According to the company the fish landed were of excellent quality and additional good news are that they were caught not far offshore and well within the Icelandic EEZ. It is told that Ingunn was approximately 40 miles from Vopnafjördur when worsening weather brought the trip to an early end, hence the small landing.
Magnús Róbertsson, production manager of the the Vopnafjördur plant, said that this was exceptionally fine, large herring. This was processed as butterfly fillets, with the grades of fish over 400 grammes wholefrozen with an average weight of 436 grammes. He also added that the production had gone well, even though a new weighing and in-feeding system was being taken into use just at that time.
Robertson explained that normally it takes some time before a new system becomes fully familiar, but this good beginning promises better things to come. Due to extremely bad weather last week kept Ingunn AK and Lundey NS in port. Lundey had recently landed 800 tonnes of fish that went for meal production. It is said that this plant bring new turn in the development of fish economy in Iceland.
