Pelagic fleet prepares for blue whiting
With the first big capelin season for years behind them, the Icelandic pelagic fleet is no gearing up for the blue whiting fishery, and the first pelagic vessels have already…
With the first big capelin season for years behind them, the Icelandic pelagic fleet is no gearing up for the blue whiting fishery, and the first pelagic vessels have already…
As Iceland’s largest capelin season for many years comes to a close, the Icelandic fleet had around 700,000 tonnes at its disposal, although 200,000 tonnes were left uncaught as the…
Killybegs has witnessed the bizarre spectacle of a high-tech fishing vessel, its tanks loaded with a human consumption-standard catch, taking its fish elsewhere after a demand by SFPA that the…
Three big names in the seafood industry have added their voices to advocacy group NAPA, which has the long-term mission of securing long-term, science-based management of Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks…
New purse seiner/pelagic trawler Skår Senior has been delivered by the Stadyard to owner Roy Skår. Skår Senior has a 48.30 metre overall length with a 12 metre beam and…
Scotland’s fishing industry is taking a new hands-on role in collecting the data used to make the annual management decisions on herring, mackerel and blue whiting stocks. The Scottish Government…
Faroese Minister of Fisheries Árni Skaale has signed off a decision on the Faroese fleet’s quotas for blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring on similar lines to previous years – and…
Denmark’s pelagic operators are set to be the first in Europe to introduce fully documented fishing across the whole fleet. By the end of this year, all fishing vessels within…
By the end of last month, the Russian fleet had caught 9300 tonnes of capelin, or roughly a third of its quota for this year, according to Vasily Sokolov, deputy…
There has been a Christian í Grótinum in operation since 1975, and the latest pelagic vessel to carry this famous name has been delivered to the Rasmussen family in Klaksvík,…