Struan Stevenson said Iceland and the Faroes were “acting just like their Viking ancestors” by “plundering” stocks.<\/p>\n
It has been claimed the dispute could have serious consequences for the Scottish fleet.<\/p>\n
Last week a Faroese boat left Peterhead harbour after being blockaded.<\/p>\n
Stevenson has written to the president of the European Parliament’s fisheries committee calling for the Iceland and the Faroes fisheries ministers to be summoned to Brussels for talks.<\/p>\n
He said: “So far they have obstinately refused to bring their quotas back down to sensible levels, so I believe the EU must apply maximum pressure to bring them back to the table.<\/p>\n
“They need to understand the serious repercussions of this selfish and short-sighted action.”<\/p>\n
Scottish fishing industry leaders, who have been angered by the situation, welcomed the EU move.<\/p>\n
First minister Alex Salmond has already called for political action to end the ongoing dispute over mackerel, which is the most valuable stock to the Scottish industry.<\/p>\n
Dozens of local fishermen had taken action when the Jupiter<\/em> arrived in Peterhead last Tuesday, and it was forced to leave.<\/p>\n Jupiter<\/span><\/em> returned to its home port, and skipper Emil Pedersen told BBC Scotland<\/em> its catch would have to go into meal and oil production – costing him more than \u00a3400,000 (\u20ac488,410\/$616,954).<\/p>\n [Source: BBC News]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Scottish MEP has called for an EU-wide blockade of Icelandic and Faroese boats and goods amid a wrangle over mackerel quotas.<\/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-3500","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\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}