Vard has contract to build a new 80 metre LOA by 17 metre breadth trawler for Nergård Havfiske AS, based in the north of Norway. The hull will be built at Vard Braila in Romania and the new trawler delivered by Vard Brattvaag early in 2020.
The harvest strategy in south-eastern Australia aims to maintain tiger flathead stocks at a pre-determined percentage of the pre-fishing biomass, referred to as the target reference point. The flathead stock has been above this target for many years so fishermen have enjoyed quotas designed to slightly reduce flathead stocks down to that reference point.
At a recent meeting of the North Sea Advisory Council, the European Commission made the announcement that UK stakeholders will be ejected from membership of the advisory councils from March 2019. According to the NFFO, it had been assumed by most people in the ACs that as the entire body of EU law will continue to apply to the UK during the transition, and as ACs are not decision making bodies, membership of the advisory council would remain unchanged until December 2020.
Farming and fisheries leaders in Scotland have joined forces to urge the Scottish Government to ensure sufficient resources are available to deliver the capacity that will be needed to implement trade and export policy after the country leaves the EU.
As had been expected, Icelandic fisheries minister Kristján Thór Júlíusson has followed the Marine Research Institute’s advice precisely in setting quotas for the 2018-19 quota year, which begins on 1st September.
This week the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, along with Dutch Fishermen's federations de Nederlandse Vissersbond and VisNed organised a trip for interested parties from all over Europe, including representatives of Bloom, joining the TX-36 in IJmuiden. The aim of the trip was to demonstrate that openness and transparency are paramount.
Fisheries New Zealand has approved the use of a new innovative trawl technology for commercial operations in some deep water fisheries – the Precision Seafood Harvesting Modular Harvest System (MHS).
Following the acquisition earlier this year of a substantial stake in Iceland’s largest fishing and processing company, changes are taking place. Guðmundur Kristjánsson, who also owns fishing company Brim and stakes in a number of others, and who acquired the roughly 32% holding in HB Grandi, takes over as the new managing director.
The NFFO has taken the industry’s position to government, holding a lobby day in Parliament, pushing for fishing to remain a priority issue for the UK government as key stages in the UK/EU withdrawal negotiations approach.
Chantier Naval Croisicais have delivered a new trawler to Charles Jubé and Julien le Cleac’h, launched at the yard in Le Croisic and built to a Coprexma design.
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