This is one of the major disagreements during this Brexit.
Fishing divides France and the United Kingdom again, even as the European Parliament is due to approve the trade deal with London on Tuesday.
The British prevent French fishermen from coming into their waters and the latter are increasingly at a loss.
The European Parliament is due to approve the trade deal with London on Tuesday afternoon.
The final stage of a painful separation, although there remains an essential point of tension: fishing.
The standoff between French fishermen and the United Kingdom is intensifying.
Paris even suggested some retaliatory measures.
Licenses retained by the British
French fishermen are still awaiting licenses issued by the United Kingdom.
These precious documents allow them to access the more fish-bearing waters on the British side of the Channel.
More than four months after the end of Brexit negotiations in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France's leading fishing port, only 22 boats out of 120 have obtained the license.
"The English put blocking criteria, quite simply to avoid distributing them. In particular, it is necessary to prove electronically that the boats were in British waters between 2012 and 2016", describes Olivier Leprêtre, the president of the Regional Fisheries Committee.
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"There is no longer a fish"
For Olivier Leprêtre it is "a real problem".
All the boats that cannot access this area of about twenty kilometers where fish are king are now fishing in French waters.
Result: "there is no longer a fish," sighs the president of the Regional Fisheries Committee.
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France therefore threatens the United Kingdom with retaliatory measures, in particular on financial services.
In addition to these possible sanctions, the State is present alongside the fishermen.
The Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, was traveling Monday in Boulonnais to announce the release of an envelope of 100 million euros for the sector.