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The introduction of post-Brexit trade tariffs has caused Royal Greenland, which employs some 2,000 people, to lose out on contracts with several UK supermarket and catering businesses. Managing director Randall Jennings said it would now be “significantly cheaper” to ship fish from Greenland via India rather than export them directly to Britain after the introduction of the 20 percent trade levy. His firm usually supplies around 4,000 tonnes of prawns to pubs, restaurants and supermarkets in the UK.
Ted Heath, the former Tory Prime Minister (Image: GETTY)
“Ms Prentis (who infamously admitted to having not read the Withdrawal Agreement as she was too busy organising her local Nativity Trail) promised that ‘..any access negotiated with the EU will cover only the UK’s exclusive economic zone, and not the 0 to 12 mile zone. That remains the case’.”
However, Mr Percy said the week before the Agreement was signed, no fewer than 17 large Belgian beam trawlers had been working the six-mile line between Hastings and Brighton.
He added: “It is little wonder then that our own inshore fishermen’s main complaint these days is that there are few fish making it through this European curtain of large scale fishing effort and to within reach of these smaller scale fishermen.