There Should Live On To A Greater Extent Than Stories Most Our Friend, The Cod

If for no other argue the the opportunities afforded to pun-dits:

[oh my Cod, I'm non fifty-fifty certain what this is. Cod? really? footing record?]

Last seen inward "Lessons From Trading Norwegian Art"

And today's installment from FT Alphaville:

Iceland's tourism blast has a fishy by-product

If Great Britain hadn’t lost to Republic of Iceland inward each of the 3 bilateral “Cod Wars” betwixt 1958 as well as 1976, Tomas Thor Eiriksson wouldn’t live inward business.

Since then, the white demersal fish native to the Atlantic has been ane of Iceland's most of import exports, as well as the U.K. ane of its biggest consumers. Most of the Icelandic cod going to Great Britain is the frozen variety, to live breaded or battered for sale inward fish as well as chip shops upwardly as well as downwards the province as well as supermarket freezers in, er, Iceland.

But the huge increment inward tourism since 2000 -- as well as thence inward the publish of rider flights -- has meant that Republic of Iceland has been able to export an increasing amount of fresh fish (most boat journeys are also long to maintain the fish from going off). It tin live sold to wholesalers as well as fancy supermarkets similar Waitrose, at a premium -- air freight is most 4 times every bit expensive every bit body of body of water freight:

The fresh fish, mainly cod -- merely also other species such every bit haddock as well as herring -- is carried inward the "belly" (the lower deck of the plane, where the luggage is) of every Icelandair flying to the US, Canada as well as Britain, as well as to other destinations too: twoscore inward total. Up to sixteen tonnes of the materials is loaded onto each airplane (next fourth dimension y'all determine that shrink-wrapping your luggage is silly, y'all mightiness recall again). Many other airlines export fresh Icelandic fish too.

Mikael Tal Gretarsson, caput of exports at Icelandair -- which is the biggest airline inward Republic of Iceland as well as is inward the procedure of completing an acquisition of budget airline Wow Air -- told us that Great Britain makes upwardly most a 5th of the marketplace for the 30,000-odd tonnes of fresh cod exported from Republic of Iceland each year. North America takes most 50 per cent as well as continental Europe the rest. But, he said:

The U.K. marketplace actually collapsed after the Brexit vote -- exports to Great Britain savage past times most xxx per cent. Most of that was due to the autumn inward the pound.

Demand from the US, though, continues to grow, Gretarsson said..."How Republic of Iceland Beat the British inward the Four Cod Wars"

"The Future of Fishing Is Big Data as well as Artificial Intelligence"

With a fleck of algo sauce and...yummy...

"World’s First Autonomous Shipping Company Established inward Norway"

We've been watching this ane for a patch every bit it ticks a few of the boxes:

1. Autonomous
2. Electric
3. Shipping
4. Fertilizer
5. Kristian Birkeland

Our hero

"He also co-founded Norsk Hydro as well as got his flick on the encompass of the Rolling Stone Norway's 200 kr banknote:

The banknote became invalid at the terminate of final twelvemonth as well as the erstwhile man child was replaced past times a cod as well as a herring...."