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‘It looks good. We had twelve tonnes of good quality mackerel in our first haul after a two-hour tow. We have been able to maintain full production and if things continue like this then the quota should keep us going until the middle of August,’ said Therney RE’s skipper Kristinn Gestsson when we spoke to him with Therney fishing in the Jökull Deeps...
June, 1-st, 2013 the Interstate Standard GOST 31794-2012 «Grained salmon caviar. Specifications» was put in force as a substitution for GOST R 52336-2005 which is to be canceled February, 15-th, 2015...
HB Grandi has sold Víkingur AK to Denmark for DKR 2.1 million or €280.000...
The National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the Fisheries Administration of Vietnam visited Russia...
HB Grandi currently has two new pelagic vessels under construction at the Celiktrans Denis Insaat yard at Tuzla in Turkey, and the announcement was made last week that the company had started negotiations with the same yard for construction of three new fresher trawlers. This brings the investment in the company’s fleet to approximately ISK 14 billion, of which roughly a half is accounted for by the two pelagic vessels...
This year’s Associated Icelandic Ports environmental award, Fjörusteinnn (the Shore Rock) has today been awarded to HB Grandi. In his speech, the chairman of the Associated Icelandic Ports board, Hjálmar Sveinsson, said that the award is richly deserved, commenting that the company has been active in rejuvenating the Nordurgardur area of the city’s Grandi district, including by demolishing old and obsolete buildings...
Norwegian minister of fisheries Elisabeth Aspaker is currently in Iceland to attend a Nordic conference on fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, food and forestry that opened today in Selfoss. She and her entourage took the opportunity early yesterday morning to visit HB Grandi, accompanied by Iceland’s minister of fisheries Sigurdur Ingi Jóhannsson...
It’s now a year since Ísbjörninn, HB Grandi’s cold store at Nordurgardur, was opened. Since then approximately 17,000 tonnes of fish have passed through it and it’s clear that embarking on the construction was a worthwhile enterprise...
The Board of Directors of HB Grandi hf. has decided to enter negotiations with Turkish ship building company Celiktrans Deniz Ltd. on the construction of three wetfish trawlers based on an offer from the ship builder...
Recently HB Grandi completed the acquisition of the company Nordanfiskur. Previously, HB Grandi had held a 23.80% stake...
‘We’re the last of the Icelandic pelagic fleet still at sea and we’ll probably do what we can and then call it a day. We’re in the Rose Garden, well inside the Icelandic EEZ, and fishing has been slow,’ said Arnthór Hjörleifsson, skipper of Lundey NS, when we spoke to him earlier today.
‘If anything, there has been a greater importance to Seamen’s Day in recent years. Today is is linked to municipal celebrations that last the full weekend in many communities, such as Reykjavík, Grindavík, Neskaupstadur and there are certainly more,’ said Magnús Thorvaldsson, one of Iceland’s most experienced purse seine skippers...
The Seamen’s Day will be celebrated today on the 1st of June. As in previous years, HB Grandi is one of the sponsors of the Festival of the Sea, which is organised by Associated Icelandic Ports and Seaman's Day Council. This year there will be a varied set of family entertainments offered by HB Grandi at Nordurgardur...
‘It’s a while since the fishing started to improve and catches have been very good over the last few days. We had been getting around two tonnes per towing hour over the last two or three days before we stopped fishing and started steaming for home. This means that production has been run at virtually full capacity,’ Therney’s skipper Kristinn Gestsson said when we spoke to him as the ship was approaching Reykjavík...
Lundey NS docked in Vopnafjördur late on Wednesday night with a full load of blue whiting. This was the last trip before the Seamen’s Day stopover with the festivities due to be held on Sunday. According to skipper Arnthór Hjörleifsson, the intention is for each of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels to complete one more trip on blue whiting after Seamen’s Day...
Three of New Zealand’s orange roughy fisheries have together entered the lengthy and rigorous assessment process to be measured against the world’s most credible standard for sustainable fishing...
The meeting took place upon the initiative of the Canadian party. Bruce Chapman informed his Russian counterpart about the Council’s plans to start working over the joint project in Russia related to catching and processing of snow crab in the Barents Sea and about the talks between the FCC and Rosrybolovstvo devoted to the exchange of fish quotas in the North Atlantic...
At the end of last week the last hold-out Japanese packers signed contracts at $4.95 (FOB) for Newfoundland Snow crab. The result was $.15 to $.20 cents higher than the Japanese had hoped...
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of CodMarine® marks a breakthrough in the market for pharmaceutical-grade fish oil. The supplement, produced by Norway's Pharma Marine AS, is made from by-products from certified sustainable North East Arctic cod, haddock and saithe.
“Greenpeace has issued its eighth report ranking U.S. grocery store chains on seafood sourcing practices....