New Jersey’s veteran fishing community fears surveying to install offshore wind turbines near the state’s shore is already causing tremendous environmental damage, one local boat captain told Breitbart News, asserting that, in his experience, “dead whales on our beach absolutely and logically have everything to do with the oceanic geo-surveys.”
Commercial Fishermen are feeling the effects of President Joe Biden’s economy as the price of diesel, a fuel widely used by commercial fishermen, has skyrocketed in the New England region, according to a report.
MILAN (AP) – Italian paper mills that make everything from pizza boxes to furniture packaging ground to a halt as Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent natural gas prices skyrocketing.
A Maine legislative committee rejected a bill meant to create a legal defense fund for lobster fishermen fighting against environmental regulations that activists claim will protect North Atlantic right whales.
British fishermen have reacted with fury to Boris Johnson praising himself for having “Got Brexit Done” on the two-year anniversary of Britain’s belated break with the European Union, reminding Breitbart News of how they were “sold out”.
After months of wrangling, the European Union and the UK announced Wednesday that they have struck a fishing deal on their shared stocks,
Nigel Farage has called for the UK to suspend Brexit divorce payments to the EU if France fails to back down from trade war threats.
France and the UK agreed to de-escalate tensions over fishing rights after a meeting between President Macron and Boris Johnson in Rome.
The escalation in tensions in the English Channel between France and the UK over fishing rights may in fact be a symptom of a wider dispute over Brexit, with French Prime Minister Jean Castex admitting that Britain should be punished for leaving the European Union.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s environment minister pledged Friday to retaliate if France carries through on threats to block UK ships from French ports, warning that “two can play at that game” in the worsening dispute rooted in Britain’s departure from the European Union.
The French detained a British fishing vessel and have threatened to block UK fish exports over the battle for post-Brexit fishing rights.
Fishermen in Jersey have accused the French of piracy as tensions increase over France’s demands for more licences to trawl in British waters, with the Jersey fishermen saying that should the French attempt to blockade their port again, they will retaliate.
The French have threatened to cut off energy supplies and blockade supply routes amid disputes over post-Brexit fishing access in UK waters.
The European Union has increased its estimates for the so-called Brexit “divorce bill” to almost £41 billion, as Britain and Europe clash over fishing and Northern Ireland.
French anger around the British reclaiming their territorial waters post-Brexit and the British response to it took a bizarre turn as a tricorn-wearing re-enactor was seen firing a flintlock musket as French fishermen prepared to blockade a British port.
The British government is reportedly preparing to launch a series of tit-for-tat trade restrictions with the European Union dubbed the “Water Wars” in response to the bloc’s ban of shellfish from the UK. The government is said to be considering
EU supertrawlers are continuing to operate in British waters post-Brexit, despite Boris Johnson indicating that they would be banned, with a report suggesting the “cannot” be removed.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the United Kingdom will ban EU factory ships from electric pulse trawling in British waters as a first step in taking back control of Britain’s fisheries.
With Theresa May’s downfall, Tory MPs at last turned to the Brexiteer king over the water, Boris Johnson, to deliver them from Nigel Farage…
Barrie Deas, chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO), says Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is “a defeat”, with the Tory accused of having “bottled it” on fishing and “sacrificed” the country’s long-suffering fishermen.
All signs appear to point to a Brexit deal being announced imminently, with an official announcement waiting on some last-minute wrangling over the scale of Boris Johnson’s surrender to the European Union on fisheries.
Over 95 per cent of the fish taken out of Britain’s marine protected areas is ending up in the European Union, according to researchers.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to abandon demands for continued control over Britain’s lucrative fishing waters, or he will walk away from the negotiating table without a deal.
A surge of industrial supertrawlers from the EU are devastating Britain’s territorial waters, including marine protected areas, as a ‘no-deal’ Brexit which would see the country reclaim its fisheries looms.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s foreign minister said Sunday there is only about a week left for the UK and the European Union to strike a post-Brexit trade deal, with fishing rights the major obstacle to an agreement.
Scottish fishermen have slammed the EU behaving “like the bully who steals your lunch every day and expects you to be grateful for the few crumbs he hands back” as it continues to push for control over Britain’s fisheries.
The rupture in the negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union has escalated, with the British telling EU negotiator Michel Barnier not to bother coming to London next week if the bloc is unwilling to budge.
French fishermen were filmed firing flares and throwing frying pans at British boats in a revival of the so-called ‘Scollop Wars’ in the English Channel, amid ongoing disputes between the two nations over post-Brexit fishing rights.
The Chinese government is selling Kenya tons of fish poisoned with high levels of toxins like mercury, lead, and arsenic, the African country’s The Nation newspaper revealed in a study published Wednesday.
French fishermen are threatening direct action to blockade the United Kingdom if they are stopped from plundering the county’s fisheries once it takes control of them back from the European Union.
Tory arch-Brexiteer Boris Johnson has warned that Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the European Union will empower Brussels to “bully and blackmail” Britain over fisheries, where EU control has already resulted in tens of thousands of job losses.
EU leaders have wasted little time in gloating over “the worst deal in history” negotiated by Theresa May, with French president Emmanuel Macron gloating he can blackmail Britain into surrendering its fishing waters or force it into the humiliating “backstop”.
France is leading a push to demand the European Union issues a hardline declaration on the bloc’s interpretation of Theresa May’s proposed withdrawal agreement, covering issues including fishing
The European Union is demanding it retain control of Britain’s ravaged fisheries as the price of approving Theresa May’s plan to keep the country in the EU Customs Union, according to reports.
Brexit-supporting Cabinet minister Michael Gove has vowed to take back control of Brexit Britain’s territorial waters in a new Fisheries Bill, and to devolve significant powers from the European Union to Scotland’s local parliament.
The UK public strongly backs increasing fishing quotas for British vessels operating in their own waters, polling has found.
British fishermen are calling for Royal Navy protection after their vessels were attacked by French boats as they were out catching scallops in the English Channel.
The Irish premier has been slammed for threatening to ban British planes from his nation’s airspace after Brexit if the UK takes back control of its territorial fishing waters.
The environment secretary has revealed plans to take back control of UK fisheries, decide how much stock to allocate to European boats, and give a “fairer share” to British vessels after Brexit.
Brexit campaign leader and former UKIP chief Nigel Farage is joining a symbolic boat-burning in Whitstable as fishermen protest their “betrayal” by Government in the Brexit negotiations.
