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Fishing holds key to Brexit trade deal as talks drag on

by Raf Casert
| December 6, 2020 12:06 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — As Brexit talks enter their decisive final days, there’s still a big catch: the fishing industry. It is holding up the trade deal between the European Union and recently departed Britain, putting at risk hundreds of thousands of jobs and tens of billions of euros in annual production losses.

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