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Like all food products, the shellfish must be accompanied by an export health certificate. Rob Benson, director of Kingfisher Seafoods Ltd, warned regrading the waters would not be enough to solve the ongoing issue and lashed out at the Government for failing to help. He told i: "Everything that can be done to help the industry is better than nothing, but it isn’t going to fix the problem on its own. "For every individual customer, it now costs around £350 on paperwork. Boris faced backlash ...

HIAWASSEE — They may go down as a one-year wonder, or not, but right now the Towns County boys basketball team is just soaking up the atmosphere of the program’s best-ever run in the Georgia High School Association state playoffs. It had been since 1974 that any Towns County team had advanced past the second round of the GHSA playoffs. No team had ever gotten to the quarterfinals. On Saturday, the Indians will take on Chattahoochee County in the Class A Public semifinals in Cusseta with a c...

BREXITEER Ben Habib has accused Boris Johnson of being asleep on the job in a blistering attack after it was revealed a large number of agricultural exporters are currently unable to get their products into Europe as a result of the post-Brexit trade deal.

Several Twitter users responded and welcomed the idea. One person said: "I would love to see the fresh shellfish in the supermarkets & local open markets etc. at reasonable prices." Another user wrote: "Excellent John, time to show EU bullies the door. Vote with our wallets, Boycott EU produce. A third asked leading supermarkets: "@sainsburys @Morrisons @asda @Tesco Please advise if you can support our #fishing industry? #BuyBritish." Brexit news: A Brexiteer has highlighted a plan to defeat th...

Shellfish Businesses Will Collapse "Entirely And Permanently" With Post-Brexit EU Ban, Government Warned 04 February Parts of the UKs shellfish market face being lost forever if the European Union ban on live shellfish exports from most British waters remains in place, an industry figure has warned. Speaking to the Scottish Affairs Committee on Thursday morning, the Clyde Fisherman’s Associations Elaine Whyte said that the indefinite ban, which PoliticsHome first revealed, was a "massive is...

A shellfish company trading out of Barrow has exported nothing since January 1 due to trade issues resulting from Brexit. The European Union has recently told British fishermen that they are banned from selling oysters, mussels, cockles, clams, and scallops in their member states. Those in the trade have been told by the Government that such a ban could be lifted in April. However, Rob Benson, director of Kingfisher Seafoods Limited, has said that this ban has always been in place for t...

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UK fishermen to be hit with permanent ban on selling shellfish to EU British fishermen produce more than 25,000 tonnes of mussels each year, with around two-thirds sold to EU countries. (Getty Images) The UK’s fishermen have been warned they face a permanent ban of selling some types of shellfish to the EU as they no longer conform to the bloc’s safety standards. The post-Brexit ban is set to include oysters, mussels, scallops, cockles and clams. It comes after thousands of...

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Exclusive: EU Says A Post-Brexit Shellfish Export Ban Is Indefinite, After Government Claimed It Was Only Temporary 01 February The European Union has told the UK shellfish industry that thousands of tonnes of oyster, mussel, clam, cockle and scallop exports are banned from the bloc indefinitely. British fishers, who had been told by government to expect the ban to last until spring, are warning this will be a fatal blow to their businesses. PoliticsHome reported last month that wild shellfish...