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MICHEL BARNIER said 'Brexit means Brexit' in a parting swipe at the UK as controversy brews over the EU's 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. now legally outside the bloc, exporters have suddenly had to navigate inspections, safety regulations ...

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 member states. The Daily Mail has cited an unnamed senior British government minister as saying th...

There's 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 Fal. It’s a difficult job and the season is restricted to six months between October and March, wh...

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 £125,000 ($173,000) a year to comply with the administrative requirements that have accompanied Brexit. A t...