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Golden redfish Surveillance Report available online
Global Trust has made available the 1st Surveillance Report for Golden redfish fisheries, certified in 2014. The objective of the Surveillance Report is to monitor for any changes/updates (after 12 months) in the management regime, regulations and their implementation, stock assemssment and status, and wider ecosystem considerations since the previous assemssment and to determine wheter these changes and performance and current practices remain consistent with the overall confidence rating scorings of the fishery allocated during initial certification.
The Minister of Fisheries sets quota for next fishing year
Catch quotas in Icelandic waters for the upcoming fishing year, 2015-2016, are set in accordance with scientific advice. Increased quotas are set in haddock and cod fisheries.
Certification report for haddock available
Iceland School of Fisheries offers Executive Programme
Reykjavik University has developed an Executive programme for managers and specialists in the fisheries industry worldwide. The first session is 19-24 October 2015.
Certification report for Haddock fisheries available online
The certification report, published in April 2015, has now been made available online.
Certification report for Saithe fisheries available online
The certification report for Icelandic Saithe fisheries (January 23, 2015) has now been made available online. A fact sheet about the Saithe fisheries with information about the catches, nutritional value, etc., is also available online.
Certification report for Haddock fisheries available online
The certification report for Haddock fisheries (January 23, 2015) has now been made available online. The full assessment (report code ICE/HAD/001/2014) was conducted according to the Global Trust Certification procedures for FAO – Based Icelandic Responsible Fisheries Management (IRFM) Certification using the FAO – Based IRFM Specification (version 1, revision 1) as the standard for assessment
Meet us at the Seafood Show in Brussels 21-23 April
Iceland Responsible Fisheries and Promote Iceland invite you to meet their staff in hall 6, at stand #834.
Icelandic companies at the Brussel Show
IRF participates in GSSI's Benchmark Tool Pilot Test
Seven seafood certification schemes are participating in GSSI's pilot to test how the Benchmark Tool works in practice. Seafood certification schemes participating in the pilot are providing in-kind contributions including staff time.