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,
The old riverbed Between Keldnalækjar and Haldfoss, the river flowed until a dam was built in 1968. The river had swept across an area of about 60 hectares and caused significant land degradation. Now the old riverbed has been re-watered, creating new habitat for salmon and trout. At the same time, there is an opportunity to restore […]
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 […]
Guðmundur Ingi Hjartarson, better known as Dommi, stopped by to talk about a 30-year-old dream he is making come true. The technical specialist turned to his passion developing a new wild salmon river in Iceland has many great fishing stories in his bag and is doing some really exciting things as a charterer and fisherman. Enjoy, dear, because we enjoyed it.
