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Jutland has roots which go back to angling from deep sea
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the lock between the North Sea and Ringkøbing Fjord in
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about wrecks after the introduction of echo location, Decca
navigation and later sonar, and the trawlers used bobbin
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realised that it was necessary to concentrate on other species
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rose dramatically around the end of the millennium, from
a value of DKK 1 million in 1997 to DKK 56 million in
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sole and plaice, and the major advantage of these vessels
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The decline in the cod population did thus not in itself
create a drastic crisis in Hvide Sande because the relatively
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the new millennium, Hvide Sande did experience a crisis in
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main reason for this was the EU’s introduction of limits
on the number of days at sea per month on which a vessel
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of the very low level of the cod population, but it affected
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they could no longer spend the necessary number of days at
sea looking for catches which could repay their investments
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strongly increasing fuel costs, and together with the crisis
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Hvide Sande had ensured an oversupply of prospective
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and the presence of alternative and attractive jobs on land,
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of 2005 were mixed, and they must be seen in relation to
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2005, and which, from 2007, allocates individual quotas
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to 87 at the end of 2005, and the outlook at that time was
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of quotas would result in a further reduction in the number
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