FISK Seafood buys groundfish pair
FISK Seafood, based at Sauðárkrókur in the north of Iceland, has acquired two groundfish trawlers and 660 tonnes of quotas from Grenivík company Gjögur.
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.
Síldarvinnslan’s fresher trawler Gullver docked a few days before Christmas to land its final trip of the year; 70 tonnes of mainly cod, and bringing its 2018 tally to 6100 tonnes – making it the trawler’s best ever year.
Proposals by the Western Australian Government (WAG) to own a substantial share of the western rock lobster fishery have been met with opposition from the industry, which sees wider implications for the state’s entire fishing sector.
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed has announced the outcome of the review of trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone, and has decided that trawlers over 18 metres will be excluded from waters inside six miles from 1st January 2020.
Florø brothers Andre and Karl Vikan have taken delivery of a new Cleopatra 33 from Trefjar. Rigged for netting and potting, the new boat has already started fishing.