Eirikur Tomasson, head of Thorbjorn, said entering Europe would certainly put Iceland’s fish stocks at risk, primarily by taking away its right to manage these resources directly, according to Fishing News International.
“For the three of us who own this company, Europe would mean a wider market for shares in Thorbjorn if we wanted to sell up. There’s already interest,” he said. “There are certainly companies in Spain that would be interested in owning a saltfish producer in Iceland.”
In the week before the recent elections, a group of overseas businessmen had been touring Iceland looking to buy companies, vessels and quotas, Tomasson said.
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