Re: Hunt to help fishing industry if no deal????
Originally Posted by
Donkeyman
->
JH has announced he will put 9Billion aside to asist the
farming and fishing communities in the event of a no deal
brexit!
What the hell is he talking about?
The fishing industry is praying for a no deal so they can get
access to their fishing grounds again and so become viable
again!
Has he forgotten we relinquished them in favour of the eu
when we made the mistake of joining the so called free
market!
GGMS!!!
Regards Donkeyman!
Some scientific facts. I hope you are able to grasp the meaning of it.
British fishermen will soon be able to catch more fish, but will be worse off with a hard Brexit
www.volkskrant.nl
British fishermen will soon be able to catch more fish, but will be worse off with a hard Brexit
British fishermen do not become more aware of the departure of their country from the European Union if the removal between London and Brussels ends in a divorce. The extra benefits that the closure of British waters brings to EU fishermen are not in addition to the additional costs of more expensive exports, say researchers at Wageningen University & Research.
With a hard Brexit, the turnover of the British fish sector after 2025 increases annually by 342 million euros: they can catch more. This profit is completely lost due to the 390 million euros that the British will have to spend on costs (import tariffs and other trade costs) associated with the export of fish and fish products to the EU.
After the Brexit, the British consumer will spend less for his fish & chips, because the fish will become cheaper for him. But that means lower sales for fishermen and the British fish processing industry. In the rest of Europe, in a "fishing war", consumers are going to pay more for their herring and mackerel. For the Netherlands, that means an increase of 3.3 percent. For the Irish, the fish really becomes expensive: prices go up by 9.4 percent.
Appeal to other fishing grounds
It was already known that Dutch fishermen are being hit hard by the British leaving the EU. The Dutch fleet obtains 48 percent of its fish from British waters. In the years following the completion of a possible divorce, this halving nevertheless had a more limited impact on Dutch fishing than some sounds from Scheveningen and Urk believe.
The Wageningen researchers assume that Dutch vessels will use different fishing grounds. Since they are further away from the fish auctions in the Netherlands, the fishermen will have to contend with higher fuel and personnel costs. The fish-processing companies are hit more severely, who have to miss almost 13 percent of their turnover as a result of the British exit and do not just have an alternative.
But as a whole, Dutch fishing will continue to grow, although by 2030 that would be only 3 percent instead of 6 percent if the British had remained members of the European Union. The consequences for Belgium are greater: this is due to a fall in revenues of 6 percent. Ireland is facing a 5 percent decrease, as opposed to a 1 percent growth if their neighbors refrained from leaving.
The consequences for the European Union as a whole seem to be better than expected. "Negligible," the researchers even say: fish production is expected to decrease slightly by 2030, "with or without a Brexit."
Symbolic meaning
After all, it is mainly the British who feel the most pain. Europe now accounts for 75 percent of British fish exports; conversely, exports from the EU to the United Kingdom are 7 percent (and 13 percent for the Netherlands). The British will have to find alternative markets, especially in Asia and Africa, and will import more from Asia.
The sector's contribution to the British economy is small, but "the liberation of fishing" has great symbolic significance for the Brexit proponents. Last year the British government scrapped a 1964 treaty that gave five European countries (including the Netherlands) access to fishing grounds within the 12-mile zone around the United Kingdom. "We're taking matters into our own hands again," said Environment Minister Michael Gove on that occasion. London wanted to show its muscles in the run-up to the negotiations on the terms of the separation with Europe, Brussels noted.
However, European fishermen only get 10 thousand tonnes of fish from the UK's 12-mile zone, valued at 19 million euros, compared to 708 thousand tonnes by their British counterparts (according to figures from 2015). The impact on European fishermen will be greater if the British also lock their 200-mile zone.
The Wageningen figures undermine the position of the politicians and administrators who passionately advocate this. Last month the British press reported that Prime Minister Theresa May does not want to get off the ground so as not to complicate the discussions with Brussels. This to the chagrin of its environment minister. For Gove, the recapture of British fishing grounds is also a personal issue: in 2016, he blamed the "collapse" of his father's fish processing plant in Aberdeen to the European fisheries policy. Gove senior contradicted that later.