Fishermen in Denmark are concerned about losing access to UK waters after Brexit but expect the EU to put up a strong fight

Boris Johnson has asked the EU for a Canada-style trade deal, but warned the UK may walk away from talks in June to prepare an 'orderly exit' if not enough progress has been made

By Neil Ramsden

The government has set out its approach to negotiations, stating it will 'no longer accept the ‘relative stability’ mechanism for sharing fishing quotas'

Jimmy Buchan warned a 'sea of opportunity' coming from Brexit would be lost if processing firms were forbidden from hiring workers from overseas

Certifying 150,000 consignments sent to the EU annually is expected to cost between £7 million and £15m a year

Scotland’s seafood processors are demanding continued tariff-free trade and access to labor in any Brexit deal reached between the UK and the EU

The new bill has been met with caution by the Pew Trusts and Greenpeace, who noted the presence of legal loopholes giving ways out of supposedly binding pledges

By Dan Gibson

"Hopefully, by 2030, we’ll have ticked all these boxes; we’ll have sustainable, ethical, legal and traceable seafood as the norm" - Mike Mitchell, M&S fisheries advisor

By Neil Ramsden

The KFO believes the bill 'will be null and void' when talks see the linkage between fisheries and trade retained, while the UK shadow environment secretary also sees rights being bartered away'

Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, and EU leaders have set a July deadline to negotiate and ratify an agreement on future fishing rights