News - page 49

HB Grandi’s new pelagic vessel, Venus NS, was yesterday launched at Hatsan in Turkey...

Wetfish trawler Otto N Thorláksson RE is expected to be docked for two to three months due to a main engine breakdown. The problem occurred before last Sunday's exceptionally bad weather, and was fortunately noticed before the ship was due to sail...

Freezer trawler Höfrungur III AK is now fishing off the Westfjords. Skipper Ævar Jóhannsson expected to see some exceptionally bad weather as a deep storm passed over Iceland yesterday. We spoke to him yesterday when he said that the present trip, due to end on the 4th of December, had been patchy, with days of good fishing mixed with slow days...

HB Grandi recently signed a contract with Íslenskir Adalverktakar (IAV). The contract is for a new 1,440 square metre extension for the fish processing plant and a 260 square metre facility for waste handling and storage for fishing gear...

In an announcement from HB Grandi hf. on October 23rd 2014, HB Grandi hf. disclosed that the Company had decided to enter into negotiations with a certain investor regarding the potential sale of the Company’s shares in Stofnfiskur hf...

Upon the agreement with the Veterinary Services of Kazakhstan and Belarus from October 20 to 31 of the current year the Rosselkhoznadzor experts inspected 15 plants producing animal food products, including fish plants and pig slaughter facilities, interested in export of their products into the Customs Union...

Early Yesterday  morning the staff at HB Grandi’s Vopnafjördur factory finished processing the last of the herring landed by Faxi RE, bringing to an end a short but busy season that started at the beginning of October on Icelandic summer-spawning herring...

HB Grandi has seen its fair share of visitors recently and today’s visitors were a group of students from the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme, along with programme leaders Tumi Tómasson, Thór Ásgeirsson and Mary Frances Davidson...

Faxi RE docked at Vopnafjördur late last night after a long steam from western Iceland. The route taken was the longer option, passing south of Iceland due to unusually bad weather conditions off the north coast over the last few days, and skipper Albert Sveinsson said that they had storm-force conditions the whole way. The wind speed indicator topped 51m/sec at one point, although sea conditions were not bad...

Herring has a reputation as a tricky customer, as Arnthór Hjörleifsson, skipper of Lundey NS, would agree. When Lundey arrived on fishing grounds yesterday evening there were strong herring marks to be seen deep west of Snæfellsnes. Two shot tows yielded 460 tonnes of fish, but today there was nothing to be seen...

In connection with the presentation of the Q2 2014 results, Marine Harvest guided a total harvest volume of 106 thousand tonnes (HOG) for Q3 2014 while the actual harvest has amounted to 107    thousand tonnes, according to MHG. This result has been achieved despite the temporary closure of Russian fish market for Norway in the war of mutual sanctions...

‘We have between 900 and 1000 tonnes of herring on board that we had in four hauls south of the Látragrunn Shallows, deep west of Snæfellsnes,’ said Róbert Axelsson, chief mate on board Ingunn AK when we spoke to him earlier today. Ingunn was then steaming to Vopnafjördur with the first of this season’s Icelandic summer-spawning herring from the fishery that began last week...

Freezer trawler Höfrungur III AK docked in Akureyri late last night, as the ship is there for dry-docking. The vessel docked in Reykjavík last Monday with 9500 cartons in its fishroom, after having completed a half-landing in Reykjavík ten days earlier, making the trip’s total 12,300 cartons...

The HB Grandi fleet’s herring and mackerel catches this summer total 33,400 tonnes. This is a small increase compared to last summer’s catches when the fleet landed 32,400 tonnes...

‘I’m not sure that people realise that the seafood business as we know it today is based on far more than pulling fish out of the sea, processing it and selling it. Icelandic fisheries is a knowledge-based industry on a world scale, and this is obvious when you visit an event such as the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition that’s being held right now in Kópavogur,’ said HB Grandi’s marketing manager Brynjólfur Eyjólfsson, adding that although the company itself does not take part, its staff are encouraged to visit the exhibition...

The Rosselkhoznadzor representatives, i.e. Assistant Head Dmitry Natarov and Head of the Directorate for Veterinary Inspections within International Cooperation and WTO Vasily Lavrovsky included into the Russian delegation headed by RF Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov took part in another session of the Russian-Moroccan Intergovernmental Commission which took place in Rabat on September 15 – 17, current year...

HB Grandi has contracted to have five new vessels built in Turkey, as has already been reported. These are two pelagic vessels and three fresher trawlers. The names and registrations of these new vessels being delivered between 2015 and 2017 have now been decided...

One of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels, Faxi RE, was yesterday still fishing herring deep off the east of Iceland. Lundey NS was then steaming home, having finished its last trip of the season and Ingunn AK had already finished its season, docking at Vopnafjördur on Monday with 900 tonnes on board that has now been pumped ashore...

‘The trip started slowly and it seems that the herring are moving out of the shallow. As soon as we shifted into deeper water the fishing improved and there was some good fishing last night,’ said Stefán Geir Jónsson, who is skippering Lundey NS for this trip, when he arrived  in Vopnafjördur this morning. He estimated a catch of around 560 tonnes, of which 100 tonnes is mackerel caught the night before last.

HB Grandi’s fresher trawler Ásbjörn RE is now alongside at Siglufjördur in the north of Iceland, landing fish from its latest trip. According to skipper Fridleifur Einarsson, this is the first time, as far as he knows, that one of the company’s trawlers has called at Siglufjördur with its catch...