The Icelandic fleet has landed a total of 181,761 tonnes of blue whiting this year, with 65,132 tonnes remaining of this year\u2019s quotas.<\/p>\n
East coast fishing and processing company S\u00edldarvinnslan has taken delivery of 71,000 tonnes of blue whiting this year, all of which has been processed to produce fishmeal and fish oil, with approximately 54,000 tonnes landed to the company\u2019s Neskaupsta\u00f0ur factory and 17,400 tonnes to the plant in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n
S\u00edldarvinnslan\u2019s fishing vessels account for the bulk of these landings. B\u00f6rkur<\/em> landed 17,497 tonnes, while Beitir<\/em> was close behind with 16,070 tonnes and Bjarni \u00d3lafsson<\/em> landed 14,731 tonnes. In addition, Margr\u00e9t<\/em> has landed 13,731 tonnes to S\u00edldarvinnslan\u2019s processing plants and H\u00e1kon<\/em> has landed 11,183 tonnes, alongside freezing part of its catches at sea.<\/p>\n According to Hj\u00f6rvar Hj\u00e1lmarsson, skipper of top catcher B\u00f6rkur<\/em>, this year\u2019s fishing for blue whiting has been characterised by bad weather and smaller catches.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we were fishing west of Ireland the weather was very bad and that had an effect on fishing. These have been smaller catches than in previous years in the Faroese EEZ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fish also migrated a long way to the east and more than likely a large proportion of the migration was on the Shetland and Norwegian side of the line, which explains less fishing in Faroese waters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 1500 tonnes of blue whiting landed earlier this week by pelagic vessel Margr\u00e9t is expected to be the last for a while as the Icelandic pelagic fleet fits out for the coming mackerel season. Fishing for blue whiting is expected to resume towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}