Land: Iceland

Production monitoring and control have taken on a whole new look, with the launch of the new Marel M6215 food industry workstation.

Lundey NS was scheduled to dock this morning in Vopnafjördur with 850 tonnes of herring on board, all caught on Sunday in a single shot in Breidasund, just inside Stykkishólmur. This means that HB Grandi’s quota for Icelandic summer spawning herring for the year has been caught now that the company fleet has taken 5000 tonnes. This also means that the herring fishery comes to an end for the moment.

After seemingly endless spells of bad weather across northern Iceland since the beginning of the month, conditions were finally good enough for capelin fishing at the weekend. Lundey NS had 400 tonnes on board by early on Saturday morning and Ingunn AK had 140-150 tonnes at the same time.

Faxi RE was due to dock in Vopnafjördur at 1900 tonight with 700 tonnes of herring on board, all caught in a single shot in Breidafjördur. This is Faxi’s second trip on herring after the domestic summer-spawning herring fishery opened. The first trip was also a 700 tonnes, but taken in two shots.

Busy days for Marel at the 16th China Fisheries & Seafood Expo, staged in the port city of Qingdao from November 1 – 3.

Fishing for capelin has been suspended since last week due to some very difficult weather and plenty of sea ice in the Denmark Strait. It seems that the larger capelin are keeping to just this area, as only smaller grades of capelin have been seen on fishing grounds north of Iceland.