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Gunboat Diplomacy In The Northwest Atlantic: The 1995 Canada-Eu Fishing Dispute And The United Nations Agreement On Straddling And High Migratory Fish Stocks, Derrick M. Kedziora
Gunboat Diplomacy In The Northwest Atlantic: The 1995 Canada-Eu Fishing Dispute And The United Nations Agreement On Straddling And High Migratory Fish Stocks, Derrick M. Kedziora
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
In March 1995, Canadian gunboats seized and impounded a Spanish fishing trawler and cut the nets of another Spanish boat for alleged violations of international quotas and regulations governing the fishing of Greenland Halibut in the international waters of the North Atlantic.1 Spain and the European Union (EU) responded by alleging that the Canadians violated international law and committed an act of piracy by seizing a foreign ship in international waters.2 The EU threatened to impose economic sanctions against Canada, and the Spanish government responded by sending its own gunboats into the North Atlantic.3 The stage was set for a …