Land: Iceland

Ingunn AK is on the way to Trænø in northern

TACs for next year’s Atlanto-Scandian herring and blue whiting fisheries

Total catch of Icelandic vessels in October 2008 was 91,411

Freezer trawler Thór docked in Hafnarfjördur on Monday with 21,400

Speaking at last week’s AGM of the Icelandic Federation of

HB Grandi’s factory trawler Örfirisey RE docked in Reykjavík yesterday

‘There’s not much happening. We’ve been here since Saturday and haven’t been able to shoot yet. There are eight boats looking for herring here that have been able to shoot and they haven’t caught much,’ said Albert Sveinsson, skipper of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Faxi RE when we spoke to him at midday yesterday. Faxi was on fishing grounds off Stykkishólmur in the west of Iceland, where fishing for herring has been at its best recently.

Commenting at the AGM of the Icelandic Federation of Fishing

In the first nine months of 2008, Iceland exported marine

The AGM of Iceland’s Federation of Fishing Vessel Operators saw