Jón Bjarnason
All fishing for halibut around Iceland will be banned from 1st January amid ongoing stock decline. Read the full story
Posted on 24 December 2011.
Jón Bjarnason
All fishing for halibut around Iceland will be banned from 1st January amid ongoing stock decline. Read the full story
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Posted on 18 November 2011.
Greenland and the Faroe Islands have agreed on how much Greenlandic fishermen can catch in Faroese waters in 2012, and how much the Faroese fishing fleet will be able to take from Greenland’s waters. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 October 2011.
The seas off the Westfjords region of Iceland have been teeming with an unusual number of fish in recent weeks and the town of Bolungarvik has not processed greater volumes of catch in over ten years. 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 09 July 2010.
Iceland’s national cod quota for this fishing year, which was 130,000 tonnes, is over 90 percent finished with fully two months left. On the other hand, a quarter of the allotted haddock catch remains. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 June 2010.
There are strong indications that the Icelandic cod stock is in much better condition than reported last 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 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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Posted on 01 July 2009.
As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) met in Portugal recently, Denmark requested on the behalf of Greenland to include 10 humpback whales in its annual hunting quota. Greenland presently has hunting quotas for minke and fin whales, but the meat obtained from these species is significantly less than the amount allowed by the IWC. Read the full story
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