‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon

First women working as fishing guides on Laxa River, featured in new film, call for action after farmed fish escape

For seven generations, Andrea Osk Hermosdottir's family have been fishing on the Laxa River in Aaldalur. Iceland has a reputation as a world leader on feminism, but until recently women have not been able to work as guides to wild salmon fishing for visiting anglers - a job that has traditionally been the preserve of men.

The 21-year-old engineering student, her sister Alexandra Osk, 16, and their friends Arndis Inga Arnadottir, 18, and her sister Aslaug Anna, 15, are now the first generation of female guides on their river in northern Iceland, and among the very first female fishing guides in the country.