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‘We had some very good fishing the first three days we were in the Russian zone, then we had a winch rotor that needed to be fixed so we had to steam to Kirkenes in Norway to get it repaired. By the time we were back at sea, the fishing had died away and we had to spend some time steaming and searching for fish,’ said Kristinn Gestsson, skipper of factory trawler Therney RE which docked in Reykjavík last Tuesday after a trip in the Barents Sea...
HB Grandi’s new pelagic vessel, Víkingur AK, is to be launched soon, with a date set early next month if everything goes according to plan, and the ship is expected to arrive in Iceland in December...
Earlier this week Ingunn AK was handed over to its new owners, Vinnslustöðin í Vestmannaeyjum (VSV) and has been renamed Ísleifur VE...
July 3, a package of Free-Port Vladivostok Bills has been passed with overwhelming support of the State Duma Deputies in its third reading...
The Vice-governor of Primorskiy territory Sergey Nekhayev met the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wen Lian Aquaculture Сo., Ltd. Qiu Laizhong. The parties discussed the perspectives of investment cooperation in the spheres of aquaculture and tourism...
Today Iceland celebrates a century has passed since women were given the right to vote. The day is being celebrated across the country in a variety of ways. As part of the celebrations, HB Grandi’s entire staff ashore are being given a half day off and the company’s offices will be closed this afternoon...
Faxi RE is on its way home and due to dock in Vopnafjördur on Wednesday morning with around 1050 tonnes of blue whiting on board. Skipper Karl Ferdinandsson said that fishing has been on the slow side this trip...
‘We had a decent showing of silver smelt on the way eastwards but fishing for saithe and Greenland halibut has been very quiet. We came out here hoping to see some Greenland halibut as they tend to show up in June, but that hasn’t been the case so far,’ said freezer trawler Therney’s skipper Kristinn Gestsson...
The Sustainable Swordfish LLC (SSLLC) U.S. North Atlantic swordfish longline fishery has attained certification to the global Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard as sustainable and well-managed. Following an independent assessment conducted by Intertek Fisheries Certification (IFC), swordfish (Xiphias gladius) from this fishery is now eligible to carry the blue MSC ecolabel...
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To celebrate this Sunday’s Seamen’s Day, HB Grandi is holding a family event at the company’s premises at Nordurgardur in Reykjavík...
Vopnafjördur saw a special celebration take place following the arrival of the new pelagic vessel Venus NS in its new home port. A reception was arranged for the residents of the Vopnafjördur municipality and other guests last Wednesday, part of which was a presentation of the new ship itself and the pelagic processing factory that HB Grandi has built up in Vopnafjördur...
Venus NS, the newest vessel to join the Icelandic fleet, is now fishing blue whiting south-east of the Faroes along with several others on the same grounds. According to skipper Gudlaugur Jónsson, the ship and all its equipment are in fine order, but catch rates have been low...
The latest addition to the Icelandic fleet, Venus NS 150, docked for the first time early Sunday morning at its home port of Vopnafjördur after a 3700 nautical mile delivery trip from Turkey, where it was built for HB Grandi...
HB Grandi’s magnificent new pelagic vessel Venus NS was in a position of the north-west coast of Portugal at midday today. The delivery trip from the yard in Turkey has gone well in spite of poor weather and the ship is expected to dock at its home port of Vopnafjördur next Monday...
According to HB Grandi CEO Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, the sale of Faxi RE and Ingunn AK, along with 0.67% of the capelin quota and trawl gear is good for both the seller and the buyer, Vinnslustödin...
‘We have processed 11,500 tonnes of blue whiting so far this season and right now we have two trawlers at the quayside with another 3,500 tonnes, so we have enough to keep us busy,’ said Sveinbjörn Sigmundsson, the HB Grandi fishmeal plant’s factory manager at Vopnafjördur...
Pelagic vessels Faxi RE and Ingunn AK left Tvøroyri on the Faroese island of Suduroy at midday yesterday, setting course for the blue whiting grounds south of the Faroes after having sat out a storm in port...
‘We can’t complain about the catch rate after we’ve had 600 tonnes in two hauls. But the weather is terrible,’ said Lundey NS’s skipper Arnthór Hjörleifsson when we spoke to him yesterday...