A new large trawler ordered by Canadian fishing company Baffin Fisheries has arrived in its home waters in St John's in Newfoundland.
Baffin Fisheries said Inuksuk II is one of the largest Canadian-owned fishing vessels with an LOA of 79.85 metres, a moulded beam of 18 metres, and a gross tonnage of 5,400. The vessel is designed for polar and North Atlantic waters including NEAFAC, NAFO and ICES regulatory areas, and its initial deployment will be in the Eastern Arctic, harvesting shrimp and Greenland halibut (turbot).
The Skipsteknisk-designed vessel is fitted with a processing and freezing plant with two production lines for frozen-at-sea shrimp and groundfish. The modern factory includes two large automated plate freezers, three shrimp IQF tunnel freezers, a sorting robot, a shrimp grader, a batch cooking line, and an automated palletising system to complement the twin-trawl capabilities.
The vessel also boasts a total freezer hold capacity of approximately 2,700 cubic metres for storing up to 1,300 tonnes of frozen-at-sea Greenland halibut or 900 tonnes of cold-water shrimp.