Feedback from Swan-Net Gundry (SNG) customers has been highly positive as the company’s new design concept of incorporating more mesh into the side wing panels of pelagic trawls for herring,…
Gøta-based fishing company Varðin has sold pelagic vessel Jupiter to Kollafjörður company Northwest Pelagic in Kollafjørður. Jupiter has been sold without quotas and was expected to be back at sea…
The Zamakona shipyard has started cutting steel for newbuilding NB 799 – which will become the new Gitte Henning. According to the yard, this is going to be a remarkable…
The European Union, Norway and the Faroe Islands reached a coastal states agreement for the monitoring, control and surveillance (MSC) of shared pelagic stocks fisheries in the North-East Atlantic; mackerel,…
Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessel Beitir docked in Neskaupstaður, the latest in a series of landings to the company’s fishmeal plants in eastern Iceland. This time Beitir was alongside with the full…
Samherji’s pelagic vessel Margrét spent eight days waiting for blue whiting to appear on fishing grounds south of the Faroe Islands – and then filled up in just two days…
A fleet of pelagic vessels is sitting in the grey zone at the southern end of the Faroese EEZ, waiting for the blue whiting to make its usual appearance on…
The new pelagic vessel ordered by Wiseman Fishing Co and Northbay Fishing Co will have a propulsion and power package supplied by technology group Wärtsilä, with equipment due to be…
Hampiðjan’s new net loft in Neskaupstaður work started on 23rd January this year, and is already a hive of activity. Manager Jón Einar Marteinsson is delighted both with the new…
A partnership between the Northbay and Wiseman fishing companies has placed an order for a 75 metre pelagic trawler to be delivered by the Karstensen Shipyard in June 2022. The…