TORY ministers treat the export crisis threatening to sink Scotland’s fishing sector “like they’re discussing the rules of croquet”, Fergus Ewing says. In the past fortnight, the country’s iconic fishing industry has entered an unprecedented storm as Brexit red tape prevents fresh produce valued in European markets from crossing the Channel. Around one third of the fleet is tied up at harbour as custom is cut off, and loads of langoustines that were bound for traders in France and Spain have had to be dumped. Logistics firms are caught too in a roadblock thrown up by the terms of the UK’s EU withdrawal deal, enacted suddenly after a last-minute agreement was reached while the UK Fisheries Minister was organising a village nativity trail.