Posted on 20 August 2011.
By Alëx Elliott, IceNews editor: It has been a long time since I wrote an editorial column. They were a regular feature at the height of the banking crisis and always stimulated good debate. There are a few ongoing news stories that have been bothering me lately and today I’d like to rant about just one of them. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 June 2011.
Increasing sea temperature and growing mackerel numbers around Iceland are having a direct impact on the collapse of sand eel populations upon which birds like puffins and Arctic terns depend. Read the full story
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Posted on 30 October 2010.
The second round of negotiations trying to solve the mackerel quota row have ended without agreement. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 September 2010.
Sensitive EU-Icelandic discussions on mackerel fishing are reportedly going well, according to head of the Icelandic delegation, Tomas H. Heidar. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 August 2010.
The deputy chairman of the European Union fisheries committee wants the fisheries ministers of Iceland and the Faroe Islands to be called urgently to Brussels in order to negotiate a solution to the escalating mackerel fishing dispute. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 August 2010.
The European Union and Norway are publicly speaking out against Iceland’s decision to fish 130,000 tonnes of mackerel within its 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone this year. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 April 2010.
Iceland’s Minister for Fisheries has decided to change the country’s new rules on mackerel fishing, banning fishing nets altogether. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 December 2009.
Icelandic Minister for Fisheries, Jon Bjarnason has officially recognised an invitation sent to him from the European Union, the Faroe Islands and Norway asking Iceland to participate in Mackerel quota setting in the Northeast Atlantic. The meeting will take place March and this is the first time Iceland has been asked to attend. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 July 2009.
About 20 Icelandic fishing ships are on their way back to Iceland after the Ministry of Agriculture, Sjávarútvegsráðuneyti, posted a ban on mackerel fishing yesterday. The boats have been fishing lately between the Faroe Islands and Iceland. The boats are returning home with a high catch. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
