Macron’s office said Monday that talks would continue this week and no measures would be taken before a Thursday meeting. Meanwhile, the French trawler owners who were granted extended licenses said they still don’t understand what will happen. It is nothing at all, 49 licenses,” he said. 31 to “grant time” for further data that is necessary for it to issue permanent licenses.Įmmanuel Lecoufle, owner of French trawler Arc en Ciel in Granville, said that issuing so few permits won’t change much.
It said the vessels will be able to fish in Jersey waters until Jan. The government of Jersey has reacted by issuing 49 temporary licenses to French boats. Even the English don’t quite understand why Jersey is resisting,” Deshayes said. “Jersey - I don’t know why there are causing problems. Many French fishermen are pointing fingers specifically at the Channel Islands, including Jersey and Guernsey, which are self-governing British crown dependencies that crucially have control over their own territorial waters.įrance has said that Jersey, which is only 14 miles (about 22 kilometers) off the coast of France, hasn’t issued enough licenses to French vessels and suggested it might restrict energy supplies to the Channel Islands, which are heavily dependent on French electricity. The French and British governments accuse each other of contravening the trade deal in the dispute over fishing licenses in the English Channel.
Since the start of the year, both sides have control of their waters, subject to the Brexit trade deal the U.K. “We will not give up until everyone has obtained a license.”įishing is a tiny industry economically, but one that looms large symbolically for both Britain and France, which have long and cherished maritime traditions.
We learn new things every day,” trawler owner Samuel Deshayes said in Granville, a coastal commune in the northwestern region of Normandy. France has threatened to bar British boats from some of its ports and to tighten checks on vessels and trucks carrying British goods if no solution is found. Macron said Britain has two more days, or until Thursday, to authorize more French boats to fish in U.K. GRANVILLE, France (AP) - French trawler owners in Normandy have reacted with confusion and consternation after President Emmanuel Macron extended a Tuesday deadline for the British government to license more French fishing vessels, the subject of a post-Brexit spat between the two countries.
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