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The anger of French fishermen rises a notch

2021-11-19T18:22:00.770Z


They fear being let go by the government in their fight to fish in English waters. "Fiasco", "snub", "renunciation" ... For two days, from the Breton coasts to those of Hauts-de-France via Normandy, the bitterness of French fishermen has been at its height. In the fierce showdown between Paris and London for nearly a year over post-Brexit fishing rights in English waters, France seems to have taken a step back. This is in any case what denounced hundreds of fishermen after the


"Fiasco", "snub", "renunciation"

... For two days, from the Breton coasts to those of Hauts-de-France via Normandy, the bitterness of French fishermen has been at its height.

In the fierce showdown between Paris and London for nearly a year over post-Brexit fishing rights in English waters, France seems to have taken a step back.

This is in any case what denounced hundreds of fishermen after the evocation, Thursday, at the Assises de la Pêche, by the Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, of a compensation plan for the French boats which would remain at quay after negotiations.

Waters of discord

More precisely, a plan "leaving the fleet" allowing professionals who are in too great difficulty by the impossibility of fishing in the English zones to be compensated for the cessation of their activity ... and the breakage of their boat.

The government could devote part of the 40 to 60 million euros remaining in the planned adjustment plan to cushion the consequences

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Source: lefigaro

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