• Sites for development.
• Harbour, including landing and fleet maintenance services.
• Major fishing town. Total catch in 1999: 150,133 tonnes
  (demersal 6,618 t; pelagic 143,381 t).
• Centre for health services.
• Centre for education including technical college.
• Research: Icelandic Fisheries Laboratories.
• Leisure: popular winter ski site, part of the largest marked hiking and walking area in Iceland.
• Population 1,488

Offical web site: www.fjardabyggd.is on Icelandic