Land: Iceland

‘There’s not much happening. We’ve been here since Saturday and haven’t been able to shoot yet. There are eight boats looking for herring here that have been able to shoot and they haven’t caught much,’ said Albert Sveinsson, skipper of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Faxi RE when we spoke to him at midday yesterday. Faxi was on fishing grounds off Stykkishólmur in the west of Iceland, where fishing for herring has been at its best recently.

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The AGM of Iceland’s Federation of Fishing Vessel Operators saw

Commenting at the AGM of the Icelandic Federation of Fishing

HB Grandi’s processing plant in Vopnafjördur has processed a landing of good quality herring.

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Several Icelandic vessels have been fishing herring in Norwegian and

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For the last few days a delegation from the European

“It’s extremely difficult to be sure how much herring there