Norway shows the scale of salmon farmers’ Brexit problems

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Norway shows the scale of salmon farmers’ Brexit problems
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Scottish distilleries have much stronger brands than Scottish fish farms. Whisky also gets better with age, unlike fresh fish

Then came Brexit. As recently as December Scottish-farmed fish could move seamlessly to plates the length and breadth of the European Union but now they are subject to sanitary and phytosanitary checks at the border to ensure they meetfell to just £0.5m , a 98% drop from January 2020. Figures published on April 26th showed that February brought some relief, with the value of salmon exports recovering to £25.6m, but they were still down by more than 10% on the year before.

Disentangling the effects of the pandemic and Brexit is far from straightforward, but a clue lies across the North Sea. Norway is not a member of thechecks. The Norwegians take their salmon exports seriously, publishing weekly export data. When the value of British exports fell by 98% in January, Norway’s were down by just 23%. In February the value of Norwegian exports fell by just 5% year on year, half the drop experienced in Britain.

January’s catastrophic fall in salmon exports reflected the difficulties of moving from a seamless border to a much knottier one. Customs officials and hauliers struggled to get to grips with new procedures and untestedstates are applying the rules with varying degrees of stringency, further complicating the task of complying. Those teething problems have begun to ease but there is still structural friction.

rose by 9.3% year on year in February. Scottish distilleries have much stronger brands than Scottish fish farms and a product that rises in value with age is less vulnerable to short delays than one that must be fresh out of the sea. Norwegian salmon is a perfectly good substitute for the Scottish variety; Scandinavian whisky, less so.Correction : Norway is not a member of the European Customs Union, as the original version of this article suggested.

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