Clearing lost gear with ROV
The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries is trying out new approaches to clearing lost fishing gear. Trials have been conducted with an ROV to retrieve lost crab traps off the Finnmark…
Streamlining Iceland’s government departments
Iceland’s Minister responsible for fisheries is presenting a parliamentary bill proposing to combine three government departments dealing with food and fisheries into a single entity. Minister Hanna Katrín Friðriksson’s proposal…
Clean-up operation with record lost fishing gear recovery
This year’s clean-up operation in Norwegian waters has come to an end, again having set a new record for the volume of lost gear retrieved. This year a total of…
Norway streamlines handling unmarked fishing gear
The Norwegian authorities have proposed amendments to the Marine Resources Act that would give the Directorate of Fisheries and the Coast Guard the authority to seize, destroy or dispose of…
Breaking down fishing’s gender gap
Increasing numbers of women are working as full-time fishers in Norway, with the proportion increasing particularly among the younger cohort, according to figures released by the Directorate of Fisheries. Preliminary…
Clean-up ends with new record set
This year’s clean-up of Norwegian fishing grounds run by the Directorate of Fisheries has ended with a total of 45 kilometres of nets being retrieved – which sets a new…
Hauling a lost net used for fishing Greenland halibut. Image: Gjermund Langedal, Directorate of Fisheries
Record recovery in gear clean-up
The clean-up operation run every year by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries has this year returned record results, with 37,000 metres of nets retrieved from fishing grounds, in addition to…
Lost gear clean-up operation underway
This year's clean-up cruise to locate and retrieve lost fishing gear in Norwegian waters is underway, with pelagic vessel Vikingbank this year chartered for this purpose. Vikingbank sailed on 10th…
Seabed clean-up disappointingly successful
This year’s seabed clean-up operation run by Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries is well underway – and has been disappointingly successful in retrieving lost fishing gear. 64-metre pelagic vessel Vikingbank has…
