The North Atlantic Fisheries, 1100-1976 - University of Hull
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<strong>The</strong> major points in the debate were discussed in the Danish parliament during the<br />
preparations, debates, votings, and committee deliberations concerning the necessary<br />
legal foundations for the step by step alterations in the governmental politics about<br />
Faroese fishing at Greenland and in the parallel actions <strong>of</strong> the central administration. This<br />
has been followed by a thorough investigation <strong>of</strong> the published parliamentary minutes<br />
and committee reports in the Rigsdagtidende, for the lower chamber in the<br />
Folketingstidende, for the upper chamber in the Landstingstidende, and for the final laws<br />
in the “Tillæg C” (Supplement, C) <strong>of</strong> the Rigsdagstidende.<br />
<strong>The</strong> statistics <strong>of</strong> Faroese fishing have in general been extracted by a year by year<br />
(1920-1939) study <strong>of</strong> the reliable, <strong>of</strong>ficial Statistisk Aarbog (Statistical Yearbook). Other<br />
figures have been checked there and the sources are referred to in the footnotes. Based on<br />
the extensive Statistiske Meddelelser, 4. Række (series), Fiskeriberetninger 1911-1939,<br />
and Vedel Tåning, Fiskeri- og Havundersøgelser ved Færøerne, 1943, E. Patursson,<br />
Fiskiveiði,1961, has published many interesting figures and tables especially in vol. I,<br />
and in vol. II, chap. “Veiðirættindi í Grønlandi”, pp 255-293, has given the first serious<br />
description in the Faroese language <strong>of</strong> Faroese policy towards the fishery at Greenland<br />
1920-1939. According to the nationalist interpretation <strong>of</strong> Faroese history Patursson<br />
claims “historical rights” for the Faroese at Greenland as a part <strong>of</strong> the Old-Norse<br />
inheritance <strong>of</strong> the Viking Age settlements on Greenland—the fact that there was only<br />
Inuit and no Norse settlement there from around 1500 to the 1720s is completely left out<br />
<strong>of</strong> the argument. His interpretation <strong>of</strong> the Faroese point <strong>of</strong> view in the inter-war period is<br />
informative but lacking in an understanding <strong>of</strong> the Greenlandic and Danish positions in<br />
the matter. On the more general political interactions between the Lagting and the Danish<br />
government and Parliament Steining’s part in vol. VI <strong>of</strong> the authoritative Den danske<br />
rigsdag 1849-1949 is still the most solid study.<br />
Select Bibliography<br />
Andreasen, Jens Pauli, “Á øðrun sinni í Grønlandi við ‘Knørri’”, Varðin,<br />
1927, 531<br />
Beretninger og Kundgørelser om Grønland (Copenhagen, some issues<br />
consulted, 1920s and 1930s)<br />
Blað Føroya Fiskimannafelag (Faroese fishery newspaper, some issues<br />
consulted, 1920s)<br />
Den danske Rigsdag, 1849.1949, ed. H. Frisch et al., I-VI (Copenhagen,<br />
1949-1953)<br />
Dimmalætting (Faroese newspaper, Tórshavn 1878 ff., 1920-40)<br />
Fiskeri-Beretninger, 1911-1939 (Copenhagen)<br />
Føringatíðindi (First Faroese newspaper in the Faroese language, 1890-<br />
1906, reprint, Tórshavn 1969)<br />
Føroya Tíðingi (Newsletter with close connections to the shipping<br />
companies and the influental merchant family, Mortensen, Suðeroy;<br />
some issues consulted, 1920s).<br />
Folketingstidende, vide: Rigsdagstidende<br />
Hansen, Paul M. & Frede Hermann, Fisken og havet ved Grønland<br />
(Copenhagen, 1953)<br />
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