Working through a series of online negotiation meetings, Norway and Russia have reached a fisheries agreement for 2022. This is Norway’s most important bilateral fisheries agreement. ‘The agreement entered into…
The first new factory vessel built under the Russian government’s investment quotas programme has completed its first trip and landed its catch in Murmansk. Barents Sea was built at the…
Two of Brim’s factory trawlers are alongside in Reykjavík after completing long Barents Sea trips. ‘Fishing has been good and we were fortunate that we had fine weather practically the…
Brim’s factory trawler Örfirisey is steaming home to Reykjavík from a a 40-day trip to the Barents Sea. The catch is a 1576 tonne green weight of fish. This is…
There are two survivors from fishing vessel Onega, reported lost west of Novaya Zemlaya in the Barents Sea. Onega MK-0331 is reported by the Ministry Of Emergency Situations to news…
ICES has recommended that there should be no fishing for capelin in the Barents Sea next year. In compliance with the Norwegian-Russian harvesting regulation, the Norway-Russia Fisheries Commission will set…
Síldarvinnslan’s factory trawler Blængur has landed a record trip after spending 40 days fishing in the Barents Sea, and is now back at sea on home grounds. Blængur’s crew worked…
ICES has issued its guidance for 2021 Barents Sea quotas, with increases for the three main stocks of cod, haddock and saithe north of 62°N. According to Audun Maråk, director…
ICES has advised that the Barents Sea shrimp fishery should not exceed 150,000 tonnes in 2020, more than double this year’s figure. ‘For 2019, the advice was 70,000 tonnes, so…
An agreement was signed between Russia and Norway following negotiations that took place at Petrozavodsk in Karelia. With the joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission meeting for the 49th time, the two…