Don’t use fishing as a bargaining chip, warns Scottish industry
In a message to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation warns that the UK government must not gamble away the future of Scottish fishing businesses by using the industry as a bargaining chip in negotiations to improve relations with the EU. ‘The Scottish fishing industry has twice in the past been regarded as expendable by British Prime Ministers when it comes to Europe,’ warned SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald. ‘We must not have a repeat of 1973 when the condition of entry to the EEC was that our richly endowed fishing waters be pooled with other members, or of 2020 when the Brexit agreement, while restoring the UK to the status of sovereign coastal state, granted continued access to our waters to EU vessels to catch far more fish in our waters than they catch in their own.’ more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 08:12
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