{"id":101132,"date":"2025-05-14T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101132\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:38:13","slug":"can-a-brexit-trade-deal-keep-british-fishing-afloat-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101132\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Brexit trade deal keep British fishing afloat? \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t14 May 2025\n <\/p>\n

A Brexit trade deal means EU boats can fish in UK waters, but only until June 2026. The British fishing industry has long felt betrayed by post-Brexit promises and now fears rights are going to be given away again.<\/p>\n

\"KarlKarl Price prepares lobster traps off the coast in Bridlington<\/p>\n

Every year more than three hundred tonnes of crustaceans are landed in Bridlington, earning its nickname as the \u2018lobster capital of Europe\u2019.<\/p>\n

And Europe is able to capitalise on it.<\/p>\n

A Brexit trade deal<\/a> means EU boats can fish in UK waters, but only until June 2026. Many politicians in Brussels are anxious about extending access beyond next summer, with any agreement being linked to the defence and security deal Sir Keir Starmer is seeking<\/a> ahead of the UK-EU summit in London.<\/p>\n

The British fishing industry has long felt betrayed<\/a> by post-Brexit promises and now fears rights<\/a> are going to be given away again.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Cohen is chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen\u2019s Organisations. He wants a better deal for the industry he represents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU has already opened the door to that revision,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\"MikeMike Cohen, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen\u2019s Organisations<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve already said they don\u2019t like the term that was agreed in 2020 that said after this first five-year period they\u2019ll have to negotiate every year to get access to British waters. They want to change that to a long-term deal on access. If that\u2019s contemplated by our government then I want them to get something in return. That\u2019s a really valuable thing and valuable things have to be paid for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the North Sea though, the view is different. Representatives of multiple EU member states say they\u2019ve seen the productivity of their fishing sectors decrease after Brexit.<\/p>\n

They include France, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Bert-Jan Ruissen is a Dutch MEP.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very clear that our fishermen already paid a very high price for Brexit because they lost already 25 per cent of their quota, that\u2019s a very high price so from our perspective it is clear that further restrictions cannot be accepted by the EU,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\"DutchDutch MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen<\/p>\n

The UK government said:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo final agreement has been made. We are not providing a running commentary on our discussions with the EU, these are ongoing and cover a wide range of issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been clear that we will always act in the national interest to secure the best outcomes for the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch more here:<\/p>\n

\u2018David v Goliath\u2019: Yorkshire fishing club takes on river polluters<\/a>
Yorkshire fishing club wins government court battle over sewage<\/a>
How Brexit is boosting Britain\u2019s Puffin population<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 May 2025 A Brexit trade deal means EU boats can fish in UK waters, but only until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-101132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114506937545876351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}