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Anti-Moan

Very apt name Mr Cynic. This DOES help the man on the street. Protecting an income for this island helps everyone, espcially those whose jobs rely on the survival of this industry. I think the quick action of the States should be praised and frankly encouraged!

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Arthur Nour

To quote Dickens from The Pickwick Papers:

“It’s a very remarkable circumstance, sir,’ said Sam, ‘that poverty and oysters always seem to go together”.

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Tony Legg

Contrary to the implication in this article, Jersey oyster farmers receive no special assistance whatsoever for this problem. The French and Spanish industries do have State insurances at 20% and 27% respectively.

Additionally the industry has taken its own steps to comply with this EU Directive considerably in advance (March 2010) of States of Jersey compliance.

We had approached the authorities to provide some technical assistance to monitor the development of the disease this year so that we could develop management processes to try to save the industry. We received an offer of 20% of the £7000.00 laboratory costs (our cost would have been about the same and covered by us) ie 10% total assistance offered ,for research related to a main Jersey export.The industry did not take up the offer but undertook it’s own processes.

So what is this costing the taxpayer , one respondent asks? The answer is simple ,about 20% tax take on the profit from a £1.5M business!because there will be little profitability with the disease uncertainty at present.

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