In another first for West Australian sustainable fisheries, the sea cucumber fishery has reached a milestone by achieving the certification of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) global standard for being…
Icelandic ship designer Skipasýn is presenting a new design for an economically efficient filleter factory trawler, with delivery of the first order to be delivered in late 2021. Baldvin Njálsson…
Delegations from Norway and the EU are meeting this week in Brussels, hoping to reach a breakthrough on an agreement on 2020 North Sea cod allocations, having already failed to…
With this year’s December Council approaching 16-17th December, the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations (EAPO) wants to see ministers set 2020 TACs and quotas with a balanced approach to…
Norwegian fishing company Gerda Marie AS is about to take delivery of Peterhead pelagic vessel Kings Cross. Kings Cross will replace the old Gerda Marie, which was built in 1986…
Someone who has personal experience of the opportunities that exist in fishing is Lucinda Krige, the first woman to qualify as a chief engineer in the South African fishing industry.…
With specially designed freezer plates and effective use of CO₂, Optimar’s H6 Freezer can freeze fish twice as fast as conventional systems. Freezing at sea can be done in vertical…
A long process that began almost a decade ago when then-Fisheries Minister Jón Bjarnason excluded seine netters from coastal fishing grounds has come to an end, with the seine netters’…
Multi-purpose fishing vessel Leninets, built at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, has reached its home port in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky after almost two months at sea. The first in a series of…
The Astilleros Murueta yard in Bilbao has delivered the second of two Skipsteknisk-designed trawlers for Royal Greenland. Avataq follows Sisimiut, which was handed over earlier this year. ‘We have taken…