Saithe show up off Westfjords
In its first trip after a month-long refit, one of HB Grandi’s fresher trawlers hit a patch of saithe off the west of Iceland and other trawlers quickly arrived on the scene for as long as the fishing lasted.
In its first trip after a month-long refit, one of HB Grandi’s fresher trawlers hit a patch of saithe off the west of Iceland and other trawlers quickly arrived on the scene for as long as the fishing lasted.
As well as its Storm and Tornado trawl door designs, Vónin and its Danish design partner have also developed the Flyer, a lift generating device that takes as much space as four floats in a trawl’s headline, but provides a significantly greater amount of lift.
A Swedish company has won one of the prestigious European Marine Engineering Awards 2016 for its innovative marine coating that encourages barnacles not to settle, with some far-reaching implications for fuel efficiency.
Russia has indicated an intention to to review agreements with Iceland and Norway in such a way that it receives quotas for fishing in the Icelandic exclusive economic zone.
Two new stern trawlers were launched yesterday at the Huanghai shipyard at Rongcheng in China for Icelandic owners.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expects changes to be made to Russian fishing industry laws at the State Duma spring session.
When Stéphan Huard from Gaspésie in Québec was looking for a new boat, he went all the way to Audacious Marine in England for one of its Cougar Catamarans.
The European Social Partners for Fisheries, Europêche and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), call on all EU Member States to urgently ratify the ILO Convention that provides minimum standards to protect fishers in all aspects of their work. In a joint declaration signed on 14 April in The Hague, The Netherlands, the social partners also reminded the European Institutions about their responsibilities in this process.
In Vigo yesterday Kongsberg Maritime unveiled an advanced new technology platform at the ICES Working Group on Fisheries Acoustics, Science and Technology (WGFAST), which enables live streaming of 3D data generated by scientific multibeam systems.
Faroese company Framherji continues to renew tonnage, having replaced a longliner owned by a partner company with a newer vessel.