Icelandic pelagic fleet gearing up for mackerel
With the winter capelin and blue whiting season behind them, Iceland’s pelagic fleet is gearing up for the summer mackerel season. The Síldarvinnslan fleet is expected to start hunting for…
With the winter capelin and blue whiting season behind them, Iceland’s pelagic fleet is gearing up for the summer mackerel season. The Síldarvinnslan fleet is expected to start hunting for…
The EU pelagic fishing industry has strongly condemned the decision by the Faroe Islands to license Russian vessels to fish for blue whiting in the Special Area that lies between…
Norwegian researchers are testing pelagic trawl gear for catches of cod to be kept live on board. This is an alternative to seine netting, the most commonly used method for…
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…