HB Grandi’s factory trawler ‘Therney RE’ is due to dock in Reykjavík today with an estimated catch of 1,275 tonnes of raw fish, with value of ISK506m.
This has been a 40 day trip that started on the Fuglø Bank in the Barents Sea.
“We’re very satisfied with this trip. In spite of poor weather that has stopped us fishing for days at a time, catches were excellent,” said skipper Kristinn Gestsson.
“There was poor weather the whole time we were there and it was bad enough for us to have to dodge for a few days. But catches were good on the days when we could fish. The main problem was the large amounts of haddock on the fishing grounds, and we are not allowed to go over the 30% bycatch limit for the trip,” he said. He also said that the bad weather on the Fuglø Bank prompted them to steam south of Lofoten.
“We had our last 10 days of fishing there south of Lofoten and we had some fine weather and very good fishing. The catch there was practically clean cod, most of it excellent quality fish,” he said.
