Mussel fishers in Denmark’s Limfjord have offered to end their operations and scrap their vessels, after years of declining fishing quotas, DR reports. In a letter to Environment Minister Maria Reumert Gjerding, the fishers propose stopping mussel fishing during the coming season and ending it en…

Danish mussel fishers are preparing to resume fishing in the Limfjord after Environment Minister Maria Reumert Gjerding said the rules requiring them to sort their entire catch should be reviewed, DR reports. The minister said she believed there had been a misunderstanding about how extensively t…

Newly enforced catch-sorting requirements have brought Danish mussel fishing to a standstill, Vildsund Blue director Poul Kærgaard told DR. The company says it cannot sort the large quantities of marine life caught alongside mussels by hand. On a typical day during the peak season, 500 tonnes of …