Best Feed Barge – 485-tonne feed barge – GroAqua Fish farm support vessels are, of necessity, becoming larger as they have to operate ever further offshore. Faroe Islands based designer/builder GroAqua has considerable experience with such vessels. This 485-tonne feed barge illustrates its talents perfectly. Built for ..
Best Multi-Purpose Fishing Vessel – Stødig – Karstensens Skibsværft Another magnificent, multi-purpose fishing vessel built by leading Danish shipyard Karstensens for a very experienced Norwegian ship owner. She is a very versatile ship that will be used to catch crabs as well as for seine netting and trawling in the ..
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Best Large Trawler – Gollenes – Karstensens Skibsværft Looking rather like a cruise ship, this very impressive and powerful trawler is a trans-Scandinavian project. She was built by a top class Danish yard, Karstensens Skipsvaerft, for the very experienced Norwegian ship owner, Gollenes. The steel hulled ship with an ..
Best Prawn Trawler – Zenith – Macduff Ship Design Macduff Ship Design fishing boats have charms and attractions all of their own. They are rugged, safe and very economical and long-lasting (as they have to be in Scotland). Built to highly refined designs, they operate in often-terrible weather. In this case, Zenith was ..
Canadian fish harvesting company Cooke Aquaculture has confirmed the passing of co-founder Gifford Cooke on March 3.
Baird Maritime once more highlights the ever important fishing and aquaculture sector by reviewing newbuild vessels entering service around the world.
Best Multi-Purpose Fishing Vessel – Stødig – Karstensens Skibsværft Another magnificent, multi-purpose fishing vessel built by leading Danish shipyard Karstensens for a very experienced Norwegian ship owner. She is a very versatile ship that will be used to catch crabs as well as for seine netting and trawling in the ..
Best Small Trawler – Copious – Macduff Ship Design This fine little ship will work for its experienced owners in the bleak, windy and cold waters to the north of Scotland. Macduff Ship Design knows those waters well and this very imaginative new trawler will work very safely, efficiently and effectively there. ..
Norwegian fishing company Nergard Havfiske has expanded its vessel fleet following the recent acquisition of a hybrid-powered stern trawler designed and built by compatriot company Vard.
Best Multi-Purpose Fishing Vessel – Stødig – Karstensens Skibsværft Another magnificent, multi-purpose fishing vessel built by leading Danish shipyard Karstensens for a very experienced Norwegian ship owner. She is a very versatile ship that will be used to catch crabs as well as for seine netting and trawling in the ..
Best Small Trawler – Copious – Macduff Ship Design This fine little ship will work for its experienced owners in the bleak, windy and cold waters to the north of Scotland. Macduff Ship Design knows those waters well and this very imaginative new trawler will work very safely, efficiently and effectively there. ..
Norwegian fishing company Nergard Havfiske has expanded its vessel fleet following the recent acquisition of a hybrid-powered stern trawler designed and built by compatriot company Vard.
Greymouth, New Zealand-based fishing company Westfleet Seafoods recently took delivery of a new longline fishing vessel built by compatriot shipyard the AIMEX Service Group.
Taiwan News reports that all 16 crewmembers of a Taiwanese fishing vessel have been safely rescued after their vessel sank in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa on Tuesday, September 12. The incident occurred at around 09:00 local time on Tuesday when the 100-tonne tuna longliner Der Hae No 66 encountered rough ..
This episode is a bit complicated because it involves five rogue Japanese coral draggers and two Japanese stern trawlers, all operating on Hancock Seamount several hundred miles from Midway Island and just inside the US Exclusive Economic Zone, sometimes called the 200-mile fishery zone. Five of them had previously escaped ..
Norwegian seafood company Atlantic Seafish, via subsidiary Polarbris, recently acquired a new groundfish seine netter designed and built by Karstensens Skibsværft of Denmark.
Norwegian shipbuilder Larsnes Mek Verksted recently delivered a new seiner to compatriot fishing company Camaro Fiskeriselskap.
We are pleased to once again highlight the global fishing and aquaculture industries by reviewing new vessels entering service worldwide. Some of this week’s inclusions are tuna vessels for Omani and Chinese owners, a trawler for operation in Russia’s Far East, and an electric crewboat that will serve fish farms in ..
Best Multi-Purpose Fishing Vessel – Stødig – Karstensens Skibsværft Another magnificent, multi-purpose fishing vessel built by leading Danish shipyard Karstensens for a very experienced Norwegian ship owner. She is a very versatile ship that will be used to catch crabs as well as for seine netting and trawling in the ..
Danish shipbuilder Vestværftet recently handed over a new crab fishing vessel to Greenlandic owner and boat captain Knud Lennert. The Vestværftet-designed Inaluk will be used for crab fishing and netting. It will operate primarily in Arctic waters out of the port of Sisimiut on Greenland’s west coast. Construction of ..
Deliveries include a prawn catcher for a Scottish owner, a scallop vessel for an Argentine operator, and a pelagic trawler designed for Russian Far East waters. A Russian crab boat has meanwhile completed sea trials and will be delivered to its new owner. Finally, two Chinese shipyards have launched two new semi-submersible ..
Norwegian fish transport company Sølvtrans recently took delivery of a new wellboat built by compatriot shipyard Aas Mekaniske Verksted (Aas Mek).
Canadian fish harvesting company Cooke Aquaculture has confirmed the passing of co-founder Gifford Cooke on March 3.
Best Medium Fish Farm Support Vessel – San Little Glory – Southern Ocean Solutions One of a pair of Australian-designed fish farm work boats built for two separate New Zealand salmon farmer owners. Highly purposeful, the 18- by 10-metre steel catamarans were designed and built to handle a multitude of fish farm support ..
The Chinese fishing fleet is responsible for systemic illegal fishing and human rights abuses in countries bordering the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO), undercutting China’s claims of supporting sustainable development and thriving blue economies in the region, according to a new report published by the Environmental ..
To ensure safer maritime journeys in Europe, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement to revise the 2009 directive on the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector.
Best Large Wellboat – Bakkafossur – Knud E. Hansen As the global fish farming industry matures it requires larger, more efficient, and more seaworthy service vessels to facilitate its inevitable move further offshore. This fine new vessel, from the renowned designers at Denmark’s Knud E.Hansen, illustrate that ..
Authorities in Guangdong province in southern China have reported that four people have gone missing after the vessel they were serving on struck a bridge in the city of Foshan on Monday, April 22.
Austal Australia has successfully completed sea acceptance trials, including endurance trials, of Sentinel, a remote and autonomously operated vessel of the Royal Australian Navy.
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