Minister boosts coastal fishery quota
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdóttir has signed off changes to regulations to authorise an additional 2000 tonnes of cod to be allocated to the coastal fishery sector. Not…
Minister launches discards initiative
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Svandís Svavarsdóttir has acceded to a request by the country’s Directorate of Fisheries to sign off funding for in-depth assessment of discard levels. The FAO has…
Mapping industry ownership
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries has given the green light to an initiative designed to map the tortuous web of ownership and cross-ownership in the Icelandic fishing industry. There has been…