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Climate change and quotas spark new fish wars with Iceland
2013-01-26 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When Graham Hall started out as a trawlerman, the port of Grimsby was crammed with so many boats local legend had it you could walk from deck to deck across the entire harbour. But just three turquoise trawlers could be spotted last week 60% of the town's remaining fleet. The Icelandic cod wars of the 1970s, when Iceland extended its fishing zones and excluded UK trawlers from territory it had previously harvested, obliterated what had, in the 50s, been the biggest fishing port in the world....