Chilled redfish trials
This summer Icelandic fishing company Síldarvinnslan has been trialling storage of golden redfish in chilled water, in collaboration with Matís, IceFresh GmbH and the Students’ Innovation Fund.
This summer Icelandic fishing company Síldarvinnslan has been trialling storage of golden redfish in chilled water, in collaboration with Matís, IceFresh GmbH and the Students’ Innovation Fund.
To prove that their Acadian redfish, haddock and pollock fisheries meet rigorous sustainability requirements, Gloucester-based Sustainable Groundfish Association, Inc. (SGA) in New England has achieved certification to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard.
The EU Commission has published guidance for Member States, which are responsible for the collection of relevant data, towards a clearer idea on how to build sound data collection plans for the period 2017-2020.
Law Enforcement and Peace Officer (LEPO) training is now underway at the DAFF Fisheries Management Branch in Cape Town following a cash injection of R50m from the Norwegian embassy to tackle fish crime in South African waters. The funding will be distributed over three years.
A Russian trawler was this week detained by Norwegian Coastguards inside the Svalbard zone and fines of NoK230,000 have been imposed for discarding fish.
Hampiðjan’s Westmann Islands branch opened in March this year and began trading in April, with everything required for maintaining fishing gear, as well as a product range that includes lifting equipment, protective gear and survival suits.
Karstensens Skibsværft has signed a contract to build a new 79.75 metre purser/trawler for Norwegian company Peter Hepsø Rederi, with the deal formally signed at Nor-Fishing.
Nordic Wildfish AS (previously Roaldnes) is this year's winner of the Directorate of Fisheries Environmental Award. This is for its efforts to reduce energy consumption and optimise resource utilisation of the catch on board their vessels.
Norwegian company Havfisk AS has won an appeal submitted to the Hålogaland Lagmannsrett court by Hermes AS regarding an agreement to sell a vessel and quotas.
An order has been confirmed for the latest in a series of 63m LOA, 12.80m beam pelagic trawlers from Karstensens Skibsværft in Skagen.