Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries yesterday launched Knarr Russia. Earlier this year six specialist companies in Iceland established a platform, Knarr Maritime, to provide options for new fishing vessels, combining decades of experience. The new venture, Knarr Russia, is aimed squarely at the Russian market for new fishing vessels by setting up a subsidiary company in co-operation with Russian partner Raduga.
More than three years after its adoption in May 2014, the €6.4 billion European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) 2014-2020 is only just coming into operation. By September 2017, only 1.4% of the fund has been used.
A swathe of awards were presented yesterday at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition to industry figures and companies, with a welcoming speech by fisheries minister Thorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir.
The European Commission’s proposals last week to ban both commercial and recreational eel fishing as part of a package of measures for the Baltic Sea are a radical measure that would hit small-scale fishermen hard, as many depend on this fishery.
Vónin’s Flyer is designed to utilise a trawler’s towing speed to provide lift, replacing at least some of the floats on a trawl’s headline.
Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian Fisheries Agency, announced that in the next five to seven years investment quotas will help to build more than a hundred fishing vessels and an estimated twenty shore processing plants.
Proposals from potential new entrants to Canada’s Arctic surf clam fishery have until 2nd November to submit ex
Fisheries ministers, from the Nordic countries of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Åland, have issued a joint statement against transnational organised crime in the global fishing industry.
A refit was long overdue and the chance to give Brixham scalloper van Dijck a facelift and a set of new deck equipment has come after a tough few years for skipper and owner Drew McLeod.
The Tersan yard in Turkey has delivered Norway’s latest factory trawler, which has been christened by its godmother Kari Halstensen at a ceremony in Bekkjarvik, after which the new ship left for Ålesund.
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