According to the company the fresh stock of herring was delivered by pelagic vessel Faxi RE last week. The 800 tonnes was enough to keep production busy for three days. Production manager Magnús Róbertsson informed that the herring was caught at the beginning of last week in Breidafjördur and Faxi steamed for 30 hours with its fish to Vopnafjördur.
Magnús Róbertsson also told that the herring was all of excellent quality and highly suitable for human consumption. Production usage was between 45 and 50 percent, yielding around 400 tonnes of frozen butterfly fillets. He added that this herring is smaller than Atlanto-Scandian herring, but the main difference is that it is caught in a purse seine and this produces a higher quality than trawl-caught fish.
It is said that this landing brings the plant’s production total up to 1200 tonnes of frozen herring so far this season. As HB Grandi’s other pelagic vessels, Ingunn AK and Lundey NS, are fishing in Norwegian waters, their catches are landed overseas, leaving Faxi to look after the production needs of the Vopnafjördur plant. Robertsson opined that the long distance from the fishing grounds will make it a challenge to keep production steady with a single vessel landing to the plant.
