Iceland’s Minister of Industries Hanna Katrín Friðriksson has signed off an amendment to legislation, allocating an additional 1032 tonnes of fish to the country’s small boat coastal fishery.
This increases the overall allocation to the coastal sector to 11,032 tonnes, supporting the government’s pledge to ensure the coastal fishery 48 fishing days this year. A bill was presented in Parliament earlier this year, authorising the minister to allocate additional resources to the coastal fishery during the course of the 2024-25 quota year.
In this instance the opportunity arose to offer 5478 tonnes of Icelandic summer spawning herring that had not been allocated, and which were exchanged for 1032 tonnes of cod.
