Mackerel

Icelandic mackerel season starts

Post published:01/07/2016
Post category:Fish Species

This summer’s mackerel season is underway with both of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels on the fishing grounds already.

Faroese pelagics get MSC approval

Post published:18/06/2016
Post category:Fish Species

Faroese herring has been MSC certified since 2012, and now gets it re-certification, while this is a new certification for Faroese mackerel and blue whiting, each of which represents an approximately half-million tonne annual fishery.

Kaliningrad gear for Russian Far East

Post published:17/05/2016
Post category:Fish Species Fishing

Kaliningrad fishing gear supplier Fishering Service has supplied an Atlantica 1460 pelagic trawl in a combination of hexagonal and diamond meshes to a Russian RSW trawler, one of only a few RSW-equipped pelagic vessels operating in the region.

New mackerel row erupts

Post published:04/05/2016
Post category:Fish Species Politics

The longstanding dissatisfaction over mackerel continues to be a highly sensitive issue as anger has erupted yet again. A Faroese vessel landing in Skagen was reported to have misreported amounts of mackerel mixed in with its cargo of blue whiting and Shetland fishermen have responded with anger.