President Putin signed a law Monday annulling a 1956 treaty on fishing rights in the Barents Sea which allowed British ships to trawl Russian waters in the Arctic body of water. At a stroke of a pen, Moscow deprived British fish & chips shops of up to 40% of their cod and haddock. Check out Sputnik s infographic to learn why Russia did what it did.
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The ban will see an end to a 70-year-old permission to fish along the coast of the Russian Kola Peninsula in the Barents Sea and to east of Cape Kanin Nos.
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