Vilhj\u00e1lmur Vilhj\u00e1lmsson of HB Grandi said, \u201cWe have flexibility to keep some quota back for next year, or we could also now take 10% of next year\u2019s quota, which would give us an additional 1,500 tonnes on top of this year\u2019s catch.\u201d<\/p>\n
To give an idea of conditions, he said that the excellent mackerel fishing only fell away a few days before the end of August. A large fleet of both pelagic boats and factory vessels had been fishing on a small area off the east of Iceland.<\/p>\n
Mr Vilhj\u00e1lmsson added that the situation is very different to that of Atlanto-Scandian herring. The company has 12,000 tonnes of its herring quota still uncaught and hopes that this will be enough to keep the pelagic factory at Vopnafj\u00f6rdur running into October.<\/p>\n
He went on to explain that as there is generally a mackerel by-catch with the herring, the pelagic vessels need to keep some mackerel quota back to cover that so as to make the most of the herring fishery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HB Grandi says there are still some decisions to be taken on the last of this season\u2019s mackerel quotas: according to the company\u2019s pelagic division, there remains only around 2,000 tonnes to be caught.<\/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-4058","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\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}