Icelandic fishing and processing company Síldarvinnslan has reached an agreement with Bremesco Holding Limited and a group of shareholders to acquire a 34,2% holding in Arctic Fish Holding. The purchase…
With the winter capelin and blue whiting season behind them, Iceland’s pelagic fleet is gearing up for the summer mackerel season. The Síldarvinnslan fleet is expected to start hunting for…
Fishing for blue whiting is underway in the grey zone south for the Faroe Islands, with Icelandic and Faroese pelagic vessels at work there. The first landing in Iceland was…
With the first big capelin season for years behind them, the Icelandic pelagic fleet is no gearing up for the blue whiting fishery, and the first pelagic vessels have already…
Síldarvinnlan’s freezer trawler Blængur is alongside after completing a record 40-day trip to the Barents Sea, docked in Neskaupstaður where the catch valued at ISK635 million in being discharged –…
The new capelin roe processing line is designed to double production capacity during the short roe season. The system went through an initial dry run, and the first production went…
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…
Pelagic vessels are lining up to land at Síldarvinnslan’s plants in Neskaupstaður and Seyðisfjörður, and the first capelin landings of the season have arrived at the Vinnslustöðin plant in the…
Greenlandic pelagic vessel Polar Ammasak is ready to start fishing after calling at Hampiðjan’s Neskaupstaður net loft to pick up a capelin trawl and codend. Built in 1997 as Eros…
The first landing of capelin of this season to Síldarvinnslan’s Neskaupstaður processing plant has been completed. After a difficult start to the season with the capelin sitting deep, below the…