Tuna Fish Wars

Probe into French boat’s ‘illegal £10k catch’

- ED Taylor

CHEEKY French trawlermen tore up the Brexit fishing rules by sailing into the English Channel and nabbing £10,000 of tuna, it was claimed yesterday.

The boat is said to have netted a tonne of the protected bluefin species months after a Brexit deal protecting waters around the UK.

Now locals could hit back by prosecuting them for breaking fishing licence conditions and local wildlife laws.