Spain's Fisheries Sector: From the Birth of Modern Fishing through to the Decade of the Seventies.

The current problems involving Spain's oversized fishing fleet are explained by the growth of the fleet throughout the 20th Century. This article reviews the birth and development of Spain's distant-water fishing fleet that led to it becoming one of the world's largest fleets, albeit a fleet now devoid of fishing grounds, following the implementation throughout the world of the 200-mile exclusive economic zone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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