HB Grandi’s processing plants are gearing up for the summer season. Production will re-start in July when fishing is underway for mackerel and Atlanto-Scandian herring.
This is despite the fact that there are reduced quotas this year - the mackerel quota has been reduced by 15% and herring by 25%.
Brynjolfur Eyjolfsson , marketing manager, told World Fishing & Aquaculture: “In Vopnafjördur we will produce less volumes during this summer because of reduced quotas. The industry is always facing new challenges. One of the big challenges is reduced quotas in the NVG herring every year due to low recruitment in the stocks.”
Despite this, all hands will be to the pump at the Nordurgardur production plant in Reykjavik this season. Altogether, 45 young people have been taken on to work through the summer, along with 20 at the Akranes factory.
There has been a break in production at the Vopnafjördur factory since the end of the capelin season and production at the fishmeal factory stopped at the end of the blue whiting season in May.
HB Grandi produces fresh whole fish and frozen fillets of herring and mackerel from August to December, as well as meal and oil. Its main markets are for East Europe and Africa.
