Brexit causes chaos among German fishermen – risk spitting with Norway | World | news

And Germany’s fishing industry has branded Norway “selfish†– and at the same time appealed to Brussels to intervene, with an expert saying: “You cannot accept that.†The UK’s exit has led Oslo to unilaterally set the EU’s cod quota and aims to do the same for mackerel which, according to estimates by Norwegian website Fiskeribladet, could be worth an additional £ 100million.

Concerns about the knock-on effects their approach will have were raised yesterday in a statement by the German Fisheries Association.

He warned: “Because the fish stock to be distributed is not growing, someone has to pay the bill for the selfish behavior of the Norwegians.

“It cannot be that the EU accepts that.”

The statement warned: “As total catches do not increase in the context of sustainable management, this would lead to a permanent restriction of the EU’s fishing opportunities.”

The GFA fears an escalation by the end of August at the latest, “because the EU fishermen from Germany, Spain, Portugal, France and Poland have exhausted the quotas that Norway still wants to grant them by then,” explained the GFA.

It added: “If the EU does not defend the legitimate rights of EU citizens in this situation, there is a risk of permanent loss of fishing rights worth hundreds of millions of euros per year.”

There is even a risk that ships from all five of the above-mentioned EU countries will be excluded from Norwegian waters.

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The country’s fisheries minister, Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, said last year: “If we don’t reach an agreement by January 1st, we will not open Norway’s economic fishing zones to EU and UK vessels.

“Nor can we expect Norwegian ships to gain access to their (EU and UK) zones before an agreement is reached.”

Such a ban has not yet come into force – but it remains possible.

The German fishing industry employs 40,000 people and fish more than 1.2 million tons of fish every year.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel is a member of the Bundestag for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, one of the regions in Germany that is most dependent on fishing.

The failure of a post-Brexit fisheries agreement with Norway – which was never a member of the EU – also has serious implications for the UK fishing industry.

Kirkella, a long-distance water trawler for the British fishery in Hull, is currently in port as it is currently banned from sailing in Norwegian waters.

CEO Jane Sandell said in April: “This is a very dark day for the UK.

“George Eustice owes an explanation to our crews and the Humberside region as to why Defra has not even been able to maintain our decades of fishing rights in Norwegian waters, let alone boasting of a ‘Brexit bonus’ that has turned into us Catastrophe.

“As a result, there will be no Arctic cod caught in the UK for our national dish sold through chippies – everything is imported by the Norwegians who continue to sell their fish products duty free to the UK while we are exempt.†Waters.

“Quite simply, this is a shame and a national embarrassment.

“Britain wanted to be an independent coastal state, but the only beneficiaries of Brexit will be a handful of Scottish pelagic fishing barons.

“Everyone else – including much of the UK’s domestic fleet and the people who work in it – will lose.”

Jeremy Percy, chairman of the New Under Tens Fisherman’s Association (NUFTA), told Express.co.uk at the time, “Dog’s breakfast really sums it up.

“The entire exit from the EU in relation to fisheries was a complete debacle from start to finish.

“Our negotiators still have to reach a long-term agreement with the EU on quotas or with Norway.”

(Additional reporting by Monika Pallenberg)