Federation offers capelin survey support
Icelandic fishing vessel operators’ federation SFS is offering to fund capelin survey work between now and the end of the year to the tune of ISK65,000,000 (€418,000) to establish the…
Icelandic fishing vessel operators’ federation SFS is offering to fund capelin survey work between now and the end of the year to the tune of ISK65,000,000 (€418,000) to establish the…
Greenlandic pelagic vessel Polar Amaroq is currently searching for capelin north of Iceland, carrying out a survey backed by fishing vessel operators’ federation SFS (Samtök fyrirtækja í sjávarútvegi). Polar Amaroq…
Iceland’s Marine Research Institute has advised a zero capelin quota for the 2020-21 season. The advice is based on a research carried out by the Institute’s Árni Friðriksson and Norwegian…
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…
Icelandic research vessel Árni Friðriksson is expected to sail on Monday morning to start this year’s 22-day autumn capelin survey, joined by another research vessel from Greenland. The survey will…
The initial results of a second capelin survey carried out earlier this month by research vessel Árni Friðriksson and four commercial pelagic vessels has produced disappointing conclusions. The survey took…
Only limited amounts of capelin were located during the survey that the Icelandic Marine Research Institute conducted last month. Initial conclusions put the spawning stock at just 64,000 tonnes. According…
The Icelandic Marine Research Institute is sending research vessel Árni Friðriksson to sea at the beginning of the coming week to search for capelin, and two commercial fishing vessels are…
So far this year there has been no move to conduct a capelin survey of Icelandic waters, and according to fishing vessel operators’ federation Samtök Fyrirtækja í Sjavarútvegi (SFS), the…
The Icelandic Marine Research Institute has recommended a zero capelin TAC for this winter’s fishery, following acoustic sampling carried out in September and October. The Institute’s advice is set to…