Vard has announced an order for a new trawler for Norwegian fishing company Nergård Havfiske, before the latest newbuilding for the company has been delivered. According to the yard, the…
Twenty years after its last new vessel, Montelucia, was delivered Spanish tuna vessel operator Calvo Group is building a new tuna vessel at the Freire yard in Vigo. TH Company…
Dutch inshore fishermen have seen the encircling gill net technique that had been excluded as a method for catching bass under the 2017 conservation measures now recognised and reinstated. This…
The ten signatories to the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean met earlier this month earlier to discuss science-based management of fisheries in Arctic…
New seine netter Ben Hur was christened yesterday at the quayside in Senjahopen in Norway, delivered by GOT Skogsøy to Tommy Andre Nilsen and his family. A four-year design process…
Kristiansund yard Jemar Norpower has delivered a new 38-foot Malo Sjark to the Hevrøy family from Austevoll, who won’t be steaming home, but who will instead be taking the new…
The initial results of a second capelin survey carried out earlier this month by research vessel Árni Friðriksson and four commercial pelagic vessels has produced disappointing conclusions. The survey took…
After a tough January with an apparently endless string of low-pressure systems making their way across the Atlantic, Iceland is again set to be battered by a few more days…
The EU's draft negotiating blueprint for Brexit trade talks has been welcomed by the Killybegs Fisheries Organisation (KFO), which sees it as offering tangible hope to the Irish industry after…
A contract for five 62 metre crabbing vessels to be built for fishing in Atlantic waters has been signed by the Krasnoye Sormovo Plant (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation)…