News & announcements

Mobile predators on the Ascophyllum nodosum dominated shores of Breiðafjörður, Iceland, a seminar by Jón Tómas Magnússon.

Árni Kristmundsson, head of the Fish Disease laboratory at Keldur, has a seminar "Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae and proliferative kidney disease in Icelandic salmonids. Comparative data from two different time periods" at Hafrannsóknastofnun.

Seminar by Bogi Hansen from the Faroe Marine Research Institute, Havstovan, on the flows across the Iceland-Faroe Ridge.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) advises that when the harvest control rule agreed by the Coastal States is applied, there should be zero catch in winter 2023/2024.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute has released advice on fishing opportunities. The advice is available from the MFRI website under Advice.

SUMMER EU H2020 project started in 2019 with the objective to establish a protocol to accurately estimate mesopelagic fish biomass, quantify the ecosystem services provided by the mesopelagic community (food for aquaculture, for humans, for other wild fish, climate regulation and potential for bioactive compounds) and develop a decision support tool to quantitatively balance the trade-offs between the different services for any given exploitation scenario.

Marine and Freshwater Research Institute advises that the total catch of female lumpfish for the fishing year 2022/2023 should be no more than 4 411 tonnes.

MFRI has decided to revise its capelin advice from 24 February for the current fishing year.

The TAC advice for the fishing season 2022/2023 is expected to be increased next week by more than 100 thousands tonnes.

A new paper about trends in the Icelandic harbour seal population was recently published. The title of the paper is "The Icelandic harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) population: trends over 40 years (1980–2020) and current threats to the population"