Brexit Fishing Compromise Finally Surfaces By Julien GIRAULT with Nicolas GUBERT in Paris
on December 25 2020 5:26 AM
An EU-UK trade deal years in the making finally emerged Thursday after the EU and Britain reached a compromise on access to the wealth of fish in British waters.
The issue had been the subject of bitter last-minute wrangling.
Like all nations, Britain has an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) that stretches up to 200 miles (320 kilometres) from its shores.
EU members including Britain until January this year long agreed to share management of their zones and developed a common fisheries policy (CFP) that allocated quotas of different stocks to each nation s fishing fleet.