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Icelandic Fisheries Minister Steingrímur J. Sigfússon met with the ambassadors to the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Finland to discuss their stance on commercial whaling.
Ólafur K. Pálsson, Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson and Sigmar Guðbjörnsson 2008. Geolocation
A careful watch is being kept over all of the south coast shallows for any signs of a capelin migration in any volume. So far it has still not been possible to determine if there is sufficient capelin on fishing grounds for scientists to confirm that an initial quota can be issued. Fishing so far has been on the basis of the 15,000 tonne research quota that the Ministry authorised last week.
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.
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