Spanish-headquartered fishing group Pescanova has showcased its corporate social responsibility work in Namibia with the screening of the documentary film The City Born from the Sea, detailing the growth of the fishing town of Lüderitz and focusing on the career of Nelago Kwedhi, Namibia’s first female trawler skipper.
As the UK government is poised to extend the use of vessel monitoring systems (VMS) across the inshore fleet in England, recent experience with electronic monitoring systems (EMS) illustrates two very different trajectories for fisheries management, and the NFFO has examined the situation to set out the complexities of electronic monitoring of fishing vessels and the pitfalls that have to be avoided.
After an eventful week around the Brexit process, the European Fisheries Alliance (EUFA) has welcomed the decision by the House of Common to rule out a no-deal Brexit and continue efforts towards an orderly departure from the European Union by calling for an extension of article 50.
Construction is underway of a new trawler for fishing pelagic species in the Baltic at the Interfarm Construction Base at Svetly in Kaliningrad using design and engineering work carried out by local company Adomat, which previously managed the reconstruction of another local vessel, Kapitan Lobanov.
A new generation hybrid fishing vessel for owners in Norway has reached home in Lofoten after a delivery trip from Croatia. It isn’t going to sea right away, as the catch handling deck is being fitted by a local contractor.
Pelagisk Forening, representing Norwegian pelagic operators, has raised a number of questions concerning the uncertainty surrounding capelin fishing, stating that as so often before, what the fishermen see is not the same as researchers observe.
The Spanish tuna fleet, acting jointly through OPAGAC, has begun the process to enable canned tuna distribution and processing companies to earn chain-of-custody certification from AENOR.
According to Norwegian minister of fisheries Harald T Nesvik, the extensive resource of copepods that are found in northern waters, which are also a key part of the marine ecosystem, have now been studied sufficiently for this to become the basis of a commercial fishery with a 254,000 tonne quota for this year.
Icelandic factory trawler Sólberg has completed a record-breaking trip in the Barents Sea with a green weight catch of 1900 tonnes valued at ISK700 million (€5.18 million).
Galician company Grupo Calvo, which was recently the first to launch canned tuna with an MSC label, has signed a contract with the Freire yard in Vigo for a new tuna purse seiner.