{"id":4870,"date":"2020-11-10T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2020\/11\/10\/happy-with-the-catch-happy-with-the-gear\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:50:47","slug":"happy-with-the-catch-happy-with-the-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/fishing-gear\/happy-with-the-catch-happy-with-the-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy with the catch \u2013 happy with the gear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00cdsf\u00e9lag\u2019s pelagic vessel Sigur\u00f0ur<\/em> is now back in its home port for the first time since sailing on 24th July and fishing all summer for herring and mackerel, with catches landed at the \u00cdsf\u00e9lag factory in Th\u00f3rsh\u00f6fn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re waiting to see how the Icelandic summer-spawning herring behaves. We have a small quota and there could be a decision to go and fetch those tonnes in November or December,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlue whiting is out of the question for us now, as the small quota we had has all been caught.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s very satisfied with this summer\u2019s catches \u2013 and also with the fishing gear, all of which is from Hampi\u00f0jan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis summer\u2019s catch was around 8000 tonnes of mackerel and 8-9000 tonnes of herring. Fishing went very well, and even though it was a long way to steam towards the end of the mackerel fishery, all the way into the Herring Loophole, there was always fish. The herring fishery went like a dream. Not far to go and good fishing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sigur\u00f0ur<\/em> works Hampi\u00f0jan Glor\u00eda trawls. The new 1760 mackerel trawl delivered this spring has a lighter configuration eight-panel mackerel belly, along with a footrope made with less weight at the front end to lighten the trawl and help the doors. These changes gave a 160 by 40 metre opening, with a 1:4 proportion at the trawl mouth and 1:5 at the wind ends \u2013 which is a real advantage when fishing close to the surface.<\/p>\n

H\u00f6r\u00f0ur M\u00e1r said that this gear layout helps them avoid a by-catch of herring when fishing for mackerel.<\/p>\n

The herring gear has a very different design. This is a 2048 metre trawl with a 150 metre opening and using a headline kite can stretch the vertical opening to 40 metres. H\u00f6r\u00f0ur M\u00e1r works both trawls with an 80 metre sweepline and backstrop setup, all made from super-strong DynIce. The doors are a pair of 15m2<\/sup> Bluestreams from Thybor\u00f8n Trawldoor.<\/p>\n

According to H\u00f6r\u00f0ur M\u00e1r, the crew are very happy with the gear and how efficient it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we got a T90 QuickLine codend from Hampi\u00f0jan that we have used on mackerel as well as herring. The experience with the T90 codend has been excellent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Their QuickLine codend is made in braided Magnet Yellow PE netting, rigged on four, large diameter, strong DynIce QuickLines. Pumping is quick and straightforward, which is important when fishing is good. The QuickLine frame lines keep the catch secure and it flows evenly back to the pumping section at the aft end of the codend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is much less pressure on the fish than there is with the older codends and we see the fish are bursting with life as they are pumped out and into the tanks. The deck crew often see the fish swimming in the tanks when they take a volume measurement between hauls when we\u2019re working short tows, and the experienced guys say it\u2019s just like pumping out from a purse seine when they see live herring and mackerel in the QuickLine codend at the stern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back home in the Westman Islands after a summer and autumn fishing for mackerel and herring off the east of Iceland, skipper H\u00f6r\u00f0ur M\u00e1r Gu\u00f0mundsson has yet to find out if he and his crew will be back at sea again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-gear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}