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UK fishing

  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK-EU ‘reset’ talks delayed until next year

    Negotiations expected to focus on post-Brexit fishing rights and electricity trading arrangements, which expire in 2026

    An anti-Brexit protester waves the EU and union flags outside the Houses of Parliament in June 2016
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    EU fishing
    Brussels abandons crackdown on overfishing

    European Commission drops possible legal action against five member states for failing to police ban on discarding fish

    Mackerel, mantis shrimps, mullet, prawns, sole and cuttlefish are caught by a trawling net aboard a fishing vessel in Rimini, Italy
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s greatest angling adventures
    The hope and heartache of salmon fishing in the Highlands

    Pursuit of the elusive salmon inevitably brings failure. It’s why anglers get so hooked

    The author fishing on the River Carron with Jim the ghillie
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    France slams UK over fishing access to protected habitat in British waters

    Paris presses European Commission to take action after trawler fleet banned from 13 areas

    A French trawler sails off the coast of northern France
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Brexit
    Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body

    Reducing trade friction with the EU could boost access to member states, group says

    A customer inspects a salmon
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    EU fishing
    Denmark and Sweden press Brussels to act against UK in fishing dispute

    Copenhagen claims London’s ban on catching sand eels on Dogger Bank discriminates against its fleet

    Shoal of Sand eels
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The hidden cost of your supermarket salmon

    Fish sold by major retailers in Europe is harming food security in west Africa

    A photo of a small fishing boat in the waters of Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second largest city
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    UK seafood industry cracks down on exploitation of overseas crew

    Two-year scheme sets new standards for pay and working conditions on British boats

    Scottish fishermen at sea
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    UK seafood sector in talks to clean up labour standards on fishing vessels

    Supermarkets among groups behind pilot scheme to combat human rights abuses in British fleet

    Fish being unloaded from a boat
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Human rights
    UK government faces legal challenge over visa system for migrant fishers

    FT investigation detailed mistreatment of Filipino crew who worked on British boats over the course of a year

    Crew members of the Radiant Star fishing in the North Sea in Shetland, Scotland.
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    FT Investigations
    The isolated and dangerous lives of migrant fishermen in the UK

    Two cousins came to the UK for a better life. They left changed forever

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    UK fishing industry gets green light to hire more overseas workers

    The sector is struggling with labour shortages and post-Brexit export regulations

    Fisherman sorts his catch aboard a boat
  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    Chip shops battered by cost of cod put fried shark back on menu

    UK fishing boats will be able to land Northeast Atlantic spur dog — or ‘rock salmon’ — after sustainability levels recover

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Fishing industry
    Record fish deaths prompt call for halt to expansion of Scottish salmon farming

    MSPs seek pause in aquaculture growth over environmental and welfare concerns as mortality doubles

    Workers sorting out live salmon at harvest time, in harsh weather conditions
  • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
    Sustainability campaigners criticise UK-EU fishing deal

    Stocks of cod, whiting and herring are being overfished, warn environmental groups

    A French fisherman sorts through the mackerel catch on board a trawler off the coast of Ouistreham, north-west France
  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Faroe Islands heads into turbulent waters with first sanctions against Russia

    Self-governing Danish territory reluctant to upset maritime deals and trade with Moscow 

    Port of Hvannasund, Viooy, Faroe Islands, Denmark
  • Sunday, 10 April, 2022
    UK and France reach truce over fishing licence dispute

    Bitter spat over access to fisheries post-Brexit abates as EU commissioner praises ‘successful’ relationship

    Fishermen empty a fishing net aboard the Boulogne-sur-Mer based trawler “Nicolas Jeremy” in the North Sea
  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    UK and EU strike deal on access to fish stocks in 2022

    Total catch for British fleets reduced following scientific advice as dispute over licences for French boats rumbles on

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    Brexit
    French fishermen to blockade ports in protest over UK fishing licences

    Freight traffic to be disrupted at Channel Tunnel and other locations along French coast

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Brexit
    UK talks with France fail to solve post-Brexit fishing dispute

    Ministers to hold further meetings next week after failing to even agree on how many licences for French boats are in dispute

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    EU holds last-ditch talks to resolve UK-France fishing dispute

    Macron delays threatened sanctions to give negotiations ‘a chance’

    Fishermen empty a net aboard on a ship off the coast of France
  • Sunday, 31 October, 2021
    UK-France stand-off over post-Brexit fishing rights deepens

    Both governments lay onus on the other to find solution after Johnson and Macron discuss issue in Rome

    Emmanuel Macron, left, with Boris Johnson in Rome
  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    InterviewBrexit
    UK credibility on the line over Brexit disputes, French president warns

    Boris Johnson ‘puzzled’ by threats from Paris to hamper cross-channel trade over fishing rights

    Emmanuel Macron in Paris
  • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
    EU fishing
    UK summons French ambassador as fishing dispute escalates

    British trawler detained in Le Havre as Paris promises to retaliate over permits

    The British trawler ‘Cornelis Gert Jan’ moored at Le Havre after it was detained by French authorities
  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    Brexit
    France sets deadline for UK in dispute over fishing rights

    Paris threatens to impose stricter customs checks on British goods from next week if situation remains unresolved

    Fishermen sort crates of freshly caught fish at the harbor in Sète, France
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