When Faroese fishermen began sailing English and Scottish sloops to Iceland after 1872, they brought home stories of a supernatural figure said to live aboard. KVF reports that the “man aboard”, also known as the “lempari”, became part of Faroese seafaring folklore. Folklife researcher Jóan Pauli…

Iceland must decide: join the EU's fishing bureaucracy or keep its independent quota system. Voters are weighing administrative consolidation benefits against operational complexity. The nation's regulatory autonomy hangs in the balance.

Salmon fishing in the Jökla river has increased sharply this summer, with the catch already more than one-third higher than the total for last year, mbl.is reports. According to the latest figures from Angling.is, 1,260 salmon had been caught by the middle of last week, including 284 in the prece…