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‘Some people thought we were mad hanging expensive fishing gear on the ends of pieces of rope,’ said Guðmundur Huginn Guðmundsson, skipper of Icelandic pelagic vessel Huginn VE-55, who pioneered the use of Hampiðjan’s DynIce Warps.
A pair of new freezing cabinets have been installed at Síldarvinnslan’s factory in Neskaupstaður, and these are expected to boost frozen production.
One of HB Grandi’s skippers report that there have been huge mackerel volumes in Icelandic waters all summer and they are still there, with both pelagic vessels fishing well off the east coast and coastal boats filling up with mackerel close inshore off the west.
Following repeated failures to reach agreements between employers and seamen in Iceland, a countdown to strike action begins tomorrow as fishermen are balloted on whether or not to strike.
Iceland’s mackerel season has extended longer into the summer than usual and the indications are there that it could go well into the autumn.
All exhibit space at the Iceland Fishing Expo, due to take place in Reykjavík 28th-30th of this month is now sold out, report the event’s organisers.
Síldarvinnslan’s trawler Barði sailed at the weekend for Akureyri where it is due to be refitted at the Slippstödinn yard.
Halldór Ármannsson, chairman of the Icelandic National Association of Small Boat Owners, has decided to step down after three years in the post, and is returning to fishing.
Skipper Jón Valgeirsson of Icelandic fresher trawler Bergey said that he has seen his warps spooled perfectly onto the trawler’s drums for the first time now that Hampiðjan has introduced its new wire tensioner.
Icelandic company Eskja has bought purser/trawler Libas from Norwegian operator Lie Management, based near Bergen.
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