Fish goes in different directions
Bergur-Huginn’s two trawlers have been fishing well this summer, with around a thousand tonnes between then in 21 trips in July, compared to 700 tonnes in the same month last year.
Bergur-Huginn’s two trawlers have been fishing well this summer, with around a thousand tonnes between then in 21 trips in July, compared to 700 tonnes in the same month last year.
There are only four weeks to go until Skipper Expo Int. Bristol 2017, with the two-day show starting at 10am on Thursday 7th September and finishing at 4pm on Friday 8th September.
Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi has sold one of its freezer trawlers, which will be delivered to new owners Sea Harvest Corporation in South Africa on 15th November.
After landing 450 tonnes of top-quality mackerel caught around the Westmann Islands, skipper Jón Axelsson said that the next stop is Greenland.
The Zamakona Shipyard in northern Spain has been contracted to build a new pelagic vessel for Shetland owners.
When Life Cell inventor Scott Smiles went to sea for what was supposed to be a short pleasure trip, the result was far from what he had expected. Something went catastrophically wrong – and he and his friend Rick and their respective sons Riley and Ryan found themselves in the water, clinging to a cool box and having grabbed a hand-held radio from the boat before it went down.
Fisheries Minister, George Eustice, and a team of senior DEFRA officials used the Cornish FPO’s recent annual general meeting to provide an update on preparations to leave the CFP.
A pair of Skipsteknisk-designed ST-116XL factory trawlers being built for Murmansk operator Nord Pilgrim are to be fitted with complete Wärtsilä propulsion packages.
The third of a series of new trawlers for owners in Iceland has been handed over by the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey.
The owner of a fishing vessel has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to two charges brought by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) for the unsafe operation of a fishing vessel and failing to ensure that the gas cooker was properly maintained.