ICES has advised that the Barents Sea shrimp fishery should not exceed 150,000 tonnes in 2020, more than double this year’s figure. ‘For 2019, the advice was 70,000 tonnes, so…
A proposal presented by Norway with support from Russia at the annual NEAFC meeting this week takes aim at the use of collecting bags to gather catches of fish filtered…
Issues close to home, a fudged report and a policy designed to deter outsiders are the highlights of a complex situation in which the Norwegian authorities appear to be pursuing…
Following a nine-year moratorium, the condition of the northern shrimp stock on Flemish Cap is judged to have improved with an increase in biomass over the last five years. As…
Greenland fishing company Ice Trawl Greenland A/S has placed an order for a new shrimp trawler with the Asterillos de Murueta shipyard in Bilbao. According to the chairman of Ice…
Norwegian coastal fishermen have since the beginning of this year been required to use a sorting grid when trawling for shrimp, with the disadvantage that they lose a valuable by-catch…
The naming ceremony for the Greenlandic factory trawler Markus took place at the CNP Freire shipyard as the Vigo yard delivered this modern Rolls-Royce-designed stern trawler to its owners Qajaq Trawl A/S and Polar Seafood A/S.
After fifty years with its current owners, a Danish trawler is soon to be replaced by a new vessel ordered from the Karstensens yard in Skagen for the partnership of Thomas Hjort Samuelsen and Karl Arne Nielsen. The new trawler is scheduled to be delivered in June 2020.
There was plenty to see during the recent trip to Hirtshals organised by Hampiðjan which took a group of guests to the North Sea Centre’s flume tank. The highlights included a quad-rig trawl setup for shrimp developed by Cosmos Trawl, part of the Hampiðjan Group.
Danish fishing company S107 Skagerak ApS has placed an order for a new 28.05 metre shrimp trawler to be built at Karstensens Skibsværft. The new vessel is part of a merger of two existing operators, and sees a generational shift in the fishing industry taking place as new owners take over a well-established operation.