Seiner/trawler for northern Norway
A new seine netter/trawler built in Poland for Norwegian owners is the latest development for a family-run fishing company in the north of Norway.
A new seine netter/trawler built in Poland for Norwegian owners is the latest development for a family-run fishing company in the north of Norway.
The latest scientific advice on spurdog points to the reintroduction of a by-catch allowance as the most sensible management strategy to recover the stock, according to the NFFO, which states that this would prevent the needless discarding of dead catch, remove an incentive to retain smoothhound as substitution, and restore the evidence base generated by the fishing fleet that underpins management decision-making.
Skipper Louwe de Boer has taken delivery of the new Osprey Group seine netter/twin-rigger Henk Senior, making only a brief call in IJmuiden after steaming home from the Nodosa yard in Spain to change gear, take on boxes and stores, and head plaice grounds.
Two NOAA ships, en route to scientific missions in Alaskan waters, have been instrumental in locating a missing fishing vessel, at the request of the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation.
The third generation of Norwegian fishing company Odd Lundberg AS have selected deck machinery from Rapp Marine for their new vessel.
Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, met yesterday with a Europêche delegation representing the long distance fishing fleet in Europe.
Icelandic fish producer Ný-Fiskur has announced its investment in a second FleXicut system from Marel for its processing facility in Sandgerði. This is the tenth FleXicut to be sold within Iceland.
A deck load of shrimp is not something you are generally prepared for. Just ask Buddy King of the 78-foot Pacific Hooker fishing from Brookings, Oregon, who has been using Wesmar’s new dual stabilised beam HD860-60kHz sonar in the shrimp fishery off the California, Oregon, and Washington coasts.
Following the certification of Danish cod fisheries in 2016, the MSC has given North Sea cod its seal of approval as a sustainable fishery.
The skipper and owner of a Peterhead-registered trawler pleaded guilty to fishing offences at North Tyneside Magistrates Court in case brought by Marine Management Organisation.