Iceland

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian-headquartered salmon farmer SalMar ASA harvested 44,300 tonnes of head-on gutted (HOG) salmon in the second-quarter of this year, up 11,900 tonnes on the corresponding period of 2022, with increased volumes coming…

10th July 2023

Increased Q2 salmon harvest for SalMar

10th July 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

First Water hf, formerly known as Landeldi hf, which is farming salmon on land in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland, has completed a new financing round worth ISK12.3 billion.

4th July 2023

Icelandic salmon farm raises new capital

4th July 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet decreased by 11% or more than 42,000 tonnes in May 2023 to a total 101,847 tonnes, according to preliminary figures for…

19th June 2023

Declining cod catch hits Iceland’s May landings

19th June 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet in the first quarter of this year decreased by 8% or more than 44,000 tonnes compared with the first three months…

1st June 2023

Iceland’s Q1 catch slips but value holds firm

1st June 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 11% or more than 12,400 tonnes in April 2023 to a total 126,253 tonnes, according to preliminary figures for…

16th May 2023

Blue whiting boosts Iceland’s spring catch

16th May 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Atlantic salmon producer Mowi ASA harvested 102,500 tonnes of gutted weight equivalent (GWE) fish in the first-quarter of this year, some 5,500 tonnes more than in the corresponding period of 2022, and…

18th April 2023

Higher first-quarter harvest for Mowi, earnings rise

18th April 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Reykjavik, Iceland-based fisheries company Brim hf has completed the acquisition of a 50%-share in Polar Seafood Denmark A/S.

18th April 2023

Brim completes Polar Seafood purchase

18th April 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The total volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 75% or almost 110,000 tonnes in March 2023, with a total 254,976 tonnes, according to preliminary figures for…

17th April 2023

Bumper capelin catch for Iceland

17th April 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The total volume of fish produced by Iceland’s aquaculture industry decreased by 1,796 tonnes in 2022, amounting to a total 51,350 tonnes. However, the country exported more fish than in 2021 and…

24th March 2023

Icelandic aquaculture export earnings climb

24th March 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The total volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet decreased by 27% or more than 53,300 tonnes in February, with a total 198,365 tonnes. 

15th March 2023

Iceland’s catch down by over a quarter

15th March 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Boston, US-based Aquanor Marketing Inc has been rebranded Aquanor Ice Fresh in a move that further solidifies its partnership with Icelandic seafood company Samherji Ltd. 

8th March 2023

Aquanor Marketing becomes Aquanor Ice Fresh

8th March 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The total volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 23% or almost 261,000 tonnes in 2022, with a total 1,414,598 tonnes. Meanwhile, the year’s catch value climbed…

6th March 2023

Iceland’s 2022 catch value increases 20%

6th March 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The total volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet decreased by 50% or almost 110,000 tonnes in January, with a total 220,033 tonnes.

15th February 2023

Iceland’s catch halves

15th February 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The total volume of fish and shellfish landed by Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 22% or almost 260,000 tonnes last year, reaching a total 1,417,756 tonnes.

16th January 2023

Icelands 22 catch soars

16th January 2023

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Sigurður and Jóhannes Henningsson, who fish from the island of Grímsey off the north coast of Iceland, have taken delivery of a new Cleopatra netter built by Trefjar.

9th January 2023

Björn again

9th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A Dutch company owned by Baldvin Thorsteinsson has reached an agreement on buying the assets of Alda Seafood Holding and will therefore acquire the foreign operations of Samherji Holding. 

3rd January 2023

Samherji foreign ops sale

3rd January 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi has completed the acquisition of 51.28% of the shares in Arctic Fish, one of the leading salmon farmers in Iceland.

2nd January 2023

Arctic Fish deal done

2nd January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A much lower pelagic catch led the Icelandic fishing fleet to land 70,628 tonnes of wild-capture fish and shellfish last month, down 27% from November 2021’s 96,641 tonnes.

20th December 2022

Icelandic catch falls

20th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

EU negotiators have reached agreements with Northeast Atlantic coastal states, as well as with the UK and Norway on the shared management of key stocks in 2023, the European Commission has confirmed.

15th December 2022

NEA 2023 catch deal

15th December 2022

BY-PRODUCT SOLUTIONS

BY-PRODUCT SOLUTIONS

Established in 2007 as a public limited company in a move that united three of Iceland’s government agencies specialising in research and development in the food industry, Matís has helped the country’s…

2nd December 2022

Potential aplenty

2nd December 2022