So what’s the big deal with

So what’s the big deal with fishing?

According ton the Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove, the agreement the UK has struck with the EU was the “best possible deal” for the fishing industry as a whole.

Well it’s just as well that his living does not depend on his daily catch. Here is the deal as agreed in 1200 pages:

· EU boats will continue to fish in UK waters for some years to come · But UK fishing boats will get a greater share of the fish from UK waters.

· That shift in the share will be phased in between 2021 and 2026, with most of the quota transferred in 2021. This is known as the “adjustment period”, giving EU fleets time to get used to the new arrangements. · The EU wanted it to be longer, the UK wanted it to be shorter - it looks like they’ve met somewhere in the middle, with an end date of 30 June 2026. · After that, there’ll be annual negotiations to decide how the catch is shared out between the UK and EU.

· The UK would have the right to completely exclude EU boats after 2026 · But the EU could respond with taxes on exports of British fish to the EU or by denying UK boats access to EU waters.

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SO WHAT’S GONE WRONG?

Previously, the UK fishermen had access to the EMF, which is the EU fund according to their maritime and fisheries policies, this ended in 2020.

The new long term EU budget now runs from 2021 to 2027, it has been proposed at 6.14 billion Euros under a simpler and more flexible fund. with a particular focus on supporting small-scale fishermen.

This means the the UK fishing industry lost out twice, the first time because they did not make use of the funds to modernise their boats in order to compete with the EU fishermen. The second time because the UK is out of the EU and now the fishing industry is begging the UK government for help.

The additional problems that have surged recently are due to the fact that fish has to be delivered fresh. Considering that at least 50% of the UK catch is sold and exported to Europe, the new custom arrangements have been causing such large delay that the fish actually is rotting in transit. To make things worse, the EU requirements for live animal imports, makes it impossible for the UK to export shellfish like oysters, clams and similar as well as crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs without the due certificates required by the EU, which the UK is not geared to produce. This was a protection for the UK when part of the EU and was not required when exporting to Europe, but now required as EU imports from outside the territory.

In 2019, the total fishing contribution to the UK GDP was £437m of which more than 333,000 tonnes of fish were exported to the EU. That accounted for nearly half of the total catch of the UK fishing fleet and roughly three quarters of total fish exports from the UK. Some parts of the industry, such as shellfish, are totally dependent on such exports. It is not difficult even to just imagine the disaster that Brexit has caused to the fishing industry

The fishing agreement was one, if not the major, sticky point required by the UK to reach an agreement, wasting 4½ years of every body’s precious time and money in futile negotiations.

HOW DID THE OLD FISHING SYSTEM WORK?

As part of its membership of the EU, the UK was subject to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

Many of the rules of the CFP were first established in the 1970s when every fishing fleet from EU member states had equal access to European waters. Ordinarily, each country would control access to their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which stretches up to 200 nautical miles from the coast, or to a maritime halfway point between neighbouring countries.

In the EU, fishing rights are negotiated annually by ministers from each member state, who gather for marathon talks every December to haggle over the volume of fish that can be caught from each species. National quotas are then divided up using historical data going back to the 1970s, when the UK fishing industry says it got a bad deal.

WHAT NOW?

After fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat, the British government announced, on 19 January, a £23m compensation scheme to support fishing firms. One trade group commented that the fund was “welcome” but no more than a “sticking plaster”.

A further investment of £100m was promised by the government to modernise the fishing industry and will be consulting on how the money is to be spent. Another promise that may or not be kept?

WHAT WAS THE POINT OF BREXIT?

So what was the point of Brexit? Businesses are being advised by “the British Government” to open branches and warehouses in the EU to counteract the new restrictions and regulations. They really are taking the “micky”! Apart from increasing the costs, whatever they do, goods have to go through the importation process. If they are exported from the UK to importers, consumers or their own premises in the EU, they still have to go through the EU importation procedures and requirements.

And that is just one problem, now imagine and multiply by all the other problems relating to all other types of finance, commerce, and industry, in order to come to the “common sense” conclusion that the whole thing has been staged for the benefit of a few but to be paid for by the loss and suffering of everyone else.

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