HB Grandi’s vessels have landed around 15,000 tonnes of herring and mackerel so far this season. In previous years mackerel has primarily been a bycatch with herring but now mackerel accounts for some 60% of catches.
According to Ingimundur Ingimundarson, who manages HB Grandi’s pelagic vessels, Faxi RE, Ingunn AK and Lundey NS have caught approximately 9,000 tonnes of mackerel and 6,000 tonnes of herring this season.
The focus has been increasingly on herring, but mackerel production has now also restarted at Vopnafjördur after a few days’ break. Some 3,200 tonnes of mackerel and 2,000 tonnes of herring products have been frozen at the Vopnafjördur factory so far.
