Back under the Icelandic flag
A familiar ship in a new guise has docked in Akureyri, as factory trawler Snæfell is back under the Icelandic flag. Having sailed as Akraberg and under the Faroese flag…
Patience and a co-ordinated crew
Samherji’s trawler Björgvin EA-311 has been fishing well on saithe off the south of Iceland recently, and while skipper Oddur Brynjólfsson said it’s great to see heavy fishing, ensuring the…
Expanding fishing gear recycling
Fishing company Samherji has a comprehensive grading system on board all of its fishing vessels, with waste sorted before being put ashore for recycling. Waste netting goes ashore and is…
Non-stop heavy weather – but full production ashore
Despite the constant bouts of heavy weather that have been a feature of fishing in Icelandic waters for the first two months of his year, the Samherji production plants have…
Nobody leaves the ship
Samherji’s pelagic vessel Vilhelm Thorsteinsson landed 2060 tonnes of capelin to Síldarvinnslan’s fishmeal plant in Neskaupstaður on Friday, before heading back to sea without any of the crew going ashore.…
Clean bill of health for whole workforce
Iceland has been hit hard by Covid-19 over recent weeks, and fishing and processing company Samherji was taking no chances – starting 2022 by screening the entire workforce ashore and…
Dohrn Bank cod bonanza
The Dohrn Bank that lies in the mid-way line between Iceland and Greenland used to be best known for its shrimp fishery, most of which lies on the Greenland side…
Samherji’s dried fish production gets though 140 to 150 tonnes of raw material every week. Image: Samherji
Optimising dried fish production
Around 6500 tonnes of fish heads and backbones are routed from production at the Samherji processing plant in Dalvík in the north of Iceland to be dried for export, and…
Samherji’s Dalvík factory has processed 16,500 tonnes of raw material in the past year. Image: Samherji
Eventful year for Dalvík factory
Production has come to an end for the summer at the Samherji fish processing plant in the port of Dalvík in the north of Iceland, ending an eventful year of…
Valdimar H is one of the two longliners operated from Honningsvåg by Eskøy AS. Image: Eskøy AS
Norway tightens fishing vessel ownership requirements
A decision by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries has instructed the country’s Directorate of Fisheries to examine carefully applications by foreign companies looking to become minority shareholders…