Who controls the right to catch fish from Iceland’s rich seas? A recent article in Vísir examines how declarations from Alþingi, Iceland’s parliament, have not settled this debate.
The article reports that Alþingi declared the fish resource belongs to the nation as a whole. Despite this, Vísir states that parties other than the nation, as a whole, control the valuable fishing quotas (veiðiheimildir).
Vísir frames the issue through two major questions facing the republic. The first is why access to the nation’s collective asset, fishing rights, became so valuable. According to the article, both questions share the same underlying core, but details about the second question are not provided in the summary.
Sources
- Vísir (first reported) in Icelandic
