[2] Brim is a publicly traded company on the Main Market of NASDAQ OMX Iceland, having over 2.700 shareholders.

However, because of the company‘s increased land production, the Akaranes plant will process a great deal more of material in 2014.

Brim’s freezer trawlers are large and well equipped vessels that catch and produce Greenland halibut, redfish, cod, haddock, saithe, silver smelt and mackerel as well as various other species.

Maximum output in the production of frozen whole fish is about 400 tons per day and employs an average of 65 persons, but the staff varies depending on the season.

The fleet mainly supplies the pelagic plant in Vopnafjörður and in 2013 the total catch was 135.000 tons of capelin, mackerel, herring and blue whiting.

There is also a special production line for white fish cutoff from the company's groundfish plant in Reykjavik that only runs on electricity from renewable energy resources and has a capacity of 60 tons per day.

The fish species that have so far received the Iceland Responsible Fisheries certification are; redfish, cod and saithe and haddock.

[6] In January 2014, HB Grandi joined Festa, the Icelandic Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

FEMAS was established to assure the safety of feed materials entering the livestock food chain.

[9] The scheme is audited and certified by an independent certification body, in accordance with the internationally recognised standard EN45011 (also known as ISO Guide 65).

This means that the certification body is itself independently assessed every year to ensure that the standard is implemented and administered consistently and fairly.

[10] In June 2014 HB Grandi received chain-of-custody certification from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

[11] HB Grandi has complete certification for three species; cod, haddock and saithe as well as redfish being under MSC assessment.

[12] In March 2015 High Liner Foods and Trader Joe's announced they would no longer carry HB Grandi products due to the company's indirect involvement in the harvesting of whale meat.