Land: Iceland

Catch by Icelandic vessels in January this year totalled 70,852

HB Grandi has announced that its pelagic vessel, Lundey NS, has sailed for a capelin search cruise.

HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Lundey NS steamed this morning past

HB Grandi’s fishmeal plants have received around 5000 tonnes of

new boat will delivered soon by Seigla Ehf. This boat

‘This was an excellent trip in many ways. We were

“I like the look of pearlside meal. It has an excellent protein content and a meal production rate of about 15%. What is a surprise is how fat this little fish is, with a similar oil content to the meal at around 15%,” said Gudmundur Hannesson, plant manager at HB Grandi’s fishmeal production facility in Akranes when we spoke to him yesterday after he had taken delivery on Monday of the first landing of 830 tonnes of pearlside from Bjarni Ólafsson AK.

According to a Capacent Gallup poll carried out last weekend,

On Sunday 1st of February a short ceremony took place

‘Fishing is slow. It was good until a few days ago and now it seems that the pearlside is moving further west. We started in the Grindavík Deeps and now we’re south of the Eldey area,’ said Hjalti Einarsson, chief mate and relief skipper of Faxi RE when we spoke to him in the afternoon.