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…
Entêté II replaces an older netter that was lost earlier this year. Image: Avizo Pro Marine
Avizo Pro Marine launches new netter
Noirmoutier fisherman Sylvain Gallais has taken delivery of a new shelterdecked netter built by Avizo Pro Marine. Designed by Nantes naval architect Archi-Delion, the new l'Entêté II replaced Sylvain Gallais’s…
Incentives are being made available under Denmark’s coastal fishing scheme for low-impact gears such as static nets and seine nets
Danish Parliament agrees on low-impact fishing scheme
An agreement has been reached by a broad majority of the Danish Parliament on a coastal fishing scheme which offers advantages for fishing with low-impact gear such as static nets…
Fishing gear deployed by UK vessels in EU waters will have to be retrieved and removed by 2300 on 31st October
Deadline to lift gear before Brexit
The UK authorities have issued a warning to UK fishermen with static gear deployed outside UK waters that they need to move it before the end of October. According to…
US company Edge Tech has announced the launch of its Ropeless Fishing System which relies on embedded acoustic release technology
Acoustic technology enables ropeless fishing system
EdgeTech, a specialist in high resolution sonar imaging systems, acoustic release systems and underwater technology, has announced the introduction of its new Ropeless Fishing System. EdgeTech’s development team have been…
Cleopatra live potter for Norway
Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a new Cleopatra 33 to father and son Johan and Tobias Solgård who fish from Vågstranda in western Norway.
New Cleopatra 33 delivered to Trondheim
Florø brothers Andre and Karl Vikan have taken delivery of a new Cleopatra 33 from Trefjar. Rigged for netting and potting, the new boat has already started fishing.
