From the NS archive: Cod warriors
From the NS archive: Cod warriors 11 May 1973: There's something fishy about the trawler stand-off. By Richard West The recent brouhaha over French fishermen blockading Jersey in a dispute over fishing rights called to mind the “cod wars” of the 1950s and 1970s. Then it was Iceland that took a stance against Great Britain over territorial fishing waters. In this piece from 1973, Richard West showed that media reports of the nautical ill-will were being filtered by a PR company. Indeed, he said, a whole series of international stand-offs, wars, and indeed countries had a PR firm attached...
Source: newstatesman.com