— Alexandra TaltyFollowing Iceland’s “cod wars” with the United Kingdom, which ended in the 1970s, the United Nations formally established so-called exclusive economic zones, or EEZs, that extend a country’s sovereignty into the ocean, ranging anywhere from 3 to 200 nautical miles offshore.
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