LATEST NEWS: NASF's Orri Vigfússon and ASF sign historic Salmon Agreement with Greenland. A seven-year moratorium agreement closing all commercial salmon fisheries in Greenland's 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´ 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.
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