Following the success of its Sea Hunter doors, Faroese trawl door supplier Rock has added a new semi-pelagic trawl door design to its catalogue with the Sea Master doors that have been first tested extensively on board a Faroese coastal trawler.
A pair of new live fish carriers have been launched at the Sefine shipyard in Turkey for Norwegian owners for DESS Aquaculture Shipping. The pair are due to be completed and delivered this summer.
Fishing company Engenes Fiskeriselskap, based at Ibestad in the north of Norway, went to Rolls-Royce for the design and much of the equipment going into its new freezer trawler, and the new vessel will be built at Astilleros Gondán in Spain.
A new multipurpose fishing vessel for owners in Western Australia has taken a year to build and is set to be the largest rock lobster boat in Australia when it starts fishing as the season opens in mid-January.
Icelandic fuel supplier N1 is working to reduce the sulphur content of fuel supplied to commercial vessels and will no longer be supplying Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) as of 1st January 2019.
Following a public consultation in 2017 seeking views on the future management of Welsh whelk fisheries, the Welsh government has announced a package of management measures, developed in conjunction with key stakeholders, to ensure the long term sustainability of the whelk fishery.
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.
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