Humberside's fish processing and merchant sector is anxiously awaiting details of the sanctions the European Union is poised to impose on Icelandic and Faroese fish products.
EU fisheries ministers formally agreed on Sept. 24 to implement a package of sanctions against the two countries in the latest stage of the efforts to stop them catching Northeast Atlantic mackerel well in excess of scientific advice.
Details of just what the sanctions will be have still to emerge and the Humberside processing industry is worried that if they include sanctions against whitefish, vital raw material supplies of cod and haddock from Iceland -- and to a lesser extent the Faroes -- could be cut off.
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