Recommended Barents Sea cod quota down by a fifth
The International Sea Research Council (ICES) has recommended that the Barents Sea cod quota next year should not exceed 712,000 tonnes – a 20% reduction compared to this year's quota.
Choke or crying wolf?
An assessment by Philip Taylor, campaign manager for Open Seas, and Griffin Carpenter, an economic modeller at the New Economics Foundation, concludes that fears of a choke on fishing in the UK’s hake, saithe, whiting and haddock fisheries in 2016 did not materialise.
Faroes and Norway agree 2017 access
Norway and the Faroe Islands have reached agreement on reciprocal fishing rights for 2017, with the Faroes getting an increased cod quota in Norwegian waters and in return Norway gets a higher mackerel quota in the Faroese EEZ.
North Sea advice updated
ICES has updated its advice for North Sea fish stocks, notably saithe, haddock and cod.
Fiskebåt wants reassessment of North Sea saithe rule
Norwegian vessel owners’ federation Fiskebåt believes that the previous management rules for saithe in the North Sea is outdated and needs to be revised.
A good summer’s fishing
Elusive saithe can disappear and then just as suddenly reappear, according to one of HB Grandi’s skippers, now fishing off the Westfjords of Iceland.
Home for the summer
HB Grandi’s factory trawler Theney is back in home waters after a trip to the Russian zone of the Barents Sea that started in early June.
Pair teams arrested in Faroese waters
Faroese authorities boarded four French trawlers in a closed area east of the island of Fugløy and the two pair teams have been escorted to Kollafjørður.
Good May for Síldarvinnslan trawlers
The groundfish trawlers operated by Síldarvinnslan and its subsidiary companies did well during May.
All about that saithe
One of HB Grandi’s trawlers is due to dock in Reykjavík later today after a trip to fishing grounds off the Westfjords chasing saithe, and is about to land a mixed trip of redfish, saithe and cod.