Atlantic Lady switched to French flag
One of the UK-flagged pelagic vessels operated by Dutch fishing company Vrolijk is switching from the UK to the French flag.
One of the UK-flagged pelagic vessels operated by Dutch fishing company Vrolijk is switching from the UK to the French flag.
Faroese company Framherji is reported to have struck a deal for the purchase of pelagic vessel Torbas from Norwegian owners Vågsøy.
Thyborøn skipper Finn Christensen has sold his industrial trawler to replace it with a newer vessel, ready for the sprat season that starts at the end of January.
There is another casualty to Norway’s oil industry fleet as Rem Maritime is reported to have sold a PSV to be converted for fishing purposes.
Faroese fish farming and processing company Bakkafrost has agreed to buy an offshore support vessel from Havila Shipping in Norway, which will be converted to fish farm support work.
Icelandic company Eskja has bought purser/trawler Libas from Norwegian operator Lie Management, based near Bergen.
Síldarvinnslan’s veteran trawler Bjartur has completed its last full month of fishing for its owners with a total of 634 tonnes landed in July.
Icelandic fishing company Ögurvík, based in Reykjavík and operating one freezer trawler, has been acquired by Brim hf.
It’s red and it’s steel, breaking with the Stevens family tradition of wooden boats and black paint. But David Stevens senior agreed that times are changing and steel is the way to go now that the skills needed to maintain a wooden boat are becoming increasingly rare, and they decided to stick with the boat’s original red.
Fishing company Reyktal has bought freezer trawler Steffen C from its owners in Greenland.