Triton Iceland

Month: February 2020

Search for Capelin – 3rd trip over

The 3rd search for capelin is almost finished at the time of this update. Final results will be updated soon. Inofficially the search-vessels were unable to confirm big enough findings of capelin to warrant a quota. https://www.hafogvatn.is/is/midlun/frettir-og-tilkynningar/lodnumaelingum-naestum-lokid

Capelin – spawning stock 6-8 times below needed minimum

A prelimin­ary assess­ment is now availa­ble from mea­surements of the cap­el­in stock in Janu­ary. The size of the spawn­ing stock accord­ing to these mea­surements was about 64 thousand tons. It is far below the lim­it in the cur­rent catch rule that must be reached so that the MRI can recomm­end fis­hing.  Accord­ing to in­formati­on from the …

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