Thanks to revenues from fishing licences, Falklanders are no longer poor folk dependent on a dying sheep-farming industry.

ECONOMIST: Wary partners in the South Atlantic

The government wants to require the biggest of them to buy fishing licences, certify the size of their catches and, in some cases, deploy on-board satellite navigation systems to let the authorities keep an eye on them.

ECONOMIST: A paradise for anglers but a headache for regulators

The agreement licences UK fishing boats to operate within the 3 - 12 nautical mile zone around the Bailiwick.

BBC: Jersey feel 'left out' of Guernsey fishing agreement

Six hundred licences were issued for Thursday's harvesting but the agency confirmed there would be no further cockle fishing in the Dee Estuary this year.

BBC: Two cocklers on the estuary