As The Faroe Islands and Russia strike a deal on reciprocal fisheries access for 2025, there are reductions in quotas on both sides.
As could have been expected, the reduction in groundfish TACs for the Barents Sea has resulted in reduced fishing opportunities for the Faroese fleet as its cod quota in Russian waters is reduced by 23.80% to 7445 tonnes and haddock is down 4.50% to 1000 tonnes, while quotas for flatfish remain unchanged 900 tonnes and shrimp at 4000 tonnes.
An alteration made in the 2025 agreement allows two Faroese trawlers to operate on shrimp in the Russian zone at the same time, instead just one, as had been the case previously.
The Russian fleet’s quotas for blue whiting in Faroese waters are unchanged at 75,000 tonnes, while the mackerel quota is reduced by 34.30% to 8080 tonnes and the herring quota drops 10.6% to 5800 tonnes. The Russian fleet can also take up to 52,612 tonnes of its blue whiting quota in international waters inside the Faroese EEZ.
