New seine netter for Iceland
It’s more than fifteen years since a new seine netter joined the Icelandic fleet, and the new Hafborg, delivered by the Hvide Sande Shipyard in Denmark, is now on its way home to Iceland.
Super-Sjark seine netter for Lofoten
After a break from building fishing vessels, the Sletta Verft yard at Mjosundet in northern Norway has delivered a new 15 metre seine netter for an owner in the Lofoten Islands.
Boost for Lorient fleet
Brittany company Armement à la pêche artisanale de Keroman (APAK), based in Lorient is putting substantial investment into fishing, with new vessels and plans for a new processing plant in the port area.
A week to go for new Sander Andre
A new multi-role fishing vessel has been christened at the Larsnes Mek Verksted yard in western Norway. Sander Andre is in the last week of completion and is expected to be ready to start fishing at the beginning of December once the finishing touches have been added to the new seiner.
First Scopale newbuild ready for christening
The first of three new combination seine netters/trawlers for owners in Boulogne is about to be handed over by the Padmos shipyard in time for its christening ceremony in Boulogne next week.
Scapêche invests in coastal fishing company
As part of its Sustainable Fishing 2025 commitment, French fisheries group Scapêche has announced the establishment of a new fishing company, Scapak (Société Centrale de l’ Armement de la Pêche Artisanale de Keroman), and in investment worth €1.20 million in a trawler that has been converted to operate as a seine netter.
New seine netter for Icelandic owners
A new 25.95 metre netter/seine netter is to be built for a fishing company based on the island of Grímsey off the north coast of Iceland.
Three good years
Cees de Boer of Urk fishing company Osprey Fish looks back on the crisis years as the time when Dutch fishing companies repositioned themselves to cope with rapidly changing events as they fought to survive.
Long and strong
‘Our core products are wire, combination rope and netting,’ Albert Hartman said, commenting that fishing hardware is at the heart of what Visserij Coöperatie Urk (VCU) does.