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Fishing firms in the UK and Europe have been hit with massive disruption in the 17 days since Britain left the EU, with post-Brexit red tape causing delays and confusion at ports. The UK left the EU single market and customs union from January 1 as part of the landmark Trade and Corporation Agreement (TCA). Under the terms of the treaty, the UK became an independent coastal state and free from the EU’s controversial Common Fisheries Policy.
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New border delays and Brexit red tape is causing Scottish seafood producers to lose £1 million pounds a day BORIS Johnson has stuffed the fishing industry. Instead of the Brexit “Sea of Opportunity” he promised, he landed a deal worse than the Common Fisheries Policy and Scottish seafood is literally rotting and unable to get to European markets. “We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks. If we go another week without that, we are finished,” warned Jamie McMillan of Lochfyne Langoustines. He and many industry colleagues have been warning for months about the dangers of a bad Brexit trade deal with the European Union.
British fishermen have accused Boris Johnson of dishonesty and betrayal over his Brexit fishing deal.An angry letter from the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations accuses him of submitting
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The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations said Mr Johnson surrendered to a “neo-colonial relationship” with the EU on fish under the Brexit agreement. At the start of January, the UK began a new relationship with the EU when the Brexit transition period ended.