportunities on its traditional grounds. UK Fisheries has invested approximately \u00a3180m over the past 20 years in the Humberside fishing industry, and had planned further investment of up to \u00a3100m.<\/p>\n
She pointed out that British politicians have failed to land a single bilateral deal with any of its traditional partners around the North Atlantic \u2013 The Faroes, Greenland, Iceland and now Norway.<\/p>\n
UK Fisheries employed approximately a hundred crew in the economically-deprived Hull region, and supported many hundreds more jobs with suppliers and in downstream industries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK wanted to be an independent coastal state, but the only beneficiaries of Brexit will turn out to be a handful of Scottish pelagic fishing barons,\u201d Jane Sandell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone else \u2013 including much of the UK domestic fleet and the people who work in it, will lose out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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