New Zealand’s largest seafood company Sanford has welcomed the announcement by the Fisheries Minister of multi-party Government support for cameras on fishing vessels. Sanford’s outgoing CEO Volker Kuntzsch stated that…
Development of the EU-funded SeaScann grading and registration system is in progress. The system aims bring fish traceability to new levels, increase raw material utilisation and vastly improve vision grading…
Icelandic research vessel Árni Friðriksson is expected to sail on Monday morning to start this year’s 22-day autumn capelin survey, joined by another research vessel from Greenland. The survey will…
The owners of Norwegian fishing company Asbjørn Selsbane AS have placed an order with Karstensen for a 39.30 metre combination seine netter/trawler, expected to be delivered in June 2022. The…
Over the 2019-2020 quota year (1st Sept-31st Aug) the trawlers operated by Síldarvinnslan and its Bergur-Huginn subsidiary landed a total of 20,800 tonnes of groundfish. It has been a tough…
Initially considered a marine pest, rapa whelk are now exported around the world and underpin millions of dollars in revenues for Black Sea nations. As rapa whelks are believed to…
Naust Marine in Iceland has contracted to supply a comprehensive package of deck equipment for the Wärtsilä-designed factory trawler expected to be delivered to RK Lenina in 2023. The 121-metre…
French trawl door manufacturer Morgère, has taken on a new sales manager as the company seeks to develop new business on both French and international markets. Amaury Hervé brings a depth…
The first new groundfish trawler built at a Russian shipyard for more than thirty years has been handed over to its owners. Built at the Vyborg Shipyard, part of the…
One of a fleet of trawlers built to fish for cod on the Grand Banks, Grande Hermine is now heading for the South Atlantic to fish for its new owners…