French fishermen blockade lorries carrying UK produce amid fury over 'sham' Brexit fishing deal 
By Lauren Lewis UK Source: dailymail 4/23/2021
Lauren Lewis
More than a hundred French fishermen blocked trucks carrying fish from the UK on Thursday night in a protest against a Brexit fishing deal they have dismissed as 'a sham'.

Britain's post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union allowed the bloc's fishermen to keep fishing deep into British waters, but only once they had received a licence.

Those licences were expected to be issued swiftly but instead some 80 per cent of the French fleet in the northern Hauts-de-France region - who can see Britain's southern shores from their own coastline - were still waiting, French fishermen said.

'We thought it would be a matter of days. Four months on we've barely moved forwards,' said Bruno Margolle, who heads the main fishermen's cooperative in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
 

Protesters spent the night at a checkpoint where lorries carrying fish from Britain into the northern French ports of Dunkirk and Calais are subject to hygiene checks, now that the UK has left the European Union.

The fishermen set fire to pallets and tyres to stay warm at the Boulogne-sur-Mer checkpoint, in France's busiest fishing hub.

Many trucks from the UK changed routes after hearing of the planned action.

British-flagged ships operated by Dutch companies, which often unload fish caught in UK waters at French ports, had also changed course towards Belgium, the harbour master's office told AFP.

A second group of protesters took up positions for a protest at the Boulogne fish market.

'This night of action is a warning shot,' said Olivier Lepretre, head of the regional fishing committee.

'If nothing happens at the European level, we will shift up a gear.'

Lepretre said UK authorities had only granted licences to 22 out of the 120 boats seeking permission to fish between six and 12 nautical miles from the British coast.

 
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