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By Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Many Scottish fishermen have halted exports to European Union markets after post-Brexit bureaucracy shattered the system that used to put fresh langoustines and scallops in French shops just over a day after they were harvested.<\/p>\n\n\n

Fishing exporters told Reuters their businesses could become unviable after the introduction of health certificates, customs declarations and other paperwork added days to their delivery times and hundreds of pounds to the cost of each load.<\/p>\n\n\n

Business owners said they had tried to send small deliveries to France and Spain to test the new systems this week.<\/p>\n\n\n

But it was taking five hours to secure a health certificate in Scotland, a document which is required to apply for other customs paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n

In the first working week after Brexit, one-day deliveries were taking three or more days \u2013 if they got through at all.<\/p>\n\n\n

Several owners could not say for sure where their valuable cargo was.<\/p>\n\n\n

A trade group told fishermen to stop fishing exported stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cOur customers are pulling out,\u2019\u2019 Santiago Buesa of SB Fish told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWe are a fresh product and the customers expect to have it fresh, so they\u2019re not buying. It\u2019s a catastrophe.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n

On Thursday evening, the Scottish fishing industry\u2019s biggest logistics provider DFDS Scotland told customers it had taken the \u201cextraordinary step\u201d of halting until Monday export groupage, when multiple product lines are carried, to try to fix IT issues, paperwork errors and the backlog.<\/p>\n\n\n

Scotland harvests vast quantities of langoustines, scallops, oysters, lobsters and mussels from sea fisheries along its bracing Atlantic coast which are rushed by truck to grace the tables of European diners in Paris, Brussels and Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n

But Britain\u2019s departure from the EU\u2019s orbit is the biggest change to its trade since the launch of the Single Market in 1993, introducing reams of paperwork and costs that must be completed to move goods across the new customs border.<\/p>\n\n\n

Those trading in food and livestock face the toughest requirements, hitting the express delivery of freshly caught fish that used to move overnight from Scotland, via England, into France, before going on to other European markets in days.<\/p>\n\n\n

David Noble, whose Aegirfish buys from Scottish fleets to export to Europe, said he would have to pay between \u00a3500 and \u00a3600 ($815) per day for paperwork, wiping out the most profit.<\/p>\n\n\n

His concern is that this marks more than just teething problems and says he cannot pass on the higher costs of doing business.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m questioning whether to carry on,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cIf our fish is too expensive our customers will buy elsewhere.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n

In the single market, European food could be processed and packed in Britain then returned to the EU for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n

But Britain\u2019s pursuit of a more distant relationship means its trade deal does not cover all interactions between the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n

Gaps have already appeared on French and Irish shop shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n

Fishing trade bodies said mistakes in filling out paperwork meant entire consignments were being checked.<\/p>\n\n\n

A French fishmongers\u2019 union said numerous seafood trucks had been held up at the customs point in Boulogne for several hours, and even up to a day, due to faulty paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n

While that should improve with time, and IT issues should be resolved, Seafood Scotland warned they could see the \u201cdestruction of a centuries-old market\u201d if it does not.<\/p>\n\n\n

Fergus Ewing, Scottish Secretary for the Rural Economy, said the right balance between speed and scrutiny must be found.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cIt is far better for problems to be identified and resolved here in Scotland,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n

SB Fish\u2019s Buesa angered at suggestions that traders were not prepared, said all his paperwork was correct and demanded to know why business leaders were not making more of a fuss.<\/p>\n\n\n

He owns the business with his father and it has been exporting for 28 years as well as employs around 50 people.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the trenches here,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cIt\u2019s gridlock.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n

($1 = 0.7363 pounds)<\/p>\n\n

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