The Faroe Islands and Greenland have signed a reciprocal fisheries agreement for 2026. Greenlandic vessels get to fish for blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring in Faroese waters. The Greenland fleet’s…
A Nova Scotia court has handed out fines totalling $76,000 to a fisherman, plus area bans and mandatory VMS monitoring of the vessel in question. In September 2022, Grant Cameron…
A 24-month major case investigation by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) into the halibut fishery in the Sambro area of Nova Scotia has been completed. This major investigation resulted in…
Royal Greenland has announced a pre-tax profit for 2022 of DKK235 million, on a turnover of DKK5.8 billion. Acccording to CEO Susanne Arfelt Rajamand, it’s a satisfactory outcome for a very…
As a result of a 24-month major case investigation in the Sambro area of Nova Scotia, Fisheries and Oceans Canada has laid 66 charges related to the illegal possession and…
Kodiak fisherman James Aaron Stevens was sentenced earlier this month to a six-month term in a federal prison and a $1 million fine after being found guilty of falsely labelling catches. The…
This year’s fishery for halibut at Qaanaaq in Greenland has got off to a good start, with good catches of Greenland halibut caught around 70 kilometres inside the fjord. At…
Síldarvinnslan’s factory at Neskaupstaður in eastern Iceland has this summer been processing Greenland halibut and redfish for the Asian market, with the emphasis in Greenland halibut since production began in April.
Icelandic company Vinnslustöðin’s netter has returned to the Westmann Isands after a successful season fishing off the east of Iceland.
Westmann Islands netter Kap II has been fishing well this summer, having caught 300 tonnes of Greenland halibut since the beginning of July on grounds off the east of Iceland.
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