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Longline and auto baiting system designers and manufacturers Fiskevegn A/S in Norway have recently been selected by Australia’s Austral Fisheries to produce a 62,000-hook BFG autoline system for the firm’s new 66.90 metre vessel Cape Arkona which will be delivered in April 2020.
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra to skipper/owner Steinar Sandnes who fishes from Napp in the Lofoten Islands.
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its commercial marine business to Kongsberg. Rolls-Royce’s marine sector has around 3600 staff, based mainly in the Nordic region, while Kongsberg is active in oil and gas, merchant shipping, defence and aerospace sectors.
Currently at the stage of evaluating the new concept using computer flow dynamics, Norwegian company ECO Trawl has developed a set of ideas that are aimed at replacing trawl doors with steerable propulsion units.
Norwegian salmon producer Alsaker Fjordbruk at Onarheim has contracted a new live fish carrier with a design package provided by Salt Ship Design. The vessel will be built by Astilleros de Murueta in Spain and will be delivered in 2020.
Vard has contract to build a new 80 metre LOA by 17 metre breadth trawler for Nergård Havfiske AS, based in the north of Norway. The hull will be built at Vard Braila in Romania and the new trawler delivered by Vard Brattvaag early in 2020.
The delivery of a new coastal fishing vessel being built at Vestværft for owners in Norway has been put back from September this year to May 2019 due to an angry exchange of correspondence concerning the new vessel’s cargo volume.
ICES has recommended that the cod quota in the Barents Sea should not exceed 674,678 tonnes next year. This is a reduction of 100,000 tonnes in relation to this year’s quota. According to Geir Huse at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, a natural decline in stocks has to be taken into consideration.
Only a few years after taking delivery of a new trawler, the Norwegian Prestfjord AS fishing company, which operates a trawler of the same name, is ready to upgrade again – this time to what designers Rolls-Royce are calling the world’s most advanced fishing vessel.
MAN Diesel & Turbo has been selected to provide a complete propulsion package and fuel-gas system for the world’s first fishing vessel with LNG propulsion. The 86-metre purser-trawler Libas will be built by Cemre Shipyard in Turkey.