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MATEY Seafood Festival draws full houses and celebrates the best of Icelandic seafood. The fourth edition of the MATEY Seafood Festival concluded this weekend with sold-out restaurants, outstanding culinary experiences, […]
MATEY seafood festival returns to showcase Iceland’s seafood excellence. The MATEY Seafood Festival is set to return to Iceland’s Vestmannaeyjar archipelago on 22–23 May 2026, bringing together leading chefs, local […]
Foraging Iceland’s wild larder with Gísli Matt of Vestmannaeyjar. Fish Focus’ latest feature follows our trip to the Icelandic archipelago, Vestmannaeyjar. It was a great pleasure to meet Gísli Matthías Auðunsson, […]
Court upholds Samherji’s intellectual property rights. A judgment has been handed down in the UK in a case brought by Icelandic fishing and seafood company Samherji hf. for infringement of its […]
Seafood from Iceland and The National Fish and Chip Awards. The first of a series of features by Fish Focus, starting with our spotlight on Iceland. We will be posting […]
Samherji maintains stable operating profit. Icelandic seafood group Samherji’s operating profit amounted to EUR 54.5 million in 2023 and was nearly unchanged from the previous year. The profit from the […]
Haddock paupiette. The prep is worth it for this flavoursome haddock and shrimp dish , served with a fresh and fruity salsa. Recipe courtesy Seafood from Iceland Prep time: 20 minutes […]
Breaded cod rolls. Fresh, crispy and tender. So good you’ll wonder how you managed go without them for so long. Recipe courtesy Seafood from Iceland Prep time: 15 minutes Cook […]
Positive signs for Iceland Seafood International. Group sales at Iceland Seafood International of €113.8m in the first quarter were down 8% on the same period last year. Normalised profit before […]
Icelandic catch in June was 35 thousand tonnes. The catch of Icelandic vessels in June 2023 was about 35 thousand tonnes, 1% less than in June 2022. Demersal catch was […]
Icelandic land-based salmon farmer completes financing round. Icelandic land-based salmon farmer First Water has completed 12.3 ISK billion financing. The share capital increase of First Water hf., formerly known as […]
Iceland Seafood International hit by unprecedented cost increases. Iceland Seafood International says the year 2022 was significantly affected by unprecedented cost increases and high volatility of raw material and other […]
Icelandic fish catch rises. The total Icelandic fish catch in March 2022 was 145 thousand tonnes according to preliminary data, which is a 41 thousand tonnes increase from March 2021. […]
Brim fleet catches 147000 tonnes in 2021. The Icelandic company Brim’s fleet landed a total of 147000 tonnes in 2021, which is 19,000 tonnes more than the 2020 total. The […]
Icelandic fish catch data for 2021. The total fish catch of Icelandic vessels in 2021 was just over 1,158 thousand tonnes, which is 13% more than in 2020. Pelagic catch […]
Waitrose and Iceland collaborate on cod promotion. Icelandic cod was recently introduced in collaboration with the British premium supermarket retailer Waitrose as part of a Christmas promotion. The presentation was […]
Sealaska plans to invest in two Icelandic seafood companies. Sealaska, an Alaska Native Corporation owned by 23,000 Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian shareholders, has announced it has plans to acquire equity […]
Samherji enters into agreement for land-based salmon farm. Samherji fiskeldi ehf. has entered into agreements with HS Orka for the development of land-based salmon farming in the Resource Park by […]
New pelagic processing system to increase production capacity by 70%. LVF has chosen Skaginn 3X to supply a new pelagic processing system, designed to increase automation and processing capacity as […]
Skaginn 3X presents COLD FACTS. Skaginn love freezing, in fact they ARE freezing. Or like Sigurður Skúlason, their international freezing expert, says: “We’ve been freezing for a long time and […]
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