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Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries has signed off regulations covering this year’s coastal fishery, open only to inshore boats within certain restrictions, and has increased and adjusted the quotas available.
Fishing has been steady on blue whiting south of the Faroe Islands, with 12-15 hour tows and the fish are expected to shift as they begin to migrate northwards.
In its first trip after a month-long refit, one of HB Grandi’s fresher trawlers hit a patch of saithe off the west of Iceland and other trawlers quickly arrived on the scene for as long as the fishing lasted.
Iceland and Russia have signed an agreement covering fishing activities by Icelandic vessels in the Russian area of the Barents Sea this year.
The board of the Westfjords Tourism Association has reiterated its opposition to an application for aquaculture cages to be sites in the Jökulfjörður area in north-western Iceland as local travel businesses and the aquaculture are set to clash.
Síldarvinnslan is bridging the gap between now and the beginning of the summer herring and mackerel seasons by switching its production to groundfish.
Kolbeinn Árnason, director of Icelandic vessel operators’ association Fisheries Iceland (Samtök Fyrirtækja í Sjávarútvegi – SFS), has stood down.
Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries on Friday set this year’s mackerel quota at 148,000 tonnes.
It’s about the simplest piece of kit that any fishing vessel can have on board, but there’s more to a gaff than just a length of wood with a nail through it, as Erling Brim is happy to explain.
Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson has taken over as Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture in the Icelandic government’s reshuffle following the revelation that prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson had been implicated in undeclared ownership of an offshore company together with his wife.