Confirming a two-year extension to its innovative Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs), emphasising the urgent need for responsible management of pelagic fisheries, the NAPA consortium is retailers and supply chain businesses…
Irish fish producers have issued a call to ban Norway from fishing in Irish waters, stating that Norway’s overfishing is the main reason behind the 22% reduction in mackerel quotas,…
The Pelagic Advisory Council hasn't pulled its punches in lettes to EU Director General of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Charlina Vitcheva, urging the Commission in two separate letters to take…
ICES has presented its recommendations for 2025 for the main north Atlantic pelagic fisheries – and the advice for next year’s mackerel fishery is the lowest in ten years. ICES…
The three pelagic vessels operated by Icelandic company Síldarvinnslan, Barði, Beitir and Börkur have finished their mackerel fishery for this year after searching in both international and Icelandic waters with…
Icelandic marine research vessel Árni Friðriksson earlier this month concluded its role in this year’s North Atlantic pelagic survey, alongside Norwegian, Faroese and Danish research institutes. Árni Friðriksson covered 6000…
Vinnslustöðin’s pelagic vessel Gullberg is back at sea after a refit completed at the Slippurinn shipyard in Akureyri, with a young skipper in charge. After leaving the yard, Gullberg made…
Predictions that mackerel would not this year migrate into Icelandic waters haven’t come true, according to Barði’s skipper Runólfur Runólfsson, who has just landed 1320 tonnes of mackerel –caught in…
Samherji’s pelagic vessel Vilhelm Thorsteinsson is among the first to land mackerel as the Icelandic fleet start its season this week, making its first landing of 850 tonnes in Neskaupstaður.…
European fishing operators, represented by Europêche, have responded to the tripartite mackerel deal struck between Norway, the Faroe Islands and the UK, dismissing it as seeking to legitimise continuous overfishing…