The government of the Solomon Islands has commissioned Spanish technology company Satlink to provide technical support for electronic monitoring systems and to update their fisheries management center, for which the…
The Sea Harvest Group reports a resilient set of interim results for the first six months of this year, a period described by the company as being characterised by significant…
It’s almost ten years since Icelandic fishing and processing giant Síldarvinnslan acquired processor Brimberg in the east coast port of Seyðisfjörður, and its trawler Gullver, with a pledge to keep…
Project ReCon was launched in December 2022 by Spanish tech specialist Satlink to recover echosounder buoys used in tropical tuna fishing and recondition them for scientific and environmental purposes. This…
Following consultation, the MMO has outlined a series of measures to be introduced relating to the Lyme Bay sole fishery. The initial consultation with stakeholders was launched in reponse to…
A boarding team from the Gambian Navy has detained a trawler found to be in breach of a stack of regulations – and to be fraudulently branding frozen products destined…
The partially outfitted hull of the new Faroese pelagic trawler/purse seiner Finnur Friði is expected to be on its way to Denmark from the Karstensen yard in Poland. The 88-metre,…
Describing NGO Oceana’s report on the state of UK fish stocks as ‘misleading’, Scottish Fishermen’s Federation chief executive Elspeth Macdonald states that it is ‘based on only partial knowledge and…
DFFU's new vessel, Berlin NC107, has completed the delivery trip from Braila in Romania, to the Vard yard at Brattvåg in Norway, where outfitting is to be completed. The completed…
A new demersal trawl door design – Champion – has been trialled extensively by French and Spanish skippers, and Morgère is now ready to start promoting it. Morgère’s managing director…