EU Ships Can No Longer Fish For Snow Crabs Rules Norwegian Supreme Court

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Norway’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that EU ships cannot fish for snow crabs off the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, in a case also deciding who has the right to explore for oil and minerals in the region.

Rights At Stake

At stake was whether EU vessels had the right to catch snow crab, whose meat is considered a delicacy by gourmets in Japan and South Korea, in the same way as Norwegian vessels did. But what is valid for the snow crab, a sedentary species...

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