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France accuses Britain of holding fishermen “hostage” for political gain

September 29, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 29, 2021

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – France accused Britain of playing politics with post-Brexit fishing rights on Wednesday after London and the Channel Island of Jersey refused dozens of French fishing boats licences to operate in their territorial waters.

Britain said it was open to further discussion with the boats it had rejected, adding that they had not submitted evidence of their history of operating in the waters which was needed to continue fishing in the 6-12 nautical mile zone.

France’s maritime minister Annick Girardin said Britain was not complying with the Brexit agreement.

“It’s a new refusal by the British to implement the conditions of the Brexit agreement despite all the work we have done together,” she said in a statement.

“French fishing should not be taken hostage by the British for political ends.”

President Emmanuel Macron’s government threatened retaliatory measures.

Fishing and the control of British waters was a hot topic during Britain’s 2016 referendum to leave the EU. But British fishermen have since accused the government of selling them out by allowing international boats to continue fishing in them.

Britain said it had granted licences to almost 1,700 vessels to fish in the 12-200 nautical mile zone, and a further 105 licences were issued for vessels to fish in the 6-12 nautical mile zone where evidence supported a track record.

Britain and France both deployed maritime patrol vessels to the waters off Jersey earlier this year after a flotilla of French trawlers sailed in protest to the Channel island, saying they were being unfairly excluded from the rich fishing grounds.

Jersey said it was issuing 64 full permits and 31 temporary ones on top of the 47 vessels already licensed earlier this year, but had rejected applications by 75 fishing boats.

All unlicenced boats will have to stop fishing in Jersey waters in 30 days time. The island, a self-governing British Crown Dependency, sits 14 miles (23 km) off the northern French coast and 85 miles (140 km) south of Britain’s shores.

“We are ensuring the fishing effort in our waters is similar to pre-Brexit – those boats with an economic dependence on Jersey waters, who’ve fished here regularly before and have demonstrated it, will receive licences,” the Channel Island’s environment minister John Young said in a statement.

(Reporting by Paul Sandle in London and Elizabeth Pineau and Richard Lough; Editing by William Schomberg and Angus MacSwan)

Source Link France accuses Britain of holding fishermen “hostage” for political gain

David Barret
David Barret

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