Samherji’s pelagic vessel Vilhelm Thorsteinsson is alongside in Neskaupstaður, preparing for the coming capelin season. After having been fishing for blue whiting, Vilhelm Thorsteinsson EA-11 is now taking capelin gear…
It’s always a milestone when the first capelin purse seine of the season is spooled on board. Greenlandic pelagic vessel Polar Amaroq has already delivered the first capelin of the…
Norwegian industry body Fiskebåt has requested that the Ministry of Fisheries end the prohibition on vessels over 15 metres from fishing with purse seine gears on traditional fishing areas off…
The Iberian fleet’s sardine fishery opened this week, with a 10,132-tonne quota for the Cantabrian Sea and the north-west region of Spain. The fishery is conducted by coastal purse seiners…
The tuna fishery represented by fishing companies Compagnie Africaine de Pêche au Sénégal S.A. (CAPSEN), a division of Dongwon Industries, and Senegalese-founded Grand Bleu S.A. has become the first in…
Tuna industry body ISSF is urging delegates at the upcoming Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Ccommission’s annual meeting in Fiji to improve their control over fisheries by strengthening vessel oversight…
The owners of new seiner Jarle Berg, Trond and Børrge Berg, which has been built at the Larsnes Mek Verksted yard, went for a package of electronics from Furuno Norge,…
A few years ago, Skjervøy fishing company owner Svein Roger Karlsen challenged Naval Consult to come up with an outline for the most environmentally friendly fishing vessel that could be…
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has updated its Snapshot of Large-Scale Tuna Purse Seine Fishing Fleets report for June 2023. The report shows that approximately 652 vessels defined as large-scale purse-seine (LSPS) vessels…
A tuna seiner with a chequered career behind it has already been outfitted with deck equipment from Marco, but the vessel’s owners have opted to augment the deck layout. Win…
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