UK Fisheries, the owner and operator of the UK's last distant-water whitefish trawler Kirkella, is calling for a radical change of government thinking when it comes to the fishing sector as the country enters a likely election year.

The UK fleet has seen its whitefish quotas slashed by more than a half since Brexit, despite multiple lobbying attempts by UK fisheries over the past four years to improve the outcome of fisheries negotiations.

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"In what will (almost) certainly be the election year of 2024, we at UK Fisheries have now to invest our hopes in a change of government if there is to be any possibility of a thriving distant-waters fishing industry in the northeast of England," said Jane Sandell, CEO of...