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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11142

29 August 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) fisheries
Mackerel stocks in Icelandic waters doing well

Brussels, 28/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 28 August, the Icelandic Ministry of Fisheries highlighted the positive results of the co-ordinated survey of the Nordic countries on mackerel.

The marine research institutes of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Norway have published a report on the mackerel fisheries survey in the Nordic Seas, which was conducted in July and August.

The total estimate of mackerel biomass is around nine million tonnes, which is similar to or...