Fisheries representatives call on EU to take action against Norwegian fishing practices
Representatives of Irish fishing companies and EU advisory bodies want to link Norway’s access to the EU market – the country buys around 70 percent of Norway’s farmed salmon annually – to negotiations on fishing quotas. They argue that the Norwegian fishing industry should not enjoy such generous access to the EU market if at the same time it does not fish sustainably in European waters.
The Irish Fish Producers Organisation (IFPO) wants to stop Norway’s practice in particular, Setting unilateral quotas for mackerel stocks in the North Atlantic – a practice that, according to IFPO, continues to endanger the sustainability of the stocks.
“Norway continues to disregard its responsibilities in the area of wild fisheries, for example mackerel,” said IFPO Executive Director Aodh O’Donnell.
O’Donnell said he believed one way to put an end to the practice was for the EU to restrict access to its market for Norwegian farmed salmon while the Oslo authorities set unilateral quotas for mackerel stocks in the Northeast Atlantic, which, O’Donnell said, were “contrary to scientific advice”.
Instead of a unilaterally set quota, the IFPO calls for a comprehensive regulation for the shared use of coastal areas.
This type of agreement is in line with a letter from the EU Pelagic Advisory Council (PelAC) in October 2023 calling on the EU Commission to “take immediate action to stop unilateral quotas that go beyond scientific advice and endanger the sustainable management of shared stocks”.
PelAC also suggested that the EU promote a coastal sharing agreement and take commercial measures such as tariffs or quotas on Norwegian goods, as the unilateral quotas and fishing pressure from Norway and the Faroe Islands “call into question the sustainability of the mackerel stock”.
Efforts to regulate Norway’s fishing practices across the bloc, as called for by the IFPO and others, may have suffered a setback due to the Result of the parliamentary elections that took place in June.
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