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BRITAIN's largest privately owned fishing company has confirmed it has started redundancy talks with its staff.
Up to 11 jobs could be axed at the Newlyn-based W Stevenson and Sons fish merchants.
The
possible cuts are believed to affect mainly the shoreside staff.
Negotiations are expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Partner Elizabeth Stevenson told The Cornishman: "I can confirm that up to 11 jobs will be going, but we do not wish to say anything further while negotiations are ongoing."
The move is not thought to reflect the state of the fishing industry, despite the port experiencing a tough year.
Last summer, W Stevenson and Sons was handed a two-year conditional
discharge and ordered to pay a confiscation order and costs for a quota
scam. The scam, in 2002, involved so-called black fish from restricted
species being put through the books as other types of fish for which
there was spare quota.
And in November the catching
sector was estimated to have lost around £100,000 when adverse weather
forced vessels and trawlers to a virtual standstill.
Paul
Trebilcock representing the fishermen's union, Cornish Fish Producers
Organisation, says the catching sector has been doing well despite the
recession and adverse weather conditions. He said: "The redundancies
are probably more to do with Stevenson as a partnership than the wider
catching sector."
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