Sign of Things to Come for UK? Norway HITS OUT at EU for Sending Ships into Oslo Waters
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Express.co.uk] by Jon Rogers - July 12, 2017
RELATIONS between Norway and the European Union are rapidly deteriorating due to an apparent dispute over snow crabs.
Norway, which is not a member of the European Union, has slammed Brussels for authorising European vessels from mainly Baltic nations to fish for crabs in the Svalbard area, an archipelago in the Barents Sea, insisting the move violates its national sovereignty.
A Latvian ship, The Senator, was recently intercepted by the Norwegian coast guard while crab fishing around Svalbard and received a hefty fine.
Norwegian Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg said: “What happened is totally new. The EU is unabashed to make this ...
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