The UK/EU Fishing Dispute 2020-2022

[dessiato]

I was reading today about lobster and crab fishermen complaining that they'd find it difficult and expensive to keep selling to the EU. The upside, perhaps, is that these will become more affordable in the uk.

 

[Roadkill]

I was reading today about lobster and crab fishermen complaining that they'd find it difficult and expensive to keep selling to the EU. The upside, perhaps, is that these will become more affordable in the uk.

Dramatically so in the short term, I would think, since if it's not possible to sell them abroad they'll all land on the UK market, which isn't nearly big enough to absorb them. And as a result they won't sell for anything like enough to recoup the cost of catching them, so that part of the fleet which can't switch to catching something else will have to tie up. It'll be the same across all of the export-dependent fisheries.

 

[dessiato]

... And as a result they won't sell for anything like enough to recoup the cost of catching them, so that part of the fleet which can't switch to catching something else will have to tie up. It'll be the same across all of the export-dependent fisheries.

Which is most of them

 

[alex_]

I was reading today about lobster and crab fishermen complaining that they'd find it difficult and expensive to keep selling to the EU. The upside, perhaps, is that these will become more affordable in the uk.

Now you can sell it for much less money isn’t an upside for the guys fishing though is it ?

 

[dessiato]

Now you can sell it for much less money isn’t an upside for the guys fishing though is it ?

No it isn't, it is only an upside for those of us who like it. Although it might become more expensive here due to import costs.

 

[alex_]

No it isn't, it is only an upside for those of us who like it. Although it might become more expensive here due to import costs.

#brexitbenefits

local langoustine for local people

 

[weltweit]

I half heard on the radio, just as I was nodding off that UK negotiators have compromised a little more on fishing levels to the EU. I didn't catch exactly what they compromised on though, but something.

 

[Roadkill]

It's not directly a product of the EU negotiations, but in a related development the super-trawler Kirkella, which cost £50 million only two years ago, has been laid up for lack of fishing opportunities. Kirkella was hailed as a new beginning for the industry here...

 

[alex_]

It's not directly a product of the EU negotiations, but in a related development the super-trawler Kirkella, which cost £50 million only two years ago, has been laid up for lack of fishing opportunities. Kirkella was hailed as a new beginning for the industry here...

can carry 780 tons of filleted fish, that’s nearly 4 million 200g fish portions

 

[ska invita]

I was reading today about lobster and crab fishermen complaining that they'd find it difficult and expensive to keep selling to the EU. The upside, perhaps, is that these will become more affordable in the uk.

Another upside might be less fishing and a chance for decimated stocks to recover

It's not directly a product of the EU negotiations, but in a related development the super-trawler Kirkella, which cost £50 million only two years ago, has been laid up for lack of fishing opportunities. Kirkella was hailed as a new beginning for the industry here...

supertrawlers should be banned