While a clash of horns looks likely at Monday's online Brexit summit between EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, little is expected to be achieved in terms of progress on fisheries as a deadline for agreement looms at the end of this month.

Under the terms of the UK’s exit from the EU, an agreement was supposed to reached and ratified on fisheries by July 1, but with leaders’ attention largely focussed on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and both sides entrenched in their positions, the...