Cod War

The Cod Wars (also called the Iceland Cod Wars) were a series of confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland over Iceland's claims of authority over tracts of ocean off their coastline as being their exclusive fishery zone. The name is probably a pun on the term Cold War, although the disputes did not centre purely around fishing rights on the cod.

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As fish stocks diminished around the world, the scope for confrontation has increased. Throughout the world, examples exist of a nations' fishing fleets committing systematic incursions into fishing areas considered either "protected" or under the jurisdiction of another country.

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In 1972, Iceland - whose quarter of a million population was at that time almost exclusively dependent on fishing - unilaterally extended its territorial waters before announcing plans to reduce over-fishing. It policed its quota-system with its coast guard, leading to a series of net-cutting incidents with the British trawlers that fished the areas. As a result a fleet of British Royal Naval warships was employed to act as a deterrent against any future harassment of British fishing crews by the much smaller Icelandic craft.

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In 1976, a compromise between the two countries allowed a maximum of 24 British trawlers access to the disputed 200 nautical mile (370 km) limit. This did not slow the decline of the British fisheries, severely affecting the economies of northern fishing ports in the UK, such as Grimsby and HullFleetwood.

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Iceland: The Republic of Iceland (Icelandic: L??veldi? ?sland) is an island nation in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Greenland, Norway, and the British Isles....

Ocean: :For other uses see Ocean (disambiguation)...

Pun: A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word ...

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