Factory manager Magn\u00fas R\u00f3bertsson said that the capelin is slightly smaller than the fish that were being landed at the end of last year, but there is no great difference. A good proportion of the fish goes for human consumption and the fish that are graded out are passed to fishmeal production.<\/p>\n
It is now just over a week since Lundey<\/em> started searching for capelin along the lines that the Marine Research Institute has suggested, and the search began on Westfjords grounds. According to skipper Arnth\u00f3r Hj\u00f6rleifsson, the conditions for searching are as bad as they can be:<\/p>\n \u201cWe started at the bottom of the Vikur\u00e1l Gully and from there out along the edge, but didn\u2019t see any capelin until we were on the Hali grounds. There were some marks there and from what the trawler skippers told us, their groundfish catches were all stuffed full of capelin. From there we were supposed to search to the north, but had to back off due to sea ice and the weather was as bad as it has been since New Year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were expected to search west of Kolbeinsey and then sweep north of the island, but we had to give up on that idea. The weather was really bad, with 20 to 25m\/s winds and heavy icing. The weather then worsened and we decided to wait for it to calm down in port at H\u00fasav\u00edk,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Lundey<\/em> was then able to start fishing on capelin on Sunday morning and Hj\u00f6rleifsson said that they started in the area north of Langanes.<\/p>\n \u201cWe could see that there was life everywhere and there was no shortage of whales that were everywhere. The weather blew up again and we only managed two hauls, the second of which we only towed for two hours,\u201d he said, adding that there were other vessels fishing on the same grounds around 67\u00b0N. There has also been some capelin seen further south and closer to land, and initial reports suggest that this capelin is larger than the fish that are being caught further north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Capelin production has started at HB Grandi\u2019s factory in Vopnafj\u00f6rdur after Lundey NS landed 680 tonnes this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3741","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\/3741","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=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}