{"id":52774,"date":"2020-12-26T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=52774"},"modified":"2020-12-26T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T02:31:30","slug":"british-pm-sold-out-fish-in-brexit-trade-deal-fishermen-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-pm-sold-out-fish-in-brexit-trade-deal-fishermen-say\/","title":{"rendered":"British PM sold out fish in Brexit trade deal, fishermen say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritish-pm-sold-out-fish-in-brexit-trade-deal-fishermen-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=52774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>December 26, 2020<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 British fishermen said on Saturday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sold out fish stocks to the European Union with a Brexit trade deal that gives EU boats significant access to the United Kingdom\u2019s rich fishing waters.<\/p>\n<p>Some British politicians also said the deal added up to a sell-out.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom will leave the EU\u2019s Common Fisheries Policy on Dec. 31, but under the trade deal agreed on Christmas Eve the current rules will remain largely in place during a 5-1\/2-year transition period. After that period, there will be annual consultations to establish the level and conditions for EU access to British waters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\">\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Federation of Fishermen\u2019s Organisations said the fishing industry had been sacrificed by Johnson. For example, it said, the UK\u2019s share of Celtic Sea haddock will increase to 20% from 10%, leaving 80% in the hands of EU fleets for a further five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end-game, the prime minister made the call and caved in on fish, despite the rhetoric and assurances,\u201d the group said. \u201cThere will of course be an extensive public relations exercise to portray the deal as a fabulous victory, but it will inevitably be seen by the fishing industry as a defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British government said the trade deal reflected the United Kingdom\u2019s new position as a sovereign independent coastal state and provided for a significant uplift in quota for UK fishers, equal to 25% of the value of the EU catch in UK waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is worth 146 million pounds for the UK fleet phased in over five years,\u201d the British government said. \u201cIt ends the dependence of the UK fleet on the unfair \u2018relative stability\u2019 mechanism enshrined in the EU\u2019s Common Fisheries Policy, and increases the share of the total catch taken in UK waters taken by UK vessels to circa two thirds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party, said Johnson had \u201csold out Scottish fishing all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPromises they knew couldn\u2019t be delivered, duly broken,\u201d Sturgeon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a massive sell-out,\u201d said Ian Blackford, the SNP party leader in the British Parliament. \u201cBoris Johnson\u2019s UK government have signed a deal that guarantees long-term access for EU boats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fishing contributed just 0.03% of British economic output in 2019, but many Brexit supporters see it as a symbol of the regained sovereignty they say leaving the EU brings.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with fish and shellfish processing, the sector makes up 0.1% of the United Kingdom\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Leslie Adler)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\">\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/british-pm-sold-out-fish-in-brexit-trade-deal-fishermen-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British PM sold out fish in Brexit trade deal, fishermen say<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One America News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2020 LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 British fishermen said on Saturday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sold out fish stocks to the European Union with a Brexit trade deal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}