Fishing industry in UK shrank 'dramatically' during pandemic

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Activity fell sharply in Britain and China in 2020 but increased in US, Japan and South Korea, study finds

saw the most “dramatic declines” in fishing activity undertaken within their territories, it said. In Britain, whose fishing industry was badly hit by storms in the months before the pandemic, there was a drop of 368,000 fishing hours in 2020, or 16.5% compared with 2019, while inthere was a fall of 2m fishing hours, down 13.5%. Fishing activity also decreased in Italy, Spain, France and Norway, mostly in the first months of 2020.

 

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Not the pandemic, it’s Brexit and Johnson’s halfwit government

Iunderstand that’s because China stopped buying our fish...

Crank it back up .. let's get dis party started .. you already let them take you guns .. don't let them take you keyboard fishing

this is terrible news

You spelt ‘because of Brexit’ wrong.

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