Heavy fishing on blue whiting
The Icelandic pelagic fleet has been fishing well on blue whiting since the beginning of April, and Síldarvinnslan has taken delivery of 25,000 tonnes since the season got underway.
The Icelandic pelagic fleet has been fishing well on blue whiting since the beginning of April, and Síldarvinnslan has taken delivery of 25,000 tonnes since the season got underway.
Icelandic trawlers Breki and Páll Pálsson are steaming home to Iceland from the yard in China where they were handed over to their owners, and are more than half-way through their long delivery trip – and have left ‘Marlboro Territory’ behind after clearing Suez.
According to a non-binding resolution adopted by fisheries MEPs this week, all fisheries products imported into the EU should meet the high standards imposed by the EU law.
A new 70 metre trawler has been ordered by Fosnavåg company Olympic Seafood, designed by Rolls-Royce and to be delivered by the Cemre shipyard in Turkey, with an option for a second vessel. The new vessel will have an extensive range of Rolls-Royce equipment on board and will be packed with green technology.
HB Grandi has signed a deal with Marel for a FleXicut system and packing graders to be installed aboard its new freezer trawler, due to be delivered by Astilleros Armon in 2019.
A two-year EU-funded project supporting small-scale fishermen across the Baltic and North Sea has celebrated its closure with well-attended gathering in Brussels as small-scale fishermen and their representative organisations from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Poland gathered to draw the conclusions of a project that over two years allowed them to drastically improve their representation within European and national decision-making process
Skaginn 3X’s new and improved RoteX Thawing will be displayed at Seafood Expo Global in Brussels this week.
Maritime Border Command (MBC), a multi-agency taskforce within the Australian Border Force (ABF), and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), apprehended two Indonesian fishing vessels in the Timor Sea, approximately 100 nautical miles east of the Ashmore Islands.
With a background that goes back to the 1930s, Scandic Pelagic is a new company structure formed from SweDen Pelagic and Skagerak Pelagic into a new entity.
Following extensive refurbishment of the Newlyn Fish Market by ProjectLink, phase one is now open and trading, with the first sales taking place in the revamped part of the building last week.