The war plan for post-Brexit fish fight with France

Award licences to skippers not boats to unlock talks, French officials say

French fishermen in the Channel
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Anglo-French relations have historically been famously fraught but Brexit has ignited a new front in the age-old rivalry, namely the so-called “fishing wars”.

Sparked by a dispute over the number of licences granted to French fishing vessels since the UK left the EU, the dispute has at times threatened to “tip into a full-blown trade war”, The Guardian said.

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