Land: Iceland

The fellows specializing in Quality Management of Fish Handling and

“It’s a few years since an Icelandic ship landed there

After 20 years the first Icelandic trawler landed on the Humber and sailed into Grimsby with 2,000 boxes of high quality line caught cod.

‘The roe dryer has worked very well. The roe is

Lundey NS started its capelin fishing with between 1100 and

‘We have been off Reykjanes for the last two days

The Marine Research Institute is hosting a symposium on the

Icelandic Fisheries Minister Steingrímur J. Sigfússon met with the ambassadors to the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Finland to discuss their stance on commercial whaling.

A careful watch is being kept over all of the south coast shallows for any signs of a capelin migration in any volume. So far it has still not been possible to determine if there is sufficient capelin on fishing grounds for scientists to confirm that an initial quota can be issued. Fishing so far has been on the basis of the 15,000 tonne research quota that the Ministry authorised last week.

Ólafur K. Pálsson, Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson and Sigmar Guðbjörnsson 2008. Geolocation