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Failure to reach an agreement could limit Icelandic access to EU waters (Photo: Richard Ling)

EU-Iceland mackerel talks flounder

A seafood ban slapped on EU candidate nation Iceland is in the offing as negotiations over mackerel quotas for 2011 flounder.

Reykjavik rejected on Friday (29 October) a Norwegian proposal backed by the European Union that the north Atlantic nation be awarded an increase in its mackerel quota to 26,000 tonnes next year, up from its earlier 2,000-tonne limit.

Iceland, which has unilaterally upped its quota to 130,000 tonnes for the coming year, rejected the offer.

Tomas Heida...

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Failure to reach an agreement could limit Icelandic access to EU waters (Photo: Richard Ling)

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