Scallop row: London talks to find ‘amicable’ answer

A video screengrab shows fishing boats colliding in the Channel Symbol copyright EVN/France Télévision Symbol caption French and British boats collided within the English Channel

Talks might be held in London later in a bid to unravel tensions among French and British scallop fishermen.

The British fish manufacturer company will meet with their French opposite numbers and Defra officers to check out and discover a solution.

Around 40 French boats clashed with five UK craft last week in a row over scallop fishing off northern France.

British crews said rocks, smoke bombs and other projectiles had been hurled at them through the confrontation.

French agriculture minister Stephane Travert stated on Tuesday that France’s navy was once able to intrude to stop further clashes.

The British crews say they had been surrounded and had rocks and steel shackles thrown at them, however French police stated UK boats answered in kind.

A video printed by means of French media displays a Scottish scallop dredger, the Honeybourne 3, colliding with French vessels.

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