aIreland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has sent a powerful message to the country’s fishing industry, setting out unequivocally that fisheries must be part of Brexit trade negotiations.
New Zealand fishing company Sealord is now ready to take delivery of their new flagship following sea trials carried out at the Simek yard in Flekkefjord.
Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf plans to resume hunting for fin whales this summer after a two-year hiatus. The last whaling season was 2015.
Norwegian fisherman August Fjeldskår from Båly has gone for the safe option by going to Danish yard Vestværft for his third new vessel.
The share of Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi held by Kristján Loftsson (also Hvalur hf’s owner) and Halldór Teitsson has been sold to Guðmundur Kristjánsson, owner of Brim. This places 34.1% of HB Grandi’s ownership into new hands.
On Spain’s initiative, a Franco-Spanish Joint Fisheries Committee met in Madrid on April 13, 2018, for the first time since the creation of the Southern AC, under the co-chairmanship of the Secretary General of Fisheries, Alberto López-Asenjo, and the Director of Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture, Frédéric Gueudar Delahaye.
‘There’s a closure along the south coast for the spawning season, so I decided we’d try our luck off the Westfjords. But it hasn’t been a great trip and cod are thin on the ground these days,’ said Eiríkur Jónsson who skippers HB Grandi’s trawler Akurey.
During the Seafood Expo Global 2018 taking place from 24-26th of April in Brussels, gathering stakeholders from every corner of the globe, the European Commission will hold an event featuring the importance of food security and the social dimension of fisheries. According to industry body Europêche, with thousands of seafood professionals all together the event provides an ideal platform to get Europe’s message on the three sustainability dimensions of fisheries management across with thousands of seafood professionals all together.
Peruvian seafood company Pesquera Centinela S.A. has achieved Friend of the Sea certification for its fishmeal and fish oil from Engraulis ringens fished in the South East Pacific Ocean (FAO Area 87) only by Friend of the Sea approved purse seine fleets.
Marine electronics specialist Marport has announced that Marport France SAS (Sales and Service) is moving to new and improved facilities in Lorient, adding technical support to its customers in France, central Europe and Africa.
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