"The Cod Wars and Today: Lessons from an Almost War" Topic
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Tango01  | 30 Jul 2020 9:02 p.m. PST |
"Atlantic Cod vary in color from grey to greenish-brown and can grow to be as large as five feet long (though this is uncommon). The fish have long been a staple of diets across the North Atlantic and fishermen have crisscrossed those waters from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to the North Sea to bring back cod to their home markets. Not once, but three times in the 20th Century, cod was almost the causus belli between Iceland and the United Kingdom in a string of events referred to collectively as the "Cod Wars."1 The Cod Wars, taken together, make clear that issues of maritime governance and access to maritime resources can spark inter-state conflict even among allied nations. Fishing rights can be core issues that maritime states will vigorously defend. In the spring of 1958, following the conclusion of several treaties resulting from the first United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I), the Icelandic government announced that it would extent its territorial waters out to 12 nautical miles.2 Just a few years earlier, they had extended their territorial waters from three to four miles and caused a row with the British government, sometimes called the "Proto-Cod War." The 1958 12-mile increase was much larger and almost singly directed at the British fishing fleet that trawled Icelandic waters for cod…"
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| jurgenation | 31 Jul 2020 4:21 a.m. PST |
In the end ,NATo dispatched a small flotilla ..and then thought better of it.Their is a great book ..called the "History of cod".how one fish,,has affected History. |
| Tango01 | 31 Jul 2020 12:30 p.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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| Chuckaroobob | 31 Jul 2020 9:48 p.m. PST |
While in Iceland I tried to visit the "Thor", the Icelandic ship that rammed a UK ship, but it had been sold and moved to Spain to become a disco. Or so I was told. |
| Twilight Samurai | 31 Jul 2020 11:34 p.m. PST |
The Goodies taught me everything I need to know on this subject. |
| Formerly 298TYR | 01 Aug 2020 7:15 a.m. PST |
And now we have the EU demanding fishing rights to our waters. Where was their support then ? |
| Tango01 | 01 Aug 2020 12:12 p.m. PST |
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| chironex | 20 Sep 2020 9:19 p.m. PST |
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 Legion 4 | 23 Sep 2020 8:52 a.m. PST |
Going to the store today ! They got Cod Filet $4.99 USD/lbs. !!!! 🤩🐟 |
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