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The UK’s fishing fleet has been denied access to Russia’s resource rich Arctic fishing grounds, after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that ends a longstanding agreement allowing British vessels operate in the Barents Sea. The document was published on Russia’s official website for legal information on Monday.

British fishermen will be banned from operating in the Barents Sea, one of the world’s largest fisheries for cod and haddock, under new legislation passed by the lower house of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, on Wednesday.