New UK Fisheries Minister

Defra have announced that Huw Irranca-Davies MP has replaced Jonathan Shaw as UK fisheries minister.

Commenting on this, SFF chief executive, Bertie Armstrong, said: “While ministerial reshuffles are nothing new, the timing here is extremely unhelpful and could not have come at a more inopportune time, given that vital and complex negotiations to set quotas and fisheries management measures for 2009 are about to begin in earnest, with there being a very intense period of activity from now right up until the December EC Fisheries Council.”

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