PARIS

France’s Minister for Europe Clement Beaune issued a statement on Twitter on Tuesday further emphasizing the country’s frustration over the issue of fishing rights in the Channel, according to reporting in French news outlet France24.

“France remains open to dialogue, but a rapid solution must be found for our fisherman, in line with the implementation of our agreements,” he said in a tweet.

Talks last week between Beaune and the UK's Minister of State Sir David Frost failed to move the issue forward at all.

France and the UK have been at loggerheads over the rights French fishermen have to fish in the waters surrounding the Channel Islands for weeks now. France had threatened to bring a disruption to trading as of Nov. 2 as well as to increase customs checks if the UK continued to withhold the granting of licenses to more French fishermen.

The disruption failed to come to pass, but the situation continues to be a stalemate.

In an agreement drafted late last year, EU fishermen wanting to fish in the waters had to prove they had already worked there to be granted a new license.

The post-Brexit row has been ongoing for weeks now. France has remained vigilant in its position that the UK has rejected dozens of licenses for French fishermen to conduct business in territorial waters (known as the most plentiful waters) 6 to 12 nautical miles off England’s coast as well as those closer to Jersey.

The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey lie between the two countries and are self-governing territories dependent on London for defense and the conduct of foreign affairs. France has threatened amid the dispute to cut off power supply to both islands as a means of retaliation.

The latest figures from the beginning of October show that for the territorial waters, London has issued 100 licenses to French boats while rejecting 75 and in Jersey, 111 permanent licenses, and 31 provisional licenses have been issued, with 75 boats being rejected.

Overall, Britain has granted 1,700 licenses to French boats to fish in their exclusive economic zone, or the waters 12-200 miles off the English coast.