date:Aug 17, 2012
The proportion of herring in catches has been increasing recently and those vessels fishing herring north of the main mackerel areas have been seeing 10-20 per cent by-catches of mackerel.
Fishing has been pretty good this summer. There was a bit of a dead patch, which is nothing unusual, but after we reached the fishing grounds at midnight the catches have been excellent, said Gudlaugur Jnsson, skipper of Ingunn AK.
There was some herring with the mackerel in the first haul but this morning w