The 2019 and 2020 seasons were both written off as insufficient stocks of capelin were judged to be present in Icelandic waters. This year there has been a concerted research effort involving a number of commercial vessels, culminating in the identification of enough capelin to justify allocating a quota \u2013 although this is a modest initial quota.<\/p>\n
The capelin quota is generally re-assessed and adjusted as the season progresses and more information on distribution and concentrations becomes available.<\/p>\n
The 61,000 tonne advice issued by the Institute of Marine Research is a 39,200 tonne increase in its initial advice at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n
Research vessel \u00c1rni Fri\u00f0riksson<\/em> sailed at the weekend to continue survey work, and three commercial vessels are also at sea to search for capelin.Two more are ready if required. Conditions off the north-west of Iceland have been difficult this year, but there are hopes that weather and sea ice distribution will make survey work possible.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a relief that it has been possible to avoid losing a third capelin season in a row,\u201d Kristj\u00e1n Th\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edusson said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a huge amount, but the fact that the Icelandic fleet is able to fish for capelin is a big step in the right direction. The search continues, as there is a great deal at stake for the economy in ensuring that the capelin season is as good as it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After months of uncertainty, speculation and acoustic surveys carried out around Iceland under challenging conditions, Iceland\u2019s Minister of Fisheries Kristj\u00e1n Th\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edusson has signed off the regulatory requirements for a 61,000 tonne capelin quota for this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","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=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}