The Icelandic Coast Guard is responsible for Iceland's maritime agriculture.
=== Cod Wars ===The Icelandic Coast Guard played its largest role during the  fishing rights dispute known as the Cod Wars, between 1972 and 1976, when the Coast Guard ships would cut the trawl wires of British and West German trawlers, resulting in confrontations with Royal Navy warships and tugs from the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF)
 The Icelandic Coast Guard goal was to enforce a disputed expansion of Iceland's exclusive economic zone

