{"id":100322,"date":"2023-01-25T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&p=100322"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:52:40","slug":"snow-crab-trawlers-test-norways-control-of-resources-off-svalbard","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/snow-crab-trawlers-test-norways-control-of-resources-off-svalbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow crab trawlers test Norway\u2019s control of resources off Svalbard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norway\u2019s supreme court is hearing a case over the country\u2019s refusal to let a Latvian company catch snow crabs off the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, testing the control of resources beyond the island group\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n

The case, which started Tuesday in Oslo and runs through Friday, concerns the validity of the Trade and Fisheries Ministry\u2019s rejection of an application by Latvian shipping company SIA North STAR Ltd. to fish for the crustaceans on the continental shelf surrounding Svalbard, a practice which Norway defends as its own, according to a statement from the court.<\/p>\n

The court will now consider whether Norway\u2019s decision and its regulations are contrary to the Svalbard Treaty, which was signed in 1920 to recognize Norway\u2019s sovereignty over the islands. The pact also aimed to ensure the signatories would share equal fishing and hunting rights in the territories and in their territorial waters.<\/p>\n

Arctic Snow Crab Case Before Norway\u2019s Supreme Court Could Impact Oil and Mineral Rights<\/a><\/p>\n

Norway has in past\u00a0scolded<\/a>\u00a0the European Union \u2014 which Latvia is a member of \u2014 for setting a unilateral quota in the fisheries\u2019 protection zone off Svalbard, and threatened to use its coast guard to prevent what the Nordic nation called \u201cillegal fishing.\u201d Norway maintains that it alone can allocate EU fishing quotas in the area, extending 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) off the island far above the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[9580],"region":[1916],"source":[8633],"country":[1981],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/100322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/100322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100325,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/100322\/revisions\/100325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100322"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=100322"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=100322"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=100322"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=100322"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=100322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}