Minister boosts coastal fishery quota
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdóttir has signed off changes to regulations to authorise an additional 2000 tonnes of cod to be allocated to the coastal fishery sector. Not…
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdóttir has signed off changes to regulations to authorise an additional 2000 tonnes of cod to be allocated to the coastal fishery sector. Not…
An event organised in Brussels by Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) has marked five years of emergency management of Baltic fisheries designed to protect the Eastern Baltic cod stock…
Recommendations for fisheries in the Baltic for 2025 have been presented by ICES and will form the basis of further proposals and decisions for the 2025 fishery. Despite the dry…
Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Research Institute has published its advice for quotas to be set for most commercial species for the 2024-25 quota year, which begins on 1st September. The…
Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) has told the Canadian government that the 2024 northern cod harvest should be increased – but under a continued inshore stewardship fishery…
Síldarvinnslan’s factory trawler Blængur is alongside in Neskaupstaður after a 40-day trip for a green weight catch of 928 tonnes and a catch value of ISK413 million. Of the 40…
Ocean Choice International has sold its offshore Nova Scotia scallop quotas to three Nova Scotia companies with a long history harvesting sea scallops off the coast of Nova Scotia –…
There has been a substantial drop in the distant waters quotas available to the UK, notably for factory trawler Kirkella, operated by the last of the Humberside fishing companies. In…
Survey catches of cod in the inshore waters around Shetland last year were at their best for five years, according to scientists at UHI Shetland. Alongside the strong cod stock,…
Values are up and tonnages are down for the Norwegian seafood industry, which saw a record year in 2023 with exports valued at NoK172 billion. That’s 14% up on the…