A good summer’s fishing
Elusive saithe can disappear and then just as suddenly reappear, according to one of HB Grandi’s skippers, now fishing off the Westfjords of Iceland.
Elusive saithe can disappear and then just as suddenly reappear, according to one of HB Grandi’s skippers, now fishing off the Westfjords of Iceland.
1200 tonnes of quota in the Russian zone of the Barents Sea was yesterday auctioned in the Faroe Islands.
Iceland’s National Association of Small Boat Owners (NASBO) has criticised the decision by fisheries minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson to follow the Marine Research Institute’s advice in setting quotas for 2016-17.
The European Commission has announced an agreement on amending the rules currently in place for protecting cod stocks.
ICES advice will provide the basis for the Commission's proposal on fishing opportunities in the Baltic region for 2017 which will be published in the autumn. The Council will then decide the final fishing possibilities in October. Europêche has made its own recommendations specifically on Western Baltic Cod following the publication of ICES data and pinpointing shortfalls in the data provided.
The groundfish trawlers operated by Síldarvinnslan and its subsidiary companies did well during May.
There was so much interest in the experimental Loppa gutting and heading machine for smaller fishing boats at the last Nor-Fishing exhibition that its inventors had every reason to push ahead with development and a commercial version will make its debut at Nor-Fishing this year.
ICES findings on Baltic cod make grim reading as reductions in fishing activity are called for.
Marel has contracted with HB Grandi to supply a new roundfish processing system for its Vopnafjörður factory in north-eastern Iceland, which is now diversifying from being a purely pelagic operation into also handling groundfish.
Ten years ago Greenpeace held a mock funeral for the last cod in the sea, delivering an effigy of fish to the British prime minister’s residence. Now North Sea cod is entering the MSC assessment process.