Currency catches

摘要

Ever since the cod wars of the 1970s, when the British lost the right to fish within 200 miles of the Icelandic coast, Britain's gift to global gastronomy-battered fillets of fish and chips sold by takeaway restaurants-has relied on Icelandic trawlermen. Most of the cod sold by chip shops in England and Wales (the Scots prefer haddock, for reasons to do with price and taste) is landed into British ports by Icelandic boats.