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Post-Brexit agreement: French fishermen relieved but vigilant

2020-12-27T21:13:42.269Z


Europeans will eventually have to give up 25% of their annual fishing in British waters, far from the 80% desired by the United Kingdom.


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Relief.

A few days before the concrete implementation of Brexit, this is the feeling shared by a large number of fishermen in Hauts-de-France.

A delicate point of discussion that has become a symbol of negotiations between the EU and Great Britain, fishing will have to face

"a little breakage",

warned the Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, on Saturday on France Inter, but

"l 'State will be there'.

And this is what the union representatives of Hauts-de-France fishermen first underline, worried for months about the consequences of Brexit on their activity.

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"We can only thank the government for defending the fishermen to the end,"

blows Bruno Dachicourt, of the CFTC.

Olivier Leprêtre, President of the Hauts-de-France Regional Committee for Maritime Fisheries and Livestock Farming (CRPMEM), confirms:

“As far as a sailor is concerned, we have never been so supported.

After three and a half years of fighting, it was time for it to stop.

All the while, we had a guillotine above

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Source: lefigaro

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