Sailboats started their whale watching season yesterday, May 1st. With that, all the whale watching companies in Húsvísk have started working this year.
This is the seventh year that Sölkusiglingar offers whale watching at Skjálfand. In the first years, the company had one oak boat in use, but in 2017 the second boat was added. On the occasion of this turning point, the employees of the Whale Museum took a bouquet of flowers to the ticket office of Sölkisigli, which also runs an ice cream shop during the summer. It was an employee of Sölkisigli Loes de Heus who received the bouquet from the hands of Eva Bjarkar Káradóttir, the director of the Whale Museum.

Bjarni Benediktsson changed his position on the processing of Hvalur hf.'s application for a whaling license.
According to a RÚV news report from April 8, 2025, Bjarni Benediktsson initially considered himself incompetent to process Hval hf.'s application for a whaling license due to