It may be a lesser consequence of Brexit, but Britain's shooting parties ma...
PARIS - It may be a lesser consequence of Brexit, but Britain’s shooting parties may find themselves short of pheasants and partridges to kill next season if transport delays prevent chicks being imported from France, game exporters say.
Yet about 40 percent of the pheasants and nine in every 10 of the partridges shot in Britain are imported, nearly all from France, where exporters specialise in breeds that are popular in Britain, such as ring-neck pheasants and red-legged partridges. “It is mainly day-old chicks that will be a problem, we only have 24 hours to send them over,” said Denis Bourasseau, whose company Gibovendee in western France controls about half the exports of game bird eggs and hatchlings to Britain.
The UK Game Farmers’ Association hopes that chicks will be allowed to be “fast-tracked” through border arrangements. But French exporters who have made such requests said the French farm ministry has not yet approved them.
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