It is unlikely that a bill will be processed

A bill on amendments to the Fisheries Management Act to ensure coastal fishing boats 48 unmatched fishing days will probably not be processed early enough to change the legislative change for summer fishing as planned. This is stated by Hanna Katrín Friðriksson Minister of Industry in a conversation with the news agency The State Radio.

Hanna Katrín, on the other hand, said at a government meeting today announced changes to the coastal fishing system for the coming summer through a regulation with the goal of securing all boats 48 fishing days. She announced in a conversation with the National Broadcasting Service that the ocean should be consultation today in connection with the regulation, but the draft regulations have not been published in the government's consultation portal, which does not rule out that consultations have been started for closed doors.

When Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdóttir took over as Minister of Food on April 9 last year, she said she intends to work to secure coastal fishing as many fishing days, but admitted when it would not be possible to guarantee all boats 48 fishing days without changing the law.

« I am not sure that everyone realizes that there are few laws, I think, just as degraded in the fishing industry and on coastal fishing, » said Bjarkey when she answered the inquiry by the then MP Eyjólf Ármannsson (the current Minister of Transport and Transport) on coastal fishing.

The Government of the Social Democratic Alliance, the Rally and the People's Party pledged in its policy statement that all coastal fishing boats would be guaranteed 12 fishing days each month from me to August, a total of 48 fishing days, this summer.

So far, however, coastal fishing has had to be stopped before the end of the period, as fishing permits that the fishing is allocated is completed. There is a great expectation among coastal fishing fishermen that the government is promised.

Restricted scope

Existing laws are imposed by coastal fishing, and therefore it is unclear for which remedies will be taken in a new regulation, but regulations must not conflict with laws enacted by Parliament.

Classes 6. Article the Fisheries Management Act states that the Minister is obliged to dispose of a catch volume in unleavened fishing for coastal fishing and that the Directorate of Fisheries is obliged to stop the fishing if the fishing permits in question are completed.

The law also clearly stipulates 12 fishing days per month and that coastal fishing is not allowed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. A fishing trip must not last longer than 14 hours from the release of port and until the dock is laid. Furthermore, more than 650 cod equivalent kilos may not be landed in each fishing trip and no more than four hand rolls may be utilized.

Hanna Katrín did not declare to the State Radio what provisions in a new regulation are likely to ensure coastal fishing boats 48 fishing days and it is therefore unclear which method will be applied.

Various ideas up

Discussions on coastal fishing have been heard in recent quarters to grant fishing permits outside the MRI's advice on the maximum catch of the fishing year and thus for the fact that the Directorate of Fisheries needs to stop fishing.

Ideas have also been heard to reduce the number of hand -rolls or hours of SME, fishing may be used for the purpose of reducing the effort and thus drawing the fishing permits throughout the coastal fishing season.

Updated at 19:10. The Minister's assistant has emphasized that a bill on coastal fishing will be passed in the spring session, but that it will not apply to coastal fishing this summer. The wording has been sharpened in the introduction of news for this.