Freezing of Capelin running high in Iceland
At Vopnafjördur fish plant in Iceland, the freezing of Capelin is in progress with 750 tonnes of species docked last week.
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At Vopnafjördur fish plant in Iceland, the freezing of Capelin is in progress with 750 tonnes of species docked last week.
In Iceland strict fishing quotas have affected the fishing industry practices, says a report.
HB Grandi’s herring fishing for the year is now finished. Lundey NS was in Vopnafjördur last Wednesday with 800 tonne catch which the HB Grandi´s factory finished processing on Friday. Then Faxi RE docked the following night with 900 tonnes from its last herring trip of the year.
The results of work by the Marine Research Institute between 24th September and 8th November indicates a capelin spawning stock of 630,000 tonnes. The Institute has recommended an initial quota of 200,000 tonnes, on the principle that the spawning stock needs to be a minimum of 400,000 tonnes.
The project on supply and installation of I-Cut 10 portioning machine is completed at K.I.T. Ltd plant.
HB Grandi has sent an application to the Ministry of Fisheries to carry out experimental fishing on pearlside.
Iceland’s largest seafood company has entered all its cod and haddock fisheries into Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) assessment.
The Icelandic Group, Iceland’s largest seafood company, has entered all the nation’s cod and haddock fisheries into assessment under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard. If successful, all landings by the Icelandic Group will be eligible to bear the MSC ecolabel.
The fishery uses five different fishing gears to catch 160,000MT of cod and 82,000MT of haddock (2009). Fisheries outside of the Icelandic Group will be able to join the certificate at a later date if they choose in cooperation with Icelandic Group.
HB Grandi’s purse seiner/pelagic trawler Ingunn AK has been in port in Reykjavík preparing to start fishing on Icelandic summer spawning herring, and the crew were yesterday taking the ship’s herring seine on board. There has been some uncertainty over this year’s season and whether or not the stock would support a quota this autumn, but the fisheries minister has issued a 15,000 tonne initial quota, of which an 1800 tonne share falls to HB Grandi.
In a Press Conference in Brussels on 27 September 2010, Maria Damanaki, the Fisheries Commissioner of the European Union, harshly criticised mackerel fisheries by Iceland and the Faroe Islands and made unjustified allegations that have no foundation. Damanaki alleged that Iceland and the Faroe Islands are solely responsible for the fact that the total catch of mackerel this year will foreseeably exceed the sustainable level considerably. Finally, she threatened that the EU might take action with respect to Iceland and the Faroe Islands and, in particular, take the EU´s annual fisheries arrangements with those two countries under review.
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