News & announcements

MFRI issues capelin TAC advice. Based on acoustic surveys conducted on r/v-s Árni Friðriksson and Tarajoq earlier this autumn and the accepted harvest control rule (HCR), capelin TAC should not exceed 43 766 tonnes in the fishing year 2025/26. This TAC corresponds well with previously released initial advice based on the juvenile capelin index in autumn 2024.

MFRI´s seminar 9 October will focus on Poleward Ocean heat transport. Professor Lars Henrik Smedsrud from the University of Bergen will give a talk called: An updated Nordic Seas Overview – no sign of weakening transports or AMOC.

MFRI´s new research vessel Þórunn Þórðardóttir HF300 is on a charter from 29 August to 12 September for an international research project focused on the oceanography and current measurements in the East Greenland Coastal Current. On board for this cruise in total are 15 physical and chemical oceanographers from the United States, Norway, and Iceland, as well as a journalist and a photographer from the New York Times.

The 2025 capelin autumn survey will be conducted from 23 August to September 22. This is a joint survey conducted by the MFRI (Marine and Freshwater Research Institute) in Iceland and the GINR (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources).

A new study, published in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, sheds light on how commercial seaweed harvesting may be affecting coastal fish communities.

A new webpage on sea temperature has been launched on the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute's website. The page contains a new presentation of data from sea temperature gauges that measure sea temperature in ports in various locations around the country.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland is advertising for a two-year temporary position (scientist) to work on research regarding developing gear technologies to facilitate reductions in discard, seabead impacts, and carbon emissions to support the blue economy.

Marine and Freshwater Research Institute has released advice on fishing opportunities for over twenty fish and invertebrate stocks in Icelandic waters in the 2025/2026 fishing year.

Lumpfish spawn around the coast of the Nordic countries with the young migrating away from the coast as they grow, but where do they go? The new publication, from researchers in Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Denmark and Norway, documents the distribution of lumpfish during summer from the International Ecosystem Summer Survey of the Nordic Seas (aka the mackerel survey)

The Great Scientific Swim around Iceland: 1,000 Miles in 100 Days, Killer Whales & 130ft Waves Ross Edgley Takes on a Historic Open Water Challenge and collaborate with MFRI, Matís and Háskóli Ísland to develop citizen science.