W J Jones ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ
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Skipper Mussel Boat MARE GRATIA industry destroyed by Brexit! Behcets autoimmune Disease sufferer. letโs have the Debate ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ
@Mike_Fabricant
@hmtreasury
Red tape cutting?
This 20 ton of quality Welsh Mussels used to be sent on its way to Europe with one A4 health cert.
Now fourteen A4 sheets including 49 Stamps and initials for amendments by the vet, another 8 sheets of A4 packing list etc, 20 A4 labels on the bags.
#Brexit
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W J Jones ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ
99 Days since leaving the European we are still not able to export our live Menai Strait Farmed Mussels to our customers in Europe due to Bureaucracies and lack of understanding of the industry by UK Gov, meanwhile maintenance of the farm has to continue, 20,000ltr necessar cost
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@mrjamesob
Since Brexit kicked in we have had to have Vet checks on all our Farmed Mussels exported from UK to Europe as well as having to use heat treated wooden pallets, all resulting in extra cost and less flexibility of when we can fish and send the goods off.
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W J Jones ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ
Those that have fought for so long and our hope for the future of Cymru in one image, I for one have hope and for the first time in my life of being a floating voter have joined Plaid Cymru, Labour are still firmly with the Union and The Torys, well RT say no more
#annibyniaeth
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Anglesey Barracks Chwarel Dinorwig.
Perfect weather for a walk with the camera at the quarry today, hard to imagine what our forefathers went through as Working and living conditions must have been horrendous here.
@LlechiCymru
@ThePhotoHour
#Llanberis
#Dinorwig
@ItsYourWales
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W J Jones ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ
Tomorrow the March for an independent Wales comes to Bangor.
Yes Cymru flag hoisted on board the Mussel Boat at Porth Penrhyn.
@YesCymru
@AUOBCymru
#Bangor
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Cregyn Gleision y Fenaiโฆโฆ
Harvesting Menai Strait Mussels, itโs been a tough couple if years but we have a window of opportunity to shift a few ton to our customers in the Netherlands.
Each bag weighs a 1000kg = 20 going on the wagon = 20,000 main meals
#Mussels
#MenaiStrait
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Right Twitter friends I need your support, Brexit has ruined the successful Menai Mussel to EU markets, Bangor mussel producers have a reputation for growing quality Mussels, pop down to the quay and if you like what you taste please message your MS/MP
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Finally a clear enough night to capture this image, so many memories shining from Bangor Pier on this Christmas Eve including our Dad
@Anejos
#Awyrlas
#Teamirfon
#Bangor
Nadolig Llawen
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So 40 tone of Healthy fresh Welsh Menai Strait Mussels heading to Mainland Europe in one day, and yet in a Month we can only sell 3 Tone to the UK Market, it seems Fish and Chips Cholesterol busting diet is still a winner despite the same people slagging the NHS off.
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First time in 27 Months we are in a position to send a full load of Menai Mussels to our European customers, cross fingers that all the extra paper work is in order for the border
hardly anything of size left to sell as the mussels have gone to old
#waste
#BrexitReality
@MSFOMA1
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Maeโr Faner wedi curo dros stormydd diweddar ond maeโr enfys honnoโn egino uwch ei phen y bore yma yn arwydd o obaith a chydsafiad.
The Flag has taken a beating over recent storms but that rainbow sprouting above it this morning is a sign of hope and solidarity.
@YesCymru
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Irish Ferry WB Yates along side us on the French side of the English Channel, built for Holyhead to Dublin run, good old Brexit now has her by passing UK, Dublin to Cherbourg direct.
And yet Wales better off out according to the likes of
@AndrewRTDavies
@NationCymru
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Bore da o Porth Penrhyn Bangor.
Not sure what the rest of the day holds but itโs a lovely autumn sunrise here in North Wales
#Bangor
#sunrise
#Cymru
@Ruth_ITV
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Red Sky at night shepherds delight, is there any truth in the saying
@Ruth_ITV
? If so today should be another calm day on the Menai Strait, image of Bangor Pier last night taken while heading back to Port Penrhyn with the Mussel Boat
#Bangor
#MenaiStrait
#Anglesey
@ItsYourWales
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Thatโs the wheelhouse scrubbed, not bad for a 19 year old boat (Still has the original Carpet).
Much prefer to be out harvesting and exporting mussels though.
#Mussels
#FishingBoats
#YFenai
#MenaiStrait
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Still not able to Export our Mussels to Europe. meanwhile we live in hope that the mess will be sorted, today we started fishing wild seed mussel to relay on to the mussel farm for the future
@WGRural
@MSFOMA1
#YFenai
#MenaiStrait
#CregynGleision
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W J Jones ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ
Bring back the old Twitter, the one that used to show regular updates from Twitter friends collected over many years, I now have to search for them, even
@1GarethWynJones
with all his followers have disappeared.
#Twitter
@elonmusk
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@AndrewRTDavies
@WelshConserv
More Austerity.
More Food-banks.
More Homelessness.
The poor will get poorer.
The rich will get richer.
And as for Universal Credit donโt even go there.
More Political childishness with Flags to come no doubt.
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image came up on my Face Book memories from a couple of years back, distant memories of when we where out most days with the boat working and harvesting mussel lays of the Menai Strait, these days we are mostly tied to the quay wall waiting on the decision makers
#BrexitDisaster
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Castle in Red...... Caernarfon Castle lit up in red not sure of the reason
@cadwwales
but seems suitable that our National Rugby Team are playing in the semi final of the
#RugbyWorldCup19
Come on
#Cymru
@ItsYourWales
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This used to be a normal day for us harvesting up to 80Ton of Welsh Menai Strait Mussels for our customers in Europe
#BrexitDisaster
Careful what you vote for, you have seen what they promised the fishing industry, and now hung out to dry
#Wales
#SeneddElection2021
#Cymru
#Bangor
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@AdamThomas442
That made me smile especially as it was Nax handing him the trophy.
For such a big organization itโs a very amateurish prize giving broadcast on FB.
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Thatโs me officially Joined.
tonightโs vote for the policing Bill has proven without doubt that this UK Gov had only one agenda. YesCymru campaigns for an independent Wales, in order to improve the way our country is governed. via
@YesCymru
@VelvickChris
@LanceForman
Definitely a problem created by Brexit, these guys used drop Flowers from Holland at a distribution Centre at Preston take l9ad to Liverpool then pick up fresh Mussels from us as a return load to Holland, we can not send mussels to Europe = no return load = expensive transport
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image I took duringthe good old days prior to Brexit, two of these boats no longer with us in Wales, as for the other two very little going on, due to water quality rules, as a third country itโs much harder to sell our produce to our biggest customers in Europe
#Bangor
#Cymru
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A Misty start to the day here at Porth Penrhyn, exept for the modern boats thus could be a scene from days gone by, the old dockside hand operated crane loading slate from the slate quarries of Bethesda.
@Ruth_ITV
@ThePhotoHour
@LlechiCymru
@ItsYourWales
#Bangor
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Sunlight trying to break through the mist above the old engine sheds at Porth Penrhyn, you could almost roll back the clock a hundred years with this images, schooners waiting alongside ready to be loaded with Penrhyn slate
@LlechiCymru
@cadwwales
@Ruth_ITV
@CountryfileMag
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quick run out to check on the Offshore Mussel lines, they have survived the wild winter storms, 7 meter swell on site at times, unbelievable growth rate on these 7 month old mussels and similar age quinnie scallops. Great work by
@MOSSSNorthWales
Wales has huge seafood potential
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One of those many days when you have the wrong lens attached to the Camera for what appears in front of you, Wide angle would have been nice but the 200mm had to do, Bangor University with a Rainbow rising
#Cityoflearning
@BangorUni
@ItsYourWales
#Bangor
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Photo taken a while back of Conwy Castle built, on the banks of the River Conwy here in North Wales, apparently it took roughly four and a half years to build, in this day and age it would take double that time to get through the planing stage.
#Conwy
#Castles
@ThePhotoHour
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@EdwardsofConwy
@WelshGovernment
We travel on a regular basis from Bangor to shop at your shop and a few others in and around Conwy all year round, my mother travels once a week specially to buy their Bread from Tan Lan Bakery.
Are second home owners more important than all year round locals?
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The old Smoke house at the easterly end of Ynys Gorad Goch a few minutes after high water on a spring tide, always amazed at how that tree has survived over the years in this such a harsh salt water environment.
#Swellies
#Anglesey
#Bangor
#SirFon
#YFenai
#MenaiStrait
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Calm seas at the North West entrance in to the Menai Strait, Trwyn du light house marking the rocks at Penmon as a visual and sound signal to shipping entering and exiting the Strait Ynys Seiriol (Puffin island)
@Ruth_ITV
@ItsYourWales
@AngleseyScMedia
@visitwales1
#TrwynDu
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We always have a large amounts of Oyster Catchers along the Menai Strait but unusual to see so many roosting over high water at Porth Penrhyn over the last few weeks.
@PierBangor
in the background.
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Another image of the female kingfisher taken while at work last week, hard going trying to keep the camera focused on her with her speed and the wall behind.
#GlasYDorlan
#KingFisher
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Is it just me or is anyone else fed up of these clowns going to work to take the piss out of each other while there are so many issues to deal with, and on top of that they are off for seven weeks of summer holidays.
#GeneralElection
Last load of Menai Strait Mussels heading to the Netherlands for Christmas, low demand due to the COVID causing havoc in the Hospitality sector around Europe as is here in the UK. not going to be easy for our industry from the 1st of Jan
#Brexit
as well as COVID
@EatMoreFishRT
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