{"id":5568,"date":"2013-09-12T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/09\/12\/no-mackerel-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:54:52","slug":"no-mackerel-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/no-mackerel-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"No mackerel sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis weekend\u2019s Coastal States meeting (7-8 September) was held in an effort to reach consensus regarding mackerel catch levels. The meeting generated a constructive, positive discussion that laid the groundwork for negotiations to continue. Iceland looks forward to continuing constructive negotiations,\u201d said Mr Thorgeirsson.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Icelandic government is not prepared to go into detail on what was discussed during the meeting, he said that trade sanctions against Iceland were not on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIceland expects that further discussion of sanctions will be suspended so we all can focus on positive, constructive negotiations and reach our goal of securing a lasting agreement on mackerel catch levels\u201d said Mr Thorgeirsson.<\/p>\n<p>The Icelandic government called for an early meeting of the coastal states (EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands) to propose new negotiations to find a solution to the ongoing mackerel dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The Annual Coastal States Meeting will take place from 23-25 October in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite keeping details of the negotiations under wraps, Iceland\u2019s chief negotiator Sigurgeir Thorgeirsson has described the recent meeting of the coastal states on the mackerel dispute, as \u201cconstructive\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5568","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\/5568","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=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}