Regin Winther Poulsen is a Faroese freelance journalist who has covered the environment, the ocean, and geopolitics for several media outlets, including The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Follow The Money, and others.
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Representatives from coastal nations that fish for pelagic species in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean met in London, U.K., on 10 and 11 June to negotiate quotas for blue whiting.
However, in similar fashion to other negotiations focused on establishing comprehensive pelagic quotas in the region, the talks quickly hit an impasse.
Since 2015, the E.U., the U.K., the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and other coastal nations fishing in the
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Fishing for cod in the Faroe Bank Channel, an area about 45 miles southwest of Suðuroy, the most southerly island of the Faroe Islands, was banned almost 20 years ago due to overfishing.
As fishing operations shuttered, a Faroese delicacy disappeared with it: bacalao made specifically with Faroe Bank cod.
Nearly 20 years later, stocks in the area have recovered enough to open up some fishing opportunities, and arguably nobody is more ready
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Russia has continued to fish declining redfish stocks in the Irminger Sea, even as scientists recommend a complete halt to such fishing and Russia itself has made promises to stop the practice.
In 2023, Russia caught over 24,000 metric tons (MT) of the threatened stock in the Irminger Sea, which is near Greenland and Iceland, despite having promised in the past to quit the practice as a “gesture of goodwill.”
Russia also continued to
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In 2019, Sørvágur, Faroe Islands-based aquaculture firm Hiddenfjord began brainstorming an idea to reduce the carbon emissions present in its supply chain.
Although salmon farming as a whole has relatively low carbon emissions compared to other protein production, Hiddenfjord CEO Atli Gregersen thought more could be done to ensure his firm’s product was as environmentally responsible as possible.
"Before you send the
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It has been more than five years since Faroe Islands-headquartered salmon-farming firm Bakkafrost entered Scotland via the 2019 acquisition of The Scottish Salmon Company.
The Scottish Salmon Company was the second-largest salmon-farming firm in Scotland at the time, and through the deal, Bakkafrost gained exclusive rights to grow native Hebridean salmon.
“The Scottish Salmon Company represents an attractive acquisition at this juncture
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Faroe Islands-headquartered salmon-farming firm Bakkafrost is investing in perfecting, and then expanding, its production of roe to become self-sufficient in its operations.
The company is currently producing around 20 million roe annually, but is eyeing production of at least 50 million in the near future, Bakkafrost CEO Regin Jacobsen told SeafoodSource.
"We are investing in making ‘elite roe’ – roe that has a perfect immune
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