The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative has announced that Peruvian fishing company Tecnológica de Alimentos S.A. (TASA) has joined GSSI as a Funding Partner. The world’s largest producer of fishmeal and…
The owner of a Monterey California fleet uses his Wesmar to fish for squid, sardines, anchovy, and mackerel. ‘We have a hundred times more efficiency using Wesmar sonar. Without it…
The decision by Ireland’s Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) to recently select Killybegs pelagic trawler Genesis to undergo a random but highly controversial type of ‘weighing at point of landing’…
Icelandic company Síldarvinnslan has taken delivery of the first blue whiting of the year caught deep west of Ireland. The first to arrive was Bjarni Ólafsson with 1700 tonnes on…
A reception was held at Bekkjarvik in Norway last weekend with an open ship day for the new pelagic vessel acquired by K. Halstensen AS. The new Slaaterøy is the…
After years of careful design, model trials, actual construction and then fishing trails at sea, Swan Net Gunrdry’s Fast Flow brailer has gone from just one or two boats ‘trying…
The decision has been taken not to renew the annual exemption that has in previous years licensed pelagic trawling in a sensitive area off the western French coast. The Rochebonne…
So far this year there has been no move to conduct a capelin survey of Icelandic waters, and according to fishing vessel operators’ federation Samtök Fyrirtækja í Sjavarútvegi (SFS), the…
Brim’s pelagic vessel Venus docked in Vopnafjörður yesterday with 2100 tonnes of blue whiting in its tanks, while Víkingur had around the same amount on board and an hour to…
Danish fishing company Gitte Henning is leading the way in bringing fishing into a new, green age by contracting to build an environmentally-friendly new pelagic fishing vessel at the Zamakona…