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HB Grandi’s new trawler Engey docked in Reykjavík at midday yesterday, ending its first trip with 140 tonnes in the fishroom. According to skipper Friðleifur Einarsson, everything went well and the ship’s performance exceeded expectations.
This year’s Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition is already set to show more than 40% growth compared to the 2014 event, according to organiser Mercator Media.
Bergur-Huginn’s two trawlers have been fishing well this summer, with around a thousand tonnes between then in 21 trips in July, compared to 700 tonnes in the same month last year.
Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi has sold one of its freezer trawlers, which will be delivered to new owners Sea Harvest Corporation in South Africa on 15th November.
After landing 450 tonnes of top-quality mackerel caught around the Westmann Islands, skipper Jón Axelsson said that the next stop is Greenland.
The third of a series of new trawlers for owners in Iceland has been handed over by the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey.
Hampiðjan technical adviser Sæmundur Árnason has spent three weeks at sea on board Murmansk Trawl Fleet’s catcher-processor Mekhanik Kovtun to keep a close eye on the gear during the trawler’s first trip with a new set of gear for targeting mackerel.
The spell of bad weather that passed over Iceland last week has dropped away, and the fleet is back at sea but not finding it easy to find mackerel scattered by the storms.
A fishery for sea cucumbers has developed in Iceland in recent years, and the technology has developed alongside it to include lightweight dredges mounted with sensors.
Westmann Islands fishing and processing company Vinnslustöðin (VSV) has acquired all of the shares in another island company, Glófaxi ehf, and takes over the company on the 1st of September.
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