Norwegian sand eel catches breaking records, as matjes season begins

The Norwegian pelagics season is heating up, with record catches of sand eel being landed in week 22 of 2020 (commencing May 25) and the "matjes" herring season kicking off in week 23.Read also ICES lowers North Sea herring advice by 15%, Norway's electronic pelagic auction house, Norges Sildesalgslag, reported 37,300 metric tons of sand eel registered in week 22, the largest weekly quantity recorded in its journals since the current online system was introduced in 2002, it said., The fleet was mainly gathered at Klondyke, with good fishing. The highest daily quantity saw 9,300t landed by six vessels. Over 29,000t was caught on the Klondyke fields., "But all this fish must also be delivered and processed. Almost all catches have been delivered to facilities in Norway, only four catches have gone to a foreign port," wrote Sildesalgslag. "And with so much fish, there is some waiting time for delivery at some plants. On Saturday [May 30] it was a three day wait at most.", As of June ...