Faroese blue whiting quota set
Following consultations with the foreign affairs committee, Faroese fisheries minister Høgni Hoydal has set this year’s quota for the Faroese fleet’s blue whiting fishery.
Blue whiting fleet S-W of St Kilda
Norwegian pelagic vessels have been fishing south-west of St Kilda and 25 Norwegian and one Faroese vessels have landed 42,200 tonnes in the last week.
Varðin Pelagic expands into surimi
Faroese pelagic fishing and processing company Varðin Pelagic expects to extend its factory in Tvøroyri this year, focusing on the blue whiting fishery in Faroese waters.
Kvannøy does well on blue whiting
Norwegian pelagic vessel Kvannøy has completed a full trip on blue whiting on fishing grounds deep west of Ireland, filling its tanks in record time and this time using Vónin fishing gear.
New pelagic factory for east Iceland
Fishing and processing company Eskja, based in the Icelandic east coast port of Eskifjörður, has contracted Skaginn and a group of partner companies to build a new pelagic processing plant. With a construction time of only six months, the new factory is scheduled to be ready for production in September this year.
MSC blue whiting a first
Two thirds of the north-east Atlantic blue whiting fishery is now MSC certified with fishing organisations from Holland, the UK, Germany, France, Lithuania, Denmark and Ireland collaborating to make this possible.
Tough trip, heavy weather
HB Grandi’s pelagic trawler Venus is due to dock at the north-east Iceland port of Vopnafjörður today with 2750 tonnes of blue whiting on board, the result of a week fishing south of the Faroe Islands where bad weather and the difficult conditions it brings made it a hard week’s fishing.
Blue whiting agreement sparks fury from EU operators
The EU pelagic fishing sector as the Northern Pelagic Working Group is appalled by the blue whiting agreement that was signed between the EC and Norway on 15th December and presented to the Council during the final phase of the December Council meeting.
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