The Icelandic fishing fleet landed a total of 85,678 metric tons (MT) of seafood products last month, a decrease of 4 percent compared with February 2016, but up significantly on the 7,610 MT landed in January this year due to the two-month fishing strike.
According to the latest figures gathered by the Directorate of Fisheries and published by Statistics Iceland, the total demersal catch – “still affected by the fishermen’s strike” – fell 58 ...