The Directorate of Fisheries has allocated catch quota to fishing vessels for the 2026/2027 fishing year, with 308 vessels owned by 260 entities receiving allocations.

The total allocation is just over 275 thousand cod equivalent tons. The allocation for cod is just over 158 thousand cod equivalent tons, down from nearly 160 thousand cod equivalent tons in the last fishing year. The allocation for haddock is just over 41 thousand cod equivalent tons, and decreases by 3 thousand cod equivalent tons from the previous year.

Companies with the most allocation:

• Samherji Ísland hf. 8.68%

• Brim hf. 7,76%

• Ísfélag hf. 6.59%

• Fisk Seafood ehf. 6.31%

• Vísir ehf. 4.41%

Vessels with the most allocation:

• Sólberg ÓF 1 (2917), Ísfélag hf. with 10,031 cod equivalent tonnes

• Guðmundur í Nesi RE 13 (2626), Útgerðarfélag Reykjavíkur hf. with 8,648 cod equivalent tonnes

• Þerney RE 1 (2960), Brim hf. with 7.313 cod equivalent tonnes

Further information on the allocation can be found in regulation, on the Directorate of Fisheries' data pages, and in summary for the fishing yer of 2025/2026.

Notifications about the allocations have been sent to the digital mailboxes of fishing companies on ísland.is.