Floating windfarms planned for Celtic Sea
The Crown Estate is in the process of identifying areas of the Celtic Sea for commercial-scale floating offshore wind energy development. These are part of the UK’s commitment to net…
The Crown Estate is in the process of identifying areas of the Celtic Sea for commercial-scale floating offshore wind energy development. These are part of the UK’s commitment to net…
Faroese fishing company Framherji has taken delivery of new factory trawler Akraberg, built at Vard. One of the most advanced factory vessels afloat, the new 84 metre, 16.70 metre breadth…
Icelandic fishing and processing company Síldarvinnslan is in the process of acquiring Grindavík company Vísir. Based in the east of Iceland, Sildarvinnslan operates pelagic and demersal vessels, processing plants and…
Crabber/trawler Ugjit Mijua’ji’jg, designed by Navanex and built by Chantier Naval Forillon, has been handed over to its owners, the Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government, an indigenous Canadian community on Quebec’s Gaspé…
Seafood investor Bluefront Equity is investing in Proff Kulde AS, a supplier of refrigerant and heating solutions for the seafood industry. ‘Although Proff Kulde is a relatively small company, its…
‘Current conditions with the high price of diesel, as well as costs for equipment and stores threaten the payment of fair wages for work at sea,’ said Soazig Palmer Le…
Norwegian cod-farming venture has been granted permission to establish a new production location in Nesna municipality with a total maximum allowed biomass (MAB) of 3600 tonnes. ‘We have been very…
There’s nothing like a returning customer – and this isn’t the first time that George Hepburn and his partners have been to Macduff for a new trawler, as the previous…
Iceland’s Minister of Food, Fisheries and Agriculture, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, has increased the allocation of quota available this year to small-scale fishing vessels operating within the coastal fishery regime. An additional…
The Tersan shipyard has floated off the partially outfitted hull of freezer trawler Gadus. The Skipsteknisk-designed factory trawler is being built for Faroese fishing company JFK. This is an 81…