A UK seafood boss is urging MPs to give “serious consideration” to the industry’s workforce needs after Brexit, reports The Press & Journal.
Ryan Scatterty, managing director of Boddam-based Thistle Seafoods, highlighted a looming jobs threat for the sector after the UK quits the European Union.
Many of the people currently employed in Scottish processing factories are migrants, whose future right to work in the UK is in doubt.
Giving evidence to the Scottish affairs committee at Westminster yesterday, with the proposed Fisheries Bill under scrutiny, Scatterty said the much vaunted “sea of opportunity” for the catch sector after Brexit would be no use to processors if they did not have enough workers.
