A political agreement on the fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2025 has been reached by the Council of the European Union has reached, following the Commission’s proposal in August this…
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…
The Faroe Islands and Greenland have concluded negotiations held at the Greenlandic embassy in Copenhagen to agree reciprocal fisheries opportunities for 2024. The Faroes fleet’s quotas in Greenland’s waters remain…
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for the 2024 fishing opportunities for the Baltic Sea in response to a scientific assessment that indicates several fisheries are in a dire…
The Icelandic fleet’s herring fishery has begun, with pelagic vessel Barði landing 560 tonnes of Atlanto-Scandian herring to Síldarvinnslan’s Neskaupstaður processing plant at the weekend. Accordoing to skipper Thorkell Pétursson,…
Icelandic research vessel Árni Friðriksson has completed its participation in this year’s international North Atlantic pelagic survey. During the 19-day survey, Árni Friðriksson steamed 3250 nautical miles and and 43…
A new report by marine consultancy ABPmer contrasts the chaotic management of pelagic stocks in North Atlantic waters against the cohesive approach on management by the 15 nations that fish…
Scotland’s fishing industry will benefit from increased opportunities to access monkfish and other key demersal stocks, following the successful conclusion of UK-Norway bilateral negotiations. Agreement on access and quota exchanges…
Plaice is up and and quotas for both eastern and western cod fisheries are a rollover, but this still leaves Baltic fishermen with some very tight quotas for 2023 as…
During this year's ecosystem survey in the Barents Sea, relatively large concentrations of group zero herring were recorded in the central part and west and north of Svalbard. According to…