After a very lengthy dormant period, it is a pleasure to see strong signs of revival in the fishing and aquaculture boat sectors. It is even more pleasing to see that so many of the new boats are innovative, well-built, environmentally sound, versatile and safe.
Of course, that largely applies to Western Europe, Australasia, Scandinavia and Canada.
Avid readers of Baird Maritime would, like me, be excited by the increasing numbers of impressive new boats that we have reviewed here. I feel sure there are many more to come. I only wish we would see a few more coming from countries other than those mentioned above. Too much of the global fleet is old, inefficient, uneconomical, polluting and unsafe.
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– "C188…is looking like a good place to start a realistic discussion between fishermen, vessel owners, and their national regulators."
– by Alan Haig-Brown, marine writer and photographer
– "It will be some considerable time before detailed information on its functions, including the much-heralded fish passes designed to facilitate migrant fish passing around the dam, will be available."
– "From the PSV, all the manoeuvring capacity is maintained, as well as the benefits of a diesel electric propulsion system. Furthermore, the accommodation and superstructure is larger than what you would normally see in this trade which I think the crew will benefit from."
– by Nelson E Dela Cruz
– When Australian shark fishermen Jamie Papas and his father, Jim, decided to invest in a new fishing boat, they took the bold step of having it purpose-built in China – and then sailed it all the way back to Australia.
– by Simon Enticknap
– "Regulators try to plug loopholes, but mariners are, by nature, an inventive lot"
– by Alan Haig-Brown, marine writer and photographer
– "Economists, interested in the economies of scale, are causing us to manage to the wrong end."
– by Alan Haig-Brown, marine writer and photographer
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