Former fleet manager Sigurbjörn Svavarsson has joined Icelandic trawl door producer Ekkó and steps in as the chairman of the company’s board. ‘I’m joining the company to support this revolutionary…
Chinese fishing company Pingtan Marine Enterprise has announced that its ten new squid jigging vessels have left the port of Shidao in Weihai and are heading for fishing areas in…
The Australian tuna longline industry, valued at A50 million dollars, is under threat from a staffing shortage on boats, according to industry body Tuna Australia. Tuna Australia member Heidi Walker,…
Brim’s freezer trawler Vigri is fishing on the Hali grounds west of Iceland and according to skipper Árni Gunnólfsson, there’s steady fishing there for mixed fish. ‘We’ve been here for…
Pelagic vessel Margrét docked at Neskaupstaður in eastern Iceland yesterday with 1150 tonnes herring caught in only two tows. ‘It went like clockwork,’ said Margrét’s skipper Birkir Hreinsson as the…
The International Coalition of Fisheries Associations (ICFA), which brings together national fishing industry associations from around the world, has re-elected Javier Garat, secretary general of Spanish Fisheries Confederation CEPESCA as…
New Zealand’s largest seafood company Sanford has welcomed the announcement by the Fisheries Minister of multi-party Government support for cameras on fishing vessels. Sanford’s outgoing CEO Volker Kuntzsch stated that…
Development of the EU-funded SeaScann grading and registration system is in progress. The system aims bring fish traceability to new levels, increase raw material utilisation and vastly improve vision grading…
Icelandic research vessel Árni Friðriksson is expected to sail on Monday morning to start this year’s 22-day autumn capelin survey, joined by another research vessel from Greenland. The survey will…
The owners of Norwegian fishing company Asbjørn Selsbane AS have placed an order with Karstensen for a 39.30 metre combination seine netter/trawler, expected to be delivered in June 2022. The…
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