British Icelandic Cod Wars

The problems of distantwater trawling centred on limited access due to claims of territorial rights. The British distantwater fishing industry was based on the idea of freedom of the high seas, and the assumption that the sea was an open resource to be exploited. This idea was increasingly challenged in the postwar period. The Icelandic government had longstanding concerns about the depletion of fish stocks along its coast. Following independence from Denmark in 1944, Iceland annulled the AngloDanish