It comes after a French vessel was sanctioned by Jersey authorities for working in the area whilst restrictions were in place.<\/span><\/p>\n John Young, Jersey’s Environment Minister, added of the complaint: “The order for the bream area was a new one and the EU had complained that we had not given proper notice of it, so there are a number of circumstances that surrounded that.<\/span><\/p>\n “You have still got to go through a proper process of giving notification to the EU and they complained formally to the British government, saying we had not done that.”<\/span><\/p>\n Jersey and France with support of the European Union have been at loggerheads for the last four months after the Channel Island authorities attempted to introduce new strict post-Brexit licensing laws for fishing.<\/span><\/p>\n But France and Britain, who partially manage some foreign relations for the Channel Island, both deployed maritime patrol vessels to the area after a flotilla of French trawlers sailed to Jersey’s main harbour, St Helier, to protest against the new legislation in May.<\/p>\n An amnesty was agreed until September 30 which suspended full implementation of Jersey’s new rules for French vessels.<\/p>\n Officials are currently undertaking negotiations to resolve the licence issue.<\/p>\n Speaking about the deadline, Deputy Young said he was not keen to extend the transition period any further beyond September 30.<\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n READ MORE: Joe Biden pinpointed as Dominic Cummings’ new target<\/b><\/p>\n But the Jersey minister could not be drawn on how confident he was that that would not happen.<\/p>\n The Minister added to the Jersey Evening Post: “I can understand how our fishermen feel aggrieved but we are making progress and we are not going to be allowed to have an uncontrolled situation continue any longer than necessary.<\/p>\n “Am I confident [that the transition period will not be extended]?<\/p>\n “Well we are working hard to avoid the situation where have to make further extensions and officers are working very hard on the issues which were raised by the EU.”<\/p>\n DON’T MISS: <\/strong>![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/jersey-1486332.jpg?r=1630767652403\")
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