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…
The skipper of a commercial vessel fishing for halibut near Bella Bella in British Columbia has been handed a hefty fine for operating fishing vessel Gypsy Soul in a Glass…
Whalsay pelagic operator Fiskebas Fishing Company stayed with the same designer for their new vessel as for the older pelagic catcher it replaces, which was built at Flekkefjord in 2004.…
MSC Belgium has nominated the Dutch shrimp fishery in the most important MSC-certified fishery award category. Since 2022, the MSC Sustainable Fish Awards Belgium have been presented to organisations that…
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has fought off a couple of cyber attacks, first with a penetration of the organisation’s systems, and followed up a…
An Australian Defence Vessel (ADV), in partnership with Maritime Border Command (MBC), intercepted four Indonesian fishing vessels operating illegally near Augustus Island in north-western Australia, following a report from a…
The owners of new seiner Jarle Berg, Trond and Børrge Berg, which has been built at the Larsnes Mek Verksted yard, went for a package of electronics from Furuno Norge,…