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For pelagic stocks, the outcome is predominantly favourable notwithstanding the 9% reduction in mackerel when the Brexit effect is taken into account.

Ireland’s submission to Brussels says there is a “compelling case” for a deeper review of the CFP

By Henry Sandercock2021-01-13T11:04:00+00:00 Source: Seafish About a third of the Scottish fleet is currently tied up in harbour amid a crash in prices of 80% for some fish species at the key market of Peterhead Scottish seafood processors are being “cut out” of the seafood supply chain as vessels have begun landing their fish directly into the EU to avoid Brexit disruption, Scotland Food & Drink has warned. It follows warnings from trade body Seafood Scotland last week that “layer upon layer” of Brexit-related administrative issues and delays for exporters could lead to the “dest...

  Article By Contributor Published: 12:00, 10 January 2021 Get the Ross-shire Journal sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper MSP Fergus Ewing. We may have a Brexit deal but as we always feared, the deal is a very bad one for Scotland. On paper there appears to be an increase in fishing quotas, but in practice there will be reductions in actual catching levels of the fish species which are mostly caught by Scottish fishermen – haddock, cod, whiting, hake and saithe. This is because the system provides allocated quota but, in addition t...

That could mean Scotland’s industry having less access to those staple fish stocks. In the stocks where there will be an increase in UK quota share, the deal only secures access to stocks where the EU was not currently fishing its full allocation. The Scottish Government said that some of the extra quota negotiated will be “paper fish” - numbers on a spreadsheet that don’t accurately represent the reality.  They give the example of North Sea Sole. The increase in share agreed generates over £12 million in value for one species alone with a very high average price per tonne.