South-West fishing company Waterdance has taken delivery of new steel crabber Nichola of Ladram E-1, which arrived in Brixham from the Luyt yard at Den Oever in Holland earlier this…
Parkol Marine Engineering’s Middlesbrough yard has delivered a new crabber for owners in Orkney. Built for Celtic Dawn Fishing Ltd, Carvela K-751 will be fishing from Kirkwall. The 19 metre…
A crab catcher-processor vessel for Russian company Arktikservice has been launched at the Tersan Shipyard in Turkey. Designed to operate on Kamchatka and Opilio crab, the 61.90 metre overall, 15…
The MSC certificate for the Gulf of St. Lawrence (GOSL) snow crab trap fishery in Canada remains 'suspended' following an audit by certifier SAI Global (SAIG). The annual surveillance audit included a full review of the fishery’s performance against the MSC Fisheries Standard as well as progress of the corrective action plan implemented following the suspension of the certificate on March 20 last year.
Latvian fishing company SIA North Star Ltd has lost its appeal at the Norwegian supreme court, in a move that could end the long-running dispute over a Latvian-flagged crabber which has been at the centre of a tussle overfishing rights in the Norwegian-administered Svalbard zone.
The first new crabber for a Russian operator has been launched at the Pella Shipyard in Leningrad, and is being built for fishing company Antey, with completion of the 50 metre vessel scheduled for the third quarter of 2019.
Norway’s Institute of Marine Research has advised that the 2019 snow crab quota should be between 3500 and 5000 tonnes, and favours closure from 15th June to 15th September.
The Tersan Shipyard at Yalova in Turkey has started construction of the lead vessel in a series of crabbers for Russian company JSC Arktikservice, as part of the ST184 project. The new vessel is a Skipsteknisk design, developed with Marine Engineering Bureau.
The Board of the Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation (SSMO) has hailed the successful MSC re-accreditation of the local scallop dredge and brown crab fisheries by the international sustainability watchdog.
A new Typhoon 38 completed for Donald and Catriona Maclennan in Stornoway has already been steamed home after being completed at the G Smyth yard in Kilkeel. With the crab season still underway, the owners hope to make the most of it with this fast new crabber.