Cod Wars cut the nets of "Carlisle", and "Falmouth" rammed it again. "Týr" was heavily damaged and found herself propelled by only a single screw and pursued by the tug-boat "Statesman". In the dire situation, Captain Guðmundur Kjærnested gave orders to man the guns, in spite of the overwhelming superiority of firepower HMS "Falmouth" enjoyed, to deter any further ramming. The Third Cod War saw 55 ramming incidents altogether. In NATO-mediated sessions, an agreement was reached between Iceland and the UK on 1 June 1976. The British were allowed to keep 24 trawlers within the 200 nmi and fish a total of
Cod fishing in Newfoundland that the fisheries were returning to their original abundance, just more slowly than had been anticipated. The "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement" (CETA) between Canada and the European Union is a Free Trade Agreement which is still under negotiation as of May 2015. The provincial government has argued that the Federal government of Canada in Ottawa reneged on a deal to pay $280 million in exchange for its relinquishment of minimum processing requirements as part of CETA. Those rules helped protect jobs in fish plants, especially in rural areas hit hard by the cod moratorium since 1992. Cod fishing in