Iceland increases blue whiting quota
Iceland’s Ministry of Industries and Innovation has announced a 30% increase in this year’s blue whiting quota.
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Iceland’s Ministry of Industries and Innovation has announced a 30% increase in this year’s blue whiting quota.
As accusations of corruption are levelled at some of Iceland’s political figures this week and with the likelihood that the government will not survive the latest scandal, SFÚ, the Association of Fish Producers and Exporters, has also pointed to what it refers to as long-term corruption within the fishing industry.
A group of Icelandic companies have applied to the Icelandic Centre for Research for support to develop a hybrid-engined longliner.
There has been some fine fishing in the last few weeks south and west of Reykjanes in Iceland, mainly golden redfish and cod, plus a spell of good saithe fishing. There are trawlers and smaller boats fishing from the Westmann Islands all the way west to Reykjanes.
The organisers of the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition to be held 13th-15th of September next year are already gearing up ahead of the event.
Freezer trawler Blængur, owned by Icelandic fishing and processing company Síldarvinnslan, has arrived in Poland where it is undergoing a major refit.
Life is becoming tougher for crewmen on Icelandic fishing vessels, according to Árni Bjarnason of Icelandic Ship’s Officers’ Union FFSÍ.
Skipper Ægir Fransson expects to haul his gear today for the last time this trip and set course for home to finish the trip on home grounds. The catch for the trip so far has been an ungutted weight of 1000 tonnes of fish.
The Icelandic authorities have protested at the US government’s decision to place Atlantic cod on a list of endangered species, based on reports of IUU fishing.
Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries has re-scheduled the opening of the lumpfish roe season, leaving his decision to delay the season by two weeks, and announcing the change only days before the fishery was due to open today on the 20th of March.
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