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France accused Britain of playing politics with fishing rules after only granting licences to 12 out of 47 applications to allow small French boats to fish in British territorial waters. Gabriel Attal, a French government spokesman, branded the decision “unacceptable” as France raged in the subsequent diplomatic fall-out. Jersey then blocked 75 of the 170 French requests to fish in its waters despite France previously threatening to cut electricity supplies to the Channel isle in a fishing feud.
Jersey authorities issued just 64 full licences and 31 temporary passes, on top of the 47 vessels already licensed earlier this year.
The 75 French vessels refused access have been given 30 days’ notice before they are completely shut out of Jersey’s waters.
French Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin said: “We have every interest in returning to the European level and jointly asking the [European] Commission to put in place the retaliatory measures provided for in the agreement.
“I am counting on other European countries to ask for the same thing as France, because what France is experiencing today, others will also experience it.”
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