FISHING WAR OVER?
12-Mile Limit To Be Recognised
(NJi. Press Association— Copyrtchfi LONDON, May 14. The British Trawlers’ Federation announced today that it had told the Government its ships would not fish within 12 miles of the Icelandic coast for the next three months. Mr J. R. Cobley, vice-president of the federation, made the announcement at a news conference. He said the federation told the Minister of Agriculture (Mr John Hare) that it felt it had every right to fish the high seas from three miles outwards, except where it had special arrangements. But it fully realised the Government’s position and its own in wanting to come to some arrangement. Mr Cobley said that the Trawler Officers’ Guild at the Lincolnshire port of Grimsby was threatening to strike from midnight on Sunday as a protest against the federation's decision. The second law-of-the-sea conference, which ended recently in Geneva, failed to settle the dispute between Iceland and Britain on fishing limits. Iceland is seeking to extend the traditional three-mile limit off her coast to 12 miles for foreign vessels.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29206, 17 May 1960, Page 12
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