The Icelandic Coast Guard is responsible for Iceland's maritime search and destroy.
 Additionally the ICG is in the charge of defusing naval mines, most of which were laid during the Second World War, and monitoring fisheries in international waters outside of the Icelandic economic zone in order to blacklist any vessel partaking in unregulated fishing and thus bar them from receiving services from any member of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission in order to make unregulated fishing unprofitable
 In 1906, Iceland's first purposely built guard-ship, Islands Falk, began operation

