Iceland’s fishing fleet landed 114,000 metric tons (MT) of seafood last month, an increase of 9.4 percent or 9,800 MT year-on-year, according to new figures published by Statistics Iceland.
The country’s total demersal catch increased to 25,973 MT, up 27 percent compared with August 2014, thanks to larger landings of cod, haddock, saithe and redfish.
At the same time, the pelagic catch increased by 3.1 percent year-on-year to 84,909 MT, largely due to the herring landings being 42.8 percent higher at 15,060 MT last month.
Its flatfish catch in August increased by 266.5 percent or almost 1,500 MT to 2,057 MT.
At constant prices, the volume of the catch increased by 5.5 percent last month compared to August 2014, said Statistics Iceland.
In the last 12 months, Iceland’s total catch has increased by 255,000 MT, up 23.5 percent. This is mostly due to a greater pelagic catch, which increased by 45.7 percent during this period to 875,503 MT, it said.
