Since the beginning of the year, the British navy has been strengthening its equipment to defend its maritime borders after Brexit. His concern? Avoid another cod war, like the one …
–Since the beginning of the year, the British navy has been strengthening its equipment to defend its maritime borders after Brexit. His concern? Avoid a new cod war, like those which opposed continental fishermen to those of Great Britain at the beginning of the 1970s. We already had a taste of such a naval battle during fairly serious clashes between French and British off Normandy two years ago, about the scallop. The National Federation of British fishermen’s organizations says it expects blockades of French boats if they are denied access to the territorial waters of the United Kingdom for lack of agreement on fishing, at the end of the post transition period -Brexit which expires at the end of the year.
It is one of the most explosive files of the negotiations in progress between London and Brussels, whereas it is a minor sector for the respective economies. British side, 12,000 fishermen report less
