Isafold sold to Norway,Now Ola Ryggefjord

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In Denmark there have been some big pelagic ship. and some of them have been sold outside, for newer ships. like Gitte Henning was sold to The Faroe Island and has the name Götunes. Ruth from Denmark was sold to Norway and has the name Slaateröy, and is now number 1 in Norway. of the pelagic ships ...

Barent Gadus TF-28-TN- New boat to Piera Gaup in Norway

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Shipowner Piera Gaup recently received a new Cleopatra 36 boat from Bátasmiðin Trefjum in Hafnarfjörður. Piera himself becomes the captain of the boat. The new boat is called Barent Gadus. The boat is 10.99 meters long and weighs 11 gross tons. The new boat replaces the older Cleopatra 36 boat that ...

Solrun B new boat in Norway, instead of Jakob

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Jón Páll Jakobsson, who has been fishing with the boat Jakob in Norway for the past few years, ran into it this winter. that there was a big fire in the boat while he was fishing. and the boat was completely destroyed. there was a rescue, but three people were on the boat when it burned. this was a ...

Ronja SH in Iceland had big fire. Sailor got rescued

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In Iceland for the last 3 weeks. there have been 2 boats that have been on fire. First was fire on boats  . Grímsnes GK that you can read here. ANd 5 days later there was fire on. Þristur ÍS that you can read here. Few days ago there was a fire on the boats Ronja SH, that is 14 meters long boat ...

Big fire on the boat Þristur ÍS in Sandgerði in Iceland

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in the morning of 30.april 2023 it came a big fire on the boats Þristur ÍS that was in Sandgerði in Iceland. Þristur ÍS var að seine boat and was 23 meters long and was build in the year 1979 in Stykkishólmur in ICeland. the boat had new fishing gear to go seine fishing, and the big black smoke is ...

Big fire in Grímsnes GK in Iceland, one man died

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The worst thing that can happen in a boat is when a fire breaks out in a boat. last night there was a big fire in a gilnet boats  that was in Njarðvík in Iceland., Grímsnes GK 555 . or Grímsi as captain Sigvaldi on the boat calls him,. The fire brigade from Suðurnesja fire protection arrived at the ...

Maya TF-94-NK. New boat to Norway

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Shipowner Tom Egil Hansen recently received a new Cleopatra 36 boat from Bátasmiðin Trefjum in Hafnarfjörður. Tom Egil himself will be the captain of the boat. The new boat is called Maya TF-94-NK.  The boat is 10.99 meters long and weighs 11 gross tons.  . The boat's main engine is a Scania D9 ...

Seir M-104-H caught of illegal fishing in Iceland.

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There is not much that foreign fishing vessels are involved in illegal fishing here in Iceland. this was very common at the time when the territorial waters around Iceland were extended to 12 miles, 50 miles and 200 miles. however, this happened now in the middle of April 2023 that the supervisors ...

New Klævtind instead for Klævtind I . Glenn now with Stig Inge

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Glenn Thomas Madsen has been the owner and captain on  a boat called Klævtind I, and that boat caught for example around 1100 tons of fish in 2022,. early this year the boat hit a reef and sank just outside Andenes in Northern Norway. when the boat was fishing with gilnet. Glenn Tomas Madsen, the ...

New Líðhamar to The Faroe Islands. Boat bought from Iceland.

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  The first boat. in the Faroe Islands there are several boats that have been bought from Iceland, including some smaller boats such as Cleopatra boats. Now old Særif SH has been sold to The Faroe Islands.  Særif SH is 14,9 meters long boat and about 30 tons and fish with autoline. the buyer is P/F ...

Two new boats to Norway, Twin boats. Ørsvåg II and Ørsvåg III

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The brothers Tom-Kenneth and Kurth-Anders Slettvoll shipowners from Kabelvåg in Lofoten recently received two new Cleopatra 33 boats from Bátasmiðin Trefjum in Hafnarfjörður in Iceland. These two boats are twin boats, and the brothers will be captains on the boats.  . The new boats are called Ørsvåg ...

Christina S. Sold to Iceland. New ship is coming

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A little while ago, Samherji bought a new pelagic ship from Scotland, which was built there since 2008, and the ship was called. Christina S. and was named Margrét EA 710. The new ship is quite powerful, was built in 2008 in Norway and is 72 meters long and 14.5 meters wide. the ship has a pretty ...

Boats from 10 to 10.99 m in Norway.2023,nr.3

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List number 3. from 1-1-2023 to 3-10-2023. good fishing on this list and many boats are fishing with gilnet. 7 boats have now caught over 100 tons. Ludvik was with 53,3 ton sin 6 trips. Nordflu 43,7 tons in 8 trips and jumps up 1 seat. VArbuen 32,9 ton sin 8. Pilar 39,8 tonsin 16 and jumpst up 17 ...

Big fire on Jakob from Norway

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One of the worst things that sailors can experience is when a fire breaks out on board a boat or trawler that is out at sea. Jón Páll Jakobsson, who owns the liner Jakob in Norway, got into a pretty bad situation few days ago. They were at sea and were on their way to Varanger Fjord to lay a line, ...

Ilivileq with full ship,value over 70 million Norsk krona,

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in 2020 there came a brand new freezer trawler to Greenland, . ship, and this ship name is Ilivileq. the year 2022, the ship did came with  11360 tons, that where landed in Reykjavík in Iceland, but 2000 tons of this was. mackerel and herring, that was landed in Eskifjörður in the east of Iceland,  ...

8800 tons of iceland Capelin from Norsk ships

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It can be said that the capelin season in 2023 has started, but not in the sense that the Icelandic ships have arrived to hunt. instead, Greenlandic and Norwegian ships have been fishing. nevertheless, the Norwegian ships have caught a total of almost 8800 tons.  and 17 ships have started fishing ...

Freezer Trawlers in Iceland year 2022, 272 million Euros value

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The year 2022, was good for the freezer trawlers in Iceland. they did caught total of 91326 tons, and where 11 trawlers. but Samherji started late in the year 2022, to have freezer trawler Snæfell EA , and he started fishing . in august 2022, . The newest freezer trawler in Iceland, Baldvin Njálsson ...

Sunderöy number 1. But what is AF??

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And the Winner is    Sunderöy,  yes Sunderöy trawler was the highest in Norway for the year 2022. But no this small text that i write here is not about Sunderöy. it is about AF.     But what is AF.  well AF is Aflafrettir.com,   and Aflafrettir.is.  . and the main reason for why i write this now is ...

Sandfell SU from Iceland with 2600 tons, year 2022.

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Here is a list of the boats in Iceland that are all max 14,99 meters long and about 30 tons,. most all of these boats are made of plastic. as can been seen, 16 boats did caught over 1000 tons, . and three boats did caught over 2000 tons,. SAndfell SU and Hafrafell SU are in the own of the same ...

6 crew members rescued when Klævtind I from Norway sank

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Here at Aflafrettir, we have been following the gilnet boats in Norway, of which there are quite a few. and the boats there have been classified by length and one of those categories is the category of boats from 15 to 19.99 meters long. in that category, the owner and captain Glenn-Thomas Madsen ...

Pelagic ships in Norway 2022. about 1,4 million tons.

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Here at Aflafrettir.is, the catches of the Icelandic and Faroese pelagic ships have been looked at. the total catch for the Icelandic ones was about 1 million tons. in the Faroe Islands, the catch was about 600 thousand tons. and then it's time for Norway. Norway is quite special when it comes to ...

Harengus H-130-B is number 1 in Norway. year 2023.

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well now we have the year 2023 started, and in Norway the boats have started fishing,. and the first boat in Norway to come to land with fish was. Harengus H-130-B. Harengus came to Savag in Norhten Norway in the evening of 1.january 2023 at 20:46, with total of 10 tons of mackerel . In the year ...

New Ventura, and he is not blue!

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Trefjar in Iceland has been pretty good at building new boats, and mostly for Norwegians. Their latest boat is attracting some attention, and mainly for the boat that the new boat is replacing. The new boat is for Martin boatowner in Norway but he has had  a boat called Ventura and that boat has ...

Greetings from Aflafrettir in Iceland

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Dear readers in Norway , Europe and the rest of the world. Happy Christmas and thanks for all the message you sended me this year 2022. hope you will have a great year 2023 ahead, and me the owner of Aflafrettir.com send you all great wishes for new year. regards from Iceland. Gísli Reynisson . ...

Pelagic ships in Iceland. One million tons this year 2022!

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This year 2022. has been good for the pelagic ship from Iceland. They have been fishing , capelin, herring, mackerel and blue whiting. now the total amount of fish they have catch is. one million and five thousands tonns.  ore 1,005,000 tons. Of this is 597.000 tons of capelin. 186,000 tons of ...

Sandfell SU with over 250 tons in one month

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In Iceland now in oktober 2022, there was a good fishing for the autoline boats. all of them are fishing in ice. but most of the biggest autoline boats in Norway are freezing the fish. In Iceland are about 30 boats , that most of are made of plastic, and all of them are up tp 30 tons in size, and ...

Pelagic ship in Iceland. caught almost 960.000 tons.

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The year 2022 has been good for the pelagic ships. now they have in total caught almost 959 thousands tons and in that number is about 50 thousands tons. that ships from Greenland did caught of capelin last winter. Of this 959.000 tons  are. 490,000 tons of capelin. 146,000 tons of herring. 133,000 ...

Boats from 7 to 8 meters in Norway 2022. nr.11

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List number 11. From 1-1-2022 to 10-30-2022. npw have 5 boats on this list caught over 50 tons,. Aud with 13,3 tons in 6 trips and has now caught over 70 tons,. Skagen 7,9 tons in 15. Calypso 8,7 tons in 12. Helene 11,4 tons in 20 trips. Skjærbuen 11,4 tons in 18 trips. Öynes 9,6 tons in 20 trips. ...

New Akraberg to the Faroe Islands

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about a week ago a new trawler came to Akureyri in Iceland, that trawler has the name Snæfell EA . and before this trawler was in The faroe islands and had the name Akraberg. The owner of Akraberg was Framherji in the Faroe Islands and this July they received a new trawler called Akraberg. That ...

Selma Dröfn stranded in Norway.

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There is quite a lot about former Icelandic boats and Icelandic owners who own boats in Norway. one of them is Haraldur Árni Haraldsson who owned the boat Selma Dröfn BA in Iceland. In the year 2011, they then moved out to Norway with Selma Dröfn BA and named her Selma. today the company owns a boat ...

Trawler Baldvin Njálsson GK with 1400 tons in one trip

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In the end of last year came a new freezer trawler to Iceland,. Baldvin Njálsson GK that was build in Spain.  this trawler is 66 meters long and 16 meters wide. now in middle of july Baldvin Njálsson GK came with full ship after fishing near Iceland, . in total the ship was with 1400 tons of fish,. ...

Remöy M-99-HÖ set new record in shrimp fishing

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It is not uncommon now for freezer trawlers from Iceland to be engaged in shrimp fishing, but there was a lot of this before the turn of the century,. only about 4 trawlers are fishing for shrimp off Iceland right now. On the other hand, there are quite a few freezer trawlers in Norway that are on ...

Ben Hur T-22- BG with almost 800 tons in 2 months

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 Now in Norway are many boats that have stop fishing but the lineboats have been fishing good. and also boats that are fishing with seine. in Norway there are quite a few boats on seine and one of them is Ben Hur T-22-BG. This boat is 20.99 meters long and 9 meters wide. built in 2019. it has a 1000 ...

Asbjörn HG 265 sold to Iceland

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Pelagic ship Asbjorn HG 265 has been sold to ICeland,. Asbjorn was build in the year 2008, and is 75 meters long and 16.6 meters wide. has 8100 hp engine om board. Asbjorn can carry up to 2600 tons of pelagic fish. . Now Asbjorn is in Iceland and the new name is Hoffell SU ,. Old Hoffell SU is  now ...

Freezer trawler Öfrisey RE with over 9 million euros

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this winter a few freezer trawlers from Iceland went fishing in the Barents sea. e.g. Sólberg ÓF, Sólborg RE, Blængur NK, Arnar HU. And then ÖRfrisey RE. Örfrisey RE actually went on two tours up there and it is safe to say that both tours went extremely well,. Örfirsey RE came ashore with 1111 ...

Boats from 22 to 24.99 m in Norway.2022,nr.6

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List number 6. From 1-1-2022 to 5-9-2022. Now have 4 boats caught over 800 tons on this list. Dypfjord was with 126 tons in 5 trips and is now number 1. Ballstadværing 143 tons in 6 trips. Astrid 87 tons in 8 trips. Stangnestind 306 tonsin 15 trips. Victoria May 20 tons in 4 trips on trawl. ...

New Stamsundværing

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Here on this page Aflafrettir.com has been a list of boats in Norway, and first it was just few boats on lists on Aflafrettir.com, and this list started fisrt. about 10 years ago. but over the winter time Aflafrettir.com have tried to have list of the boat that are fishing with net. boats in Norway ...

Trawlers from Iceland in Barents sea.19,5 million euros in value

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This winter some freezer trawlers from Iceland have been going from Iceland to fish in the Barents sea. Now have five freezer trawlers from Iceland gone and they all have had good trips over there. most of the fishing they have done is fishing cod. lets take a look on them.  Sólborg RE. Sólborg RE ...

Big fire on boat Veidar M-1-G, 22 crewmember rescued

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One of the most difficult things that can happen to fishermen who are far from land is when a fire breaks out on board a boat or trawler that the person in working on. In Iceland there is a boat called Þórsnes SH, that boat was bought to Iceland  a few years ago from Norway and in Norway this boats ...

Freezer trawler Sólborg RE with over 4 million euros in one trip

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It is certain that during the winter, several freezer trawlers from Iceland go fishing in the Barnetssea but this is by agreement with the Norwegians, they fish for capelin in Icelandic waters. and instead from Icelanders fishing for cod in the barnetssea. several trawlers went fishing there, e.g. ...