From the Normandy coast, the Jersey whelk wars look like sabotage
Locals in the port of Granville think the row between France and the UK over fishing makes no sense
A French fisherman unloads shellfish in Granville harbour last week. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/The Observer
A French fisherman unloads shellfish in Granville harbour last week. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/The Observer
Sun 9 May 2021 04.15 EDT
If you look out to sea from the Christian Dior museum on the cliffs above Granville, you see the grey outline of what appears to be another part of the Norman coast.
It is. But it isn’t.
By Christian Lowe
PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) – Britain withdrew its Royal Navy vessels from the waters off Jersey on Thursday but said it would remain on standby to support the Channel island after a dispute with France over post-Brexit fishing rights escalated rapidly.
France and Britain both deployed maritime patrol vessels to the area after a flotilla of French trawlers sailed in protest to Jersey’s main harbor and a French minister suggested earlier in the week that Paris might cut electricity to the island.
French fishermen say they are being unfairly deprived of access to rich fishing grounds off the coast of Jersey, a self-governing British Crown Dependency.