Higher quotas for Norwegian and Russian fishermen
The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission has decided to increase the quotas on all the main species in the Barents Sea.
The Norwegian Minister of Fisheries calls the quota level “historical high”.
The Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission is gathered in Svolvær, Nortern Norway this week for its 39th session.
The quotas on North-East Arctic cod in the Barents Sea in 2011 will be 16 percent higher than in 2010 and amount to 703 000 tons. The total quota on haddock will be 25 percent higher than last year, while the quota on capelin will be 5.5 percent higher, the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs’ web site reads.
- The Joint Norwegian-Russian fisheries Commission has reached an agreement on the quotas for 2011 in record time, says Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Lisbeth Berg-Hansen.– We follow the long-term strategies for resources management that we have agreed on in the commission and recommendations from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. These strategies are the reason we can set next year’s quotas on a historical high level, she explains.
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