They are the second and third Faroese fisheries to enter MSC assessment following the Faroe Islands queen scallop fishery which started its assessment in June 2008.<\/p>\n
The mackerel fishery uses pelagic trawls and purse seines and \u2013 although quotas for 2009 have not yet been allocated \u2013 the fishery historically has landed around 11,000-13,000MT. The herring fishery is considerably larger catching just over 70,000MT in 2008 using the same gear. The fisheries are seasonal catching herring July-November and mackerel October to December.<\/p>\n
J\u00f3gvan Jespersen from Felagi\u00f0 N\u00f3taskip \u2013 the Faroese Pelagic Organisation \u2013 says: \u201cFor us it is a natural step to follow many of our colleagues in the pelagic sector to demonstrate the sustainability of the fisheries of Atlanto-Scandian herring and the North East Atlantic mackerel through a MSC certification. Our markets are increasing demanding certification, and this assessment will make sure that the fish are caught from sustainable resources in a way which not is damaging either the species or the environment in general.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camiel Derichs, MSC manager for northern Europe adds: \u201cThis is a great development in the North Atlantic, and I am delighted that the Faroese herring and mackerel fisheries are now in full MSC assessment. These fisheries represent a significant part of the total Faroese catches by volume. I hope this is the start of a successful assessment and that it supports Faroese fisheries to demonstrate the sustainability of their fisheries resources to the world through MSC certification.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Faroese Atlanto-Scandian herring (also known as Norwegian Spring Spawning herring) and north east Atlantic mackerel fisheries have entered assessment for certification under the Marine Stewardship Council standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}