in addition the icelandic company samherji hf owns harvesting interests in the uk germany and poland and aker seafoods of norway has interests in a spanish harvesting company most oecd and nonoecd countries have various regulations in place that try to reserve domestic resources for domestic fishers to overcome these restrictions harvesting companies often use local companies joint operations service arrangements and vessel operating agreements etc however two factors are very important before foreign investments can take place in the harvesting sector