The Icelandic fishing fleet landed 77,319 metric tons (MT) of seafood products last month, a decrease of 18 percent compared with November 2015, with declines across of varieties of fish, according to the latest figures gathered by the Directorate of Fisheries and published by Statistics Iceland.
The demersal catch fell 1 percent to 39,543 MT with only cod registering any growth (up 10 percent to 26,716 MT). Haddock, saithe and redfish landings were down 16 percent, 17 percent and 10 percent respectively.
Total pelagic landings amounted to 35,706 MT, down 32 percent compared with November 2015, while flatfish landings were down 10 percent to 1,526 MT and shellfish dropped 14 percent to 543 MT.
During the last 12-month period, Iceland landed less than 1.1 million MT of seafood, a decrease of 19 percent or 255,000 MT year-on-year.
