SNG’s Fast Flow brailer breakthrough
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…
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…
The Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group (SPSG) is calling for swift international action to protect the north-east Atlantic mackerel stock from what Scottish catchers and processors describe as ‘unilateral and unsustainable…
The French authorities have stated that the presence of large pelagic freezer trawlers, which have been operating in the English Channel since the end of Septemer, has no effect on…
Only a few years after the delivery of one of the most modern pelagic vessels in the world, Hirtshals-based fishing company Ruth AS has sold Ruth to Norwegian operator K…
With both mackerel and Atlanto-Scandian herring seasons over, Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vessel Beitir is now on the lookout for Icelandic summer-spawning herring. This year Síldarvinnslan’s fleet has quotas for 4000 tonnes…
Norway, Russia, the EU, the Faroe Islands and Iceland have agreed on 2020 TACs for Atlanto-Scandian herring and blue whiting – but have yet to reach agreement on how quota…