Icelandic salmon ranching; problems and policy issues - A historical perspective ...

• Main Authors: Ísaksson, Arni, Óskarsson, Sumarliði
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ASC 2002 - T - Theme session 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; The sea and human culture and societies; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Atlantic salmon; Breiðafjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25443367; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Icelandic_salmon_ranching_problems_and_policy_issues_-_A_historical_perspective/25443367

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Ranching of Atlantic salmon in Iceland started with the establishment of Kollafjörður Experimental Fish Farm in 1961 (Guðjónsson 1973). The first smolts were released in 1964 with considerable returns of salmon in 1965. The primary purpose of the fish farm was to strengthen aquaculture and enhancement efforts in Iceland by developing good quality salmon smolts (Ísaksson 1976). The release experiments and subsequent returns of salmon to the fish farm led to a pilot ranching operation, which provided considerable income to the farm. Several smaller release operations started in the 1960s such as the Lárós ranching station in the Breiðafjörður area and Súgandafjörður release site on the northwest peninsula ( Ísaksson and Óskarsson 1986). The introduction of coded wire tags (CWT) to Iceland in the 1970s (Ísaksson and Bergman 1978) was a major technological breakthrough in the methodology used to evaluate sea survival and return-rates to ranching ...