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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings AFP - 1 hour 52 minutes ago CALAIS, France (AFP) - - A blockade by French fishermen angry at EU quotas cut ferry links with Britain for a second day Wednesday as a union official threatened to block the Channel Tunnel in support of the movement. ADVERTISEMENT Independent fishermen, who say their livelihood is under threat from European Union limits on their catch, have stopped ships entering or leaving the ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk since Tuesday. The Calais protest was lifted overnight due to rough weather, allowing some ferries to cross to and from Dover, but a 100-strong flotilla of fishing boats was back in place at all three harbours again on Wednesday. All cross-Channel ferry and freight traffic was halted, with port and transport authorities urging car and truck drivers to delay their journey or choose an alternative route. But there were threats of more serious disruption in coming days as workers at French ferry company SeaFrance threatened to block access to the Channel Tunnel out of "solidarity" with the fishermen. "If they reach no deal with the government and if the port is still blockaded, we'll go and block the tunnel on Thursday morning, until there is a deal," said a CFDT union leader at the firm, Eric Verckourtre. British ferry company P&0 said it was preparing to seek compensation from French authorities over business lost due to the blockade -- which it said was costing it a million pounds (1.5 million dollars, 1.1 million euros) a day. P&O said it cleared a backlog of around 3,000 passengers stuck in Dover and Calais overnight before the blockade resumed, but hundreds more people were set to descend on Dover during the day. The blockade caused major road disruption in Kent in southern England where police were stacking trucks on the hard shoulder of the main highway from London to Dover to ease congestion. Local lawmaker Richard Ashworth urged the fishermen to call off their protest. "Every time the French blockade a port it makes our lives across southeast England miserable -- that's why the French do it. "It is not fair for French fishermen to take out their frustrations on us and turn the M20 into a lorry park," Ashworth said. Margaret and Peter Castle, a couple in their 60s, on their way home from an Easter break in France, spent the night in their caravan in Calais, along with travellers from France, Belgium or Poland. "It wasn't too bad for us -- we had food and water," said Margaret Castle. "But the night was very tough for people with children." Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne are separated from England by the 21-mile (34-kilometre) Straits of Dover, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Fishermen are blocking the Channel to push for a review of annual EU fishing quotas, which they claim are forcing them out of work. Both Paris and the European Union have ruled out any renegotiation of quotas, pointing out that French cod quotas have already been boosted 30 percent since last year. A delegation of protestors were to hold talks at the fisheries ministry on Wednesday at 6:00 pm in an attempt to break the deadlock, union officials said. Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Michel Barnier has said he was ready discuss financial aid instead. But local fleet owners, many of whom have already exceeded their quota for cod and sole for the first six months of 2009, say they are not looking for government handouts. "We are going in hope of renegotiating our catch quotas. We don't want public money, we want to work," said Jacques Pinto, leader of the CFDT union in Boulogne, France's leading fishing port in terms of tonnage. "We are going to insist on our right to work. Our jobs is to catch and sell fish -- and so we need the quotas to do so." "The blockade continues for now. We will see where we stand after the meeting." Patrick Haezebrouck of the CGT union, part of a labour coalition representing the fishermen, accuses the European Union of seeking to destroy small-scale fishing operations by setting unrealistic quotas. "We don't need aid," he told AFP. "All we want is a new system for managing fisheries, with national or local quotas that allows us to survive. The EU policy of limiting the size of fishing catches aims to stop stocks being wiped out through over-fishing. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Ukraine's Yushchenko says to seek re-electionReuters - Thursday, April 16 Iraq soldier says he gave conflicting accountsAP - Thursday, April 16 The Nation's WeatherAP - Thursday, April 16 Drought threatens Iraq's `Garden of Eden'AP - Thursday, April 16 CIA documents shine light on secretive Air AmericaAP - Thursday, April 16 Enlarge Photo Fishermen stand on a boat in Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France, as fishing fleets blockaded the entrance of the Channel port for a second day in protest at EU fishing quotas. 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