It took one of HB Grandi’s trawlers only ten days to catch its quota of oceanic redfish on offshore grounds this year, before shifting back to concentrate on groundfish for the rest of its trip.
Freezer trawler Therney is now fishing off the west coast and according to skipper Ægir Franzsson, there has been some good fishing on saithe over the last few days. Therney shifted to the Westfjords grounds after finishing its deep sea redfish quota for the year on the Reykjanes Ridge, and this year it took Therney only ten days to catch its quota.
‘The fishing on redfish was very good and we had a live weight of around 500 tonnes over seven of those ten days. Örfirisey was on the same grounds and had much the same catches as we did,’Ægir Franzsson said, commenting that from the Reykjanes Ridge they steamed north to the Hampidjan Square area off western Iceland once their redfish quota had been taken.
‘The idea was to search for some Greenland halibut and we went north, and there was some decent fish on the days when we could fish for sea ice. Then we made our way back to the Hampidjan Square and we’re east of that now and doing nicely on saithe. There are other trawlers here and they’re all searching for saithe,’ he said.
