| NesNet’s managing director Lárus Þór Pálmason qualified as a netmaker as a young man and since then has behind him more that 30 years of experience as a netmaker as well as running net lofts, being involved in the sales side of the business and finally as a lecturer in fishing gear technology.
He has spent time at sea as a small boat skipper, holds a 30gt certificate of competency for fishing vessels and teaches inshore navigation courses. To contact Lárus:
lp-at-nesnet.is
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| Finn Hansen, based in Esbjerg in Denmark, is a well-known name in the fishing business and was involved for many years with Perfect Trawl Doors. To contact Finn: fh-at-nesnet.is |
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| Hjálmar Árnason has a long career in education and politics behind him and is a Member of Parliament for the Progressive Party as well as being the director of the Keilir Atlantic Center of Excellence’s Field of Security and Transportation. He is also President of the North Atlantic Hydrogen Association and has published both training manuals for teachers and translations of both fiction and poetry. To contact Hjalmar: ha-at-nesnet.is |
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| Hördur Jónsson has been a netmaker since he started his apprenticeship with Jón Holbergsson in 1970. He was as seaman from 1982 to 1987, when he came ashore to take over the Thorbjörn fishing company’s net loft. He later established his own company when he and Sverrir Thorgeirsson started up SH-Veidarfæri, which later merged with Netagerd Thorbjarnar Fiskanes to form their present company, VT Fishing Supplies.To contact Hörður: hj-at-nesnet.is |
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| Ólafur Jón Arnbjörnsson is Head of School at the Fjölbrautaskóli Sudurnesja Comprehensive College in Reykjanesbær and is currently on a sabbatical to develop new training and education facilites in Icleand for the fishing and seafood sector.
He has been closely involved with ISCFT from the outset and has taught several courses on fish behavioural science. He is actively engaged in European and Nordic adult education programmes.To contact Olafur: oj-at-nesnet.is |
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