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Iceland’s National Association of Small Boat Owners (NASBO) has pushed hard for the coastal fishing scheme that was implemented in 2009 to be given more flexibility, and claims that following elections earlier this year, there is a groundswell of support for this.
Iceland’s National Association of Small Boat Owners (NASBO) has questioned the authorities on its management of blue ling, which was not a quota species until the 2013-14 quota year, asking why advice has been for significantly higher amounts than have been landed, while management has not been effective in rebuilding this stock.
Independent fisheries scientist Jón Kristjánsson has criticised the Icelandic Marine Research Institute and its 20% catch rule.
Icelandic fishing and processing company HB Grandi has donated five million ISK (approx. €42,000) to the relief fund currently managed by UNICEF in Iceland to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Nigeria and its neighbouring countries where more than 200 children die each day from malnutrition.
Icelandic Group has struck a deal to sell its Sandgerði-based subsidiary Ný-Fiskur to Nesfiskur in nearby Garður.
The agreements between the Icelandic Seamen’s Union Sjómannasamband Íslands (SÍ) and employers’ federation SFS have been thrown out by the Union’s membership, raising the likelihood of a strike that could last into the New Year.
Shrimp processor Kampi, based in north-western Iceland, has had no choice but to make seven of its 40 staff redundant, attributing the need to do this to the strengthening of the Icelandic currency, combined with the effects of the UK’s Brexit referendum.
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessels have finished on Icelandic summer-spawning herring after a difficult season and the two have now switched to blue whiting, following the example of HB Grandi’s pelagic boats that are already fishing in Faroese waters.
Seyðisfjörður in eastern Iceland has been busier than usual in the last few days as trawlers have been making regular landings there.
HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Venus is on its way to Vopnafjörður with 1200 tonnes of herring on board. This catch, which is the first to be landed at Vopnafjörður following the seamen’s strike, was taken in five hauls west of Faxaflói Bay.
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