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The Icelandic fleet’s fuel consumption has been reduced by 43% between 1990 and 2016, according to a report produced by Iceland’s vessel owners’ organisation SFS to coincide with two years having passed since the signing of the Paris Climate Change Accord.
Iceland’s minister of fisheries and agriculture Kristján Thór Júlíusson has taken the decision to exclude Faroese fishing vessels from Icelandic waters in 2018, just as the Faroe Islands warned Iceland its vessels would not have access to blue whiting in the Faroese zone unless concessions were made.
Westmann Islands fishing company Ísfélag Vestmannaeyja has bought one of HB Grandi’s now surplus to requirements fresher trawlers, replaced by the company’s recent series of newbuilds.
Staff at Icelandic fishing gear supplier Ísfell have been busy with sales of Bridon trawl warps recently, including delivering warps to practically all of the newbuilds delivered to the Icelandic fleet over the last year.
The third of HB Grandi’s new fresher trawlers has arrived in Iceland, bringing to an end the long series of newbuilds for the company, all of them delivered by the Celiktrans yard in Turkey.
2017 has been an eventful year for Icelandic fishing company Vísir, based at Grindavík on the south coast, from where it operates its fleet of longliners.
The crews of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels are now ashore for the Christmas break after a couple of weeks of good fishing on blue whiting. According to Víkingur’s skipper Albert Sveinsson, the plan is to be back at sea on the third of January, but as yet it is not certain whether they will be fishing for capelin or blue whiting.
Icelandic fishing company Vísir is reported to have placed an order for a new 45 metre longliner to be delivered in mid-2019, the first newbuild of this size in the company’s history.
A new longliner/gill netter completed at the Alkor Shipyard in Poland is on its way home to Iceland, bringing to an end one chapter of the new vessel’s long story – just as another opens.
There’s plenty to keep the staff of HB Grandi’s fishmeal plant in Vopnafjörður busy for the next few days with 4000 tonnes of blue whiting landings yesterday and last night.
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