{"id":8546,"date":"2020-03-26T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2020-03-26T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:38:51","slug":"coronavirus-support-for-fishing-industry-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/coronavirus-support-for-fishing-industry-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Support For Fishing Industry Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The seafood sector is to receive an initial package of more than \u00a35 million in financial support to assist businesses during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funding will be offered to over 650 seafood fishing companies, many of whom have lost their livelihoods with the collapse of export and hospitality markets for Scottish delicacies like langoustine, prawns and crab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An initial payment of 50% of two months\u2019 average earnings will be made to owners of all full time Scottish registered fishing vessels of 12 metres length and under \u2013 the vast majority of which are in the creel and dive sectors, many of whom operate in remote and island communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More info &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/support-for-seafood-fishing-industry\/?fbclid=IwAR14kIViwZ0DdpqJWS0DXagJQvKM7Fe_jYS2HJU5utd2kwZ_HI8aQrfyrdQ\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/support-for-seafood-fishing-industry\/?fbclid=IwAR14kIViwZ0DdpqJWS0DXagJQvKM7Fe_jYS2HJU5utd2kwZ_HI8aQrfyrdQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seafood sector is to receive an initial package of more than \u00a35 million in financial support to assist businesses during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Funding will be offered to over 650 seafood fishing companies, many of whom have lost their livelihoods with the collapse of export and hospitality markets for Scottish delicacies like langoustine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}