It came after Mr Eustice told Sky News: "I understand that vessel has now been released and I think there's going to need to be some further discussions, clearly there was an administrative error at some point. The boat's skipper was questioned last week by police in the French port for several hours and accused of fishing French waters without a licence.Īndrew Brown, director of Macduff Shellfish which owns the Scottish-registered scallop trawler, said on Tuesday: "As far as we are aware, the vessel remains held at the port of Le Havre at least until the hearing tomorrow." The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "The vessel concerned remains in port having been detained by the French authorities but given it's an ongoing legal process I am restricted in anything I can say further." But the environment ministry later said Mr Eustice had misspoken during the broadcast.ĭowning Street later confirmed that the Scottish boat had not been released. George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, told Sky News on Tuesday that he understood the vessel had been released following an "administrative error". Post-Brexit bickering over fishing licences culminated last Wednesday in France seizing the British dredger, the Cornelis Gert Jan, in French waters. A British scallop dredger seized by France is still being held at the port of Le Havre despite a Cabinet minister claiming the vessel had been released by French authorities.
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