The largest man-made oyster reef system in the Southern Hemisphere is completed this week as seven million native oysters are released in South Australia. The wild release of the hatchery-raised…
Geraldton-based David Perham is the latest operator from Australia’s Western Rock Lobster fishery to order a new lobster boat from Dongara Marine. The 22.40 metre Southerly Designs monohull will, like…
More than three decades of successive Common Fisheries Policies have discriminated against and marginalised small-scale low impact fishing and communities, favouring industrialised overfishing, according to small-scale fishing organisation LIFE Platform.…
Icelandic fishing company Brim is reported to be in talks with Greenlandic operator Arctic Prime Fisheries to negotiate the sale of a factory trawler currently under construction at the Armon…
The 2020 Holland Fisheries Event will go ahead in Urk, sponsored again by financial specialist Flynth. Klaas-Jelle Koffeman, chairman of Stichting Visserijdagen Urk, the organisation behind the Holland Fisheries Event,…
Thor Gunnar Martinsen and partners in Setho Fiskeriselskap have placed an order with Karstensens Skibsværft for a 36 metre, 9.50 metre beam seine netter/trawler to be delivered in the summer…
Norwegian longline fishing company Ervik Havfiske has taken delivery of two new sister vessels built at the Tersan Shipyard in Turkey. The Marin Teknikk-designed Frøyanes Junior and Vestkapp are the…
Russia’s commercial fisheries community is embarking on promoting and streamlining its competitiveness with a single national Russian Fish brand earmarked to become a quality mark for Russian seafood products worldwide.…
The skipper of an Indonesian illegal fishing vessel has been fined AU$17,360 in the Darwin Local Court for offences under the Fisheries Management Act 1991. The vessel was apprehended northeast of…
Norwegian krill processor Rimfrost has awarded a contract to Westcon to build a new krill fishing vessel in a contract worth more than NoK 1 billion. Companies in the Sunnmøre…