The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) is supporting further research into fish health and wellbeing initiatives in 2024, with seven successful projects set to benefit from its most recent funding…
Vard has delivered new factory trawler Sørkapp to Norwegian operator Nergård Havfiske. Built at the Vard Braila yard in Romania and completed at the shipbuilder’s Brattvaag yard, Sørkapp is a…
A suite of agreements on fishing in the North-East Atlantic and North Sea has been reached by the EU with Norway and the UK as a tripartite agreement on jointly…
Researchers Norway’s Institute of Marine Research have advised a hefty increase of 2500 tonnes to the snow crab quota, with quota advice of 10,300 tonnes. The quota for this year…
A New Zealand fisherman who deliberately disabled the Geospatial Position Reporting (GPR) device from his fishing vessel has been landed with a heavy fine by the Nelson District Court in…
An agreement reached between the Faroe Islands and Russia will see some quotas on both sides reduced in 2024. The Faroese fleet’s quota for cod in the Russian zone of…
The latest pelagic trawler to join the Fraserburgh fleet has got off to a fine start since it was delivered in September, with a series of high-value landings to kick…
After a brief spell under the Icelandic flag, a trawler acquired by Brim is heading back to Greenland. Brim acquired Greenlandic trawler Tuukkaq earlier this year from Royal Greenland partner…
A diet supplement already consumed by humans for its anti-ageing benefits could be used to help salmon digest feed and improve their natural disease resistance, with feed trials kicking off…
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessel Börkur has delivered the last landing of the year of Icelandic summer-spawning herring to the company’s Neskaupstaður processing plant. The 1570-tonne catch is going for wholefrozen and…