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Thyborøn Skibssmedie this week celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, established back in 1967 by blacksmith Børge Stausholm Andreasen in the Danish port of Thyborøn, and since then the company has specialised in producing the distinctive blue trawl doors that are to be seen around the world.
‘In the eighties there were some new boats here, and then that all stopped,’ said Jan Woller of the Hirtshals Fishermen’s Association who is bringing the first newbuild for years to the port.
Niisa Trawl’s new trawler, under construction at the Metalships & Docks yard at Vigo in Spain is due to start fishing by the end of 2018 and will be sailing with a Carsoe factory deck.
Hirtshals company Marine Shaft’s name tells you a lot of what the company does as its core business, but there’s much more going on there than the name indicates.
The Langer family in Thyborøn has sold its industrial trawler to a Swedish/German company, and is replacing it with an Irish pelagic vessel built in Denmark.
After 25 years running his own net loft in Hirtshals, Ray Godtliebsen has sold the business to Cosmos Trawl, who were keen to acquire the smaller net loft’s expertise with seine nets.
Denmark’s Minister Food and the Environment Esben Lunde Larsen has announced subsidies for investment in fishing vessels to improve safety, environmental factors and catch quality, as well as opening a grant scheme for boosting aquaculture.
Karstensens Skibsværft at Skagen on the northern tip of Jutland has always been a busy place, but for the last few years activity at the shipyard has been breaking its own records.
Setting up a new fishing gear company with a net loft on the quayside at Thyborøn is a marker of the health of the Danish fishing industry.
Not that many years ago it might have been seen as a hopelessly optimistic venture, but today there is plenty of activity to keep a new net loft in Thyborøn busy.
A Danish fisherman convicted in 2012 of illegal fishing has had his conviction overturned on the grounds that evidence supplied by Greenpeace was unreliable.
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