Icelandic local governments will be asked to employ jobseekers and students to help people affected by the current Grimsvotn volcanic eruption. A similar project ran last year when the volcano under Eyjafjallajokull erupted. Read the full story

Iceland’s Directorate of Labour intends to devote half a billion kronur (USD 4.2 million) on a direct project to tackle long-term unemployment. Read the full story

An ambitious weeklong process sending the largest quantity of living salmon that has ever been transported from Iceland to Norway came to an end recently for Islandsbleikja, Samherji’s subsidiary in fish farming. A ship, the largest of its kind, came ashore in Kirkenes in North Norway with 600,000 living Salmon smolts worth NOK 6 million (ISK 125 million, USD 964,000). Read the full story