This wasn't a war with battles and soldiers like in the movies; it was about fish! The heart of the matter was simple: both Britain and Iceland wanted to catch cod, a type of fish very popular for its ...

The average raw material price for Icelandic cod saw a small improvement in week 45 (Nov. 7-13), yet remains below the same week of last year, according to auction data recently added to Undercurrent ...

Most people born after 1980 will have little more than a fleeting 'rings a bell' concept of the Cod Wars. But for those who lived during the three battles between Britain and Iceland they wreaked ...

Picture two scenes, one positive, one very much less so. In the first, two University of Maine biomedical engineering graduate students, Patrick Breeding and Amber Boutiette, pore over the results of ...

The two European Nato countries clash in the third cod war over fishing rights in the Atlantic After the second world war Iceland began to gradually extend the fishing zone around its coastline. The ...