Tensions flare as Channel seiners clash
In a strongly-worded letter to France’s Minister of Ecological Transition and Fisheries, President of the Hauts de France region Xavier Bertrand is demanding an immediate investigation into a clash between…
Channel seine netting agreement confirmed
Fishermen’s organisations in France, The Netherlands and Belgium have confirmed that a gentlemen’s agreement to regulate seine netting activity in the eastern part of the English Channel has been reached.…
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…