France, England fight it out over scallops
(WorldNews France)

On a recent August evening, fishing boats from France and England were filmed ramming each other, in the Baie de la Seine in the English Channel, off the northern French coast, while rocks and other projectiles were tossed at one another. The sight, while alarming, is not entirely unknown in these waters, amid a long-running dispute between British and French fishing vessels over scallops and wider fishing rights in the sea between the two European nations. Under Europe´s Common Fisheries Policy, which has been in place since the 1970s (though...