A long-standing collaboration between DTU Aqua and the Danish Pelagic Producers Organisation (DPPO) on collecting data on the mackerel stock in the North Sea has developed into an important contribution…
Pelagic vessel Margrét has delivered the first mackerel of the season to Síldarvinnslan’s plant in Neskaupstaður with a 700-tonne landing. Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vesels Börkur and Beitir sailed at the beginning…
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessels Börkur and Beitir are about to make a start on the Icelandic fleet’s mackerel fishery. While skippers Hjörvar Hjálmarsson and Tómas Kárason would prefer to fish for…
Following Russia’s decision to set a unilateral mackerel quota of 67,548 tonnes, equivalent to 22.50% of the 2026 TAC and almost five times its 2004 share, NEAFC nations have adopted…
NOAA Fisheries is partnering with the US Northeast fishing industry to collect management-relevant data on mackerel population dynamics using advanced technology. This initiative will receive $2.3 million in the current…
The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA), a global coalition of seafood businesses calling for better management of North East Atlantic pelagic fisheries, has welcomed Nissui Corporation as its latest…
Norway’s Institute of Marine Research has pushed back against claims in industry media concerning management of mackerel stocks over the last couple of decades, in the light of the ICES…
In a letter to the Pelagic Advisory Council (PelAC), responding to the Council expressing its misgivings on the state of mackerel management earlier this year, DG MARE director Charlina Vitcheva…
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) had already removed North-East Atlantic mackerel from its recommended list, and has now downgraded it further with a red listing – with its Good Fish…
Irish fishing industry leaders have welcomed a €32 million mackerel agreement secured by the Marine Minister at the EU Agrifish Council. The Seafood Ireland Alliance state than this deal is…
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