More than a hundred French fishermen blocked trucks carrying fish from the UK on Thursday night in a protest against a Brexit fishing deal they have dismissed as a sham .
Britain s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union allowed the bloc s fishermen to keep fishing deep into British waters, but only once they had received a licence.
Those licences were expected to be issued swiftly but instead some 80 per cent of the French fleet in the northern Hauts-de-France region - who can see Britain s southern shores from their own coastline - were still waiting, French fishermen said. We thought it would be a matter of days. Four months on we ve barely moved forwards, said Bruno Margolle, who heads the main fishermen s cooperative in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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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