This week’s Reykjavík mackerel fishing negotiations between Iceland and the Faroe Islands on one side and the EU and Norway on the other have ended without agreement and with the EU’s fishing chief blaming Icelandic and Faroese unwillingness to properly engage in negotiations.
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Iceland ‘mackerel war’ negotiations end in failure
Posted on 17 February 2012.
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Iceland bans halibut fishing outright amid stock level fears
Posted on 24 December 2011.
All fishing for halibut around Iceland will be banned from 1st January amid ongoing stock decline.
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Greenland and Faroe Islands agree shared fishing quotas for next year
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.
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Iceland’s Westfjords experiencing sudden fish boom
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.
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Diplomacy and science interact in Iceland mackerel debate
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.
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EU sanctions against Iceland and Faroes over mackerel dispute?
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.
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Iceland cod quota nearly finished: attention turns to haddock
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.
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Icelandic cod stock appears to be growing
Posted on 27 June 2010.
There are strong indications that the Icelandic cod stock is in much better condition than reported last year.
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