Turbot War

Turbot War
an international fishing dispute in 1995 between Canada and the European Union, especially Spain. Canadian officials boarded a Spanish fishing trawler in international waters and arrested its crew. Canada claimed that European Union factory fishing trawlers were illegally overfishing the nose (q.v.) and tail (q.v.) of the Grand Banks, just outside Canada\'s declared 200 nautical mile (370 km) Exclusive Economic Zone

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