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GBP6.4m aid package for English fishermen.

Publication: M2 Presswire
Publication Date: 28-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1361 words
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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 January 2003-UK Government: GBP6.4m aid package for English fishermen(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

RDATE:01272003

Help for fishermen and fisheries-dependent communities affected by cod cuts A GBP6.4m aid package is to be made available to English fishermen affected by North Sea cod recovery measures, Fisheries Minister Elliot Morley announced today. Together with the GBP50m and GBP5m packages being offered by Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively for the same purpose, the UK fishing industry will have access to a total of over GBP60m.

The GBP60m total package is in addition to the GBP85m already allocated for UK fisheries structural aid in the period 2001-2004.

The Prime Minister and Elliot Morley (along with Fisheries Ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland) will meet fishing industry representatives from around the UK this afternoon.

The GBP6.4m English package is made up of: - GBP5m to fund voluntary decommissioning of boats - GBP400K to part-fund (at a grant rate of 40%) newly-compulsory satellite tracking equipment for boats between 15m and 24m in length - A further GBP1m to be allocated in consultation with the fishing industry, with particular emphasis on funding projects in which fishermen and scientists work in partnership There will also be help for fisheries-dependent communities. Regional...

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