{"id":134674,"date":"2025-05-27T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134674\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:27:12","slug":"brexit-fishing-fury-as-france-seized-british-boat-in-revenge-plot-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134674\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit fishing fury as France seized British boat ‘in revenge plot’ | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

French authorities seized a British fishing boat in the English Channel<\/a> in response to UK authorities fining a French boat for breaking maritime rules, it has been claimed. The Lady T, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was seized by the French naval ship The Pluvier on Thursday for fishing for whelks without a licence.<\/p>\n

The vessel could be confiscated and its owner slapped with a \u00a363,000 fine for \u201cnon-authorised fishing in French waters\u201d by a non-EU boat. Olivier Lepr\u00eatre, chair of the regional fishing committee in northern France, noted on Sunday that the small English boat may have been seized in a tit-for-tat process, after a French skipper was fined \u00a340,000 in a landmark case in April. In that instance, the skipper and owner of the French-registered vessel Pierre D\u2019Ambre were fined \u00a340,000 in Newcastle Magistrates Court after being accused of bottom-trawling in a prohibited area of the Offshore Brighton Marine Conservation Zone.<\/p>\n

The incident saw the skipper and owner of the French-registered ship Pierre D\u2019Ambre hit with a fine in Newcastle Magistrates Court after it was alleged his vessel was bottom-trawling in a prohibited area of the Offshore Brighton Marine Conservation Zone.<\/p>\n

Mr Lepr\u00eatre told The Times: \u201cUntil now the French Government has always favoured discussions to repression, as opposed to the British Government which always imposes rules that are more and more restrictive, and more and more counterproductive for French fishermen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere comes a moment when you have to say: Stop.\u201d A French official told the same newspaper the Lady T was \u201clooking for it\u201d after entering waters reserved for French boats. \u201cOne moment it was in French waters, the next moment it was next to them,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

The row comes after Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> granted EU fishermen the right to fish in British waters for the next 12 years under his Brexit<\/a> reset deal. Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, blasted the French for \u201cshameful double standards\u201d after the Lady T was seized.<\/p>\n

He told The Telegraph: \u201cThis shows shameful double standards. This year alone, the French have failed to stop 13,000 illegal immigrants crossing the Channel \u2013 taking no action whatsoever at sea and often ushering the illegal immigrants into UK waters.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet when a UK fishing vessel is in French waters all of a sudden they are magically able to act. If the French can now intercept boats then they should start stopping the boats with illegal immigrants \u2013 as international law obliges them to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Belgians can do it, and the French should too. We\u2019ve all had enough of the French waving illegal immigrants through into UK waters.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Government spokesperson said: \u201cWe are aware that on May 22 a UK-registered vessel was detained by the French fisheries authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are supporting a British national, and we are in touch with the local authorities. Our staff stand ready to support British Nationals overseas 24\/7.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the vessel remains subject to an ongoing investigation by French fisheries authorities, we are unable to comment further at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French authorities seized a British fishing boat in the English Channel in response to UK authorities fining a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,2000,299,5187,1699,6481,59125,4884,4609,59126,16,5504,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-fishing","16":"tag-fishing-dispute","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-international-relations","19":"tag-maritime-law","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-uk-france-relations","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114577201267778343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}