Double landings in one week
Westman Islands groundfish trawlers Vestmannaey and Bergey have started 2026 with a bang, delivering two landings each in the space of a week. The sister vessels landed in Neskaupstaður on…
Herring play hard to get
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessel Barði docked with 1255 tonnes of Icelandic summer-spawning herring caught on the other side of the country. The catch was landed to the company’s processing plant in…
Síldarvinnslan streamlines operations with fleet cutbacks
Forty crew have been given notice as Icelandic fishing company Síldarvinnslan plans to cut back its groundfish fleet with two trawlers to be taken out of service. Veteran fresher trawler…
Back on mackerel at Neskaupstaður plant
Síldarvinnslan’s mackerel production has re-started, just days after the season was thought to be over and the company’s fleet was switching to other fisheries. Pelagic vessel Beitir is back on…
Back on blue whiting
As the Icelandic fleet’s mackerel season came to an end, east coast company Síldarvinnslan quickly deployed to of its vessels to fish for blue whiting, with Barði landing 1800 tonnes…
Mackerel season coming to an end – herring next
The Icelandic fleet’s mackerel fishery for this year is coming to a close. Samherji’s pelagic vessel Margrét has finished its season with a 930-tonne landing to Síldarvinnslan’s Neskaupstaður processing plant,…
First landing of the mackerel season in Iceland
Pelagic vessel Vilhelm Thorsteinsson has called at Síldarvinnslan’s Neskaupstaður processing plant to offload the first catch of the Icelandic fleet’s mackerel season, delivering 1040 tonnes – and production began right…
Iceland’s fleet starts on mackerel
Three pelagic vessels operated by Síldarvinnslan have sailed from Norðfjörður in the east of Iceland to start on the summer mackerel season. Barði, Beitir and Börkur have been in port…
Switching over for mackerel
Two of Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessels have made their last landings of blue whiting for the time being and are alongside to fit out for the coming mackerel season. Börkur landed…
One herring season ends – and another begins
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessels have landed their last payloads of Atlanto-Scandian herring for this year, and fishing for summer-spawning herring has begun off the west of Iceland. The last landing of…
