Norwegian salmon producer Alsaker Fjordbruk at Onarheim has contracted a new live fish carrier with a design package provided by Salt Ship Design. The vessel will be built by Astilleros de Murueta in Spain and will be delivered in 2020.
‘We can safely say that everything has gone like clockwork since we took delivery of the ship. The trial strips went well and it didn’t take long for everything to be working as it should. We’ve had two trips to the Westfjords fishing grounds and we had practically a full fishroom each time,’ said Jóhannes Ellert Eiríksson, known to everyone simply as Elli, skipper of HB Grandi’s new trawler Viðey.
Vard has contract to build a new 80 metre LOA by 17 metre breadth trawler for Nergård Havfiske AS, based in the north of Norway. The hull will be built at Vard Braila in Romania and the new trawler delivered by Vard Brattvaag early in 2020.
La Réunion fishing company Sapmer has established a presence in mainland France with its first retail outlet there, offering 100% natural and sustainable seafood products direct from the producer to the consumer, and there are good reasons for setting up Les Comptoirs Sapmer in Concarneau.
The harvest strategy in south-eastern Australia aims to maintain tiger flathead stocks at a pre-determined percentage of the pre-fishing biomass, referred to as the target reference point. The flathead stock has been above this target for many years so fishermen have enjoyed quotas designed to slightly reduce flathead stocks down to that reference point.
At a recent meeting of the North Sea Advisory Council, the European Commission made the announcement that UK stakeholders will be ejected from membership of the advisory councils from March 2019. According to the NFFO, it had been assumed by most people in the ACs that as the entire body of EU law will continue to apply to the UK during the transition, and as ACs are not decision making bodies, membership of the advisory council would remain unchanged until December 2020.
Farming and fisheries leaders in Scotland have joined forces to urge the Scottish Government to ensure sufficient resources are available to deliver the capacity that will be needed to implement trade and export policy after the country leaves the EU.
As had been expected, Icelandic fisheries minister Kristján Thór Júlíusson has followed the Marine Research Institute’s advice precisely in setting quotas for the 2018-19 quota year, which begins on 1st September.
This week the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, along with Dutch Fishermen's federations de Nederlandse Vissersbond and VisNed organised a trip for interested parties from all over Europe, including representatives of Bloom, joining the TX-36 in IJmuiden. The aim of the trip was to demonstrate that openness and transparency are paramount.
Fisheries New Zealand has approved the use of a new innovative trawl technology for commercial operations in some deep water fisheries – the Precision Seafood Harvesting Modular Harvest System (MHS).