New Pingtan jiggers to head south
Chinese operator Pingtan Marine Enterprise has two brand new squid jigging vessels and these are set to start fishing in the S-W Atlantic and S-E Pacific.
Chinese operator Pingtan Marine Enterprise has two brand new squid jigging vessels and these are set to start fishing in the S-W Atlantic and S-E Pacific.
Norway’s fisheries minister Per Sandberg has announced that the Norwegian quota for Atlanto-Scandian herring has been lifted with a 40,000 tonne increase.
When R. Bodey was looking for a new salmon tender for the Yukon River, he had a set of plans drawn up by Tullio Celano based on a boat he had owned some years before, and then took the plans to WCT Marine’s shipyard at Tongue Point on the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon.
The 24 metre trawler was built in Nelson by the Aimex Service Group, which has for many years also been the Rapp Marine agent for New Zealand and Australia.
The NFFO has made it clear to UK Fisheries Minister, George Eustice that the EU Commission’s proposal to extend the moratorium on fishing for bass with gill nets should be vigorously opposed. It warns that such a ban will create discards just as efforts are being made to end them.
There is another casualty to Norway’s oil industry fleet as Rem Maritime is reported to have sold a PSV to be converted for fishing purposes.
Scottish mackerel fishermen and processors are calling upon the EU to reduce the current access arrangements for Faroese vessels to catch mackerel in Scottish waters.
The UK’s two main representative organisations for commercial fishermen – the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) and the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) – have agreed upon common principles to ensure the best possible deal for coastal communities in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations.
The latest issue of app-based fishing news and technology magazine Hook & Net has been published, containing an extensive review of new Norwegian factory vessel Ramoen.
ECA Group has acquired 60% of the capital of BE Mauric from Ciranoë, which was the majority shareholder since 2007, following on from Sirehna, the historical shareholder since 1994. Like the other shareholders, Ciranoë will keep a share in the company.