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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The High Court of Justice in the U.K. has ruled that an Icelandic artist must permanently take down a website he created that featured the branding of Akureyri, Iceland-based fishing and processing company Samherji.
Odee Friðriksson created a fake website titled “We’re Sorry!” that made it appear that Samherji was apologizing to the Namibian people for its alleged wrongdoings during the Fishrot scandal, originally
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New reports claim Samherji CEO Thorsteinn Mar Baldvinsson had close contact with Jóhannes Stefánsson, the company’s former director of operations in Namibia, during the time the Fishrot Scandal occurred, despite having previously denied regular communication with Stefansson during that period.
The Fishrot Scandal, originally publicized in 2019, featured Icelandic fishing firm Samherji allegedly bribing public officials
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After several years of overfishing, Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks are reaching a critical point.
Overfishing over the past decade has largely been due to coastal states such as Norway, the U.K., the Faroe Islands, and the E.U. being unable to come to a quota-sharing agreement with every player involved, resulting in unilateral quotas that exceed recommended catch totals from the International Council on Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
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