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A church in Rotterdam last night hosted a Christmas meal for some of the city’s most deprived citizens, with turbot supplied by Dutch and Belgian fishing vessels, and cooked by some of the crews.
Urk-based Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology has signed new contracts for fishing vessels and a ferry conversion.
One of the key names associated with building for the Dutch fishing fleet over the years, like every yard, Maaskant Shipyards has had some quiet years as the fishing industry has struggled, but this is set to change.
Dutch fishing company Quotter, based in Urk, sent the latest addition to its fleet to sea this week after its extensive refit in Poland, carried out by van Slooten Shipbuilding.
Vessel owners form Urk and Zoutkamp are combining their efforts towards a new dedicated stern trawler for targeting flatfish and shrimp.
Last week saw the seventh Holland Fisheries Event in Urk opened by Secretary of State for Agriculture Martijn van Dam and Urk’s mayor Pieter an Maaren on Friday morning and close the following day after close to 3500 visitors from Holland other countries had visited. The date for the 8th Holland Fisheries Event has been set for the 5th and 6th of October 2018.
Cees de Boer of Urk fishing company Osprey Fish looks back on the crisis years as the time when Dutch fishing companies repositioned themselves to cope with rapidly changing events as they fought to survive.
It was the arrival of a Warner Brothers film crew to shoot scenes for Dunkirk on the IJsselmeer that prompted Urk company SeaVSat to take a closer look at its 3G/4G communications capabilities.
Building you own boat isn’t for everyone, but Pieter Louwe van Slooten has never been one to turn down a challenge.
‘Our core products are wire, combination rope and netting,’ Albert Hartman said, commenting that fishing hardware is at the heart of what Visserij Coöperatie Urk (VCU) does.