Drastic quota cuta shake lcelandic fishing industry

摘要

It came as a shock to the Icelandic fishing community when the Minister of Fisheries announced last summer that the cod quota would be cut by 33% the following fishing year which started September 1,2007 and will end August 31,2008, reports Gudjon Einarsson, editor of Fiskifrettir, Iceland's fisheries news-weekly. Admittedly most people in the fishing industry had expected that the cod quota would be cut to some extent since the Maritime Research Institute of Iceland had proposed the drastic 33% reduction in catch. But very few actually believed that the minister would follow the biologists' advice completely and cut the quota down to 130,000t from 193,000t the previous fishing year.