EU and UK reach deal on quotas of shared fish stocks

Fishermen process their catch of on the deck of their boats while fishing off the coast of Jersey (Ben Birchall/PA)

The European Union said it has reached a fisheries deal with the UK on their shared stocks, but environmentalists insisted that even after Brexit takes hold, fish will continue to be over-exploited.

The agreement stood apart from the spat between France and Britain over licences for French fishermen to operate off the UK’s crown dependencies of Jersey and Guernsey, which hug the French coast.