Last of Saint Malo’s distant waters trio to be scrapped
Factory trawler Joseph Roty II is making its way to a scrapping yard in Belgium, leaving its home port of Saint Malo for the last time. Built in 1974 as…
Scapêche scales back fleet
Lorient fishing company Scapêche is scaling back its fleet dramatically, with seven of its vessels due to be decommissioned under the French government’s post-Brexit support initiative. Of the company’s 22…
Scrapping underway at Bordeaux yard
Eight fishing vessels of between 20 and 30 metres have already been delivered to GPMB in Bordeaux to be scrapped under the French government’s decommissioning scheme, implemented to ease the…
Irish Minister welcomes state aid approval for Brexit voluntary decommissioning scheme
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has welcomed the State Aid approval to facilitate the implementation of the voluntary decommissioning scheme for the whitefish fishing fleet…
Orlik has been a feature of the harbour at Njarðvík in Iceland for the last five years, and has twice been stopped from sinking at its berth
End of the line for abandoned trawler
Russian trawler Orlik has been a not entirely welcome feature of the harbour at Njarðvík in south-west Iceland for a number of years. Now work is in progress to deal…
