New Havfisk ordered from Karstensen
Norwegian fishing company Havfisk AS, a subsidiary of Henning Veibust’s Ålesund-based company Veibust Fiskeriselskap, has placed an order for a new 75.10 metre pelagic vessel to be built at the…
Capelin reach Faxa Bay – roe season approaching
Capelin have been migrating rapidly along the south coast over the last few days. Challenging weather conditions and the accompanying delays to fishing have meant that it hasn’t been easy…
New Knester ordered from Danish yard
The owners of Norwegian pelagic vessel Knester have placed an order for a new 75.20 metre vessel with a 15.50 metre beam, to be delivered in February 2024. This will…
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…
Norway raises discrimination issue with Iceland over capelin fishery
The Norwegian fleet has long felt itself to be at a disadvantage during the capelin fishery in Icelandic waters, and Norway’s Minister of Fisheries has again raised the issue with…
Isafold takes over Denmark’s greenest pelagic vessel
Hirtshals-based Rederiet Isafold has reached an agreement to take over the part-built pelagic vessel that had been ordered by Henning Kjeldsen at the Zamakona yard in Spain. The new pelagic…
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…
Breaking one capelin landing record after another
As the Icelandic fleet experiences its first big capelin season for many years, there has been one record landing after another, although there are only a handful of pelagic vessels…
Breaking one record after another
Only a couple of weeks after one record had been set for the largest capelin landing to date, Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessel Börkur has broken its own record with a landing…
Sprat spawn in Icelandic waters
The first signs of sprats appearing in Icelandic waters were in 2017 when one fish was caught during a research survey. More were caught in subsequent surveys, and it has…