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A voice for Denmark’s fishermen

This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 2 2021.

Danish fisheries contributed some DKK14bn (EUR1.8bn) in 2018 to the nation’s GDP. The sector is an important source of export earnings as well as of livelihoods in coastal communities. The Danish Fishermen Producer Organisation (DFPO) is the national organisation representing the fisheries sector through some 32 local associations across the country. Vessels of all kinds, both large and small, and using different gears, are part of the organisation, whose main objective is to safeguard its members interests. This includes shaping fishery policies, providing advice to the members, and promoting the sale of fish to consumers. Danish fisheries face some headwinds at the moment as it digests the implications of Brexit, suffers from the pandemic-induced loss of the international food service market, and comes to terms with the evaporation of cod quotas in the eastern Baltic. Kenn Skau Fischer, managing director of the organisation since 2019, discusses some of these challenges.