Iceland's Progressive Party Members to Profit from Mackerel Quota
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Iceland Review] By Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir- April 27, 2015
A fisheries company owned by the wife of Progressive Party MP Páll Jóhann Pálsson will receive mackerel quota worth ISK 50 million (USD 367,000, EUR 339,000) if a new bill by Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson will be passed.
Páll is on the Alþingi parliament’s Industrial Affairs Committee, which was responsible for handling the bill. However, Páll doesn’t find that he should have abstained from discussing that the bill because ...
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