2018 has been a remarkable year for Icelandic fishing and processing group Samherji, not least as this was the first full year that the company did not operate a freezer…
A group of small-scale fishermen from north Jutland yesterday staged a protest by occupying the offices of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, demanding that beam trawlers be…
EdgeTech, a specialist in high resolution sonar imaging systems, acoustic release systems and underwater technology, has announced the introduction of its new Ropeless Fishing System. EdgeTech’s development team have been…
Adriatic shellfish producer L’Acquachiara Srl, a top Italian producer of shellfish and other fish products, has earned certification for sustainable seafood production by Friend of the Sea. The certification enables…
In a concrete effort to address the challenge of plastic pollution, Darren Fisher, MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and Andy Fillmore, MP for Halifax, have announced a new gear retrieval contribution…
A Taiwanese longliner, reported missing last week, remains the subject of a continuing international search and speculation as to what became of the Jin Long Tai No. 6. According to…
The Yantar Shipyard has handed over multi-purpose fishing vessel Leninets to its owners, the VI Lenin Collective Farm (RK Lenina), ahead of the new vessel’s delivery trip which will take…
It’s a fishing company that goes back more than a century. In 1918 Søren Lundberg bought a quarter share in 56-foot fishing boat Harpun and within a few years was…
Kaliningrad company Adomat has arranged a refit for factory trawler Kapitan Kolesnikov, with it gensets being replaced Kapitan Kolesnikov is one of a series of seven trawlers built at the…
Both France and Belgium have pre-empted the phasing out of electric fishing in the North Sea by introducing prohibitions on electric fishing in their national waters. In France the ban…