The Faroe Islands and the EU have agreed on reciprocal access for 2019, striking agreements with the EU, Russia and Greenland in recent weeks.
Under the deal with the European Union, Faroese vessels able to take up to 32,500 tonnes of blue whiting in EU waters next year. The amount of herring each party can take in the others’ waters next year has been increased to 4500 tonnes, and the reciprocal access to mackerel in each others’ waters remains the same as this year at 24,690 tonnes.
The Faroe Islands and Russia continue their agreement under which Russia has access to pelagic fisheries in Faroese waters while Faroese vessels receive demersal quotas in the Russian EEZ.
With the reduced quotas for cod and haddock in the Barents Sea agreed between Russia and Norway, the Faroese quota in Russian waters is send next year at 15,690 tonnes of cod and 1569 tonnes of haddock, a 6.60% reduction, while the 900 tonne flatfish quota remains unchanged. The shrimp quota in Russian waters is 5000 tonnes.
Russia gets an unchanged 81,000 tonne blue whiting quota in Faroese waters, while the mackerel and herring quotas are reduced. Russian vessels can take 12,500 tonnes of mackerel and 8555 tonnes of herring in the Faroese zone, and can also take a quarter of their NEAFC blue whiting quotas, 21,000 tonnes, in Faroese waters.
