‘Rocks raining down on the wheelhouse’
“The skipper told his crew to shelter inside the boat – there was nothing else they could do.”
Seven French vessels surrounded the British boat but that number eventually grew to 30 boats.
Scott said he thought the incident was premeditated because one French boat carried a TV crew and an interpreter.
He added that the French fishermen were riled because EU fisheries law did not allow them to fish in the same waters. “But the Irish Sea is closed to British boats for six months of the year,” Scott said.
“It would be comforting to know we had help from a British Fisheries Protection vessel [if the attack was repeated],” he added.
