>> I haven’t heard similar issues with fisherman down here in the south and Cornwall offloading
>> their fish to France and Spain though. But then I guess there are fewer fisherman
>> down here and the export markets are bigger, so if they have got increased quotas
>> it’s easier to shift the fish? Or perhaps we just eat more fish down here
I've no real idea what they catch in the Southwest or what proportion goes abroad though I recently saw a 'fly on the rigging' documentary suggesting Cuttlefish was caught for export.
My impression is that the Scottish fisherman have found a niche selling fresh, and in some cases live, shellfish to France. During the Single Market they'd got the obviously time critical transport down to a T.
Add in new paperwork, which one of them described as a reversion to 30 years ago, requiring vets to examine and certify at least samples of the product and then probable delays in Kent approaching the ports and the system is out of kilter.
The guy I heard interviewed thought they'd get better once the system bedded down but that the alternative was air freight which of course shifts the cost and competitiveness of the end product.
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