£3.25 21 March 2019 Issue: 5455 16 MAY 2019 BREXIT MELTDOWN TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT New Taits arrives at Fraserburgh The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering Fraserburgh harbour for the first time following its delivery trip from Ølensvåg, Norway. Taits recorded a top speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials. The new 74.8m midwater trawler quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge Taits FR 229 berthed in its home west of Ireland. system, in which five 55in tilting port of Fraserburgh for the first time Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine displays can be arranged in multiple last week, after being handed over AS, Taits incorporates a number of configurations through an embedded to the Klondyke Fishing Company new features. These include a heat video wall controller. by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, recovery system, in which hot water Featuring an extensive full-length Norway, reports David Linkie. from the main and auxiliary engines boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping After arriving at Fraserburgh, is used to heat all internal areas pelagic fish both amidships on the skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving starboard side and at the stern. immediately started rigging out for Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion A detailed feature on Taits will be the blue whiting fishery, before Taits and manoeuvring system; two stern included in Fishing News soon. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 21 March 2019 Brexit delay looms as MPs torpedo withdrawal deal Third vote attempt this week With the official Brexit departure date just days away, the entire future of Brexit, and the freedom from the CFP that fishermen have longed and fought for over so many years, is in peril, reports Tim Oliver Last week, MPs voted down rebel MPs: “Back me or risk Theresa May’s withdrawal deal, losing Brexit altogether.” voted against leaving without And she warned that if they a deal, and backed the PM’s do not vote her deal through, call for a delay to the 29 March Brussels could demand a long Brexit date, to 30 June. delay of two years or more that Mrs May was set to put the could also have tough conditions withdrawal deal to MPs for a attached. third time this week. She hoped She told MPs, “If the House that Brexiteers in her party and finds a way in the coming days the DUP would back her deal to support a deal, it would allow © www.shutterstock.com/By Alexandros Michailidis as time runs out, rather than the government to seek a short She warned that a long delay risk a possible long delay to limited technical extension to would mean that the UK would Article 50, or even losing Brexit Article 50 to provide time to have to hold elections for MEPs altogether. pass the necessary legislation in May. A long delay, possibly of She was set to visit Brussels and ratify the agreement we two years, would also give more again this week for an EU have reached with the EU. But time for Remainers to bolster summit on 21 March. let me be clear: such a short their position, for a general Although MPs voted to take technical extension is only likely election, and even for a second “Alec, while I still have the will to live, a no-deal Brexit off the table, to be on offer if we have a deal referendum. remind me why we voted for Brexit!” the prime minister warned in place. There is also the problem that them that legally the EU would clear answer from Britain on agreement. It is there. That is the default She effectively told Conservative have to agree what the way forward should be, the question asked, and we are position, if to a withdrawal before Brussels decides on any waiting for an answer to that.” parliament does rebel MPs: “Back me or risk delay. EU leaders delay. Former fisheries minister not agree a deal have stressed He said: “What will their George Eustice, who resigned by the Article 50 losing Brexit altogether that they would choice be; what will be the from the government to fight departure date “ need to know what line they will take? That is the for Brexit, said that the UK was of 29 March, is that we leave “Therefore, the House has to the extension was for. They question we need a clear answer ‘on a very dangerous path’ and with no deal. understand and accept that, if it would probably agree to a short to now. That is the question that should leave without a deal. He She urged MPs to back is not willing to support a deal in extension if parliament“ agrees a has to be answered before a told the BBC: “The EU might her deal, and a three-month the coming days, and as it is not deal, to allow the technicalities decision on a possible further revoke Article 50 altogether, Brexit postponement to 30 willing to support leaving without of withdrawal to be completed, extension. and they might demand £50bn June to allow the legalities to a deal on 29 March, then it is but otherwise would demand a “Why would we extend these from us as the price for giving be finalised, or face the threat suggesting that there will need much longer delay. discussions? The discussion us an extension. They might of a much longer delay. She to be a much longer extension to EU negotiator Michel Barnier on Article 50 is done and say it has to be at least two effectively told Conservative Article 50.” said that there needs to be a dusted. We have the withdrawal years.” FFL organises Tyneside protest Fishing for Leave (FFL) organised agreement, and for MPs to honour remind our representatives, whom an event on Tyneside on Friday last the Brexit vote by ensuring that we elect, to ensure we leave on week (15 March) to highlight what Britain leaves the EU with no deal. 29 March, and to highlight our it said was the ‘death sentence’ “The terms of the withdrawal industry’s plight, as symbolic that Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement are an existential of EU misrule, to a public who agreement, or MPs thwarting threat to fishing, and a total are equally sickened by the Brexit, present to British fishing betrayal of Brexit and Britain. It government’s actions.” and coastal communities. means a second surrender of our A 30ft fishing boat on a lorry, FFL says it is throwing its industry and coastal communities, escorted by a pipe band, left weight behind Brexit groups – and and places a constitutional bomb North Shields harbour at 8.30am increasing public calls, shown in under democracy,” said FFL and arrived at Newcastle quayside new polling – for the government leader Aaron Brown. at midday. At the same time, a to scrap the ‘loathed’ withdrawal “The protest’s purpose is to flotilla of some 12 fishing vessels left North Shields and headed up the Tyne to the Millennium Bridge to join the boat, lorry and pipe band at Newcastle quayside. A 30ft fishing vessel led by a pipe band passes the Millennium The parade then crossed the Tyne Bridge at the start of a journey that will end in Parliament Square on Bridge. 29 March. The parade then headed to Jarrow for the start of the Jarrow March, to arrive in Sunderland our fishing,” said Aaron Brown. March for Brexit – a modern-day the following day and then walk “We’ve hit a crossroads. This is repeat of the famous Jarrow to Parliament Square in London, our last chance to bludgeon MPs Hunger March in October 1936. arriving in London on the Brexit to stop this surrender of Britain, This was an organised protest departure date of 29 March – ‘a Brexit, and one of our country’s against the unemployment and date that will be Brexit victory or greatest renewable resources, one poverty in Jarrow and the NE betrayal day’, said FFL. which can support generations to region in the 1930s. Around 200 “The fishing industry will come in areas like the North East. men marched from Jarrow to start this historic march of the No deal is better than this bad London, carrying a petition to the British people to our capital to deal! British government requesting the send a message to our elected “We appeal to every Briton who re-establishment of industry in the representatives to obey our loves their country – you must Trawlers from North Shields moor up on Newcastle quayside at town. democratic instruction, and shout and thunder to stop MPs midday on Friday 15 March in support of FFL’s event to highlight the Brexit groups were due to set that our industry won’t accept a betraying the largest democratic ‘death sentence’ represented by the current Brexit betrayal. off from Jarrow on Friday, 15 second surrender of Britain and instruction in British history.” 21 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Ireland ‘committed’ to voisinage restoration A government fisheries 0-6nm zone is currently not law to restore the status quo ‘constitutes a hard border in the 13 June, ‘to reiterate concerns spokesman has said that permitted. On 26 February, two to what it was before 2016, Irish Sea’. about the suspension of the the Irish prime minister is Kilkeel vessels were detained in and has indicated that he is Lord Gardiner said that the arrangement by Ireland’.