The Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad will next week hand over the first new vessel for Russian owners in many years to be built at a domestic shipyard, combining the event…
As well as displaying the world’s fastest remote-controlled automated farm cage cleaning robots at this year’s AquaNor exhibition in Trondheim, aquaculture cage washing experts Multi Pump Innovation (MPI) have announced…
An EU report indicates that the fishing industry’s profitability in 2017 has seen a marginal drop over the previous year – but has maintained an overall high economic performance. The…
Fraserburgh trawler Ocean Quest began taking on water early this morning in a position 75 nautical miles north-east of Fraserburgh, and subsequently sank. A lifeboat and two helicopters arrived at…
Royal Greenland’s new factory trawler was christened this week in a ceremony in Nuuk, with one of the company’s staff, Anja Evaldsen, wielding the traditional bottle to send the new…
The new European Parliament is facing a huge responsibility, according to Pim Visser, president of the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations (EAPO), speaking after reviewing the outcomes of its…
The new trawler for Samherji’s subsidiary Útgerðarfélag Akureyringa has been floated at the Vard shipyard at Aukra in Norway. Harðbakur EA-3 is one of a series of new vessels for…
The owners of seven Shetland pelagic fishing vessels are to donate £100,000 to the MRI Scanner Appeal. The Whalsay families behind the Adenia, Antarctic II, Antares, Charisma, Research, Serene and Zephyr decided to make…
Skipper Jason Coyle brought the Ullapool-registered Amberlisa UL-30 to Denmark to look for some luck. The boat was delivered new in May this year by Arklow Marine Services, and Jason…
Icelandic fishing and processing company HB Grandi, one of the largest-vertically integrated fisheries operations in the country, can be expected to change its name shortly. A shareholders’ meeting held yesterday…