by Berta Daníelsdóttir | Jul 31, 2017 | News
On 28. July an article by Thor Sigfusson Founder and Chairman of The Iceland Ocean Cluster, about building bridges with ocean clusters was published on World Ocean Forum.In this article he is challenging the startup community and the media to get excited about new...
by Berta Daníelsdóttir | May 16, 2017 | News
For the past months former minister of industry in Iceland Mrs. Ragnheidur Elin Arnadottir has been working on establishing an Ocean Cluster in Seattle. It is not an individual effort but a program starting out of local interest from Seattle on the Iceland Ocean...
by Berta Daníelsdóttir | May 10, 2017 | News
The Alaska pollock landings are the largest of any single fish species in the U.S. According to Undercurrent News, the price of pollock is going from bad to worse. Might the price shock of pollock filet blocks lead to something good?In the early 1980‘s Icelanders...
by Berta Daníelsdóttir | Apr 10, 2017 | News
As a founder of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, I have had the luxury of meeting with seafood people in over twenty coastal communities in the US and Europe over the past few years. The dialogues have been extremely enjoyable and beneficial to me and have added more “hands...
by Berta Daníelsdóttir | Feb 15, 2017 | News
The Iceland Ocean Cluster was recently assigned to a project by the Ministry of Fisheries in Iceland to evaluate the economic costs of the strikes in the fishing industry which came to a halt in the mid of December. At a press meeting, February 10, the Minister of...
by Berta Daníelsdóttir | Jan 4, 2017 | News
This is a question put forth by dr. Thor Sigfusson founder of the Iceland Ocean Cluster in a new IOC analysis just released.The analysis discusses the increased whitefish farming competing with the wild whitefish in the largest markets for wild Cod; Europe and the...
