The business award presented annually by Icelandic business trade publications Frjáls Verslun and Viðskiptablaðið has this year gone to fishing gear producer Hampiðjan. This is the most prestigious award of…
Fishing gear group Hampiðjan has wholeheartedly condemned Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and its ongoing action in the invasion of a democratic sovereign state. The company states that it has systematically…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…