Donegal Fish will transform the processing of pelagic fish and create thirty new jobs at its new €8.9 million Killybegs facility, which has received funding from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve.…
Fishermen in northern Norway are reporting sightings of exceptional volumes of capelin along the entire coast from Lofoten to Vardø. Kristian Kransvik, skipper of Knut Olav, said that these are…
Good fishing for blue whiting in the Faroese EEZ has brought a steady stream of landings to processing plants in Iceland. The Síldarvinnslan plants in Neskaupstaður and Seyðisfjörður are able…
Despite initial concerns, the capelin season in Icelandic waters that has just ended turned out to be one of the best for a long time, according to fishing and processing…
Karstensens Skibsværft has designed and delivered the versatile new pelagic trawler Gollenes for its Fosnavåg-based owners. This is a repeat order by the owners of Gollenes AS, who have recently…
European fishing operators, represented by Europêche, have warned of the danger of some states setting unilateral quotas for this year’s fishery that are excessive. Despite intensified efforts during February and…
The deadline of 31st March that coastal states around the north Atlantic had set themselves for reaching an agreement on the division of the mackerel TAC has passed – with…
Heavy snow on the east of Iceland and a high risk of avalanches has held up processing the last few landings made to Síldarvinnslan’s production plants in Neskaupstaður and Seyðisfjörður.…
While some of the fleet is still at sea and processing is stil in progress, Iceland’s capelin season is coming to an end for this year and for Westman Islands…
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has welcomed the increase in the Irish fleet's quota for blue whiting from 28,438 tonnes last year to 53,776 tonnes…