New seiner for Lofoten
Seiner Elias Johan has been delivered to Sørvågen company Benonisen Fiskeri by Vestværftet in Hvide Sande. The new vessel operates as a fly-shooter and purse seiner on a range of…
Katrine S and Kalsøybas have been built for owners in the Austevoll region of Norway. Images: Stadyard
Stadyard delivers seiner pair
Owners in Austevoll in the west of Norway have taken delivery of a pair of purse seiner/seine netters delivered by Stadyard in Måløy. Katrine S has been built for fishing…
Seine netters join Russian Far East fleet
Two more coastal seine netters have been added to the fleet fishing in Russia’s Far East waters. The 28.30-metre Avacha and Oktyabrsky have been built for the VI Lenin Collective…
Codend lock developed for small seine netters
A new codend lock designed for smaller seine netters, developed by Stenevik Hav with support from the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF), meets a need for this fleet sector as…
Latest coastal seine netter for Kamchatka
The fourth in a series of seine netters designed to supply fresh catches to shore-based processing has been delivered to the Lenin Collective Farm in the Russian Far East. Designed…
Fishermen’s Association proposes haddock solution
The Norwegian Fishermen's Association has proposed its own solution to the problem of undersized haddock in the Finnmark spring seine net fishery. Instead of a broad closure, the Association has…
Tensions flare as Channel seiners clash
In a strongly-worded letter to France’s Minister of Ecological Transition and Fisheries, President of the Hauts de France region Xavier Bertrand is demanding an immediate investigation into a clash between…
Channel seine netting agreement confirmed
Fishermen’s organisations in France, The Netherlands and Belgium have confirmed that a gentlemen’s agreement to regulate seine netting activity in the eastern part of the English Channel has been reached.…
Seiners for Russian Far East
Built under the government investment quotas programme, two new seine netters for owners in the Russian Far East are at the smaller end of the scale of vessels being built…
Gentlemen’s agreement on Eastern Channel seine netting
Nobody believed it would happen – but it has. An agreement regulating seine netting activity in the Eastern Channel has been reached between French, Dutch and Belgian fishermen and their…