The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission has increased the quotas on all the main commercially fished species in the Barents Sea. The Norwegian minister of fisheries called the quota level a “historical high”.
The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission is gathered in Svolvær, northern Norway this week for its 39th session.
Quotas on North-East Arctic cod in the Barents Sea in 2011 will be 16% higher than in 2010 and amount to 703,000 tonnes. The total quota on haddock will be 25% higher than last year, while the quota on capelin will be 5.5% higher.
The Joint Norwegian-Russian fisheries Commission has reached an agreement on the quotas for 2011 in record time, said minister of fisheries and coastal affairs Lisbeth Berg-Hansen.
“We follow the long-term strategies for resources management that we have agreed on in the commission and recommendations from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. These strategies are the reason we can set next year’s quotas on a historical high level,” she explained.
[Source: BarentsObserver.com]
