Armon feeling the optimism
The Armon shipyards have survived Spain’s crippling recession and have managed to remain active through the lean years.
The Armon shipyards have survived Spain’s crippling recession and have managed to remain active through the lean years.
Christened at its home port in La Réunion, the new Cap Kersaint paves the way for the renewal of the French-operated fleet fishing in the French Southern Ocean and Antarctic Territory (TAAF) of Crozet and Kerguelen waters for Patagonian toothfish.
HB Grandi’s new groundfish trawler, designed by naval architect Alfreð Tulinius at Nautic ehf, has been launched at the Celiktrans yard in Turkey.
Norwegian company Hitramat, based near Trondheim, and Jeka Fish in Denmark have announced a joint venture to establish a brown crab processing plant at Lemvig in Denmark to produce crab for the European market.
Simrad has announced the arrival of its new FM90 muiltibeam trawl sonar with a near real-time refresh rate to provide a live image of the trawl gear.
Three Icelandic trawlers have fallen foul of by-catch regulations in Norwegian waters as Coastguard inspections showed high levels of haddock in their cod catches, resulting in heavy fines.
With the introduction of the landing obligation for demersal species being phased in between now and 2019, the intentions contrast starkly with the reality, and Paul Trebilcock, chief executive if the Cornish FPO, says that several brand-new discards have been brought into existence.
Thousands of people from the fishing and aquaculture industries demonstrated on Saturday in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia which is also home to much of the country’s fishing industry.
The long hunt for the last of the illegal toothfish poachers has come to an end with the arrest of the Nigerian-flagged Viking in Indonesia.
According to Marine Scotland, the Scottish fishing industry has expressed concern about the health of crab and lobster fisheries in Scottish waters. Marine Scotland is seeking views on landing controls that it proposes to introduce throughout the rest of the Scottish coast.