Defra seeks input on seine netting
The UK authorities are inviting opinions and input as part of a process that could lead to new technical measures relating to seine netting in English waters that could come…
Mid-Channel demo
French and English fishermen demonstrating to curtail seine netting held a symbolic Mid-Channel meeting earlier this week. A group of fishing vessels from the north of France and the south…
Østerfjord is the sixth Marin Teknikk designed vessel to be built at the Tersan Shipyard
Seiner-Longliner ready to head home to Norway
Norwegian fishing company Østerfjord AS has taken delivery of an innovative combination seine netter and longliner built by the Tersan Shipyard to a Marin Teknikk MT1115 design. Combining these very…
Polarbris will be delivered in August 2023. Images: Karstensens Skibsværft
Norwegian company orders seine netter
With quotas on their hands, a Norwegian company has placed an order with Karstensens Skibsværft in Denmark to build them a new seine netter to take full advantage of the…
Larsnes Mek. Verkste is to build the new Nord-Fugløy to a Skipskompetanse design. Image: Skipskompetanse
New seiner for Norwegian owners
Skipskompetanse has announced a contract for the design of a new fishing vessel to be built by Larsnes Mek. Verksted as the yard’s newbuild no 69. Seine netter/purse seiner Nord-Fugløy is to…
Roy Arnfinn Olsen, general manager of new fishing gear company Frøystad Finnsnes AS, with Per Frøystad and reels of Frøystad seine rope. Image: Frøystad AS
Frøystad focuses on seine netting
Norwegian fishing gear supplier Frøystad AS is dividing its activities, establishing a separate company in Finnsnes which will focus on seine net gear while also supplying a range of items…
Egill ÍS-77 is one of the seine netter that have struck it lucky with new gear from Hampiðjan
Seine nets don’t come smarter than this
‘These seine nets are pure genius, plus there has been heavy fishing all summer,’ said Stefán Egilsson, skipper of Thingeyri seine netter Egill ÍS-77. He is one of a number…
Dutch-owned seine netters under Dutch, French and UK flags alongside in Boulogne
Too big and too many
Boulogne trawler skipper Olivier Leprêtre has sounded a warning over the continuing fishing activity of the Dutch-owned seine netting fleet operating in the Eastern Channel and southern North Sea. ‘They…
Jonge Johannes LT-295 heading in to Scheveningen after the first fishing trials. Image: Willem den Heijer
Fishing family looks to the future
There’s a learning process ahead for the crew of new trawler/seiner Jonge Johannes LT-295, delivered by Maaskant Shipyards to brothers Rense and Johannes de Boer. ‘We’re not fly-shooting fishermen. We’re…
20.99 metre seine netter Ben Hur has been built by GOT Skogsøy. Image: GOT
Technology meets tradition in innovative seine netter
New seine netter Ben Hur was christened yesterday at the quayside in Senjahopen in Norway, delivered by GOT Skogsøy to Tommy Andre Nilsen and his family. A four-year design process…