Second HB Grandi trawler delivered
The second of Icelandic company HB Grandi’s three new fresher trawlers is due to dock in Akranes today.
The second of Icelandic company HB Grandi’s three new fresher trawlers is due to dock in Akranes today.
29 Danish suppliers to the aquaculture industry will be exhibiting at the Danish pavilion when Aqua-Nor in Trondheim opens on 15th August. The Danish suppliers will be showcasing equipment and services for aquaculture industry’s entire value chain.
Jean-Baptiste Goulard only in his early twenties when the owner he was working for at the time gave him the chance he needed to own his own boat. Now he can see that change is needed and has been immersed in the Blue Wave project to develop a new vessel to take the place of the traditional groundfish trawler fishing from Brittany, and the first of these new trawlers is about to start taking shape.
Spanish deck machinery manufacturer Ibercisa has signed an agreement to supply the new pelagic vessel to be built at the Western Marine shipyard in Bangladesh for Norwegian operators Knut Inge Ostervold and Henrik Ostervold.
The latest addition to the French trawl fleet was on show yesterday in Lesconil. The new trawler has been built for Julien le Brun, who operates four fishing vessels in Plobannalec-Lesconil.
Baffin Fisheries has announced its intention to build a new trawler to fish halibut and shrimp in Arctic waters close to Nunavut. The planned 75m LOA by 17 metre beam trawler will have a 1200 tonne hold capacity and will be double the size of the largest vessel currently operating from Nunavut.
Now 23, Rasmus Olsen has been fishing for seven years and has just taken delivery of his third boat and his first newbuild, a 15 metre GRP boat capable of alternating gillnetting and seine netting the traditional methods for the fleet operating from Thorup Strand on Denmark’s west coast.
US fishing company Trimarine has confirmed its confidence in French fishing gear supplier Le Drezen by placing an order for a second tuna purse seine.
Russian Far East fishing company RRPK has acquired rights to fish 2400 tonnes of crab in the Primorye sub-area.
Emissions of greenhouse gases from the fishing fleet can be expected to be reduced by 40% over the period 2005-2030, with new technologies, smarter fishing and environmentally friendly fuels accounting for the reduction.