Spanish deck machinery manufacturer Ibercisa has signed an agreement to supply the new pelagic vessel to be built at the Western Marine shipyard in Bangladesh for Norwegian operators Knut Inge Ostervold and Henrik Ostervold.
Swedish fishing company Torönland Fiskeri, based at Fiskebäck near Gothenburg, has ordered a pair of 49.90 metre pelagic vessels for delivery in late 2019.
The Faroese pelagic sector is expected to be hit hard by the destruction yesterday in a devastating fire of the Vardinn Pelagic factory in Tvøroyri.
The Nauta Shipyard’s newbuilding division in Gdańsk has launched the latest in a series of new fishing vessels for completion at Karstensens in Skagen.
Norwegian fishing company Cetus AS has ordered a new pelagic vessel, designed by naval architects Salt Ship Design.
The Nauta Shiprepair Yard has begun construction of new vessel, with an order from Norwegian customer Havyard Ship Technology.
There have been some big landings and steady fishing as the blue whiting migrate northwards through Faroese waters.
A situation exists under which coastal pelagic vessels in Norway can only fish for North Sea herring using purse seine gear, while the larger pelagic vessels are allowed to use trawls as well.
Norwegian sales organisation Sildelaget reports that there has been good fishing on blue whiting off St Kilda, but other pelagic landings have been slow.
Havyard Ship Technology in Norway has signed a contract for a new pelagic trawler to be built for French company France Pélagique, with an option for a second vessel.