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Safiron sea trials. Image: Trefjar - @ Fiskerforum
Newbuild

New Cleopatra for Ålesund

Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 36 fast fishing boat to Ålseund skipper Kjetil Måløy.

FiskerForum 02/03/2019
Nordhavet on sea trials. Image: Larsnes Mek Verksted - @ Fiskerforum
Newbuild

Larsnes Mek Verksted delivers second of seiner pair

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.

FiskerForum 24/02/2019
The Directorate of Fisheries is encouraging seine netters to take steps to avoid burst gear - @ Fiskerforum
Fishing

Careful with that seine net…

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.

FiskerForum 22/02/2019
Norway’s supreme court has ruled on the long-running Senator snow crab case. Image: Derek Keats - @ Fiskerforum
Fish Species

Norway’s supreme court rules – snow crabs are Norwegian

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.

FiskerForum 15/02/2019
Hatteland Display has released a new 43-inch premium quality display as part of its Series X MVD family of products. Image: Hatteland Display - @ Fiskerforum
Products

Hatteland introduces 43-inch premium display

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.

FiskerForum 12/02/2019
Havfront’s Oddbjørn Gudmundsen and Marius Strømmen with one of the Loppa gutting and heading machines - @ Fiskerforum
News

International breakthrough for Havfront’s Loppa

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.

FiskerForum 08/02/2019
Bajas has been delivered by Trefjar to father and son Johan and Tobias Solgård. Image: Trefjar - @ Fiskerforum
Manufacturers

Cleopatra live potter for Norway

Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 33 to father and son Johan and Tobias Solgård who fish from Vågstranda in western Norway.

FiskerForum 06/02/2019
Analysis showed the mysterious Jan Mayen cod to be a mixture of Icelandic and Barents Sea cod. Image: Gunnar Sætra / Havforskningsinstituttet - @ Fiskerforum
Fish Species

Jan Mayen cod mystery solved

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.

FiskerForum 25/01/2019
Antarctic Endurance has been completed at a cost of €113 million. Image: Aker BioMarine - @ Fiskerforum
Fishing

Aker BioMarine christens new krill catcher

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.

FiskerForum 19/01/2019
Norwegian fisheries hit NoK20 billion in catch values in 2018 - @ Fiskerforum
Administration

2018: Record year for Norwegian fisheries

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.

FiskerForum 16/01/2019

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