Olafur F-32-TN

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in the year 2006 in Iceland a boat was built that was 11 meter long 15 tons in size. and that boat got the name Auður Vésteins GK. The boat was fishing until it was sold in the year 2015. Kaptein Ólafur F Einarsson from Iceland bought the boat and moved to Norway with the boat. in Norway the boat ...

Pelagic ship in Iceland.

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list number 14,. now in iceland many ships are fishing mackerel  and are doing well. Total of 75.000 tons are of mackerel. total of what the iceland pelagic ship have come with is. 317.000 tons,.  If you want to support Aflafrettir.com then click on the advertising that are on the page, thanks. ...

Roaldsen and Akeröy to Iceland, Akeröy found capelin

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In Iceland now in the wintertime most of the icelandic pelagic ships have been fishing capelin,  now this season no ship have found capelin and thats way  most of the ships are waiting for quota for the capelin,. ships from Norway have been fishing capelin in iceland in the wintertime for many ...

29 meters long trawler with over 6000 tons in 2018

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In iceland there are in total if about 50 trawlers,  about 20 of them are small trawlers that are maximum 29.99 meters long,. this boats can fish up to 3 miles from land. most of this small trawlers in Iceland can hold up top 98 tons of fish on one trip,.  Steinunn SF. The  highest in Iceland in the ...

Foreign Pelagic ship in Norway.nr.2

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In Iceland only one ship have started fishing herring and that kind og fish, . while there is a pretty large fleet of ships from the UK, Ireland and Denmark catching mackerel and land in Norway,. and these are pretty big boat. at least 3 ships on this list are over 85 meters long. 2 from Denmark and ...

the highest in the North Atlantic. Víkingur AK and Finnur Fríði

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It has now become clear that Finnur Fríð from the Faroe Islands was the most highest pelagic vessel in the North Atlantic, at least compared to the catches from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway. Below you can see the difference between the two vessels. Next after him came Víkingur AK from ...

First boat to land herring in Norway

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Ebbi AK was first on the sea in Iceland in 2019..  Ebbi AK is að 18 tons in sice lineboat. in Norway, a slightly larger boat was the first to land pelagic fish in Norway,. Arnöytind  T-8-S. was the first to land herring. The boat came to Nergard Sild AS in Senjahopen in northern Norway. just after ...

Havbryn M-325-H

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In Norway are many freezer trawlers.   most of them are freezer trawlers that freeze the hole fish in the ship and then the fish is thaw up in land and work there, . One of these trawler in Havbryn M-325-H that is from Alesund in Norway. This trawler is build in the year 2013, is 70 meters long and ...

Dögg SU fish well in November

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In Iceland there are many boats that are fishing with line.  both autoline and line in stamps,. the boats are in all sices.  from 7 tons boats up to 1000 tons boats,. but most boats that fish with line in Iceland are of the sice from 13 tons to 15 tons,. and one of this boat . Dögg SU that is 11,9 ...

Freezer trawler Vigri RE , over 10.000 tons

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The fishing season this year 2018 is almost over now in Iceland,. and the fishing for the freezer trawlers have been relay good t his year. not total of 8 freezer trawlers have fish over 9000 tons,. and three of them have fish over ten thousands tons . Freezer trawler Vigri RE that is 67 meters long ...

Video from harbour Sandgerdi in Iceland

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Aflafrettir tried something different few days ago. went to Sandgerdi harbour and took video of all the boats that came there. in total the boats where 10. video is in english and u can see fishing life in the barbour of Sandgerdi. Click here on and then you will go to the video.  the video is about ...

Over 1.million tons in Norway

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In Norway there any many pelagic ship . they are almost to many to have in a one list. so Aflafrettir took all the pelagic ships in Norway and put boats that are over 50 meters long on a new list. and in Norway now are 78 pelagic ship that are over 50 meters long. and these ship have now this year . ...

4 trawlers in Iceland over 1000 tons in oktober

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Final list of the Icelandic trawlers in október,. this október  was one of the biggest because never have so many trawlers fish over one thousands tons per one month like they did now. in total there where 4 trawlers that went over 1000 tons,. many of this trawlers are brand new. like . Björg EA. ...

Icefish trawler Björg EA, well over 1000 tons in oktober

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Fishing for the trawlers in Iceland that fish in Ice and come with the fish fresh to land was relay good in október,. one of the newest ice-fish trawlers in Iceland name is Björg EA and is own by Samherji ehf in Iceland,. Björg EA had huge fishing in Október because in total. Björg EA landed 1325 ...

Víkingur over 50.000 tons this year

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This year in ICeland the fishing for the pelagic ships has been pretty good,. now in the beginning of Oktober five ships have fish over 40 thousands tons this year,. and Víkingur AK is number 1,. Víkingur AK has fish now 50.423 tons,. and he fish that in 35 trips, that mean 1441 tons in each trips,. ...

20.000 tons from 2 trawlers in Iceland

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This fishing year 2018 has been relay good for trawlers in Iceland, and for the freezer trawlers it has been relay good. But the freezer trawlers in ICeland are not so many,  they are only 12, but in total these 12 trawlers has landed 94 thousand tons . and what is most intersecting   is that now 2 ...

Norsk Pelagic ships. 1.1 million tons

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It has been hard to keep a list of Norway's pelagic vessels,. There are also a lot of ships that are fishing in Norway. Herring. mackerel. Kolmuna, Capelin and more,. Now I have 414 boats in my list of all sizes and types,. Now these 414 boats have landed a total of 1.1 million tons of all kinds,. ...

Almost 18000 tons from 3 small trawlers in Iceland

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In Iceland there is a new quota year that starts 1.september and is all the way to 31.agust. the last season from 1.september 2017 to 31.agust 2018 there was relay good fishing in Iceland and mostly for the trawlers. Most of the trawlers in Iceland fish in ice. in Iceland trawlers are in 3 ...

Kaptian Dolgikh in Norway

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There are many trawlers from Russia that come to Norway with fish. One of the that came to Norway some days ago is Kapitan Dolgikh. Kaptain Dolgikh was in Norway before and had the name Prestfjord . The trawler is build in the year 1987 and is 57 meters long and 13,2 meter wide. Trawler is 1693 tons ...

Photos from Grindavík in Iceland,

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Aflafrettir where in Grindavík in the beginning of Mai and the fishing was relay good . Here are some pics and under them is also a text about each boat. Ragnar Alfreðs GK boat that is almost 40 years old, and on the pic with 10 tons, fishing with line. Small boat Daddi GK with handline with 725 ...

Katrín GK with full load of cod

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Now in Iceland the fishing of the Lineboats has been relay good  in the last days in april and now 1.of mai,. In Grindavík  many lineboats that goes out with autoline have been fishing well.  they have been fishing mostly cod,. Katrín GK that is 27 tons boat and 14,6 meters long is the only boat ...

Trawler from Spain with over 1000 tons in one trip

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There are quite a large number of freezer trawlers fishing north of the Barnet Sea, including several trawlers registered in Spain,. One of those who was fishing there and landed recently in Tromso is the trawler Nuevo Barca. This trawler  was constructed in 1987 in Norway and measures 2114 tonnes.  ...

Huge shrimp fishing for Nordtind

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One of the largest fishing companies in Norway if not the largest is Havfisk.  They now have 3 recently newely  freeze-trawlers  all of which are called Gadus. Gadus Njord, Gadus Neptune and Gadus Posedion. . The newest trawler for Havfisk has not the name Gadus, but the name Nordtind.  . Nordtind  ...

Kristinn SH in huge catfish fishing. over 30 tons in one trip

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Now in Iceland the catfish season is almost started, and  the boats that have going with line to fish catfish have been coming with full load back to land,. 2 days ago at least 4 small boats went from Ólafsvík and sail for 4 hours to the cliff Látrabjarg and went fishing catfish there,. and they did ...

Norsk trawlers year 2018

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List number . Now on this list Gadus Neptun was with 700 tons in one trip. Rypefjord 472 tons in one trip. And new trawler ore what ever this is  Antarctic Sea  was 2287 tons in one trip.  landed in Uruguy. Antartic Sea Pic Frank Grebstad.

Trawlers in The Faroe Islands

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List number 1. Here is a list of the icefishtrawlers in the faroe islands.  . most of the are fishing saithe and about 80% of each trawler has saithe . Fálkor and Heykur start number 1 and 2, and this is similar trawlers around 37 meters long and 10 meter wide. Heykur Pic Gunnar Olsen.

Sleipnir ÁR small boat with full load

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28.february was finaly good weather and many boats that went out to sea where fisihing big. for example Kári SH that is 11 tons boat came tin 9.9 tons in one trip.  Guðrún Petrína GK that is 11 tons boat  came with 9,9 tons in one trip and later same day with 4,5 tons . But Sleipnir ÁR from ...

Huge gilnet fishing for small boat Björn EA

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Gilnet fishing in Iceland in February was relay good . the boat that was the higest was with around 490 tons . But much smaller boat from island Grímsey Björn EA did well.  Björn EA is 15 tons in size and in the middle of february the crew went out with only 40 nets. In the first trip and after only ...

Ísbjörn H-89-O in good fishing

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The weather in Iceland in February was terrible and the small boats did not make it often to see.  . but in Norway the fishing was good. One of the boats that fished well was ÍSbjörn H-89O that Hlynur Freyr Vigfússon owns and is the captein of the boat. Last days in  February, they went very well ...

Molinergutt 15 meters long boat with full load of herring

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In Norway are many boats that fish herring, capelin and mackerel and they are not all big ones.  like over 60 meters long. quite a lot of boats are on these fishes that are under 15 meters long. one of them is Molinergutt R-20-K. This boat is 14.99 meters long. 5.9 meter wide and will be built in ...

Full load for Björgúlfur EA

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In Iceland year 2017  came 7 new trawlers.  3 of them went to HB Grandi in Reykjavík.  1.  to Sauðárkrókur, and 3 to Samherji in Akureyri,. the trawlers that went to Samherji have all room in the fish cargo for more than 200 tons of fish,. Björgúlfur EA is 58,5 meters long and he came with his first ...

Big fishing for Doggi F-17-H

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Trawlers in Norway have been fishing relay well now this year and in February  they have been with up to 50 til 60 tons per day.  . One of the trawlers who have fished well is Doggi F-17-H. This trawler is 39.8 meters long and 10.5 meters wide. built in 2001 and has a 2,500 horsepower engine on ...

Gullhólmi SH in huge fishing. over 30 tons in one trip

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In Iceland the weather has been relay bad in February.  . but finally when the weather got better the fishing also did well. Autoline boat Gullhólmi SH that is similar boat as Saga K in Norway did relay well in newest trip. They put out 45.000 hooks  and on that they com 30,6 tons uncutt, ore rund ...

Norsk ships in good capelin fishing in Iceland

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Now in February, the Icelandic pelagic ships that are fishing capelin have have almost nothing been fishing. Meanwhile, the Norwegian ships have been fishing for capelin in Iceland and mostly landing their catch in ports in the eastern part in Iceland.  . Nowadays, the Norwegian shipping has been ...

Kingfisher HM-555 in good fishing

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There are a lot of foreign trawlers  and lineboats coming to Norway to land catches,. Now in February, a lot of Russian trawlers have landed in Trömsö. in Norway has also landed a tugboat made from Hanstholm in Denmark,. This boat is called Kingfish HM-555. This boat is built in 2007 and is 31.25 ...

New boat to Norway

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Boat builder Trefjar in Hafnarfjörður in Iceland has delivered new boat to Norway. Odd-Cato Larsen has this new boat and he will also be the captein of the boat.   to Ombo close to Stavanger in Norway. The boat has the name Prince R-7-HM and is the type Cleopatre 36. in the boat is a 650 hp engine ...

46 Norsk pelagic fishing in Iceland now

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Now in Iceland there are many pelagic ships from Norway what are fishing capelin. Aflafrettir counted that now there where 46  pelagic ships from Norway in ICeland. Total of sailors on these ships is about 500 men. All of the ships have landed some capelin in Iceland.  . but the biggest landing was ...

4 Norwegian Pelagic ships in Akureyri Iceland

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Now i  ICeland are many Pelagic ships from Norway that have come to Iceland to fish Capelin,. and now in the biggest town in the North ICeland.  Akureyri are now 4 ships from Norway,. Gísli Reynisson the owner of Aflafrettir.com is also in AKureyri and he went to the harbours and took pics of them . ...

Huge fishing for Stamsundværing N-72-VV

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It is well known through the history of fisheries both in Iceland and Norway that boats often come with considerable large landings. full load  and does not matter how big the boat is. For example, in January there are two 15 tonnes of boats. Tryggvi Eðvarður SH and Dögg SU both brought over 18.7 ...

Norsk 15 meters boats in januar.nr.4

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List number 4. Good fishing on this list. Skriegrunn  still on top and had 28.6 tons 4. Ingvaldson had a 44 tonne tonnage in just 2 rows, of which 24.4 tonnes in one landing. Aldís Lind 31 tonní 2. and a new boat Odden comes in place number 4. Saga K 28.5 tonní 2. Akom 15 tonnes 1. Stamsundværing ...