A $34 million boost in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding towards grants, cooperative institutes, contracts and federal employment is going into modernising NOAA Fisheries' data, infrastructure and workforce. ‘Rapidly changing oceanic conditions,…
New netter/longliner Ingeborg Arntsen, built by Vestværft for Lofoten brothers Jack-Allan and Hans-Michael Arntsen, represents a serious step up over their older vessel in terms of both operational efficiency and…
Sardine production in Mexico saw a 21% increase in 2023, according to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, making it the country’s largest-scale fishery. Of the 771,015-tonne…
Over the last seventeen years Brunvoll has delivered propulsion and manoeuvring systems for twenty Sølvtrans vessels built just along the coast at Aas Mek Verksted. Now they’re set to boost…
This year more than 650 young people in Norway have had the opportunity to spend the summer working in fishing through the state youth fishing scheme, with placements arranged either…
Newfoundland and Labrador Union FFAW continues to be vocal in its criticism of the Canadian government for moving the northern cod stock from critical to cautious, and opening a commercial…
Icelandic marine research vessel Árni Friðriksson earlier this month concluded its role in this year’s North Atlantic pelagic survey, alongside Norwegian, Faroese and Danish research institutes. Árni Friðriksson covered 6000…
Artisanal fishermen in the south of Spain who fish in the Strait of Gibraltar are demanding the government allocate them a quota for bluefin tuna, which would offset the hardship…
The latest Macduff newbuild, Andrew West’s Forever Faithful, has started fishing for nephrops in the North Sea. The new vessel replaces an older one of the same name that also…
Spanish research vessel Vizconde de Eza has sailed from the port of St. John's (Canada) today to begin this year’s 3L Greenland halibut survey, the last one this year in…