Post by Hoppy on Jun 8, 2007 20:52:48 GMT -1
NASF PRESS RELEASE JUNE 2, 2007:
This afternoon NASF and ASF signed a new Salmon Agreement with the Greenland´s KNAPK. This is a seven-year moratorium agreement closing all commercial salmon fisheries in Greenlandic territorial waters, decommissioning of nets, as well as an agreement to reduce by-catch of salmon, minimize subsistence fisheries and limit supply to hospitals and old people´s homes.
Compensation for the moratoria will go to projects to redirect commercial netsmen to alternative sustainable fisheries in Greenlands´s inshore fishing industry and provide employment in coastal communities, aimed at promoting sustainable use of marine resources, benefit marine conservation, all aimed at maintaining a zero commercial quota at NASCO.
The North Atlantic Salmon Fund, NASF, is a group of voluntary conservation groups who have come together to restore stocks of wild Atlantic salmon to their historic abundance. – nasf@vortex.is - www.nasfonline.org
For more information contact Mr. Orri Vigfússon nasf@vortex.is or tel: +354 893 3553
This afternoon NASF and ASF signed a new Salmon Agreement with the Greenland´s KNAPK. This is a seven-year moratorium agreement closing all commercial salmon fisheries in Greenlandic territorial waters, decommissioning of nets, as well as an agreement to reduce by-catch of salmon, minimize subsistence fisheries and limit supply to hospitals and old people´s homes.
Compensation for the moratoria will go to projects to redirect commercial netsmen to alternative sustainable fisheries in Greenlands´s inshore fishing industry and provide employment in coastal communities, aimed at promoting sustainable use of marine resources, benefit marine conservation, all aimed at maintaining a zero commercial quota at NASCO.
The North Atlantic Salmon Fund, NASF, is a group of voluntary conservation groups who have come together to restore stocks of wild Atlantic salmon to their historic abundance. – nasf@vortex.is - www.nasfonline.org
For more information contact Mr. Orri Vigfússon nasf@vortex.is or tel: +354 893 3553