An emergency meeting was called by the European Commission after Iceland announced Tuesday it would catch no less than 112,000 metric tons of mackerel this year. Norway and the Faroe Islands also allocated themselves additional quotas.
These allegations come the day after Iceland announced its own fisheries eco-label, with the tag-line Iceland Responsible Fisheries.
“What Iceland is doing is close to piracy, but at the same time Norway and the Faroes have also added an extra autonomous mackerel quota for themselves,” Christian Olesen of the Danish Pelagic Producers Organization told IntraFish sister publication Fishing News International.
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