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Good news for Scottish whitefish fleet – new three year EU deal on ‘Scottish...
After the recent concerns over EU plans to close Scotland‘s west coast fishing grounds, a new three-year deal has been agreed with Europe. This is based on what has become known as ‘the Scottish model’...
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Argyll and west coast prawn fishing under serious threat from EU proposals
There has already been a lot of concern about the impact on Argyll and other west coast fishing communities of current EU proposals to close down fishing for cod, haddock and whiting in west coast...
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Lochhead negotiates hard on EU fish quotas and says ‘The bulk of the west...
Scottish Government Fisheries Minister, Richard Lochhead refused to accept the deal on the table this week in the negotiations on EU fish quotas. As it stood, this threatened the devastation of...
View ArticleEU Ombudsman finds in favour of Scottish Fishermen’s Federation in mistake...
The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) spotted an administrative error in 2007 EU legislation which cut 28 days from the time authorised vessels could spend off the west of Scotland.The SFF lodged a...
View ArticleBertie Armstrong says fishing deal the best the UK could have got from EU
[Updated below - political responses] Scottish fishing industry leader, Bertie Armstrong, CEO of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, has greeted the end of the 2012 negotiations on the EUs Common...
View ArticleFishermen’s chief has courage to say he felt Salmond response to be intimidatory
A bit of a spat broke out today, 7th July, between the First Minister, Alex Salmond, and a diplomatic but firm CEO of the Scottish Fishermens’ Federation, Bertie Armstrong.Mr Armstrong had written to...
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