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…
Reports that Iceland and Greenland have both decided to increase their quotas for this year’s mackerel fishery have sparked an angry response from the chair of the European Parliament’s Fisheries…
Icelandic fishing company Síldarvinnslan’s Börkur landed 1200 tonnes of mackerel to the production plant this week, while the other company’s other vessels Beitir and Bjarni Ólafsson are and sea and…
Fishing gear group Hampiðjan aims to enable a new generation of fishing gear technology with its DynIce Optical Data cable. This brings fibre-optic speed to the data transfer from headline…
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU – Sveriges Landbruks Universitet) has taken delivery of a new 69.50 metre by 15.80 metre beam fishery and oceanographic research vessel built at…