Jersey patrol boat intercepts French trawler as fish fight with EU continues Complaint to be lodged with European Commission after boat from Normandy was told to stop fishing in protected area 19 May 2021 • 5:39pm A patrol boat confronted a French vessel accused of illegal fishing in Jersey’s waters on Wednesday in the latest twist in the row over post-Brexit licences for EU fishermen. The local Norman Le Brocq fisheries protection vessel was dispatched after Jersey fishermen spotted the French boat on marine-tracker websites working in a bream-spawning ground off the north coast. Some ...