Talk:Net cutter (fisheries patrol)

Deletion

No. See Cod Wars.

If anything, a merge would be the correct thing to suggest.

(Note: I didn't make this article, I moved it from Net Cutters.) Joffeloff 19:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Indeed I made this article and it concerns more things than the Cod Wars, as they have been used more widely. For example during the Smugu-incidents where the Norwegian Coast Guard used them. I also wonder seriously about the person who thought this article warranted speedy deletion without any explanation on his part. --- Kjallakr 15:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

We used them? Oh. I'd like a link to that, not just for personal use, perhaps adding it to the article would be nice. :) Joffeloff 15:28, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't remember the exact date or the ships involved, but I remember that at least once a Norwegian Coast Guard vessel used a net cutter (enhanced with explosives) to cut the net of a (ironically) Icelandic trawler sometime in the 1990s, during the Smyttehulle period in the Barents sea. I shall see if I find more information. -- 130.208.165.5 22:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I remember that incident, the net cutters somehow got loose and ended aboard the Icelandic trawler, I remember seeing them propped up on tv on some news show about the whole dispute back in the 1990's --Skaz 00:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

secret

If they're secret, how do we know about them?--ILoveSky (T | C) 01:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Ten years later, I support this question. What is supposed to be "secret" about these cutters? The citation provided is a book in Icelandic. There is no online, accessible reference provided in English within the article, unfortunately. The phrase "secret weapon" generally refers to sophisticated, advanced technology rather than something as simple as a knife or scissors, so the claim that mere net cutters are "secret" weapons provokes reader scepticism. — O'Dea (talk) 08:02, 9 October 2020 (UTC)