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Back at sea at the end of the year

Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic vesel Barði is alongside in Tórshavn, undergoing some major repairs that are hoped to have it back at sea before the end of the year. Barði had just left the shipyard in June this year to steam back to Iceland when a fire broke out on board. A Faroese Coast Guard vessel attended the scene, and towed Barði back to Tórshavn for the damage to be assessed. It was quickly clear that this would be a serious repair job, and Síldarvinnslan brought mothballed pelagic vessel Bjarni Ólafsson back into service. Since then, Barði’s crew have been fishing for… [...]

EU leaves tuna fleet out in the cold

The European tuna fleet is absent from EU trade impact assessments, according to European industry body Europêche, and socio-economic assessments of major EU tuna trade agreements fail to consider the impact on the European long-distance fishing fleet. ‘The Commission now has a tool designed to flag sustained increases in imports that lead to sharp falls in prices. In tuna, it is already seeing exactly that – including loins and frozen fillets, the products that directly shape the market in which our vessels sell,’ said Europêche Tuna Group President Xavier Leduc. ‘Yet the long-distance fleet itself is not assessed as a distinct… [...]

Trawl limit must be based on science

As the Swedish government plans to permanently move the trawl limits further offshore along the country’s Baltic coast, industry organisation Vi Svenska Fiskare states that while sharing the ambition of safeguarding stocks, permanent regulations must be based on scientific findings and a comprehensive impact assessment. ‘The ongoing trial, which is due for final reporting in 2027, should therefore be evaluated before further restrictions are introduced,’ a representative of Vi Svenska Fiskare said, commenting that this trial involving an extended trawl limit in the Baltic Sea has been underway since 2025, while the Government now is looking to proceed with permanently… [...]

Latest Far East supertrawler delivered

The delivery of the sixth in the series of ST-192 factory trawlers built for the Russian Fishery Company has taken place at the Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg. ‘We are raising the Russian Federation’s national flag on the sixth fishing trawler built by Admiralty Shipyards for the Russian Fishing Company under the investment quota mechanism. For us, as the customer, the delivery of each vessel is a great celebration. But today is a day of particular pride,’ said Saveliy Karpushin, chairman of the RFC board. ‘This supertrawler creates 150 safe, highly productive, and well-paid jobs, a modern fish production facility,… [...]

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Keep a close eye on the industry with our daily updates. The fishing industry is developing rapidly
all the time, with innovations reaching the market all the time. We track and monitor these developments and bring them to you as they happen to keep you updated. We’re also watching the industry’s steadily evolving politics with the constant demands for fishing to be greener and cleaner – keeping track of the industry landscape as it changes.
FiskerForum is behind Trawlerphotos, and produces around 2500 industry-related articles each year, sourced mainly from the North Atlantic region – with the focus on the Nordic countries, as well as the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK and Ireland.

Newbuildings

New Vessels

We keep track of new fishing vessels from all over Europe and around the world, in line with the major optimisation of fisheries that has taken place in recent years. We follow shipyards and designers around the world to keep you updated on newbuilds in the fishing industry.