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A new generation hybrid fishing vessel for owners in Norway has reached home in Lofoten after a delivery trip from Croatia. It isn’t going to sea right away, as the catch handling deck is being fitted by a local contractor.
Pelagisk Forening, representing Norwegian pelagic operators, has raised a number of questions concerning the uncertainty surrounding capelin fishing, stating that as so often before, what the fishermen see is not the same as researchers observe.
According to Norwegian minister of fisheries Harald T Nesvik, the extensive resource of copepods that are found in northern waters, which are also a key part of the marine ecosystem, have now been studied sufficiently for this to become the basis of a commercial fishery with a 254,000 tonne quota for this year.
Norwegian shipyard Westcon has delivered a new pelagic vessel for owners in Scotland, with the new Rolls-Royce designed vessel built to an NVC 331 design with eleven RSW tanks.
Karstensens Skibsværft in Skagen has delivered a new 75 metre purser trawler for Norwegian owners.
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 36 fast fishing boat to Ålseund skipper Kjetil Måløy.
A new vessel capabel of alternating seine netting with purse seining has been christened at the Larsnes Mek Verksed yard at Larsnes in Norway, designed by Naval Consult and built for owners Arvesen AS in Ibestad in northern Norway.
Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries is urge seine netter skippers to take care after a number of incidents in which heavy catches have burst fishing gear, both this year and in previous years.
Latvian fishing company SIA North Star Ltd has lost its appeal at the Norwegian supreme court, in a move that could end the long-running dispute over a Latvian-flagged crabber which has been at the centre of a tussle overfishing rights in the Norwegian-administered Svalbard zone.
A greater range of choice has been made available to bridge designers and systems integrators as Hatteland Display expands 4K portfolio with a new radar- and ECDIS-approved Ultra High Definition (UHD) bridge display system.