New Bedford company Blue Harvest Fisheries is making good on its commitment to the fishing community in getting fishing vessels formerly owned by ‘Codfather’ Carlos Rafael back to sea. Back…
Despite the pandemic and lockdown that paralysed much of Denmark’s economic activity earlier this year, Thyborøn Skibs & Motor have the new Nanna Cecilie ready in May for local fishermen…
According to research by Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and University of Eastern Finland, microplastics are now found in all Baltic waters and in fish, bivalve molluscs and benthic fauna. Microplastics…
As social issues become a major concern in fisheries, particularly regarding cases of labour rights violations and human rights abuses found at different stages of the fisheries value chain, the…
The first trawler in a series being built at the Vyborg Shipyard for Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet, part of the NorthWest Fishing Consortium, has begun its first sea trials. Barents Sea…
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 33 to a fishermen working from La Turballe in the west of France. Lauralex II has begun fishing, skippered by owner Alexis…
Síldarvinnslan in eastern Iceland has taken landings of 21,300 tonnes of mackerel so far this season. According to the Neskaupstaður factory’s production manager Jón Gunnar Sigurjónsson, the season has gone…
Authorities in Ghana have taken the bizarre decision to re-license a trawler with a long track record of illegal operation in the country’s waters. According to EJF, Lu Rong Yuan…
As the European Union and the UK try to thrash out an agreement before the end of 2020, EU lead negotiator Michel Barnier hasn’t hidden the fact that he feels…
As the Njarðvík Shipyard in south-western Iceland prepares to invest in a 100 metre by 20 metre wide covered dock, the company and local authorities have signed a memorandum of…
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