French fishermen block a boat in Saint Malo during protests against Britain’s exit from the European Union | Britain’s exit from the European Union

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French fishermen closed the Normandy Trader boat in the port of Saint-Malo on Friday as they began a day of protests to revive their anger over the issuance of post-Brexit fishing licenses.

Fishermen lit red torches as their protest began, which will be followed later on Friday by a planned blockade by other French fishermen of the Channel Tunnel and the port of Calais, in protest of Britain’s failure to grant them more fishing licenses since Brexit. .

The row erupted after Britain left the European Union, with Paris saying London had to issue more French boats with licenses to fish in British territorial waters. Britain says it respects post-Brexit arrangements.

Tensions flared in October, when France briefly held a British fishing boat in its waters, and both countries sent naval vessels into the waters off Jersey earlier this year.

The controversy between France and Britain centers on the issuance of licenses to fish in the territorial waters of six to 12 nautical miles off Britain’s shores, as well as in the seas off the coast of Jersey, a Crown territory.

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