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Four fishing companies in Iceland have joined forces to place orders for seven new trawlers to be built at Vard’s Aukra shipyard for delivery in 2019. Vard and the four customers have between them developed an innovative design for the 28.95 by 12 metre fresher trawler series.
It has taken a few weeks of negotiations and false starts, but Iceland finally has a new government in place, a coalition of the Left-Green, Progressive and Independence parties under new Prime Minister and Left-Green chair Katrín Jakobsdóttir.
Kristinn Gestsson, until recently skipper of HB Grandi’s freezer trawler Therney, has joined Hampiðjan’s fishing gear division in a sales position.
The third of the trawlers built for Samherji and the fourth in the series of Skipatækni-designed fresher trawlers built at the Cemre yard in Turkey has been delivered.
The AGM of Icelandic Independent Fish Producers’ Association SFÚ (Samtök Fiskframleiðenda og Útflytjenda) ended with a resolution demanding that all exported fresh fish should pass through the auction system before leaving the country.
Icelandic company Vinnslustöðin’s netter has returned to the Westmann Isands after a successful season fishing off the east of Iceland.
Blue whiting production has begun at HB Grandi’s fishmeal factory in Vopnafjörður after Venus and Víkingur docked with 800 tonnes of blue whiting, while Síldarvinnslan has taken its pelagic vessels off blue whiting for the moment.
Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries has re-opened four areas off the north and east of the country that had been closed to seine netters since a previous government imposed restrictions in May 2010.
Samherji aquaculture subsidiary Íslandsbleikja has expanded its facilities at Staður near Grindavík with eight new tanks.
HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Víkingur was due to dock at Vopnafjörður last night with 1040 tonnes of herring on board, caught in five shots in the Faroese EEZ, 40 to 65 nautical miles east of the mid-line between Icelandic and Faroese zones.
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