France floats veto threat over fishing 

France – backed by Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium – has threatened to veto any EU-UK trade deal with Britain if EU negotiators surrender too much access to British fishing waters


Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of UK and neighbouring coastal states

Icelandic waters
International waters
Faroe Islands 261,000 km2
United Kingdom 766,310 km2
Ireland 880,000 km2
Norway 819,600 km2
Denmark 76,000 km2
Germany 32,982 km2
Netherlands 62,000 km2
Belgium 3,454 km2
France 245,000 km2
UK

1,945,000 tonnes 
€2.32bn

Fish landed from UK’s EEZ (2018)

Norway
461,000 tonnes 
€359.0m (24%)

France
98,000 tonnes 
€89.4m (5%)

UK
555,000 tonnes 
€1,120m (29%)
                 
Faroe Islands                                                                                                                         66,000 tonnes 
€51.5m (3%)

Rest of EU
765,000 tonnes 
€696.3m (39%)


Sources: Bloomberg, Reuters, University of the Highlands and Islands 
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