With factory trawler Kirkella now ‘fishing for scraps’ off Svalbard, owners UK Fisheries have accused the British government of failing to flex its muscles as an independent coastal state. A…
President of German fishing industry association Deutscher Fischerei-Verband Gero Hocker has warned that if the European Union does bot move to defend the interests of its fishing industry in the…
More than 850 fishing vessels affected by Coronavirus and Brexit have received resilience funding from the Scottish Government this year. The Seafood Producers Resilience Fund was launched in February to…
‘The last few trips have been like an adventure. There’s been a change on the Westfjords grounds in that, compared to previous summers, there’s a lot of large, good-quality fish…
The Russian Crab Company reports that in the first half of this year, it has caught 57% of this year quotas with landings of 7400 tonnes by its fleet between…
Negotiations between the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania towards renewing the bilateral agreement on sustainable fisheries have been concluded. This replaces the 2008 agreement, strengthening the political…
Production has come to an end for the summer at the Samherji fish processing plant in the port of Dalvík in the north of Iceland, ending an eventful year of…
One of the series of new trawlers under construction for the Russian Fishery Company hit the water with Russian President Vladimir Putin watching at the Admiralty yard in St Petersburg.…
The Irish flag has been raised on the new Antarctic at the Karstensens Skibsværft yard in Skagen, with several generations of the McHugh family present for the occasion. The youngest…
Changes are taking place to both demersal and pelagic fishing capacity within fishing companies that are part of Icelandic fishing and processing group Síldarvinnslan. Subsidiary company Bergur ehf, based in…