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Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron met during the G20, but the discussion on the subject of fishing is expected to take place on Sunday, October 31, during the COP26.
In Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Pas-de-Calais, Maxime Fait is increasingly worried. This fisherman does not have the license issued by the United Kingdom. For him, it is impossible to move in British waters, so his fishing area is very small. Normally, he fishes for squid, a species that evolves offshore, but this year, he had to fall back on the scallop and buy 20,000 euros of equipment. “Our job is to go trawl fishing on the English side or the French side, but not to do 36 trades”, he regrets.
A few hundred meters from the port, other companies are waiting. Marine SAS receives 7,000 tonnes of Scottish salmon each year. It will therefore suffer if France carries out its threats of sanctions against the British. “If tomorrow, we prevent fish from entering the French market, we will really shoot ourselves, it is several thousand jobs”, believes Arnaud Delegorge, CEO of the company. All players in the fishing world hope that tensions will ease between France and the United Kingdom by Tuesday, November 2.