Certification
Largest multi-national fishery in the North Sea area gets MSC certificate
The Joint Demersal Fisheries, a collaboration of large and small-scale
Quentin Bates 02/11/2019
ANNONCER
Country Specific News
Land: Sweden
Ship sale
Pelagic trawler Rockall changes hands – becomes Ceton
Swedish fishing company Gifico has taken delivery of pelagic trawler
Quentin Bates 03/09/2019
Newbuild
Armon delivers Swedish research vessel
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU – Sveriges Landbruks
Quentin Bates 23/08/2019
Environment
Concerns over changing Baltic environment
Concerns that the general health of the Baltic and its
Quentin Bates 22/04/2019
Fishing
Swedish fleet’s pelagic flagship
Swedish pelagic trawler Clipperton was delivered by the Karstensens yard at Skagen in Denmark earlier this month. The new vessel has been built for B-C Pelagic, which brings together two long-established pelagic operators, the Jansson and the Backman/Malmborg families.
FiskerForum 20/05/2018
Fish Species
Sweden proposes three-month eel ban
EU fisheries ministers have decided on new rules in 2018 to protect the threatened eel. The rules prohibit commercial fishing for eels in the sea for an continuous period of three months, to be set between 1st September 2018 and 31st January 2019.
FiskerForum 09/05/2018
Administration
Tech helps keep fishing businesses afloat in Sweden
Next-level management reform required a new tool to facilitate smooth quota trade and transparency: FishRight was the Swedish fleet’s answer.
FiskerForum 27/04/2018
Economy
Eighty-year tradition behind Scandic Pelagic
With a background that goes back to the 1930s, Scandic Pelagic is a new company structure formed from SweDen Pelagic and Skagerak Pelagic into a new entity.
FiskerForum 23/04/2018
Administration
Fishermen satisfied with Sweden’s new management
Switching the old system of weekly catch allowances for whole-year quotas has opened up a whole new world for Swedish fishermen, according to SFPO chairman Peter Olsson. He also commented that the trawler fleet is under assault from Sweden’s Greens, as green NGOs strive to out-do each other in demonstrating their green values in the run-up to elections later this year.
FiskerForum 26/02/2018
Economy
Bolette becomes Vera C
Danish trawler Bolette has changed hands and gone to Sweden where it will be fishing for langoustine off the Danish and Swedish coasts. Thorsminde owner John Christensen said that he had not planned to sell the boat right away, as it is a year until the new Pia Glanz will be delivered by Vestværftet, but he did not want to miss the opportunity when an offer came from Swedish company Gifico Fiskeri.
FiskerForum 13/01/2018