News & announcements

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute´s (MFRI) headquarters has received powerful reinforcements from around the world. Fellows have recently arrived to participate in this year’s six-month training within GRÓ – Fisheries Training Programme. The programme is funded by the Government of Iceland and hosted within the Icelandic Marine and Freshwater Research Institute.

Scientists at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute have successfully reared capelin from hatch to adulthood in a laboratory setting for the first time. Capelin eggs were fertilized aboard the fishing vessel Vikingur AK 100 and transported to the Aquaculture Research Station in Grindavík, where the larvae hatched 30 days later

A new article recently published in Journal of Fish Biology reveals that two lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus), tagged east of Iceland in the summer, migrated 1510 and 1612 km to Denmark to spawn. It was previously unknown that lumpfish migrate such extensive distances.

Oceanic gyres regulate subarctic marine climate and ecosystems - seminar at MFRI 19 November.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) in Iceland is seeking a PhD student in Marine Biology for a funded full-time position for 4 years with research focus on factors influencing bycatch of marine mammals and seabirds in Icelandic fisheries.

BioProtect is seeking 5 regions to receive grants of up to 100.000 EUR each and technical support to implement and enhance Area-Based Management tools developed by the the project and tested in the demonstration sites.

The Marine & Freshwater Research Institute is looking for an experienced and ambitious software specialist to support the development, maintenance of the institute's information systems.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) advises that when the harvest control rule agreed by the Coastal States is applied, there should be zero catch in winter 2024/2025. This advice is based on results from acoustic measurements on the capelin stock by RV Árni Friðriksson (Icelandic), FV Polar Ammassak and RV Tarajoq (Greenlandic) conducted during the period 21 August to 1 October 2024.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) has in recent weeks made attempts to tag minke whales in Eyjafjörður in N-Iceland. The tagging is a part of project called MinTag and is under the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, NAMMCO.

Scientists from the Marine and Freshwater Research institute (MFRI), in collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark recently published a paper highlighting the climate driven response of capelin distribution in the Iceland-East Greenland-Jan Mayen region. Pronounced shifts in distribution and migration of capelin, one of Iceland's ecologically and commercially important species, have been observed.