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  'Jobs will go' - Anger as Scots fishermen who raised concern about rare species are rewarded by ministers with ban PREMIUM 'Jobs will go' - Anger as Scots fishermen who raised concern about rare species are rewarded by ministers with ban MINISTERS are facing a new legal clash with fishermen who say they face losing their livelihoods after being banned from an area of Scotland to protect an endangered fish. Creel fishermen and scallop divers are furious that a blanket fishing ban has been imposed over one of the largest nesting sites for the critically endangered flapper skate ever foun...

PREMIUM Fishermen's fury: Ministers spend at least £30k contesting judge's demand to reconsider Scottish no-trawling scheme SCOTTISH ministers are contesting a judge's demand to reconsider a no-trawl scheme to protect Scotland's marine environment in a court battle that has already cost them £30,000. Lady Poole made the ruling after ministers said that the revisiting the proposed pilot no-trawl scheme "would serve no practical purpose". She took action after, in a landmark legal judgement, the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation (SCFF) won a court challenge over the "right to tr...

Last modified on Tue 2 Feb 2021 16.50 EST Fishers around the UK have been “devastated” by fresh problems with exporting their produce to the EU, after the government admitted that exports of live mussels, oysters, scallops and certain other shellfish would be subject to ongoing restrictions. Those are all classified as “live bivalve molluscs” – a category which also includes cockles and clams. Under longstanding EU rules, catches of live bivalve molluscs from non-EU member states can only be imported without treatment if they come from waters deemed of the highest quality. Vessels f...

Since Jan. 1, when Britain formally left the European Union, truckloads of fish have been stopped at ports on both sides of the English Channel.

Inshore fishermen and members of the Scottish Creel Fishermen's Federation blockaded Downing Street on Monday in protest over new trading rules…