84% of lost traps without rot cord
Since 2019 more than 3500 items of fishing gear have been retrieved along the Skagerrak coast. The gears have been examined and details recorded - which gives researchers ever better knowledge…
Barents Gadus is a standard Cleopatra 36 outfitted for longlining and netting
Barents Gadus delivered to Tana
The latest delivery from Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar is a Cleopatra 36 for skipper Piera Gaup in the north of Norway. Barents Gadus is a standard Cleopatra 36 with 10.99 metre…
Iceland’s coastal fishery opens 2nd May
Minister of fisheries Svandís Svavarsdóttir has signed off legislation, this year making 10,000 tonnes of cod available for small-scale vessels operating within the coastal fishery regime. This places roughly 5%…
Cleopatra netter goes to Grímsey owners
Fishing company Heimskautssport, run by brothers Sigurður and Jóhannes Henningsson, has taken delivery of a new netter to fish from the island of Grímsey off the north coast of Iceland.…
Piriou launches netter/longliner
Piriou has launched a new 21 metre netter/longliner at the shipyard in Concarneau. Camelys was ordered a year ago by Adrien Delevaud and Armement Coopératif Artisanal Vendéen (ACAV), and the…
Danish yard to build netter/liner for Norwegian owner
Norwegian fishing company Nordsten AS has ordered a gillnetter/longliner to be built at Vestværft in Denmark, with a delivery date in January 2024. The Nordsten vessel will have a 20.99…
Coastal longline systems for Greenland and Norway
Mustad Autoline’s fitters have been busy. A new system has just been fitted to Greenlandic coastal boat Mille Kuka. Mustad Autoline’s market in Greenland is managed by the company’s subsidiary…
Trefjar has delivered the 10.65 metre Tomina to skipper/owner Jimmy Bjorøy
New Cleopatra fishing from Bergen
Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 35 to Norway, and skipper/owner Jimmy Bjorøy has already started fishing with the new Tomina. The 10.65 metre, 11gt Tomina is rigged for netting…
Hallgeir Frøystadvåg and Vidar Danielsen, who is managing the Frøystad AS branch in Honningsvåg. Image: Frøystad AS
Frøystad AS sets up in Honningsvåg
Fishing gear supplier Frøystad AS has extended its network along the Norwegian coast with a new department established in Honningsvåg with Vidar Danielsen managing it and handling sales. ‘By setting…
Emmy being put through its paces before being shipped to Norway. Image: Trefjar
Cleopatra pair for Norway
Trefjar in Hafnarfjörður has completed a pair of almost identical Cleopatra 31 fishing boats for owners in Norway. Emmy has been built for Alsvåg fisherman Trygve Magnus Johnsen and I…