This is a different situation to the previous few summers during which the Brim trawlers worked off the north coast while the Westfjords were practically bare of fish.<\/p>\n
Helga Mar\u00eda<\/em> is back at sea after landing 170 tonnes in Reykjav\u00edk. Most of this was cod, plus an amount of redfish and some other species such as saithe and haddock.<\/p>\n \u2018We started on the shallow grounds, the L\u00e1tragrunn area and around there, then we took our redfish in the V\u00edkur\u00e1ll Gully and moved on to finish up on cod on the K\u00f6gurgrunn grounds,\u2019 he said, adding that saithe have been seen at intervals.<\/p>\n \u2018We try to avoid haddock as much as possible and there\u2019s redfish everywhere. The redfish has been giving way on the Hali grounds, and earlier in the summer we just couldn\u2019t work there due to the volume of redfish. There hasn\u2019t been much fish on the banks north of Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur during the later part of the summer, but we can expect that to change.\u2019<\/p>\n Approaching the end of the current quota year, Fri\u00f0leifur Einarsson isn\u2019t expecting any changes of focus as the new quota year opens.<\/p>\n \u2018The market dictates fishing and production, and we just go and fetch the catch that\u2019s needed,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brim\u2019s fresher trawler Helga Mar\u00eda has been fishing on Westfjords grounds all summer, and catches have been fine, according to skipper Fri\u00f0leifur Einarsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6618","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\/6618","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=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}