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‘I can say that we’ve taken something of a beating on the way home. The weather was terrible and we took it slowly,’ said skipper Gunnar Einarsson of HB Grandi’s trawler Sturlaugur H Bödvarsson AK when we spoke to him yesterday as the ship docked in Akranes.
Four Icelandic commercial vessels took part in a mackerel survey
Four international environment protection organizations protested Iceland’s whaling outside the
HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels have finished this year’s season for Atlanto-Scandian herring, having caught all of their quotas and part of the amount they are licensed to take ahead of next year’s allocation. According to Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, head of HB Grandi’s pelagic division, the herring have migrated deep into international waters to the extent that the distance to steam with catches makes it hardly possible to process and freeze the fish for human consumption.
Waters around Iceland experienced slow fishing due to bad weather, confirm local fishermen.
‘We’re in a fixed routine. We’re west of Iceland looking
Total value ISK 54 billion Total value of catch of
The company behind Iceland’s fin whaling industry is planning a
‘We can’t be anything but satisfied with the trawlers this summer. Fishing has been good across all species. Haddock has been the only one that’s been a problem as there hasn’t been a lot of this in the areas our trawlers have been fishing,’ said Birkir Hrannar Hjálmarsson, in charge of running HB Grandi’s groundfish trawlers.
HB Grandi’s pelagic fleet’s fishing on Atlanto-Scandian herring this year
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