Ask Celeste Diest how she got her start in fishing and she’ll tell you about running errands for her father, Harry Cottle, a ‘coloured’ entrepreneur who through sheer determination established…
Samherji’s fresher trawler Kaldbakur EA-1 sailed in mid-September for its first trip with a new catch handling deck fitted by the Slippurinn Akureyri yard. According to Angantýr Arnar Árnason, one…
Greenland fishing company Ice Trawl Greenland A/S has placed an order for a new shrimp trawler with the Asterillos de Murueta shipyard in Bilbao. According to the chairman of Ice…
With 20,000 kilometres of isolated coastline, Western Australia is vulnerable to illegal activity, drug imports and invasive species. Now the WA Police (WAPOL) Force and the WA Fishing Industry Council…
Inshore fishermen, industry leaders, policymakers, regulators and researchers all came together in London for the first day of an ambitious conference which considers the future management of the UK’s inshore…
Gender imbalance remains an ongoing challenge in the seafood industry, but Thai Union is working towards having 50/50 gender parity across all levels of management, according to Dr. Darian McBain,…
Irish beam trawler Tilly WD-3 has been launched at the Luyt yard in Den Oever. Named after their mother, Tilly is being built for the O’Flaherty brothers of OF Fishing…
‘There has been good fishing, but the herring have started heading eastwards now so we have to go further to find them,’ said Theodór Thórðarsson, skipper of Brim’s pelagic vessel…
Cepesca general secretary and Europêche president Javier Garat has told Commissioner-elect Virginijus Sinkevicius that the European fishing sector has long been frustrated by what it sees as a lack of…
The Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg has begun cutting steel for the third in the series of trawlers being built for the Russian Fishery Company, with this vessel’s keel expected…