• Established port, including landing and fleet maintenance services.
• Major fishing town. Total catch in 1999: 118,393 tonnes (demersal 3,313 t; pelagic 113,532 t, shrimp 1,546 t).
• Good harbour.
• Export harbour with direct sailing to Europe
• Leisure: popular winter ski site, part of the largest marked hiking and walking area in Iceland.
• Population 972
  

Offical web site: www.fjardabyggd.is on Icelandic