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Icelandic online magazine Kjarninn has reported on the strange situation of the country’s main newspaper, its fishing industry ownership and the fact that the paper makes financial losses on a colossal scale.
Elusive saithe can disappear and then just as suddenly reappear, according to one of HB Grandi’s skippers, now fishing off the Westfjords of Iceland.
Síldarvinnslan’s factory trawler Blængur has returned to its home port of Neskaupstaður after an extensive refit carried out in Poland.
Trawlers operated by Síldarvinnslan subsidiary Bergur-Huginn in the Westmann Islands have fished well this year but have been hit by the weakening pound.
Two mackerel landings close together mean that HB Grandi’s Vopnafjördur factory will be kept busy this Bank Holiday weekend.
HB Grandi has agreed to purchase groundfish quotas equalling 1600 cod-equivalent tonnes at a price of ISK 3950 million (€29.55 million) from Hafnarnes VER in Thorlákshöfn.
HB Grandi’s factory trawler Theney is back in home waters after a trip to the Russian zone of the Barents Sea that started in early June.
A fishermen’s association in southern Iceland has passed a resolution of no confidence in the country’s fisheries minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson.
Iceland’s National Association of Small Boat Owners (NASBO) has criticised the decision by fisheries minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson to follow the Marine Research Institute’s advice in setting quotas for 2016-17.
Trawl trials on redfish with a T90 codend supplied by Fjardanet in Akureyri, which is part of the Hampidjan Group, have already produced promising results. The codend appears to filter out small redfish in significant amounts and the results look to be similar to those obtained by the Marine Research Institute to separate out small cod while trawling off western Iceland.
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