55,000 tonnes through cold store
Last year 55,0000 tonnes of frozen products made their way through cold stores run by Síldarvinnslan in eastern Iceland.
Innovative Dutch rulebreaker
The new Immanuel MDV-1 breaks plenty of the accepted rules of how a fishing vessel should look. It was built in a little over a year as a co-operative project by the Padmos and Hoekman shipyards and delivered last summer to Urk owners Klaas Kramer and Hendrik Romkes.
Holland takes over EU presidency
In his State of the European Union speech as the Netherlands took over the EU Presidency for the coming six months from the first of January, Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders made a brief mention of fisheries, sandwiched between agriculture and forestry.
Escape panel allows discard exemption – for the moment
With the discard ban in place for demersal fishermen, Pim Visser of VisNed in Holland commented that they have been fortunate that there is an exemption for boats fishing with what the Dutch fishermen refer to as a ‘Belgian net,’ which has a three metre 120mm panel ahead of the codend.
Ruth goes to the Faroes
According to Norðlýsið, Faroese operator Næraberg has bought Danish pelagic vessel Ruth from Hirtshals.
New Audacious completed in Killybegs
Clogerhead brothers David and Niall Kirwan have taken delivery of the new multi-rig trawler designed by Vestværft to operate on nephrops. Based on a hull constructed at the Riga Shipyard in Latvia and towed to Killybegs in Ireland for completion at Mooney Boats, Audacious is built to freeze its catches at sea.
Capelin search underway
The search for capelin is in progress in Icelandic waters, with research vessels Árni Friðriksson and Bjarni Sæmundsson heading the search, along with commercial fishing vessels Sigurður, Sighvatur Bjarnason and Jóna Eðvalds.
Five rescued from Kim Roger
Caught in a storm with wave heights of four to five metres off the Lofoten Islands, and struggling with an engine failure, the crew of 27 metre seine netter Kim Roger had no choice but to send a Mayday call.
Fuel agreement for inshore fleet
Iceland’s National Association of Small Boat Owners (NASBO) has reached an agreement with fuel company Skeljungur to supply fuel to its members at a price linked to the cost of fuel on the world market. NASBO has kept a close eye on changing trends across the fuel market, publishing price figures for fuel at the pump from the three main Icelandic suppliers.
FAO studies Nile fishing communities
A 4000 kilometre trek across the Sudanese desert has been completed by Paula Anton and Lori Curtis of FAO Fisheries as they took part in a survey of 18 fishing villages along the River Nile during a 17-day trip through six states.
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