Home station
When a farmer rowed his boat from his own landing place, the fishing station was called a home station. Where more then one farm was on the same farmland, and each farm had a boat the home stations could get very big.

Out stations
Where visitors came to row, often far away from their own home, the fishing station was called an out station. There the fishermen stayed in fisherman’s huts and tents, sometimes even under their boats if no other accommodation was available. In some fishing stations, the ships’ companies got accommodation on the nearby farms, and therefore fishermen’s huts not built there. Out stations were usually situated close to rich fishing grounds.

Mixed stations
Mixed fishing stations were a mixture of the two stations above. They were situated on farmlands where both locals and guests resided in fisherman’s huts or at nearby farms. In Iceland’s north quarter 47 out stations, 6 home stations and 20 mixed stations are known.