{"id":485663,"date":"2026-03-20T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485663\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:39:08","slug":"fuel-prices-could-break-guernseys-dying-fishing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485663\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices could break Guernsey’s ‘dying’ fishing industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wholesale oil and gas prices have surged since the conflict began<\/a> on 28 February, with the production and transportation of energy across the Middle East slowing or stopping entirely due to missile strikes and drone attacks.<\/p>\n

In recent days gas prices have soared further after airstrikes on energy facilities in Qatar and Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keen says Guernsey’s fishing industry is especially vulnerable to price changes as much of the fish caught needs to be exported.<\/p>\n

He said: “It costs the fuel to go out there and get them, and if you want to get good prices you have to take your fish to France or England.<\/p>\n

“And if your costs go up 25% in fuel, it makes it very expensive.”<\/p>\n

He added that currently 30% of his income from his fishing charter boat currently goes on fuel, and he expects this could rise to about 40% with fuel price increases.<\/p>\n

The former vice president of the now defunct Guernsey Fishing Association, Dougal Lane said: “I’ve only got a 10 metre boat but it’s still 250 litres a day and the last price I had was 67p a litre.<\/p>\n

“If it goes up to 80p or 90p or whatever, then we’d leave it tied up, it’s not worth going to sea.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wholesale oil and gas prices have surged since the conflict began on 28 February, with the production and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}