The Faroe Islands are to catch up to 105,230 metric tons (MT) of Atlanto-Scandian herring this year, around three times as much as in previous years.
??The autonomous island group withdrew from an international sharing agreement in January this year to pursue it own national interest.
The move follows on from the long running row over valuable mackerel quotas resulting in the collapse of a long-standing multinational agreement in 2009 and the threat of overfishing. Faroe has meanwhile set a national mackerel quote of 159,000 MT for 2013, 29.3 per cent of the scientifically recommended total allowable catch.
