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The Cod Wars (Icelandic: Þorskastríðin; also known as Landhelgisstríðin, lit. ' The Coastal Wars '; German: Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th-century confrontations between the United Kingdom (with aid from West Germany) and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic.
Trawler, Falkland Islands. Fishing in the Falkland Islands contributes to the local economy, representing one of its biggest exports.. The official body responsible for the sustainable development of fisheries in the Falklands Falkland Islands is the Department Of Natural Resources, Falkland Islands Fisheries Department (FIFD), established in 1987, [1] It is reported that during 2013 the ...
Grindavík (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkrɪntaˌviːk] ⓘ) is a fishing town in the Southern Peninsula district of Iceland, not far from Þorbjörn, a tuya (a type of flat-topped, steep-sided volcano). It is one of the few towns with a harbour on this coast. Most of the inhabitants work in the fishing industry.
Malakoff & Moore's Slip, Scalloway, Shetland.This slip was one of the links in 'The Shetland Bus'. Now it is used for servicing fishing boats and salmon farm vessels. Aksel of Giske, 65 feet (20 m) long, the first "Shetland Bus" boat, arrived Shetland on 5 May 1941 with 20 refugees.
Sport fishing or game fishing is recreational fishing activities that focus mainly on the physical exertion and thrilling experience during the process of subduing a hard-fighting fish, which provides the fisherman the excitement of a challenge (a good "sport" or "game") and a satisfying sense of achievement after successfully catching the ...
The Icelandic Coast Guard played its largest role during the fishing rights dispute known as the Cod Wars, between 1972 and 1976, when the Coast Guard ships would cut the trawl wires of British and West German trawlers, resulting in confrontations with Royal Navy warships and tugs from the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF).
The islands are an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. [1] Economic troubles caused by a collapse of the Faroese fishing industry in the early 1990s brought high unemployment rates of 10 to 15% by the mid-1990s. [2] Unemployment decreased in the later 1990s, down to about 6% at the end of 1998. [2]
Oil drilling outside the Lofoten Islands could also threaten the whole fishing industry, including jobs and natural habitats. Traditions could become lost, many would lose their livelihoods and the landscape and wildlife would be severely affected if the Norwegian government decided to start oil and gas extraction in Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.