Fish and Foreign Policy Norway's Fisheries Policy Towards Other Countries in the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the North Sea

The sea areas surrounding Norway are among the most strategic on the globe, lying between the broad North Atlantic & the Soviet Union's bastion of undersea warfare bases, the Kola Peninsula. The rights of fishermen are elevated to high international sensitivity by "grey zone" disputes over rights to strategically important areas of the Arctic Ocean. The special international law relating to Svalbard dates from the first world war & effects both fishing & foreign policy profoundly. Nations of the European Community & NATO have fished these waters for hundreds of years & are tied to Norway by common economic & security goals. Brit Floistad has outlined in frank terms a fisheries policy paradigm which must be repeated throughout the seven seas as nations seek to solve policy issues rising from the high seas. This the most recent (No. 37) of the Law of the Sea Institute's Occasional Papers series, designed to address special problems of the ocean regime at the international legal, economic, political & technical level. A complete listing is available from the Institute. FAX: (808) 956-6402.Floistad, Brit is the author of 'Fish and Foreign Policy Norway's Fisheries Policy Towards Other Countries in the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the North Sea' with ISBN 9780911189216 and ISBN 0911189211.