Scottish pelagic fishermen are condemning moves by Norway and the Faroe to push ahead with unilateral increases in catch quotas for Northeast Atlantic mackerel first announced in 2021, calling their decisions "a willful attack on the principles of sustainability" required to preserve stocks for future generations.
For years the European Union, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the United Kingdom, Russia and Greenland have unable to reach an agreement on a sustainable allocation of catch quotas for mackerel, blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring in the North East Atlantic.
