A Scottish seafood enterprise proprietor has threatened to dump piles of rotting shellfish exterior Westminster in protest on the toll Brexit is taking over his trade.

Jamie McMillan, proprietor of Lochfyne Langoustine & Lochfyne Seafarms, took to Twitter to share his disgust that Scottish exporters are usually not in a position to promote product to the EU market because of Brexit crimson tape.

It comes after the SNP claimed a 3rd of the Scottish fishing fleet is tied up in harbour and dropping £1 million every week, inflicting recent and prime quality produce to be misplaced.

Jamie hit out at Boris Johnson after the SNP’s Iain Blackford raised the state of affairs with the Prime Minister.

Jamie branded what was occurring “an absolute shame” earlier than threatening to dump rotting fish at Westminster.

In a video on Twitter, he mentioned: “The fishing trade is being made a idiot of by the Westminster Authorities.

“I’m dismayed and indignant, my blood is boiling.

“There are household’s fishing boats tied up. We will’t get our product to the EU market due to crimson tape. It’s an absolute shame what we’ve needed to undergo.”

Scottish seafood exporters have complained a couple of “mountain of paperwork” now wanted to ship shellfish to continental markets and have referred to as for an pressing overview.

Issues have been raised in regards to the new checks which imply each field of recent seafood and salmon needs to be offloaded from lorries and inspected by well being officers earlier than they depart Scotland.

Exporters declare the lengthy delays imply that tons of of 1000’s of kilos price of fish are being destroyed and ending up in landfill.

So as to add insult to exporters’ accidents, UK Fisheries Minister Victoria Prentis admitted she didn’t learn the fisheries deal when it was revealed on Christmas Eve as a result of she was “very busy organising the native Nativity path”.

Giving proof to a Lords committee, the minister admitted “issues are difficult for the time being” on exports however mentioned her crew is “working exhausting” to resolve points as they arose.

However Jamie is threatening to dump a load of rotting fish exterior the parliament in London if the difficulty is not sorted by subsequent week.

He added: “Prime Minister and Michael Gove, I can guarantee you, if Scottish exporters can’t get their product to market subsequent week, we can be on the gates of Westminster and we’ll be dumping our shellfish in your doorstep rotten.

“The identical method Westminster is rotten to the core.

“I’m completely sickened. We’re combating for our survival, similar as each different exporter round Scotland.

“Get it sorted now.”