Two Royal Navy vessels have begun patrolling the waters off Jersey after Boris Johnson dispatched them in a deepening row between the UK and France over fishing rights.
The craft — HMS Tamar and HMS Severn — are in crowded waters as more than 50 French fishing boats converged on the port of St Helier, Jersey’s capital, on Thursday to protest against the island’s restrictions on French fishermen.
Demands that French ships be equipped with monitoring devices and meet other criteria to obtain licences prompted France to threaten to cut off its power supply to the Channel island over the dispute.
您已閱讀17%（597字），剩余83%（2982字）包含更多重要信息，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，并享受更多專屬服務。