Responding to the arrangements for the new days at sea scheme announced this afternoon (27 April) by the Scottish Government, Bertie Armstrong, SFF chief executive, said:
“The new arrangement is probably the best that can be achieved against the background of a totally unsatisfactory situation and it does remove some of the uncertainty. But there will still be a significant number of fishermen who will continue to face real difficulties.
“It is essential that strenuous efforts continue to be made to refine the current effort restriction programme so as to seek as many improvements as possible.
“It is equally important that the Scottish and UK Governments, with the support of the fishing industry, continue to press the European Commission to seek urgent change in the severity of the application of the current regime.”
