In the early 1990s, Greenland’s coldwater shrimp (Pandalus borealis) fishery successfully dodged a potential economic disaster brought by an overinvestment in the trawler fleet, but there are mounting concerns that a new fisheries bill could destabilize the sector once more, delegates heard at the World Seafood Congress 2017 (WSC) in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Peder Munk Pedersen, sustainability officer at Polar Seafood Greenland, said that the 1990 fisheries act that intr…