Re: Bad deal for fishing !!
Originally Posted by
Bread
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Zaphod, your selling out family run businesses to the EU. The answer is to invest more into them rather than throw them under the bus.
The answer is to enable these small shellfish businesses to export to the rest of the world by investing in them and promoting them within the UK to build much larger domestic market.
I'm not selling them out at all, just explaining things as I see it.
They're certainly not being sold out to the EU because firstly they don't have an alternative supply in the case of the bivalves I discussed and secondly because it is EU consumers and processors that also suffer from the lack of supply.
I agree about exporting to the rest of the world - if there is a market, people will buy I suppose although how you transport live produce around the world must be problematic.
And I've said before about promoting within the UK, giving as an example that although I live right on the coast I cannot buy a fresh British crab or lobster no matter how much cash I offer.
It's sad for those whose livelihoods are under threat, I absolutely agree.
But they've had over four years to prepare for inevitable change and seem to have done nothing, or at best very little.
AIUI these bivalves for example could still be sold and exported to the EU if they were purified here in the UK, but nobody was prepared to comit to buying the necessary purification equipment.
Not only that but changes like this have happened many, many times before - my father saw the textile industry he was part of collapse almost completely with the machinery all being sold to overseas buyers who then, as we know, began exporting the clothing made on these machines back to us here in the UK.
There are many such examples of how our industries have undergone significant change.
It isn't ideal.
We all know that.
But after voting to leave we should all have known that nothing which followed ever would be ideal.