{"id":4553,"date":"2012-08-17T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2012\/08\/17\/mackerel-fishing-on-a-high\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:48:21","slug":"mackerel-fishing-on-a-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/mackerel-fishing-on-a-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackerel fishing on a high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vessels reported that around 11,400 tonnes of mackerel had been caught, leaving 4,500 tonnes left from this season\u2019s mackerel quota.<\/p>\n<p>Gudlaugur J\u00f3nsson, skipper of <i>Ingunn AK<\/i>, said: \u201cFishing has been pretty good this summer. There was a bit of a dead patch yesterday, which is nothing unusual, but after we reached the fishing grounds at midnight, the catches were excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere was some herring with the mackerel in the first haul but this morning we had a clean 200 tonne mackerel haul and hopefully, the third tow will be enough to give us the usual 400 to 500 tonnes that we like to have for the factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vessels fishing herring north of the main mackerel regions have been careful to leave enough of the mackerel quota due to an increase of 10% to 20% in the proportion of herring in catches.<\/p>\n<p>HB Grandi\u2019s vessels supply its Vopnafj\u00f6rdur factory with the high fat, quality fish, landing at roughly three day landings with 400 to 500 tonnes each time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB Grandi\u2019s pelagic vessels have caught a high amount of this season\u2019s mackerel this week and have seen an increase in the amount of herring in catches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4553","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\/4553","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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}