HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Venus is on its way to Vopnafjörður with 1200 tonnes of herring on board. This catch, which is the first to be landed at Vopnafjörður following the seamen’s strike, was taken in five hauls west of Faxaflói Bay.
There has been some heavy fishing on herring in Norwegian waters, with 18,000 tonnes reported last week.
Neskaupstaður company Síldarvinnslan has had a busy few months since the start of the mackerel season in mid-July. This season’s landings have totalled close to 69,000 tonnes.
The migration of Icelandic summer-spawning herring has yet to be properly located, in spite of the pelagic fleet searching for fish over a wide area west of Iceland.
Iceland’s early winter herring season is under way, with pelagic vessels fishing on Icelandic summer-spawning herring off the west coast.
With the year’s mackerel and Atlanto-Scandian herring fisheries over for the year, HB Grandi’s two pelagic vessels have now switched to blue whiting.
A video has been produced highlighting the work of an innovative multi-partner scientific survey to assess the composition of herring stocks to the West of Scotland.
Norway’s Institute of Marine Research (IMR) has advised quotas for mackerel that are increased by 22% and for blue whiting that are up by 77%, while its advice on Atlanto-Scandian herring is up by 104%.
A pioneering industry-led survey of a key west of Scotland herring fishery is paving the way for fishermen to provide scientific support to fisheries management.
The European Commission has set out proposals for Baltic fisheries for 2017, with a big increase in plaice, increases in sprat and some herring fisheries, but no decisions on western or eastern Baltic cod for next year.