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Farming Today: New fishing rules, Lamb sales, Farm shops

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14/01/2016

New fishing rules, Lamb sales, Farm shops

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, New fishing rules, Lamb sales, Farm shops

Peterhead fishermen say new EU fishing rules will threaten the Scottish fishing fleet.

On a boat in the North Sea, fishermen from Peterhead say that new European fishing rules will threaten the Scottish fleet, and Anna Hill reports on the growth of the farm shop.

On today's programme Charlotte Smith is talking about fish, farm shops and future sales of British lamb.

We're out on a boat in the North Sea to meet fishermen from Peterhead who are unhappy with new European fishing rules. They're now banned from throwing certain species of fish back into the sea if they exceed their quota and they claim this could threaten the Scottish fishing fleet. We also hear from the view from the Marine Conservation Society.

Sarah Falkingham reports from Darlington where British sheep farmers are talking about competition from New Zealand lamb and whether they'd be better off in or out of the European Union.

And Anna Hill has been shopping in our series looking at farmers selling direct to us the consumer. Farmers have sold produce at the farm gate for centuries but many have opened farm shops in recent years. Anna is in Mulbarton, near Norwich to meet a family who began with a few punnets of strawberries and who've expanded their business to sell meat and wine too.

Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sybil Ruscoe.

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