He told The Telegraph: “Our legal advice to date suggests that these proposals, which basically say land more fish to one of four factories or we are taking some quota away from you, go against the core economic principles of the EU and as such are likely to be incompatible with the laws of the EEA.
He added: “Ultimately, the way the Government are going about this will make things worse, not better, and our fishermen have been asked to act in an entirely irrational manner which, unsurprisingly, is something they are unwilling to do.”
Mr Anderson said that the move was in breach of the laws governing the EU single market by blocking them from exporting to other member states.
Scottish fishermen with trawlers of 10 metres in length can get a licence by ensuring that they either make half of their quota landing in the UK, or have 50 per cent of their crew in the UK or ensure that 50 percent of expenditure is in the UK.
But Mr Ewing wants the amount of landing in Scotland, and not the whole of the UK, to increase to boost the fishing industry in the country.
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