Scotland’s £1.6bn seafood industry has launched a new campaign to help find candidates to fill numerous vacancies that are continuously coming up across the processing sector, particularly in the run…
There are some new faces on the management team of the European Association of Fish Producers Organisations as its AGM took place and EAPO President Pim Visser had decided not…
Trond and Børre Berg are naming the new purse seiner/seine netter they have ordered after their father. Due to be delivered in August 2023, Jarle Berg is a Skipskompetanse design…
Seafood exports from the Faroe Islands have risen by 7%, according to year-to-date figures published by Statistics Faroe Islands. Exports for the first eight months of 2021 are valued at…
This week saw Rolf Lorentzen taking over as the general manager of Lorentzen Hydraulikk AS from his father John Sverre. The company based at Kabelvåg in Norway’s Lofoten Islands has…
Waterdance beam trawler Margaret of Ladram, skippered by Adam Cowan-Dickie, is trialling a Sumwing beam trawl to gather data on how this gear affects vessel fuel efficiency and catches compared to traditional gears. …
Westman Islands fishing company Ísfélag Vestmannaeyja has confirmed that it has agreed to acquire Swedish pelagic vessel Ginneton. Ginneton was built at Karstensens Skibsværft in 2006 as Cattleya, and was…
A project to help remove harmful marine litter and raise awareness of its environmental impact is set to be expanded, thanks to close to £180,000 from the Marine Fund Scotland.…
The Joint Euro-Moroccan Commission of Fishing Professionals met last week to jointly address the options and challenges posed by the ruling of the General Court of the EU annulling the…
Brim’s trawlers have been working through a long spell of heavy weather off the west coast of Iceland that has left them dodging the worst of it, or heading south…
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