date:Sep 01, 2012
y and August and the six vessels take 95 percent of the total Faroese silver smelt landings. The fishery uses lightweight semipelagic demersal trawls and catches 20.000 tonnes annually of which 8000 to 12.000 tonnes is turned into to mince. With Europe as the main market for great silver smelt, minced products are sold to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Scotland and Ireland with approximately 70 per cent sold to Norway.
Joen Magnus Rasmussen, managing director of Tavan SP/F, the fishery clien