Huge autoline fishing for 2 boats. Hafrafell SU and Sævík GK

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In Iceland last 3 days have the autoline boats that are fishing out from Grindavík and Sandgerði had huge cod fishing,. here are 2 small news about huge fishing. first is Hafrafell SU .  Hafrafell SU is about 25 tons boat.  . but he came first with 26,4 tons in one trip and of that was cod 23,9 ...

New boat to Esköy in Norway

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Esköy in Norway is a company that is own by brothers from Iceland,. Helgi and Hrafn sigvaldasynir. . Some years ago they got new boat that was named Saga K. and that boat was about 15 meters lengd and he was fishing with autoline. all year and did fish wll over 1000 tons every year.  now that boat ...

New boat Bárður SH is huge gilnet fishing.

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Captein Pétur has for the last 20 years had boat that name is Bárður SH and has mostly be fishing in gilnet,. the old boat was about 29 tons boats 15 meters long . last year he had new boat that also got the name Bárður SH. and that boat is 153 tons and 27 meters long,. but what is interesting about ...

Big gilnet fishing in Sandgerði in Iceland.

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gilnet boat that have been fishing out from town of Sandgerði in Iceland.   have been fishing so much last days that . some of the boats have to go out 2 times to finish taking all the gilnets. Here are some pic from the day 26.feb.2020. Sunna Líf GK came with almot 7 tons in just 30 gilnets and he ...

Gilnet boat Langanes GK from Iceland rescued

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23.feb.2020. gilnet boat Langanes GK went out to sea fishing cod in gilnet out from Sandgerði. they had small engine failure . and had to been town back to land. a rescue boat came out from Sandgerði, boat name Hannes Þ. Hafstein with crew of 5 men. sea was ruff and storm out side. Hannes Þ.Hafstein ...

Iceland-Norway . New boat on the list

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Now on Aflafrettir.com has been since 1.january 2020 a list with a boats from Iceland and Norway. They are split in 2 lists. List 1.  is boat that are over 11 meters long and over 21 tons in size. . you can see the list here down below. on list number 1, that is boat under 11 meters long and undir ...

Huge fishing for Margrét GK , only 3 trips.

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In ICeland the weather has been pretty bad. but when the weather has been better the autoline boats that are fishing from the town . of Sandgerði have been fishing pretty well. at least that did the crew of 3 men on the boat name Margrét GK . MArgrét GK was build 2019 and is 13,2 meters long and 4,2 ...

Old Atlantic M-19-A with most value of autoline boats in Norway.

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Maybe it is like comparing apples and oranges to comparing the Icelandic line boats that everyone is fishing in ice and land for processing. and to compare them with the Norwegian line boats, at least the big Norwegian line boats, because they are all frozen fish on board,. nevertheless it is ...

Big Avalanche in Flateyri. part 5.

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Now it almost 3 weeks since the big avalanche came to the town of Flateyri on the vesten part in Iceland. 6 boats got much damage and are probably destroyed  . Now the status is that 5 boats have been lifted from the sea. and as can been seen in t he pics here down blow. the boat Sjávarperlan ÍS  is ...

New boat to Norway

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Company Trefjar in Iceland that built boats that name is Cleoparta was building a new boat that is  now in Norway. There's a huge quota on this new boat,. therefore the total quota of the boat is 1043 tons. because of that, haddock is 557 tonnes. saithe  375 tons. and cod 40 tons. plus 72 tonnes of ...

Old pic of Icelandic boat fishing capelin

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Since icelandic boats started to fish capelin in the year 1965 many boats have been fishing capelin,. here is one. this boat named Dagfari ÞH and he was fishing capelin in 30 years. most of the capelin came to Sandgerði and full load of  Dagfari ÞH was about 530 tons,. This boats was sold to scrap ...

Sólberg ÓF highest in Iceland 2019.

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In Iceland there are total of 12 freezer trawlers. and all of them are working the fish in fish fillets. Now the total value for the Icelandic freezer trawlers was in total of 213,8million pounds. In Norsk kronas that is about 2,6 billion norsk kronas. The newest freezer trawler in Iceland is ...

Kings Bay first to Norway with blue whiting

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Now the fishing for blue whiting has finally started for the pelagic ships from Norway. Kings Bay and Akeröy where the first to go fishing the blue whiting. and Kings Bay was the first to come to Norway with full load of blue whiting. Kings Bay was built in 2103 and is 77.5 meters long and 16.6 ...

Big Avalanche in Flateyri. part 4.

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Now it is almost one week since the big avalanche came on the town of Flateyri. in the westfjords in Iceland. and got in the harbor where 6 boats got badly damage. To rescue the boat they have been using a boat name is Fosnakongen and he is from Norway. Here down belown you can read all the other ...

New autoline boat Páll Jónsson GK to ICeland

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In the town of Grindavík in Iceland. there is a company name Vísi ehf.  Vísir ehf now owne 5 autolines boats, all that are green in color. for the last 4 year Vísir have been rebuilding 2 autoline boats in Poland. and yesterday came for the first time to Grindavík. a new boat that name is Páll ...

Big Avalanche in Flateyri. part 2.

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Here on Aflafrettir.com yesterday was news about huge  avalanche that came to Flateyri small town in the west of ICeland,. this big avalanche made a big mess in the harbour in Flateyri and total of 6 boats sunk ore are much damage. only one boat did not damage,   . Here are new pics from the harbor ...

Big Avalanche ore snowflood in Iceland. 6 boats much damage

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The weather in Iceland since 1.january 2020 has been what we can say, horrible. it has been storm after storm and it has snow relay much. In the Westfjords there has been snowing so  much for the last days that the roads all around there . have been closed for many days  now,. many mountains are in ...

Highest trawlers in Iceland 2019

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the year 2019 was pretty good in ICeland for the Trawlers . All of these trawlers are fishing in ice, and is what we can call . fresh fish trawlers. 15 of them went over 5000 tons,. 12 of them went over 6000 tons. 9 of them went over 7000 tons. 6 of them went over 8000. but what happen is that in ...

Highest autoline boats in Iceland 2019

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The big autoline boats in Iceland in this list are in total 14,. 4 of the fish over four thousands tons. all of these boats are landind fresh fish, . no autoline boats in Iceland freeze the fish like they do in Norway. cod is that most of these autoline boats are fishing in ICeland. . Jóhanna ...

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 ...