Iceland

  • New Grimsby art exhibition explores Iceland links

    New Grimsby art exhibition explores Iceland links

    22nd May 2023

    A new art exhibition exploring Grimsby’s relationship with Iceland through ‘conflict, co-operation and fish and chips’ has opened at the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre. The ‘Friends, Foes and Good Companions’ exhibition, by award-winning artist Olivier Kugler and writer Andrew Humphreys,…

  • Catch it, kill it, cook it! – a conference with a difference

    Catch it, kill it, cook it! – a conference with a difference

    18th October 2022

    Fancy yours with chips? Seal tenderloin is sustainable, delicious and an environmentally friendly choice, the conference was told, prior to sampling sessions for the delegates. (Photo: Canadiansealproducts.com) Keynote speakers including the head of fisheries at the UN Food and Agriculture…

  • New paper suggests genetically distinct Nephrops clusters

    New paper suggests genetically distinct Nephrops clusters

    13th January 2022

    Researchers from Ireland and Iceland believe that they have detected four genetically distinct clusters of Nephrops. Nephrops norvegicus are distributed through the North East Atlantic, from the coast of North Africa to southern Iceland, northern Norway and Skagerrak and, in…

  • Mackerel challenges head NEAFC agenda

    Mackerel challenges head NEAFC agenda

    25th October 2021

    Call for coastal states to work together for sustainable fishery As talks between NEAFC nations on the three shared pelagic stocks – mackerel, blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring – started in London last week, parties with an interest in the…

  • New Issue: Fishing News 19.11.20

    New Issue: Fishing News 19.11.20

    18th November 2020

        – £1M for Scots prawn group – Millionth box of whitefish landed at Peterhead – Scientific advice for 2021 emerges on some stocks – Brexit ‘deal to be done’, says PM – Scots leaders warn PM: no-deal Brexit…

  • A battle won in a losing war

    A battle won in a losing war

    27th September 2020

    Tom Watson, who skippered the Wyre Victory FD 181 during the second Cod War of 1972-3, recalls an encounter with an Icelandic gunboat in which Britain came out best There has been a lot in the press of late linking…

  • Boat of the week: Golden Dawn FR 8

    Boat of the week: Golden Dawn FR 8

    18th December 2019

    Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Golden Dawn FR 8 LOA: 9.99m Built: Trefjar Ltd Iceland Type: Fast potter Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got…

  • New Issue: Fishing News 04.07.19

    New Issue: Fishing News 04.07.19

    2nd July 2019

    This week in Fishing News you will find: – Bid to ditch FQAs – Gove pledges support for Scottish industry – Iceland stakes claim to Rockall waters – Stock assessments central to scallop fishery management – Plans for Donegal sea…

  • Archive on 4: Cod Wars Revisited

    Archive on 4: Cod Wars Revisited

    28th September 2018

    A programme about the so-called ‘cod wars’ with Iceland is due to be aired on BBC Radio 4 this Saturday (29 September) at 8PM (‘Archive on 4: Cod Wars Revisited’). When a country unilaterally takes back control of its waters,…

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