Fiskirækt Laxá á Keldum
This summer we tackled a major project at Laxá River in Keldum
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Fiskirækt Laxá á Keldum
Gamli árfarvegurinn Milli Keldnalækjar og Haldfossa rann áin þar til varnargarður var settur upp árið [...]
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Fiskirækt Laxá á Keldum
Jóhannes Sturlaugsson – Björn Theodórsson Forathuganir 2021-2023 vísa til þess að ársvæðið ofan Tungufoss í [...]
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Fiskirækt Laxá á Keldum
Enn eru hlutirnir að raungerast. Við hófum fiskirækt í efri hluta Eystri Rangár fyrir fjórum [...]
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Fiskirækt Laxá á Keldum
Viðtöl við Jóhannes Sturlaugsson, Björn Theodórsson, Lýð Skúlason og Guðmund Inga Hjartarson. Sagt er frá [...]
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Summer Construction: This summer we tackled a major project at Laxá River in Keldum that marks an important step in creating new and improved habitat for North Atlantic salmon. The project involves restoring the old riverbed, which stopped flowing about 57 years ago, but now the water is flowing there again – and with it,
Interviews with Jóhannes Sturlaugsson, Björn Theodórsson, Lýð Skúlason and Guðmundur Inga Hjartarson. The story tells of spawning, fry and salmon releases and the harvest of recent years. During electrofishing, a large number of fry were found and the most positive thing was that the largest fry were well-behaved and about 12cm in size. This tells us that the fry are […]
The expansion of salmon fishing rivers with an emphasis on natural spawning represents a forward-looking and sustainable approach to strengthening the salmon stock in the North Atlantic. The guiding principle of the project is to promote the restoration of the salmon stock and to secure the invaluable natural resource of the North Atlantic salmon for future generations. A documentary by Kári G. Schram, which is in progress, about the development of the Laxá River in Keldum, where it is monitored […]
Signing of a lease agreement between Rangárþing Ytra and fossdali ehf for the lease of plots on the lands of Foss and Árbær, fishing rights included in the lease. Fossdali ehf's plan is to turn the upper part of the Eystri Rangá above Tungufoss into a salmon breeding station where natural hatching can take place. If these plans go ahead, this part of the river could become a fertile […]
