Gentlemen’s agreement on Eastern Channel seine netting
Nobody believed it would happen – but it has. An agreement regulating seine netting activity in the Eastern Channel has been reached between French, Dutch and Belgian fishermen and their…
Dutch-owned seine netters under Dutch, French and UK flags alongside in Boulogne
Too big and too many
Boulogne trawler skipper Olivier Leprêtre has sounded a warning over the continuing fishing activity of the Dutch-owned seine netting fleet operating in the Eastern Channel and southern North Sea. ‘They…