Representatives from the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) and the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) and the Association of Fishers and Hunters in Greenland (KNAPK) finalized the new Greenland Salmon Conservation Agreement on May 24th in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The new agreement is for 12 years (2018 through 2029), and was reached after more than 12-months of negotiations, and will continue a decades-long suspension of commercial salmon fishing that dates back to 1991. Little in the way of details were revealed on the financial arrangements in the agreement, but the ASF was adamant in saying that no government money is involved.
Critical feeding grounds protected
The coastal waters of Greenland and the Faroe Islands are considered critical feeding grounds for large Atlantic salmon from hundreds of rivers in North America and Europe. Commercial catches in these feeding grounds are known as "mixed-stock" because catches can be from healthy populations as well as endangered ones.
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