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Seafood exporters in Truro and Falmouth will be able to apply for a share from a new £23million Government fund to support businesses which have been most adversely affected by the Covid pandemic and the challenges of adjusting to new requirements for exporting. They say it is in recognition of the unique circumstances of the fishing sector, which has had the most significant new requirements to adjust to, and for whom even a short delay can lead to goods perishing - at a time when the industry is facing lower market prices and demand due to the pandemic.
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Four months ago, Alasdair Hughson issued a stark warning about the impact of Brexit on Scotland’s seafood industry. Like some latter-day Nostradamus, the director of Keltic Seafare – a Dingwall-based live shellfish producer – told The Scotsman a sudden increase in bureaucracy after January 1 would make it nigh-on impossible for businesses like his to trade in Europe.
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Two weeks into Brexit, problems are mounting and recriminations are flying in all directions. The reality of Brexit is proving every bit as toxic as the four-and-a-half-year slog that got us to this point.
Scottish shellfish exporters are facing bankruptcy because paperwork is hindering the previously swift dispatch of their langoustines to the European market; other Scottish fishermen are landing their catch in Denmark, while more still are contemplating registering in Northern Ireland.
There is a hue and cry across the spectrum of British food producers, manufacturers and retailers who trade with the EU over bewildering new customs and food safety rules.
The biggest challenges the food industry currently faces from Brexit include delays caused by the impenetrability of paperwork , the shortage of vets and customs officials and dealing with the island of Ireland.
That s according to trade bodies responding to questions from MPs in the latest meeting of the parliamentary committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union.
Ian Wright, chief executive of the Food & Drink Federation (FDF), said the new era after the end of the Brexit transition period would entail a complete overhaul of the UK-EU supply chain. What s going to end up happening here is that unless the deal changes in some material way, we re going to see the reengineering of almost all the EU-UK and GB-NI supply chains over the next six to nine months.