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Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries has re-scheduled the opening of the lumpfish roe season, leaving his decision to delay the season by two weeks, and announcing the change only days before the fishery was due to open today on the 20th of March.
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessel Birtingur has been sold and this week sailed from its home port of Neskaupstaður for the last time, heading for its new owners in Las Palmas. Birtingur has been bought by Polish company Atlantex and is expected to be renamed Janus once the formal handover has taken place.
HB Grandi’s Venus docked at Vopnafjördur last night with 2300 tonnes of capelin on board. The fish were caught in Breidafjördur on Sunday and Tuesday, the only days when the weather was kind enough to allow the fleet to shoot its gear.
Icelandic company Polar Fishing Gear is finally ready for full-scale sea trials with its Poseidon controllable trawl doors and the sea trials are scheduled for next month.
Russian fishing gear company Fishering Service aims to strengthen its position on the Icelandic and Greelandic markets for trawl gear and has reached an agreement with Ísfell in Iceland.
Marel is using this year’s Seafood Processing Global, taking place as part of the Seafood Global Expo in Brussels next month, to present a range of innovative additions to proven applications, with the focus on high product quality and improved processing performance. Marel will exhibit advanced equipment and software solutions that enable whitefish and salmon processors to optimise yield, throughput and product quality.
Earlier this month work began at Hampidjan’s new premises in the Westmann Islands with a net loft and a shop. At present the building has a 400 square metre floor space, but once this coming summer’s expansion has been concluded, it will expand to 1100 square metres.
Capelin processing and frozen roe production began at HB Grandi’s Akranes factory yesterday when Venus docked with 900 tonnes on board. The capelin were caught in three shots off the Snæfellsnes peninsula the day before yesterday. There was no fishing yesterday due to bad weather.
Fishing and processing company Eskja, based in the Icelandic east coast port of Eskifjörður, has contracted Skaginn and a group of partner companies to build a new pelagic processing plant. With a construction time of only six months, the new factory is scheduled to be ready for production in September this year.
Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries has issued its initial guidelines for this year’s lumpfish fishery, with days at sea largely unchanged from last year.