The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SaWM) closed fishing for herring and sprat in the northern Baltic last month, but has opened the fishery for Gulf of Bothnia by allocating individual quotas for vessels of 15 metres and over, announced Marie Ingerup of the Department for Fisheries Management.
A Danish fishing vessel was lost on Saturday evening in a position 30 miles north of Skagen as it rapidly took on water. Two crew members were picked up by another boat fishing nearby.
Rapp Marine supplies electric twin trawl winches to pelagic newbuild. ‘We are very happy that we now have signed not one but two new orders for the supply of complete electrical deck machinery packages for the two pelagic trawlers,’ said Morten Stenkjær, of Norwegian deck machinery manufacturer Rapp Marine. ‘These deliveries are a milestone for us.
It’s red and it’s steel, breaking with the Stevens family tradition of wooden boats and black paint. But David Stevens senior agreed that times are changing and steel is the way to go now that the skills needed to maintain a wooden boat are becoming increasingly rare, and they decided to stick with the boat’s original red.
Dutch based global certification services provider Control Union has acquired a minority shareholding in MacAlister Elliott & Partners Ltd (MEP) and ME Certification Ltd (MEC).
Police in Russia have arrested a fish processing plant’s former director after employees complained direct to Vladimir Putin.
Mathilde Jounot’s crowdfunded film, Oceans, La Voix des Invisibles (Oceans, the Voice of the Invisibles), which explores the relationship between NGOs, corporations and the perceived efforts made towards privatising the oceans is now available with its English subtitles.
The European Union has issued yellow card warnings to Kiribati, Sierra Leone and Trinidad & Tobago as they continue to lag behind in efforts to combat illegal fishing. Sri Lanka has been delisted, having put in place reforms to its fisheries system.
Fishing company Reyktal has bought freezer trawler Steffen C from its owners in Greenland.
The Ukrainian cabinet of ministers has closed the fishing ports of Kerch and Sevastopol until such a time as the constitutional system of Ukraine is restored.
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