Capelin season over in Iceland for pelagic ship from Norway.2022

A big capelin season is going on  this year in Iceland , and four nations are fishing for capelin here in Iceland

Iceland
Greenland
the Faroe islands
Norway.

three of these nations may use trawls and capelin purse seine, Norwegians are still prohibited from using trawls for fishing and may therefore only use capelin purse seine.

It has been widely criticized in Norway that Norwegian vessels are banned from fishing with trawls while the other nations may use trawls to fish capelin in Iceland.


In fact, there are also differing opinions in Iceland about using trawls for capelin fishing, but ever since capelin first started fishing in Iceland about 55 years ago

capelin purse seine have long been used for capelin fishing.


at least the Norwegian fishing fleet has finished capelin fishing in  Iceland this season,

the quota was a total of 145,382 tons and the Norwegians managed to catch a total of 89443 tons.

The rest of the quota, or about 55942 tons, is divided between Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Icelanders receive about 35,000 tons of capelin.



a total of 64 capelin vessels were registered with capelin catch, but it should be borne in mind that there were not 64 vessels fishing, they were in fact only about 59

the catch of capelin is recorded on the boat that has the capelin quota, even though another boat has fished it.

Andrea L, for example, had a catch of 2307 tons, of which about 500 tons was a quota owned by Grimsholm.

A number of Norwegian capelin vessels landed capelin  in Iceland,

A total of 25 thousand tons of capelin were landed in Iceland

most was landed in Fáskrúðsfjörður or almost 11 thousand tons. then came Eskifjörður with about 9 thousand tons,

Þórshöfn with about 4385 tons and Vopnafjörður over 1000 tons,

Norwegian vessels also went to the Faroe Islands with the catch or about 7500 tons



Below is a list of the highest catch Norwegian capelin vessels in 2022, and as can be seen, there were 12 vessels that reached over 2000 tons.

Havskjer and Kvannöy brought their catch in one landing each vessel



Österbris Pic Eskil Persen



Seat Name Capelin
1 Østerbris 2915.8
2 Havskjer 2494.8
3 Rogne 2479.9
4 Sjøbris 2439.1
5 Knester 2357.1
6 Birkeland 2329.8
7 Kings Bay 2321.9
8 Andrea L 2307.4
9 Fiskeskjer 2240.0
10 H Østervold 2154.5
11 Christina E 2086.2
12 Kvannøy 2003.4
13 Smaragd 1971.7
14 Havdrøn 1790.0
15 Gerda Marie 1723.7
16 Malene S 1695.5
17 Manon 1681.3
18 Leinebjørn 1635.1
19 Selvåg Senior 1609.1
20 Norderveg 1582.3
21 Vestviking 1548.8
22 Odd Lundberg 1518.6
23 Sæbjørn 1516.0
24 Havglans 1454.8
25 Vestfart 1443.6
26 Storeknut 1402.3
27 Gunnar Langva 1402.2
28 Rav 1340.0
29 Eros 1339.9
30 Roaldsen 1332.0
31 Nybo 1299.5
32 Gardar 1294.6
33 Krossfjord 1276.5
34 Rødholmen 1238.5
35 Harvest 1211.7
36 Ligrunn 1203.0
37 Vendla 1199.3
38 Fonnes 1188.6
39 Svanaug Elise 1178.6
40 Nordfisk 1174.3
41 Talbor 1142.4
42 Strand Senior 1138.0
43 Hargun 1128.7
44 Vea 1111.2
45 Hardhaus 1094.2
46 Senior 1061.2
47 Slaatterøy 1050.0
48 Brennholm 1048.4
49 Trønderbas 1036.8
50 Røttingøy 973.6