Iceland Says It ‘Deserves’ More Mackerel as U.K. Spat Deepens
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Iceland’s decision to let its fishermen catch 65 times more mackerel than before won’t push the island into a new cod war with the U.K. as it’s only taking what it “deserves,” Fisheries Minister Jon Bjarnason said.
“We’re only doing what we’re fully entitled to do,” Bjarnason said in an interview in Reykjavik yesterday. “We’re fishing the mackerel, it’s in great abundance here, and we have the same right as other nations have when it comes to fishing within territorial waters.”