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1st July 2024
Remotely Piloted Aircrafts will be used for monitoring by the Directorate of Fisheries in July and we would like to ask fishermen to keep in mind that all recordings are carefully examined and fish that goes overboard is species analyzed.
27th June 2024
The Minister of Food, Fisheries and Agriculture has signed an amendment to regulation for 2,000 ton increase in permitted total catch for cod during the ongoing coastal fishing season.
The Icelandic parliament, Althingi, passed a law which will enter into force on 1st of September, that stipulate that vessels will be allocated catch shares in lumpfish.
25th June 2024
The last date for submitting a request for transfer of quota shares in the fishing year is 31st of July.
The error that occurred in the Directorate of Fisheries systems has been fixed, and we have therefore reopened for electronic transfers.
Applications are now accepted for regional quota for the fishing year 2023/2024.
24th June 2024
Electronic transfers are temporarily down.
Tuna can be caught as bycatch in pelagic fisheries, therefore we would like to draw attention to the fact that all tuna catches must be reported to the Directorate of Fisheries as soon as possible.
21st June 2024
New fishing year begins on 1st of September. We encourage parties to familiarize themselves with the implementation of allocations and transfers for the upcoming fishing year.
20th June 2024
For the given reason, the Directorate of Fisheries would like to point out that Pollurinn near Akureyri is in the Eyjafjardar estuary area.
