23 Dec 2020A fisherman on board the fishing vessel Sigurður VE from Vestmannaeyjar islands was bitten in the hand by a porbeagle while blue whiting fishing south of the Faroe Islands.
15 Aug 2018The SA Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise has publicly opposed a draft bill that is being prepared by the Ministry of Industries and Innovation.
8 Aug 2017One of the summer's biggest salmons to be caught was caught by no other than British musician Eric Clapton on Friday in the Vatnsdalsá river. The salmon measured 105 centimetres and it took Clapton 40 minutes to land it.
11 Jul 2017An 11 year old fishing enthusiast from Austria caught a catch of a lifetime by Suðureyri in Iceland’s West Fjords, a cod almost as big as himself. It weighed 20 kilos and 134cm, only 16cm shorter than the boy himself.
24 Jun 2017The population of brown trout that resides in lake Þingvallavatn can get very big, which makes it a popular lake for fishing. Last night Danish angler Nils Folmer Jörgensen caught a trout that weighed 26 pounds.
7 Jun 2017A dam in Andakílsá River was emptied, causing 15-18 thousand tons of sediment to flow down the river and fill up much of the river’s pools where salmon resides and spawns. Research has revealed that most of the salmon fry in the river is dead.
6 Jun 2017Icelandic football player Gylfi Sigurðsson, a star of the Icelandic National Football team and of Swansea Football Club in Wales, landed the first salmon in Norðurá river last Saturday.
22 May 2017"The big picture is that since the year 2000 there's been a near constant depletion of Arctic char in rivers and lakes," says Guðni Guðbergsson, marine specialist at the Iceland Marine Research Institute.
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