The Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, has signed contracts to build a fleet of six high-capacity factory trawlers for the Russian Fishery Company (RFC), the Far East-based fishing company that is Russia’s largest catcher.
The NFFO has welcomed new funding for projects to support Irish Sea fishing communities. The funding is a mark of the good co-operation that currently exists between the fishing communities that operate in and around the Walney Extension offshore wind farm and the owners of the wind farm, Ørsted (formerly known as DONG Energy).
Representatives of European fishing communities came together this week, sending a strong message to the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament, calling on these institutions to make fisheries a priority in the Brexit negotiations and to safeguard the economic and social future of European fishing and coastal communities.
‘You’re a brave man, James,’ said Gérard Romiti, president of France’s CNPMEM fishermen’s organisation, speaking to SWFPO chief executive Jim Portus at a Brexit round table held in Lorient during last week’s Itech’Mer exhibition.
Ownership of the Skagerak Pelagic factory in Skagen, Denmark’s largest herring processor has gone to FF Skagen, which agreed last week to buy the entire shareholding in the company.
A salmon carrier operated by Camanchaca and which had only been in operation for a few weeks sank rapidly in southern Chilean waters.
Wesmar has been getting some enthusiastic feedback on its powerful new HD860 Dual Stabilized Beam sonar from Dutch Harbor, the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, and as far south as Mexico.
An initiative to bring fish from Morocco to the French port of Lorient was announced at the Itech’Mer exhibition, currently taking place in Lorient. The first trial shipments of groundfish species from Safi in Morocco have been sent and sold on Lorient’s auction. Only the unusually large sizes of the Moroccan fish indicated that it was anything out of the ordinary.
First the Icelandic football team secured its place at the World Cup championships to be held in Russia next year. At the same time a Russian version of the Skaginn 3X website, Skaginn3x.ru was launched at the AgroProdMash exhibition in Moscow.
A meeting is due to be held on Friday this week at the Garopole in Abbeville, where French fishermen hope that this latest development will not be allowed to go through.
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