
Kleven to build for Spain
In an unusual reversal, a Norwegian yard is to build a trawler for owners in Spain. Kleven has signed a contract with Spanish fishing company Pesquera Ancora for an 80 metre factory trawler to be delivered in February 2018.
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In an unusual reversal, a Norwegian yard is to build a trawler for owners in Spain. Kleven has signed a contract with Spanish fishing company Pesquera Ancora for an 80 metre factory trawler to be delivered in February 2018.

The Armon shipyard at Gijon in Spain yesterday launched a new factory stern trawler for Norwegian fishing company Ramoen. Fitting out is now in progress with the ship at the quayside, and it is expected to be delivered this summer.

Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia has reported that the Spanish Civil Guard yesterday raided the offices of fishing company Vidal Armadores and arrests have taken place linked to allegations of large-scale poaching of toothfish in the Southern Ocean

The EU places stringent requirements on its own member vessels, while there is consistent light touch monitoring of other fleets that export products to the European Union, according to Emilio Martinez, director general of Espaderos del Atlantico, representing a group of Spanish longline vessels.

According to Javier Touza, who runs Spanish joint venture fishing company Chymar as well as chairing ARVI, the Vigo operators’ federation, there is an urgent need for a serious debate about the lack of a level playing field.

The Armon shipyards have survived Spain’s crippling recession and have managed to remain active through the lean years.

Thousands of people from the fishing and aquaculture industries demonstrated on Saturday in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia which is also home to much of the country’s fishing industry.

Juan Carlos Corrás of La Coruña PO Pescagalicia-Arpega predicts that the discard ban will hit the trawl fleet hardest.

An artisanal fishery in northern Spain has become the first MSC-certified octopus fishery. Octopus from four artisanal fishing guilds in western Asturias can now carry the MSC ecolabel.

After seven years of testing, Vigo fisherman Angel Rodriguez was about to give up on testing the bait developed by Vigo company Kf Iber Frost, but it turned out that it was worth persevering.
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