The UK has been granted a quota of around 30,000 tonnes more catch following negotiations as a result of Brexit, the fishing minister announced.
On Tuesday, the government announced a new quota deal with the EU that will take the total potential catches for UK trawlers in 2023 up to £750 million.
Rows over fishing rights in British waters have been at the centre of post-Brexit negotiations and its Common Fisheries Policy, the mechanism through which European fishing fleets and fish stocks are managed, since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016.
Fishing Rights
Negotiations between Britain and the EU have stumbled over fisheries, fair competition, and how to settle disputes. At one point, the UK government dispatched two Royal Navy ships to Jersey as French fishing boats gathered near the island in protest over post-Brexit fishing rights….