Great week for Norwegian capelin fleet

It was another good blue whiting week with a total of 53,500 tons in the journal. This quantity is fished by 29 different boats with catches from 670 t as the lowest, to the largest catch from “Havskjær” at 2,600 t. All catches, except from a Scottish boat, are fished in International waters southwest of Ireland. Fishing here this winter has been particularly good with unusually dense patches of blue whiting. This week, a lot of wind has hampered fishing some days. With such good fishing over several weeks, the group has now fished just under 179,000 tons of the quota of around 305,000 t. This is a totally different picture than last year when only a modest 8,800 t were fished from the same area. Nine boats in the group blue whiting trawl, and three boats from pelagic trawl, have finished their boat quotas. It is expected that there will still be good participation in this fishing, but some boats will focus on capelin fishing in the Barents Sea. The hope is that there will still ...