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MICHEL BARNIER said Brexit means Brexit in a parting swipe at the UK as controversy brews over the EUs shellfish ban.

Feb 15, 2021 London – As the new year made Brexit a reality, Tony Hale encountered the pitfalls of Europe’s redrawn political geography. Specifically, he confronted the need to extricate 53 tons of rotting pork products from administrative purgatory at a port in the Netherlands. For more than two decades, Hale’s company had shipped pork to the European Union without customs checks, as if the United Kingdom and the continent across the water were one vast country. With the U.K. no...

EU Ban on UK Shellfish Exports Punishment for Daring to Become a Nation-State, Minister Says © AP Photo / Alastair Grant Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/europe/202102141082069734-eu-ban-on-uk-shellfish-exports-punishment-for-daring-to-become-a-nation-state-minister-says/ In early February, Brussels announced that UK fishermen are indefinitely banned from selling unpurified clams, cockles, mussels, oysters, and scallops to EU m...

Theres a bitter north-easterly wind whipping the waves as Chris Ranger moors his ageing sailboat and steps off with a small net of oysters. ‘This time last year, I’d be selling 1,500 of these for Valentine’s Day,’ he says. ‘But Covid has closed the UK market and Brexit has ended EU exports. I’m down to a few web sales, perhaps 300 oysters. To be honest, I’m struggling.’ His plight is shared by the handful of traditional oyster and scallop boat crews working Cornwall’s River F...

A couple of hundred tons of mussels that would have previously fetched about 160,000 euros ($194,000) now lie in the muck, not worth harvesting. Mr. Wilson has furloughed three of his six workers. Even those who can reach European markets have discovered that the promised bonfire of regulations is actually a burning hell of paperwork. In the southwest of England, a few miles from the village that gave its name to Cheddar cheese, one cheesemaker, Lye Cross, anticipates spending an extra £125,00...

The UK government has privately accepted the EU's ban on British shellfish exports is justified, despite publicly declaring otherwise.

Expats starved of British bacon and tastes of home - deal leaves shelves bare Dylan Donnelly Replay Video UP NEXT Stonemanor in Brussels has not received a delivery from the UK since before the New Year and had to shut up shop at two of its two stores last weekend for the first time in nearly 40 years. Brits living in the Belgian capital usually make a pilgrimage to Stonemanor to stock up treats from home such as British bacon and sausages and well known UK brands of crisps and...

Since 1 January, shellfish caught in Great Britain but not made ready for human consumption have been barred from entering the EU

Environment Secretary George Eustice answered an urgent question in the House of Commons about the EUs restrictions on the trade in live bivalve molluscs.

BBC News By Sarah Dickins image captionShellfish from Grade B waters must be cleaned and purified before being sent to Europe Many cockles and mussels producers in Wales have been told they cannot continue exporting to the EU because the water quality is not good enough. Most Welsh waters are Grade B which means shellfish have to be cleaned and purified before being sent to Europe. But there are not enough facilities in the UK - and pre-Brexit, produce was sent to the EU to be purified and the...