Russia’s Norwegian Sea catch and quota progress in April 2021
In April 2021 Russian fleets continued targeting herring, Northern blue whiting and black halibut in the Norwegian Sea, reports Megafishnet.com.
According to Fishnet.ru, in April 2021 7 Kaliningrad-based vessels and 8 vessels coming from Murmansk were targeting blue whiting in the waters of the Faroese Islands. In the first ten days of the month under analysis, the fishery situation in the area was unstable. After the first approaches of migrating concentrations of spent blue whiting on 12 April, the fishery conditions grew much better.
The blue whiting catch in the area in April 2021 amounted to 46,000 tonnes (+44,300 tonnes). The total catch from the beginning of the year amounted to 54,200 tonnes (34% of the Russian quota for blue whiting capture in the Faroese waters, namely 82,000 tonnes). In 2020 the respective result by the same day of the year was 54,100 tonnes.
NORWEGIAN SEA: Dynamics of Russian catch and quota progress in January-April 2020-2021
|
Species |
Catch, metric tons |
TAC 2021 |
|||
|
Jan-Apr 2020 |
Jan-Apr 2021 |
+/- |
metric tons |
progress, % |
|
|
Herring |
529 |
972 |
+443 |
83,462 |
1.2 |
|
Mackerel, NEAFC |
- |
- |
- |
120,423 |
- |
|
Mackerel, Faroese fishing zone |
10 |
- |
- |
14,500 |
- |
|
Northern Blue whiting, NEAFC |
56,252 |
53,120 |
-3,132 |
68,929 |
77.1 |
|
Northern Blue whiting, Faroese fishing zone |
54,082 |
54,179 |
+97 |
82,000 |
66.1 |
|
Herring, Faroese fishing zone |
- |
- |
- |
7,000 |
- |
|
Northern Blue whiting, Norwegian EEZ |
- |
- |
16,173 |
0.0 |
|
Source of catch data: Fishnet.ru