PrimCrab appoints new director
Russian crab fishing company PrimCrab, a division of the Russian Fishery Company, has appointed Roman Linin as its new general director.
Russian crab fishing company PrimCrab, a division of the Russian Fishery Company, has appointed Roman Linin as its new general director.
Chinese fishing company Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd has announced that an additional twelve of its newly commissioned fishing vessels have left the port of Fuzhou.
With two factory longliners already under construction for Virma, part of the Karelian Fishing Group, the Northern Shipyard in St Petersburg has signed a contract to deliver a third 59 metre vessel.
The Federal Fisheries Agency has approved agreements under the investment quotas initiative for three new processing plants in the Russian Far East, with a fourth due to be signed early in 2019.
FISK Seafood, based at Sauðárkrókur in the north of Iceland, has acquired two groundfish trawlers and 660 tonnes of quotas from Grenivík company Gjögur.
This year Hampiðjan has concluded the acquisition of the entire shareholding in its daughter company Fjarðanet ehf. The background to the acquisition is to establish all of Hampiðjan’s activities in Iceland into a single operation.
The new Seacon-designed combined netter/longliner has been built at Stadyard in Raudberg for Averøy company Kenfish II, and is an SC21 design from Seacon.
The entire crew of 14 were lifted off a Norwegian fishing vessel in the northern part of Svalbard this afternoon and were brought safely to Longyearbyen.
The first new crabber for a Russian operator has been launched at the Pella Shipyard in Leningrad, and is being built for fishing company Antey, with completion of the 50 metre vessel scheduled for the third quarter of 2019.
With the delivery of a seine netter/trawler or Les Sables d’Olonne completed only a a few days earlier, the Socarenam yard in Boulogne has also handed over identical trawlers for two owners in Port-en-Bessin.