A temporary voluntary fleet tie-up scheme for fishing vessels in the polyvalent, beam trawl and other specific segments of the Irish fishing fleet has been announced by minister Michael Creed.…
Despite the challenges presented by Covid-19, steady progress is being made at the Båtbygg yard in Norway on the new multi-purpose fishing vessel being built for Australian fishing company Austral…
The Solomon Islands’ Government has selected technology developed by Spanish engineering company Satlink, to better monitor and manage fishing activity on longline vessels. By adopting this electronic monitoring technology, this…
Fishing effort in the North-East Atlantic has been reduced by close to half over the last tow decades, with fish populations found to be 50% greater in 2018 than they…
Jónas Thór Friðriksson has been appointed sales manager for Hampiðjan’s ropes and netting. He joins Hampiðjan after 20 years as sales manager of Ísfell’s trawl gear division, and his career…
Royal Greenland is ready to start buying live cod from fishermen along the coast of Greenland. ‘We are allowed to fetch fish from Paamiut in the south to Disko Bay…
The Western Fish Producers’ Organisation (WFPO) became the newest fish producer organisation in the UK when the Marine Management Organisation approved its application on 6th April. WFPO is regionally based…
Originally ordered by HB Grandi as a replacement for one or more of its elderly factory trawlers, the new Ilivileq has been built at the Astilleros Armón yard in Spain…
There have been a few busy days on the edge of Argentina’s EEZ as a fleet of jigging vessels has continued to spill over the line, culminating in the arrest…
The European Union, Norway and the Faroe Islands reached a coastal states agreement for the monitoring, control and surveillance (MSC) of shared pelagic stocks fisheries in the North-East Atlantic; mackerel,…