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The turbot war , even Turbot War ( "turbot war" of English. Turbot = turbot ) called, was a dispute over fishing rights between Canada and Spain in 1995.

Canada's Minister of Fisheries, Brian Tobin , had the Coast Guard land the Spanish ship Estai in the Newfoundland Banks outside the 200-mile limit and bring it to St. John's . The captain was charged with using illegal fishing equipment and catching fish that were too small. Spain then accused Canada of piracy and had its fishing fleet escorted by warships; warning shots were fired between the navies of both NATO countries.

The UK mediated on the Canadian side and the EU on the Spanish side. Spain eventually got the estai and the fish back, but Spain's lawsuit against Canada in the International Court of Justice in The Hague was dismissed in 1998. Tobin became popular; In 1996 he became Prime Minister of Newfoundland and Labrador .

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The fish stocks off Newfoundland, which has belonged to Canada since 1949, collapsed after 40 years of overfishing . Canada had to issue an absolute fishing ban on cod in 1992. In 1994, a 200-mile zone was created off the Canadian coasts. Based on a 1982 agreement, states can declare a zone of 200 miles (370 km) as an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Within the EEZ, the country in question can claim the sole right to economic exploitation, including fishing. The Newfoundland Bank , a group of underwater plateaus southeast of Newfoundland, was one of the richest fishing grounds in the world before overfishing by trawlers . But it extends beyond Canada's 200-mile zone in two places. In these international waters, fish stocks in other countries' fishing fleets continued to be fished. According to the Canadian government, this jeopardized efforts to give cod, turbot and other fish species the opportunity to regenerate their stocks.

In the years 1972 to 1976, it was already almost-military crises between Iceland come and Britain as " Cod Wars " ( Cod Wars are called). In these, Iceland temporarily broke off relations with Great Britain and was ultimately able to decide the conflict for itself. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were disputes over fishing rights and sovereign rights between the GDR and Poland , Canada and the USA , and France and Great Britain.

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