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Norwegian company Havfront AS has revolutionised the gutting and deheading of fish on board fishing vessels with the world’s smallest gutting and heading machine, the Loppa. Now the company has secured its first international contract in Greenland.
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 33 to father and son Johan and Tobias Solgård who fish from Vågstranda in western Norway.
When a Norwegian longliner docked last year with a full fishroom of cod caught around Jan Mayen, there was immediate speculation as to where this fish had appeared from – in an area that isn’t known for heavy cod fishing.
130 metres long and built at a cost of NoK1.10 billion (€113 million), Aker BioMarine’s new krill catcher is the first purpose-built vessel of its kind in the world, and its construction has been a venture on an ambitious scale.
2018 saw landings by Norwegian fishing vessels for the first time surpass a value of NoK20 billion, an increase of NoK1.4 billion on 2017 as catch values ticked over to the big number.
Aker BioMarine and Cognite have entered into an agreement to digitise Aker BioMarine’s harvest and production systems to improve the company’s efforts towards sustainability. In addition, Amesto Solutions-owned data analysis company, NextBridge Analytics, also recently entered into a strategic alliance with the two partners.
Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries has awarded a second licence to harvest krill in Antarctic waters to Rimfrost following an independent evaluation commissioned by the Norwegian government.
Fishing company Engenes Fiskeriselskap, based at Ibestad in the north of Norway, went to Rolls-Royce for the design and much of the equipment going into its new freezer trawler, and the new vessel will be built at Astilleros Gondán in Spain.
The new Seacon-designed combined netter/longliner has been built at Stadyard in Raudberg for Averøy company Kenfish II, and is an SC21 design from Seacon.
The entire crew of 14 were lifted off a Norwegian fishing vessel in the northern part of Svalbard this afternoon and were brought safely to Longyearbyen.