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David Brooks Marr denies failing to set a proper watch on board the fishing trawler Vertrouwen, inset, which caused men s deaths off the coast of Shoreham A TRAWLER captain who was looking at his phone instead of watching the sea when his boat washed three men overboard to their deaths has been jailed for 12 months. Skipper David Brooks Marr, from Peterhead in Scotland, made a deliberate decision to risk a collision at sea so he could look at his phone, a judge told him. He could and should have seen the other boat before the wash from his scallop dredger sank it, drowning three men.
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French President Emmanuel Macron threatened to veto the Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU during negotiations as disagreements over fishing rights grew hostile. A trade deal was eventually reached, giving UK fishing boats a larger share of fish. The deal dictates that 25 percent of EU boats fishing rights in UK waters will be transferred to the British fleet over a period of five years. After that, there will be annual negotiations to decide how the catch is shared out betwe
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Boris Johnson was able to secure a Brexit trade deal last last month after years of arduous UK-EU negotiations. He said after the deal came into place on January 1 that the UK will now control its borders, laws and fishing waters – but the latter has become a subject of fierce debate. Multiple bodies representing British fishermen have hit out at the deal, claiming the UK hasn t gained enough control over its waters. In the deal, it has been agreed that EU boats will have cont