Australian boatbuilding company Dongara Marine has received orders to build custom-designed vessels – a monohull commercial fishing boat and a high speed catamaran for recreational use. An experienced commercial fisherman…
Mustad Autoline and Egersund Group have joined forces to acquire both the fishing gear outlet and the net loft run by Carl Stahl AS in the northern Norwegian port of…
Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries Kristján Thór Júlíusson and his UK counterpart Victoria Prentis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning future co-operation concerning fisheries. The MoU was signed during a…
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine Charlie McConalogue has lodged an appeal against a Court decision to allow large trawlers fish inside Ireland’s six mile zone. In December 2018…
A new trawler for Hirtshals was quietly delivered by JOBI Værft – any plans for a celebration nixed by the ongoing pandemic – but Elin HG-281’s fishing trials and the…
With NEAFC due to meet this week, tensions are already rising around Norwegian tactics concerning stocks in Areas I and II, notably redfish and Greenland halibut. ‘Norway’s aims are maximising…
A new resilience group has been granted £1 million funding to support Scotland’s langoustine (nephrops) sector through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Scottish Nephrops Working Group will investigate the scale…
Navimon and the Piriou shipyard go back a long way together and now the yard has delivered the final three vessels in a series of eight longliners for the Nouméa,…
Mustad Autoline has established a new branch in Iceland, located in the south coast fishing port of Grindavík, home to much of the country’s longline fleet. Mustad Autoline’s intention by…
Faroese Fisheries Minister Jacob Vestergaard and his Icelandic counterpart Kristján Thór Júlíusson have agreed terms for 2021 reciprocal fisheries access for blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring. ‘The fisheries treaty between…