Fish war: ‘They're Stopping Us So We Need To Stop Them'
Daily Express|September 30, 2021
France threatened a new Channel fishing war yesterday after Britain denied 75 per cent of its requests to plunder UK waters.
Giles Sheldrick
Fish war: ‘They're Stopping Us So We Need To Stop Them'

Just 12 out of 47 applications were granted and in Jersey, the scene of violent confrontations earlier this year, 75 French requests were refused.

It follows years of “Scallop War” clashes in which French fishermen try to halt British boats.

Derek Meredith, 53, a fishing boat skipper in Brixham, Devon, said: “If they are going to stop us going there, we need to stop them going here.

“It is all to do with the backlash they are going to get and the bad publicity around the Scallop Wars.

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