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Trawlermen working on the North Sea in 1953.

Trawlermen working on the North Sea in 1953.
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Until the 1960s, Britain remained a major participant in long-distance trawling. By 1976, the industry had greatly declined as the Icelandic government denied access to its fishing grounds.

Related documents

The interwar period

Committee of Civil Research. Discovery of New Fishing Grounds. Interim Report. 19 December 29 (PDF, 1.253MB)

Proposal of the Sub-Committee on the Fishing Industry of the Committee of Civil Research. 2 January 30 (PDF, 0.387MB)

Economic Advisory Council. Report of Committee on the Fishing Industry. 1 January 32 (PDF, 1.227MB)

Inter-Departmental Committee Appointed to Consider the Recommendations Contained in the Report of the Committee on the Fishing Industry of the Economic Advisory Council. Report. 9 August 32 (PDF, 1.225MB)

Commercial Negotiations with Foreign Countries. Position of the Fishing Industry. Memorandum by the President of the Board of Trade. 19 November 32 (PDF, 0.603MB)

After the Second World War

White Fish Industry. 15 December 47 (PDF, 1.459MB)

White Fish Industry. Memorandum by the Minister of Food. 9 December 1947 (PDF, 1.077MB)

White Fish Industry. Memorandum by the Minster of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland. 11 December 1947 (PDF, 1.741MB)

White Fish Industry - Short-Term Remedies. Memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland. 1 July 50 (PDF, 0.572MB)

Fish: Encouragement of Sales. Memorandum by the Minister of Food. 30 June 50 (PDF, 0.625MB)

The Fishing Fleet. 24 July 52 (PDF, 1.650MB)

Assistance for Building Fishing Vessels. Memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 22 July 52 (PDF, 0.373MB)

The Fishing Fleet. 31 July 52 (PDF, 1.618MB)

Assistance for Building Fishing Vessels. Memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 28 July 52 (PDF, 0.221MB)

The cod wars

The Anglo-Norwegian Fishery Dispute. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 8 November 1948 (PDF, 0.448MB)

Anglo-Norwegian Fishery Dispute. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 13 January 49 (PDF, 1.095MB)

Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries Dispute. 17 January 1949 (PDF, 1.102MB)

Anglo-Norwegian Fishery Dispute. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 22 June 49 (PDF, 0.606MB)

Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries Dispute. 30 June 1949 (PDF, 1.297MB)

Delimitation of Territorial Waters: Application by Her Majesty's Government of the Principles Laid Down by the International Court of Justice. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 21 July 52 (PDF, 0.657MB)

Territorial Waters. Joint memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power, the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Minister of Transport. 22 July 52" (PDF, 0.566MB)

Icelandic Fisheries Dispute. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 17 December 52 (PDF, 0.782MB)

Iceland Fisheries Dispute. Memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. 5 January 53 (PDF, 0.506MB)

Iceland Fisheries Dispute. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 13 January 53 (PDF, 0.410MB)

Iceland Fisheries Dispute. Memorandum by the Minister of State. 11 May 53 (PDF, 0.654MB)

Iceland Fisheries Dispute. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. 21 February 56" (PDF, 1.005MB)

Territorial Water: Iceland Fisheries Dispute. 8 March 56 (PDF, 2.063MB)

Territorial Waters. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 25 February 58 (PDF, 0.465MB)

Law of the Sea: Iceland. Memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. 19 February 1960 (PDF, 0.189MB)

Fishery Dispute with Iceland. Memorandum by the Lord Chancellor. 25 July 1960 (PDF, 0.473MB)

Law of the Sea. 28 February 61 (PDF, 1.543MB)

Icelandic Fisheries Dispute. Note by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. 21 June 72 (PDF, 0.813MB)

Oversea Affairs: Icelandic Fisheries Dispute. 22 June 72 (PDF, 2.335MB)

Fisheries Dispute between the United Kingdom and Iceland: Draft White Paper. Note by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the Minister of: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. 18 June 73 (PDF, 4.092MB)

Oversea Affairs: Iceland. 2 October 73 (PDF, 2.635MB)

Foreign Affairs: Iceland. 8 November 73 (PDF, 2.343MB)

Foreign Affairs: Iceland. 30 October 75 (PDF, 1.647MB)

Foreign Affairs: Iceland. 18 November 75 (PDF, 2.779MB)

Icelandic Fisheries. Memorandum by Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. 10 February 1976 (PDF, 0.101MB)

Foreign Affairs: Iceland. 15 January 76 (PDF, 1.043MB)

Iceland. 29 January 76 (PDF, 1.043MB)

Foreign Affairs: Iceland. 12 February 76 (PDF, 1.130MB)

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Further reading

Robinson, R., The Development of the British Distant-Water Trawling Industry 1880-1939 (Jamieson, 1998)
Jamieson, A. & Starkey, D.J., Aspects of Britain's Maritime Economy since 1870 (Exeter: University of Exeter Press)
Robinson, R., Trawling: The Rise and Fall of the Brittish Trawl Fishery (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996)

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