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Documents on the web

• Climate Change Strategy, Long term-vision 2007-2050
• Close to the sea
• Discards in demersal Icelandic fisheries, in Icelandic but with English summary and table and figure texts
• Environmental Conditions in Icelandic Waters 2007, in Icelandic but with English summary and table and figure texts
• History of fisheries around Iceland, in Icelandic but with extensive English abstracts
• Iceland´s National Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from land-based activities
• Icelandic fisheries in figures 2006
• State of Marine Stocks in Icelandic Waters 2007/2008. Prospects for the Quota year 2008/2009, in Icelandic but with English table and figure texts. English summary seperate
• The Ocean - Iceland´s policy

Web sites - Icelandic

• Directorate of Fisheries
• Freshfish Price Directorate
• Government offices of Iceland, including links to all the ministries
• Iceland.is
• Icelandic Maritime Administraion
• Matís - Icelandic Food Research
• Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture
• Statistics Iceland
• The Environment Agency of Iceland
• The Icelandic Coast Guard
• The Icelandic Meteorological Office
• The Marine Research Institute
• UNU Fisheries Training Programme

Web sites - non-Icelandic

• United Nations
• • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  • Oceans and Law of the Sea - Iceland
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
• North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)
• North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO)
• North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)

References

• Árnason, R. (1996). On the ITQ fisheries management system in Iceland. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 6: 63-90.
• Pálsson, Ó.K., Arason, A., Björnsson, E., Jóhannesson, G., Björnsson, H. and Ottesen, Th. (2006). Discards in demersal Icelandic fisheries. Marine Research Institute, report series no. 134: 23 p.
• Pitcher, T. J., Watson, R. Forrest, R., Valtýsson, H.Th. and Guénette, S. (2002). Estimating illegal and unreported catches from marine ecosystems: a basis for change. Fish and Fisheries 3(4): 317-339.

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