Land: Faroe Islands

While some blame Iceland and the Faroe Islands for alleged problems in the North East Atlantic mackerel fishery, questions remain over the EU and Norway’s commitment to multilateral cooperation as the mackerel stock gravitates toward the northwest, says the Faroese Pelagic Organisation.

Sound fisheries management run the Faroese economy and now they had no choice but to set their own mackerel quota.

The Faroe Islands had no choice but to set its own quota when faced with its exclusion from this year’s northeast Atlantic mackerel agreement by the EU and Norway, according to the Faroe Shipowners’ Association.

At the Fishing show which was held in Glasgow the

As an island nation dependent on the sea and fisheries,

The Greenland shrimp trawler, Markus, has been fishing in Canadian

The Faroese Atlanto-Scandian (Norwegian Spring Spawning) herring fishery – Faroese Pelagic Organization- has attained the MSC environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.

Together with the Marine Institute in Newfoundland, Vónin and Vónin Canada are going to work on a project, which goal is to reduce the impact that bottom trawls have on the seabed. The project is expected to cost around $ 4,1 million.