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media KELSEY KELSEY 5 MARCH 2020 Issue 5504 £3.30 media 14 MAY 2020 KELSEY KELSEY TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL BREXIT BATTLE BEGINS REPORT Voting open for Fishing News Long service recognised at the NAFC Awards 2020 Saro Saravanan and Caroline Hepburn of the NAFC. The NAFC Marine Centre in Shetland has marked the long service of two of its staff: Caroline Hepburn, Book now for the Fishing News Awards who has worked at the centre for 25 years, and Saro presentation evening on 14 May. Saravanan, who has worked there for 20 years. Caroline Hepburn joined the then Shetland Fishermen’s Training Association (SFTA) in October The countdown is on to the Fishing News Awards 2020, with 1998, working with the late Gussie Angus to organise the nomination shortlists drawn up and a prestigious new training for the local fishing and aquaculture industries. venue confirmed for the presentation evening on 14 May. Among the new entrants whose careers she helped to Voting is now open for the 10 categories that are decided by start are many of Shetland’s current fishermen. Fishing News readers. The other four – the Sustainability Award, Her industry liaison role continued after the SFTA Young Fisherman of the Year, Port of the Year and the Lifetime was absorbed into the NAFC, and has since expanded Achievement Award – will be decided by a panel of judges. to include support for all students attending the NAFC You can vote once in each category, and voting closes and Shetland College. at midnight on 17 April. Turn to pages 14-19 to read the Saro Saravanan joined the NAFC’s staff as a nomination shortlists and make your choices in the categories hatchery technician in 2000, having arrived at the for pelagic, demersal, shellfish and trainee fishermen, service centre two years earlier to enrol on its HNC course in companies, fresh fish retailers and processors, and new fisheries science. While working on a shrimp farm in pelagic, demersal and shellfish boats. his native India, he had planned to apply to university The presentation evening on 14 May will take place at the in Canada, until a chance sighting of an advert led him four-star Mercure Aberdeen Ardoe House Hotel and Spa, a instead to Shetland. beautiful 19th-century mansion house in Blairs, Aberdeen. Saro worked in the NAFC hatchery for many years Guests will be treated to a drinks reception, sponsored by the on species including lobsters, halibut and cod. During Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, followed by a three-course that time, he became increasingly involved in training meal with wine and live entertainment from top comedian apprentices and students, and he transferred to NAFC’s Simon Evans. Ardoe House Hotel in Blairs, Aberdeen. Training and Skills Department in 2015. FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2020 PRESENTATION EVENING Book your seat for our celebration of the TICKETS NOW ON SALE best of British and Irish commercial fishing Enjoy a great night out, with: ★ A drinks reception ★ A superb 3-course meal with wine ★ A seat at the awards ceremony and live entertainment, presented by comedian Simon Evans ★ Awards from all aspects of the fishing industry DATE: MAY 14 2020 VENUE: MERCURE ABERDEEN ARDOE HOUSE HOTEL & SPA TREAT YOURSELF, YOUR COLLEAGUES, OR YOUR CLIENTS TO AN EVENING THAT THEY’LL REMEMBER Book your tickets now at: fishingnewsawards.co.uk 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 UK and EU polarised on fishing as trade talks start UK: ‘We’ll walk away if no agreement by June’ The UK government says it will leaving on WTO terms at the end But the UK negotiating Iceland and the Faroes. As an “In a very brief period, you walk away from the Brexit EU of December. document rejects the ‘outdated’ independent coastal state, we can’t do everything. We will trade and fisheries talks if there Fishing is set to be a major share-out of quotas based on will regulate access to our own do as much as we can under is not the ‘broad framework’ of issue in the talks, which started relative stability, and says they waters on our terms.” pressure of time.” an agreement by June that is on Monday this week (2 March), must be based on the principle Mr Gove said that there would French Europe minister capable of being finalised by with both sides expressing their of ‘zonal attachment’, reflecting be ‘no border down the Irish Amélie de Montchalin signalled September, reports Tim Oliver. determination to stick to their where fish actually live. Sea, and the fishing fleets of that fishing would be a flashpoint Announcing the UK’s polarised positions. EU vessels fishing in UK Northern Ireland will enjoy all the over the coming months. negotiating position to MPs The EU, under great pressure waters would be subject to rights that they deserve, similar “The fishermen have the right last Thursday, Michael Gove, from member states with fishing UK licensing and reporting – indeed, identical – to those to be protected. They know very the minister in charge of interests such as France and requirements. of other fishermen, and fishers, well that if we sign a bad deal, delivering Brexit, told MPs Ireland, is determined to ‘uphold’ Mr Gove told MPs: “As well throughout the United Kingdom’. they will lose enormously,” she that the UK wanted to strike the current access and quota as concluding a full FTA [free He said that the government told TV station France 2. a ‘comprehensive free trade arrangements. It also insists that trade agreement], we will require would not accept any alignment In a speech in London agreement’ in 10 months. fishing must be linked to wider a wholly separate agreement with EU laws, as the EU is in February, Boris Johnson But if that cannot be agreed, trade talks. on fisheries. We will take back demanding. “We will not trade announced that, once free of the government’s negotiating The UK is equally determined control of our waters as an away our sovereignty,” he said. the CFP, “British fishing grounds document says it will decide that fishing and trade talks independent coastal state, Michel Barnier, the European are first and foremost for British whether to switch focus to must be separate issues, and and we will not link access to Commission’s chief negotiator, boats.” that the UK, as an independent our waters to access to EU said: “We are determined to sovereign coastal state, must markets. Our fishing waters are reach a deal that protects EU determine the degree of access our sovereign resource, and we interests. We will work hand foreign vessels will have to UK will determine other countries’ in hand with the European waters, and how much they can access to our resources on our parliament and all member catch. terms.” states, and will continue to be On fisheries, the EU said: He added: “We, as an fully transparent throughout this “The mandate outlines that the independent sovereign state, process.” future partnership should uphold regard control of our own But he said that the bloc would the existing reciprocal access to resources as something we not agree a deal ‘at any price’. waters as well as stable quota cannot barter away. Of course He warned that there would shares. The agreement on we want to co-operate in the be ‘complex, demanding fisheries should be established management of stocks with our negotiations’ over the short by 1 July, 2020, to give time for neighbours, but the approach transition period, which ends determining fishing opportunities we take will be similar to that on 31 December. “A short Lead UK negotiator after the end of the transition of other sovereign states or time, as chosen by the British … and his EU counterpart David Frost… period.” regimes such as Norway, government, not by us,” he said. Michel Barnier. SUMMARY OF EU AND UK POSITIONS NFFO hammers EU demands Commenting on the EU’s with the EU on fisheries’. “The position, the NFFO said that any UK could only accept these EU expectation that the UK would provisions by breaking the have to shadow ‘every future promises that have been made The EU says that the deal should set out a The UK’s position is that the agreement must requirement of the CFP’ would repeatedly by the prime minister framework for management of ‘shared’ stocks and reflect the fact that the UK will be an independent be to deny the UK sovereignty and Cabinet-level ministers, and ‘common technical and conservation measures’. coastal state at the end of 2020. over the management of commitments on fishing made Also, international conservation principles, including Trade in fisheries products should be covered the fisheries in its waters. during the EU referendum. It those underpinned by the CFP, should apply. by the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). “The UK could not possibly would amount to a betrayal on There should also be co-operation on sustainable The framework agreement on fisheries should accept such a provision in any a scale equivalent to the UK’s fishing and conservation, discards and MSY, data cover access to fish in UK and EU waters, fishing circumstances.” sell-out on fishing in 1973.” collection and research. opportunities and future co-operation on fisheries On the EU’s call for Referring to the EU’s management, including annual negotiations sustainable fishing and demand that a free trade The fisheries deal should: on access to each other’s EEZs and fishing conservation, it said that the deal would depend on UK n Secure responsible, sustainable fisheries in opportunities (TACs and shares).

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