The UK allocated no 2021 quotas for sandeel or Norway pout, both of which are important industrial species used to produce fishmeal and fish oil that underpin the production of…
Russian Fishery Company (RFC), Japanese company Daisui and Pacific Rim Group (PRG) have signed a long-term agreement on co-operation in promoting and developing sales of RFC’s pollock surimi products on…
The European Commission has published proposals for 2022 catches in Atlantic, Kattegat and Skagerrak waters, proposing some reductions and some increases – plus some proposals will be finalised when more…
One of the largest fisheries surveillance operations in the world, Operation Kurukuru, has come to a successful conclusion following 12 days of international co-operation to target IUU fishing in the…
The Hirtshals fish auction comes under new management as of 1st January next year. The current management, Fiskeauktion Nord, and the company taking over, the fishermen-owned Fiskernes Fiskesortering, had been…
Scotland’s £1.6bn seafood industry has launched a new campaign to help find candidates to fill numerous vacancies that are continuously coming up across the processing sector, particularly in the run…
There are some new faces on the management team of the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations as its AGM took place and EAPO President Pim Visser had decided not…
Trond and Børre Berg are naming the new purse seiner/seine netter they have ordered after their father. Due to be delivered in August 2023, Jarle Berg is a Skipskompetanse design…
Seafood exports from the Faroe Islands have risen by 7%, according to year-to-date figures published by Statistics Faroe Islands. Exports for the first eight months of 2021 are valued at…
This week saw Rolf Lorentzen taking over as the general manager of Lorentzen Hydraulikk AS from his father John Sverre. The company based at Kabelvåg in Norway’s Lofoten Islands has…