Focus on Brexit effect at summit

By Jenny Hjul | March 25, 2019

RURAL Economy minister Fergus Ewing will address the Seafood Summit in Aberdeen on Wednesday as the industry awaits the outcome of the latest Brexit deliberations. The focus of the summit, organised by industry body Seafish, is on the impact of the UK leaving the EU, which was due to take place this week, on March…

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UK and France in ‘scallop war’ talks

By Jenny Hjul | August 30, 2018

BRITISH and French government officials today opened talks to prevent a repeat of the violent scenes which saw fishing boats from the two countries confront each other in a dispute over scallop fishing in the Bay of Seine off the Normandy coast. Anger boiled over into violence on Tuesday as French fishermen hurled rocks and…

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