date:Mar 13, 2014
After months of on-again, off-again negotiations over mackerel quotas to stave off sanctions against the Faroe Islands, the Danish fisheries ministry is confirming the Faroese have reached a five-year quota agreement with the European Union and Norway.
There is an agreement between E.U., Norway and (the) Faroe Islands, said Morten Olsen, a spokesman for the ministry.
For several years, both the Faroes and Iceland have been fending off accusations of overfishing both herring and mackerel and pu