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Shetland fishers are near “boiling point” with frustration about UK vessels being regularly inspected in Scottish waters, while EU-owned boats are escaping similar scrutiny, it is being claimed.
Figures obtained from Marine Scotland under freedom of information (FoI) rules reveal UK vessels were boarded 104 times in Scottish waters during 2020 and on 492 occasions in 2019.
This is compared to 20 boardings of EU boats at sea in 2020 and 88 in 2019.
Boardings of UK boats in Scottish ports totalled 586 in 2020 (1,388 in 2019), compared to 51 for EU vessels (270 in 2019).
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The 10 Hottest Cities in the U.S. for Second Homes
The 10 Hottest Cities in the U.S. for Second Homes
Second homes are helping drive the real estate market, and these are popular locations for workers who want to get away from it all.
This story originally appeared on SmartAsset.com.
While the coronavirus pandemic has impacted millions of Americans, with businesses shuttering and companies laying off employees, the secondary home market is seeing an unexpected surge. Remote workers are temporarily relocating from larger cities to less dense, more comfortable spaces.
The real estate brokerage firm Redfin reported that the demand for second homes jumped 100% in October 2020 when compared with the previous year. This outpaces the demand for primary homes, which only saw a 50% increase during that same period in their study. Keeping in mind that many remote workers are still looking for second homes, SmartAsset crunched the numbers to find out which secondary home markets are the mo