Recognition for a long career in fishing gear development
Among the fourteen recipients awarded the Order of the Falcon by President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson at a ceremony held at the Presidential residence of Bessastaðir on 17th June…
Keeping up with the twin-riggers
Síldarvinnslan’s freezer trawler Blængur has recently completed a trip in the Norwegian zone of the Barents Sea, and what attracted interest was that Blængur’s catch rates with its single trawl…
New purse seine performs perfectly
As the Icelandic pelagic fleet switches from trawling for capelin in the early part of the season to purse seine gear as the fish gather in tight marks off the…
Neskaupstaður net loft hasn’t been so busy for years
There’s plenty of activity at Hampiðjan’s Neskaupstaður net loft at the moment, and according to manager Jón Einar Marteinsson, it’s a long time since there has been quite so much…
Cosmos Trawl to expand in Skagen
Fishing gear company Cosmos Trawl, which has a history in the Danish port of Skagen that can be traced back to 1879, is continuing that long relationship by leasing land…
Hampiðjan achieves ISO 14001 environmental certification
Over the last few years Hampiðjan has systematically worked on a number of aspects of environmental issues and the basis of this goes back to the company setting out its…
In a single day volunteers collected close to two tonnes of mainly plastic waste from the beach at Krossavík. Image: Hampiðjan
Insights from Hampiðjan’s annual beach clean-up
Every year staff from fishing gear manufacturer Hampiðjan and their families join in a beach clean-up session, and this year’s effort highlighted some of the changes in the way fishing…
Víkingur’s Gloria performs well on blue whiting
This past winter and spring skipper Albert Sveinsson and the crew of Brim’s pelagic vessel Víkingur have been working with a 2304 metre Gloría Helix blue whiting trawl from Hampiðjan.…
Rav alongside at Hampiðjan Neskaupstaður. Image: Hampiðjan
Saving the season for Norwegian purser
When Norwegian pelagic vessel Rav docked with a badly damaged purse seine, the rest of its capelin season was looking dubious. The gear had been fouled in the net bin…
Klakkur ÍS-903 is towing Pandalus shrimp trawls with four-panel codends. Image: Bergthór Gunnlaugsson
Pandalus trawl and T90 codend prove their worth
New Pandalus shrimp trawls with four-panel codends rigged on QuickLines have been a success story for offshore shrimper Klakkur ÍS-903 this summer. ‘Let’s say that catches have been pretty good…