Their dispute over the ownership of tiny Hans Island has cooled in recent years, but conflict between Canada and Denmark is heating up over another diminutive object of contention: the northern shrimp.
Even though Denmark's shrimp haul amounts to just about one per cent of the total quota in the area -- of which Canada controls about 80 per cent -- the dispute raises the spectre of future struggles between the two countries at a time when warming waters and retreating sea ice in Arctic waters are expected to dramatically expand fishing activity in the coming decades between Nunavut and Greenland.
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