‘The weather has been good, and so has the fishing. Prices are reasonable, but they’ll drop as they always do when the fishing gets heavy,’ said Arthur Bogason, president of the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers, former chairman of the Icelandic National Association of Small Boat Owners – and himself an inshore fisherman.
This year’s Holland Fisheries Event is set to take place in Urk on the 7-8th of October, and the event has become a regular feature of the Dutch fishing industry.
Morgère has launched an innovative new monitoring system called Cyclops that enables pair trawlers to optimise trawl performance. It has been trialled by Boulogne fishing company Euronor's trawlers.
Norwegian pelagic operator Ervik & Sævik has acquired pelagic vessel Inger Hildur.
ANIFPO and Sea Source launch a new whitefish sales division on Monday 1st of February.
Ejner Thomassen is normally a cheerful fisherman, but the news in January a year ago that the Kattegat sole quota had been cut by 42% due to insufficient data was painful, especially as the fish were practically queuing up to come over the rail.
‘We’re well off the north coast about 40 nautical miles north-west of Kolbeinsey. We’ve been in this area for a couple of days looking for Greenland halibut, but unfortunately fishing has been slow,’ said Trausti Egilsson, skipper of HB Grandi’s freezer trawler Örfirisey RE-4 when we spoke to him earlier today.
Greenland has a share of the capelin quota around Iceland, but part of this goes to the Norwegian fleet.
The new tuna purse seiner built in Spain for French operator Compagnie Française Thon Océanique (CFTO) has been delivered to Concarneau.
A contract to build three new pelagic fishing vessels has been placed with the Yantar Shipyard at Kaliningrad in Russia, the first time for more than twenty years newbuilds of this type have been ordered from a Russian yard for a customer in Russia.
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