A new law in Iceland requires that applications for marine cage aquaculture, large-scale fish farming operations at sea, must now go through a tender process rather than being directly allocated. The change was reported by DV.
However, when the law was enacted it stated that applicants who had submitted their applications before the new rules came into effect would be processed under the previous system. This means they do not have to participate in the newly instituted tenders. This carve-out for earlier applicants has generated public criticism.
Katrín Oddsdóttir criticised the arrangement, saying, “This sounds like corruption and it walks like corruption and it quacks like corruption, yet it is just some kind of Icelandic preconception.” The quote was translated from Icelandic and reported by DV.
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- DV (first reported) in Icelandic
