Land: Iceland

‘We’re keeping our heads down at the moment, as the

The Confederation of Icelandic Employers (SA) felt that the government

Three of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels have started fishing on blue whiting and have made an excellent start to the season. Ingunn AK was first on the fishing grounds and is now on the way home with 1900 tonnes on board for two days fishing. There’s a price to be paid for such good fishing as the grounds are west of Ireland, around 700 nautical miles from Iceland.

Total catch of Icelandic vessels in February 2010 was 106,704

Unless new developments occur, HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels have finished

HB Grandi has 5500 tonnes remaining of its capelin quota,

HB Grandi’s purse seiner Víkingur AK is now steaming to Vopnafjördur with a full load of 1400 tonnes of capelin on board. The fish were caught over two days south-west of Malarrif on the Snæfellsnes peninsula. According to skipper Magnús Thorvaldsson, this is Víkingur’s first full trip of the season after the decision was taken last week to bring the ship out of mothballs to help catch enough capelin to use as much as possible for roe extraction.

At the end of the year 2009 the total number

HB Grandi has decided to send veteran purse seiner Víkingur

‘The best I can say is that this has been very quiet fishing. We tow all day long and are satisfied with 100 tonnes at the end of it. Yesterday we finished up with only 60 tonnes, which isn’t enough to be satisfied with,’ said skipper Arnthór Hjörleifsson of Lundey NS when we spoke to him yesterday afternoon.