Jean-Baptiste Goulard only in his early twenties when the owner he was working for at the time gave him the chance he needed to own his own boat. Now he can see that change is needed and has been immersed in the Blue Wave project to develop a new vessel to take the place of the traditional groundfish trawler fishing from Brittany, and the first of these new trawlers is about to start taking shape.
Spanish deck machinery manufacturer Ibercisa has signed an agreement to supply the new pelagic vessel to be built at the Western Marine shipyard in Bangladesh for Norwegian operators Knut Inge Ostervold and Henrik Ostervold.
The latest addition to the French trawl fleet was on show yesterday in Lesconil. The new trawler has been built for Julien le Brun, who operates four fishing vessels in Plobannalec-Lesconil.
Baffin Fisheries has announced its intention to build a new trawler to fish halibut and shrimp in Arctic waters close to Nunavut. The planned 75m LOA by 17 metre beam trawler will have a 1200 tonne hold capacity and will be double the size of the largest vessel currently operating from Nunavut.
Now 23, Rasmus Olsen has been fishing for seven years and has just taken delivery of his third boat and his first newbuild, a 15 metre GRP boat capable of alternating gillnetting and seine netting the traditional methods for the fleet operating from Thorup Strand on Denmark’s west coast.
The new pelagic vessel under construction for Shetland owners Research Fishing Company at the Vard Group yard in Norway will be fitted with a Wärtsilä 31 main engine.
When Ejner Klitlund and his son Rasmus Klitlund decided on a new fishing boat, it was natural that they approach Jobi Yard. With a design by Danish naval architect Vestværftet A/S of Hvide Sande, they had the hull built in Poland.
Swedish fishing company Torönland Fiskeri, based at Fiskebäck near Gothenburg, has ordered a pair of 49.90 metre pelagic vessels for delivery in late 2019.
Nuuk fisherman Jens Peter Larsen steamed his crabber out of the harbour at Hvide Sande recently for the long trip home to Greenland with the new boat, with a scheduled call in the Faroes on the way.
Samherji’s new fresher trawler docked in the Icelandic port of Dalvík a few days ago for the first time after steaming home from the Cemre yard in Turkey.