Russian fishing gear company Fishering Service aims to strengthen its position on the Icelandic and Greelandic markets for trawl gear and has reached an agreement with Ísfell in Iceland.
Ísfell will handle repairs and maintenance of Fishering Service trawl gear in Iceland and Greenland, and the two companies expect to work on gear development together in future.
Fishering Service, based in Kaliningrad, was established by former seagoing trawl master Andrei Fedorov in 1993 and the company today has a staff of 150 and produces around 250 sets of pelagic trawl gear and codends every year for a long list of customers all over the world.
According to sales manager Dmitriy Fedorov, the Fishering Service net loft in Kaliningrad has a large stock and works two shifts. It can have an average-sized pelagic trawl ready for delivery in less than two weeks.
‘Delivery to Iceland then takes one to two weeks,’ he said.
‘Fishering Service can produce pelagic trawls of every type and for any fishery; cod, saithe, redfish, mackerel, sardine, sardinella, hake, hoki, herring, capelin and krill,’ he added. ‘Trawls come in different versions in either diamond or hexagonal mesh, depending on the circumstances.’
Ísfell is expanding its Westmann Islands division following the purchase of Net ehf last year, and the two companies’ facilities are being amalgamated in one set of quayside premises. The existing building is being extended to a total floor space of 2100 square metres and new blocks and handling equipment are being fitted to handle purse seines that can be spooled in direct from fishing vessels at the quay. Facilities for handling pelagic trawls are also being overhauled at the Ísfell net loft in the Westmann Islands.
