HB Grandi's mackerel and herring catch down

ICELAND
Friday, September 03, 2010, 03:10 (GMT + 9)

HB Grandi has landed 27,000 tonnes of Atlanto-Scandian herring and mackerel so far this year. This is a bulky drop in the catch compared to the 41,000 tonnes of mackerel and herring landed at the same point last year. The firm has been fishing in an area extending from the international waters of the Herring Loophole to the Faroese exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and to fishing grounds only 40 nmi from their base in Vopnafjördur. The company’s production of herring and mackerel for human consumption has taking an energetic jump – about triple the seafood is going to production this year compared versus 2009, according to Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, head of HB Grandi’s pelagic division. By 1 September 2009, he said, 2,800 tonnes of product or around 7 per cent of landings had been frozen, as most of the catches at that time were desti... FULL STORY