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…
Easter homecoming for Iceland’s pelagic flagship
Samherji’s new pelagic vessel Vilhelm Thorsteinsson EA-11 has completed its delivery trip from Skagen. Skipper Guðmundur Jónsson and his crew are scheduled to dock at Akureyri’s Trawler Dock at 1000…
Kaldbakur EA-1
Samherji fleet returns strong 2020 results
The fleet of fishing vessels operated by Icelandic fishing company Samherji has made some impressive landings through 2020, with Björg EA-7 at the top of the chart with 9443 tonnes…
Samherji’s fishfarm at Staður near Grindavík. Image: Samherji
Samherji checks out Norðurál’s Helguvík site
Samherji Fish Farming, a division of the Icelandic Samherji fishing and processing group, is taking a careful look at the site at Helguvík in south-western Iceland owned by Norðurál, a…
The new factory is in the northern Icelandic port of Dalvík. Image: Samherji
Production starts at world-leading new groundfish plant
The first fish were processed last week at the new processing plant that is the culmination of a four-year process to design and build one of the most sophisticated facilities…