Beating a retreat from Westfjords weather
Freezer trawler Vigri is in Reykjavík with 360 tonnes on board. This is the result of the second part of the current trip, following a half-landing a week previously when…
Höfrungur III AK-250
Redfish everywhere
Brim’s factory trawler Höfrungur III is alongside in Reykjavík after a successful trip. According to Friðrik Ingason, who was skipper for this trip, the catch is a green weight of…
Coastal seiner Einar Erlend makes good use of its Furuno High Frequency Zone FSV-75 sonar for both saithe and mackerel fisheries
Norwegian mackerel season off to an early start
The Norwegian deep sea and coastal purse seiners are looking forward to a different kind of mackerel season this year as catches have to be taken in home waters, and…
‘This is a big problem that we would love to see solved,’ said DFPO chairman Svend-Erik Andersen. Images: DFPO
ICES advice fails to tally with Danish fishing experience
The Danish Fishermen’s PO (DFPO) has weighed in with its own criticisms of ICES advice for North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat fisheries for 2022. Like the Scottish associations, they Danish…
Searching for saithe
‘Everyone’s looking for saithe and it’s not easy to find. On the other hand, there’s plenty of every other species, such as golden redfish, cod and haddock, but hardly any…
Brim factory trawler Vigri landed a full trip, focusing on saithe
Saithe all over
Brim’s factory trawler Vigri is now fishing off the Westfjords after landing in Reykjavík on Sunday and Monday this week. According to skipper Eythór Atli Scott, the trip just finished…
Brim's fresher trawler Helga María
Fishing well on home grounds
Brim’s fresher trawler Helga María is on its way back to fishing grounds after landing a capacity trip in Reykjavík on Monday this week. According to skipper Friðleifur Einarsson, the…
Brim’s fresher trawler Akurey is one of the two that have been fishing off the north coast of Iceland this summer
Summer turned out well for Brim trawlers
The fresher trawlers operated by Brim (previously HB Grandi) have had a good summer, according to Viðey’s skipper Jóhannes Ellert Eiríksson, who landed his last trip of the 2018-19 quota…
Saithe has been scarce for Akurey's crew this trip
Patchy fishing for saithe
‘It hasn’t been an easy trip, although we can say that when the weather has been decent, so has the fishing.Right now it’s blowing hard, a real storm, and we’re…
Fine fishing for saithe on home grounds
The seasonal fishing off the south-west of Iceland has been excellent and HB Grandi’s fresher trawlers have been making good landings. The emphasis has been on fishing good-quality spring season saithe, and this has been going well this trip, according to Viðey’s skipper Kristján Gíslason.