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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
A relaxation in Norwegian regulations allowing a wider choice of fishing methods made it possible for the owners of new longliner Atlantic to include capacity for seine netting in the…
Twin-rigger/fly-shooter Good Hope LH-357 has been delivered to the Urk-based Osprey Fish Group, the fifth and final delivery in this series of new vessels that began with Henk Senior LH-356…
A long process that began almost a decade ago when then-Fisheries Minister Jón Bjarnason excluded seine netters from coastal fishing grounds has come to an end, with the seine netters’…