The three fishing vessels designed to operate in Newfoundland for their Canadian owner are being built at the Ha Long shipyard in Vietnam, with the first of the three launched ready for fitting out, with delivery scheduled for August this year.
FFA director general James Movick and Australia’s Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Hon. Senator Anne Ruston, have signed a new 10-year partnership agreement at the annual Forum Fisheries Committee meeting at Rarotongain the Cook Islands.
Nueva Pescanova Group has strengthened its position in South Africa with the acquisition of Unick Fish, a South African company founded in 2008, dedicated to the import and sale of seafood products in South Africa and Namibia.
Senegal and Mauritania have reached a new Memorandum of Understanding on fisheries agreement, providing Senegalse fishermen with a 50,000 tonne quota. Work is due to begin near Saint-Louis to construct facilities and an access road on the Mauritanian side of the border.
Russian company Dobroflot, which operates its own fishing fleet and canned fish production, has signed an agreement with the international service provider Orange Business Services to equip Dobroflot vessels with an IoT solution for managing fuel consumption and engine operation.
Negotiations have been in progress since 2016, but agreement has now been reached between Iceland, Greenland and Norway on capelin fisheries that take place in Icelandic waters. The previous agreement dated back to 2003.
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its commercial marine business to Kongsberg. Rolls-Royce’s marine sector has around 3600 staff, based mainly in the Nordic region, while Kongsberg is active in oil and gas, merchant shipping, defence and aerospace sectors.
The Nodosa yard at Marín in north-western Spain has launched a new freezer trawler that will join the Falklands fleet later this year.
Scotland’s Fisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing has blasted the government’s draft fisheries White Paper, Sustainable Fisheries for Future Generations, accusing the UK government of again failing to substantively engage with with Scotland while developing its future fisheries proposals.
The NFFO has welcomed the UK government’s white paper on fisheries, Sustainable Fisheries for Future Generations, outlining the vision for UK fisheries post-Brexit, stating that this is clear on the big issues and warning that the UK government is not in a position to sell out the fishing industry and survive.
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