The United Kingdom and European seafood industries remain in the dark following votes Tuesday in the UK parliament that left the situation surrounding the UK's withdrawal from the trade bloc deadlocked.

Lawmakers voted to move a bill on the terms of the UK's exit for further scrutiny by lawmakers at its "second reading".

But in a second, perhaps more significant vote lawmakers rejected the timetable set for passage of the bill, which the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to get approved at breakneck speed by Thursday.