Westman Islands fishing company Vinnslustöðin (VSV) has received its first landings of herring this autumn, and the mackerel season has come to an close. The Icelandic herring season has been…
It was only a few years ago that Rederiet Astrid Fiskeri took delivery of pelagic vessel Astrid, but a new vessel is already on the way and its design anticipates…
Pelagic vessel Margrét docked at Neskaupstaður in eastern Iceland yesterday with 1150 tonnes herring caught in only two tows. ‘It went like clockwork,’ said Margrét’s skipper Birkir Hreinsson as the…
Icelandic research vessel Árni Friðriksson is expected to sail on Monday morning to start this year’s 22-day autumn capelin survey, joined by another research vessel from Greenland. The survey will…
Síldarvinnslan in eastern Iceland has taken landings of 21,300 tonnes of mackerel so far this season. According to the Neskaupstaður factory’s production manager Jón Gunnar Sigurjónsson, the season has gone…
The new French pelagic trawler Scombrus CC-919999, built for France Pélagique (part of Cornelis Vrolijk), is now in its first trip, having sailed from IJmuiden at the beginning of August.…
When the original supplier for the hull of new German-flagged, Swedish-owned pelagic trawler Kristin NC-336 unexpectedly dropped out, this brought both bad news and good for the owners and Karstensens…
A modest relaxation in the restrictions for travel and gatherings, and an opening of the border between Sweden and Denmark allowed a modest christening ceremony to take place for the…
Fishing for mackerel has improved in the last few days and Síldarvinnslan’s Neskaupstaður factory is buzzing with activity. So far the season has seen mainly larger for of 500+ grammes…
Norwegian purser-trawler Mokstein has been alongside at the Skarfabakki quayside next to Hampiðjan’s net loft in Reykjavík, where the company’s staff have been providing technical input to fine-tune Mokstein’s fishing…