UK’s puffin protection laws at centre of post Brexit row – BBC News

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  2. >If the UK and the EU don’t come to an agreement by Thursday, the dispute will go to an arbitration panel which will rule on the issue.

    I hope it goes to an arbitration panel, because we will see what it looks like and how do they tackle this case, providing visibility on how EU and UK view this in a more public forum (hopefully the arbitration proceedings are more open to public scrutiny).

  3. ” For its part, the EU says the UK ban does not do enough to balance the needs of marine ecosystems against the well-being of fishing communities”

    On the other hand, fuck your Danish fishing communities (by which the EU means Denmark’s huge pork undustry). Their needs are not the UK’s problem.  Further to this; fuck the EU.

  4. Industrial fishing should be banned entirely for a decade. Not just in the UK. Not just in the EU. Not just in Europe. That’s it if people want their children to know what fish tastes like.

    All because of the greedy shortsighted fishers. Fuck them.

  5. Puffins have been under threat due to climate change which changed water temperature which in turn affects number of sand eels that are available to the puffins.

    During the nesting season, lack of sand eels mean that puffins need to catch larger fish to feed the chicks. Some chicks choke on the larger fish because they are too large for their size which is one of the reasons why puffins are endangered right now.

  6. This is going to be an easy publicity win for the UK that makes the EU and Danish fisherman look bad. More importantly I hope the UK does win as so much wildlife is under threat and this seems like it will do a lot to help sustain wild animal populations.

  7. This is such a dumb case, no one even eats sandeel they just use to make fish oil and animal feed. Let the puffins have their sandeel.

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