Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) in St Petersburg has started cutting steel for the third in the series of Knarr Rus-designed trawlers for Karelian Seafood, part of the Norebo group. The…
Icelandic fishing and processing company Vinnslustöðin (VSV) has acquired Portuguese company Grupeixe, which produces, sells and distributes saltfish in Aveiro. According to VSV, Grupeixe buys its cod from Iceland, Norway…
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra Fisherman 33 to Jonathan Boyd, and the new boat has already started fishing from Barra, skippered by Jonathan’s son Oran. The Castlebay-registered…
Next Monday will see the last traditional shout auction take place in Brixham as the new could-based Kosmos system will be in operation from Tuesday 4th of June onwards, bring…
The UK government has announced a further 41 Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in English waters, which are expected to largely complete the decade-long Blue Belt process. According to the NFFO,…
Human Rights at Sea has published the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organisation (ANIFPO) voluntary annual human rights and business audits undertaken by Human Rights at Sea International Ltd (HRASi), the…
Harmful to animals and constituting a part of the problem of the marine plastic, the extent of ghost nets in the Bothnian Sea is being investigated by the Finnish Environment…
A Blue Belt tuna tagging programme is taking place on the Atlantic island of St Helena as part of a wider project tagging 120,000 tropical tuna species from across the…
Síldarvinnslan’s factory trawler Blængur docked in Norðfjörður yesterday after a disappointing redfish trip on the Reykjanes Ridge south-west of Iceland. With the annual Seamen’s Day celebrations taking place in Icelandic…
More commercial fishermen in Wales have received life saving flotation equipment to help make the fishing industry safer. Seafish has supported an industry-led Welsh Fishing Safety Committee (WFSC) project, which…