Skaginn 3X continues to expand its international team
Icelandic seafood technology company Skaginn 3X has hired Pétur Jakob Pétursson as its new regional sales manager for Russia and CIS.
Icelandic seafood technology company Skaginn 3X has hired Pétur Jakob Pétursson as its new regional sales manager for Russia and CIS.
Russian Pollock, a joint venture between the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) and DV Invest, and AMG Group have struck a deal for the development towards the construction of the Russian Pollock processing factory and for the design of the second phase of the factory.
Fishing has been good on mackerel in the international zone between Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands in the last few days.
According to French fishing industry body CNPMEM, the French industry has decided to withdraw from negotiations between France and the UK over access to scallop fisheries in the English Channel.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and its international partners have wrapped up an operation focusing on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific Ocean on the high seas outside Australian waters.
TCD, the technical division of the Urk Fishermen’s Co-operative VCU, has delivered the first new fishing vessel built in Urk for many years with the completion of a new shrimp trawler for Texel fisherman Erik Kalf.
Dr Katie Brigden has been appointed as Fisheries Scientist to work on a pioneering fish industry ‘self-sampling’ scheme for pelagic stocks. Her new role is supported by the EU PANDORA project, under which the NAFC Marine Centre in Shetland is partnering with the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SPFA) and Marine Scotland Science (MSS).
In an addition to the pole-and-line fleet it operates under the Solomon Islands flag, a vessel acquired from Japan has joined the fleet of National Fisheries Developments (NFD), a subsidiary of US tuna operator Tri Marine.
A second fire on board the same trawler under construction at a shipyard in Holland has left the new twin-rigger/fly-shooter’s future in the balance as the damage is assessed.
Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi continues to go through a period of change that began when a third of its ownership changed hands earlier this year. The company has announced the acquisition of another operator – and that its new freezer trawler currently under construction in Spain may be for sale.