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Shares held by fishing companies in Iceland’s main daily newspaper Morgunblaðið have changed hands. Fishing operators bought a substantial stake in the newspaper’s owning company shortly after the 2008 financial crash.
Iceland’s Ministry of Industries and Innovation, which includes fisheries, has announced a 20,000 tonne increase to the mackerel quota compared to last year.
Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi is inviting bids for the construction of a new factory freezer trawler.
It’s now ten years since Icelandic company Bergur-Huginn took delivery of its trawler Vestmannaey in 2007. The 29 metre fresher trawler was built in Poland and replaced a larger freezer trawler as the company changed direction to focus on fresh landings.
Plans announced by Icelandic fishing and processing company to close its groundfish production at Akranes have come in for sharp criticism in the media.
The spring season is always the busy time of year for the south of Iceland, and this year is no exception as fishing and processing demersal fish has been non-stop in the Westmann Islands since the end of the seamen’s strike in February.
A month ago Iceland’s capelin season looked like a non-starter, with the fleet crippled by a long-running strike by crews and no prospects for any large capelin migration through Icelandic waters. It hasn’t worked out quite like that.
Greenlandic pelagic vessel Qavak is now into its fourth trip on fishing grounds off Snæfellsnes. Its crew of fourteen is partly Icelandic, including skipper Gylfi Viðar Guðmundsson, who is one of the owners of Huginn VE-55 and skipper opposite Guðmundur Huginn Guðmundsson. Qavak is operated by Greenlandic company Arctic Prime Fisheries aps, which is partly owned by Brim hf.
There is some brisk fishing for capelin off Snæfellsnes right now, and capelin roe production is in full swing at several processing plants in Iceland as the season still shows no sign of coming to an end.
Samherji’s new factory stern trawler, the first of a series of four, is due to dock in Akureyri today and the ship will be open to visitors this afternoon.
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