Tensions between the EU and Norway are growing over the EU’s quota take in the Svalbard Zone controlled by Norway
It has been reported that Norway is close to open conflict with the EU as their fleet has fished 80 percent of the quota they themselves set, with the EU promising that Norwegian intervention will be met with hostile reactions.
The news comes after Norway received a response to a letter sent to the EU delegation on 04 May this year.
Norway had branded it unacceptable when the EU decided to allocate a quota of its own in the Svalbard Zone, with the Norwegians claiming it was contrary to Norway’s sovereign rights under the law of the sea.