Billed as the most efficient of its kind, a 140 metre vessel for fishing krill is being designed by Wärtsilä for Shanghai Chonghe Marine Industry (CMI). According to Wärtsila, key…
Scheduled to be delivered in 2022, a new trawler for Faroese fishing company P/F Akraberg has been ordered from Vard in Norway in a contract worth over NoK500 million. The…
Australia’s Federal Government has also announced a funding package to support air freight to a number of high-value export markets – including the Chinese and Japanese markets that have been…
The findings of acoustic seal deterrent trials undertaken in an inshore gill net fishery have been published by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). Part of a wider study, the trials…
‘Catches have been acceptable. Saithe is as elusive as ever. We’ve done well avoiding cod, but we can’t say the same about haddock. It shows up everywhere as by-catch,’ said…
With the demand dropping and cold stores filling up, the Danish Fishermen’s Association (DFPO) has recommended that direct fishing for nephrops should stop. ‘Due to the coronavirus crisis, the European…
After a swathe of fly-on-the-wall documentaries that have in recent years followed UK fishermen in various parts of the country, now it’s time for fiction to take over as veteran…
Markets for fresh seafood have changed dramatically, with fresh fish exports dropping significantly compared to their pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels, according to Kristján Vilhelmsson, director of vessel operations at Icelandic fishing…
The Fisheries Agency of Taiwan has stated that it will impose sanctions if allegations made by Greenpeace concerning forced labour and illegal fishing in the Taiwanese distant water fleet are…
With two series of trawlers under construction for its subsidiaries in Namibia and Mozambique, Spanish fishing giant Nueva Pescanova Group has just seen the second of its three new 50-metre…
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