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The first deliveries of winches to fishing vessels by Naust Marine Spain is now taking place. Icelandic deck equipment manufacturer Naust Marine last year set up a Spanish arm, located in Vigo, to produce a range of electric trawl and other winches.
The Nodosa shipyard at Marín in Spain has delivered the latest in a series of new twin-rigger/flyshooters for the de Boer family in Urk.
A 27 metre trawler fishing from Roses on Spain’s Mediterranean coast has been testing a pair of Polar Fishing Gear’s controllable Poseidon trawl doors with some highly promising results. The same pair of doors has since been transferred to another trawler for further testing with different trawl gear – and the first set of large-scale fully controllable Poseidon doors are almost ready sea trials under commercial conditions.
The Nodosa yard at Marín in north-western Spain has launched a new freezer trawler that will join the Falklands fleet later this year.
A non-profit tuna producer organisation based on the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands has become the latest Member of the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF). Organización de Productores de Túnidos y Pesca Fresca (Optuna No 42) represents the interests of the pole-and-line tuna fishery of the Canary Islands, and has been supporting local fishermen and coastal communities in the region for more than a hundred years.
Spanish consumers now have access to more certified sustainable hake now that the entire Puerto de Celeiro fleet has completed Friend of the Sea certification, and has been audited by accredited independent bodies. Puerto de Celeiro provides around 30% of the hake consumed in Spain.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) has imposed fines of more than €8 million as a result of the Operation Sparrow 2 investigation, targeting both companies and individuals. As well as the fines, further penalties are prohibitions on involvement in fisheries and on receiving subsidies or state aid.
Spanish-based fishing group Nuevo Pescanova has embarked on a construction programme for seven new fishing vessels that are scheduled to renew part of its fleets fishing in Namibia and Mozambique.
It’s all about electricity for Naust Marine, based in Iceland, which put all its efforts in to developing electrical winch systems back when hydraulics were king. It turned out that they were right to put their faith in electrical systems, now that virtually every winch manufacturer is moving in this direction.
The Spanish tuna fleet will invest €3 million this year in its Fishery Improvement Project developed in conjunction with WWF. This brings the level of investment to the FIP, launched in 2017, to a total of €12 million. The objective is to achieve MSC certification for all of its catches by 2021.