sentences:  Their adopted daughter María Guðmundsdóttir (filmmaker) became Miss Iceland.Herring catches started to decline after 1944, with a sharp drop in 1948 (when there were almost no catches for two years) and, despite attempts to keep the enterprise running by processing other fish besides herring, the factory closed in 1954 while Djúpavík Ltd. was officially dissolved in 1968.Some residents remained until about 1980.