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Post-Brexit fishing: Guernsey grants over 40 licences for French boats
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The French government has welcomed a move by Guernsey to grant 43 fishing licences to French boats, giving them the right to continue operating off the Channel island.
It comes amid an ongoing diplomatic tussle between Paris and London over the allocation of post-Brexit permits under the EU-UK trade deal.
Guernsey has accepted 43 out of 58 French requests for boats to be able to fish in the zone 6-12 nautical miles off the British dependency's coast. Forty will be able to continue fishing from February 2022, while licences for another three boats will be issued "in due course".
For the 15 remaining applications, the authorities will examine "any additional data that may be provided in due course", a statement said.
France's seas minister
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