Member

As the noble Lord, Lord German, said, the UK’s fishing industry is reliant on migrant workers. In fact, the industry would collapse without migrant workers doing the catching. Fishing industry experts have described how boats have had to be tied up in ports for months when they could not access migrant fishers. Migrant workers are essential because the fishing industry faces significant challenges recruiting domestically. Self-evidently, the work is tough and dangerous, with expectations of poor work/life balance, and is associated with areas of the country that, in general, are seeing people leaving rather than staying in or moving to.