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No fatalities four years in a row
No Icelander lost his or her life at sea in 2020. This is the fourth year in a row with no fatalities occurring in the Icelandic fleet and the seventh year since the turn of the century. Accidents at sea reported to the Icelandic Health Insurance have also decreased...
Learning more about the new Return Link distress beacons
Learning more about the new Return Link distress beacons. Orolia Maritime (better known as McMurdo or Kannad Marine) is now able to supply its long-awaited upgrade of their highly successful and widely adopted Kannad Solo and FastFind 220 PLBs, with a new FastFind...
Iceland’s top catchers in 2020
In 2020, freezer trawler Sólberg ÓF 1 from Fjallabyggd in North Iceland delivered a catch valued at over 5.2 billion Icelandic kronas (ISK), the equivalent of 33 million Euros. That is an all-time record for an Icelandic fishing ship in any given year. The catch...
UK Offers EU Fleet 3 Years More Access To Fishing Grounds
Britain has offered Brussels a three-year “transition period” on access to UK waters in a bid to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations The decision to give ground on fishing forms part of renewed efforts from the UK to find a path to a deal by the EU Council...
Norway and the United Kingdom agree on fisheries cooperation
Norway and the United Kingdom have today signed a new framework agreement on fisheries cooperation. It allows the parties to agree to on the exchange fishing quotas as well as mutual access to each other's areas of fisheries jurisdiction. The agreement will enter into...
Mixed outlook for Irish Seafood. Markets remain challenging
A mixed outlook for Irish seafood this month, with market conditions for many species remaining challenging into August – particularly so for whitefish and shellfish. According to Bord Bia’s COVID-19: Impact on Trade Report, published August 7th, oversupply issues...
Markets: Some recovery though export markets remain challenging
According to Bord Bia’s COVID-19: Impact on Trade Report, published July 24th, there has been some recovery in the foodservice sector in Ireland as a result of the partial lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. Performances vary widely, however, between different segments...
FURUNO acquire Danish company EMRI A/S
Furuno, the global leader in Maritime Navigation, Communication and Acoustic systems, has announced the acquisition, on July 1, 2020, of the Danish company EMRI A/S, which specialises in autopilots, steering control, joystick dynamic positioning and maneuvering...
Irish Lights Marks World Aids to Navigation Day
Maritime transport is the most important means of connecting Ireland to international markets, according to one of Ireland’s leading maritime authorities. Speaking on IALA World Aids to Navigation Day today, Wednesday, July 1, the CEO of Irish Lights, the organisation...
Work begins at Zamakona on new Gitte Henning
Zamakona Yards have begun work on the new Gitte Henning AS, with steel cutting for the new vessel starting as scheduled last Friday (May 8th). The new Gitte Henning will have a number of environmentally friendly features, several of them new in pelagic fishing,...
Palestinian Fisherman Injured in Israeli Naval attack
An attack by Israeli naval forces on fishermen in Gaza last month has led to renewed calls on the international community to intervene and urge Israel to remove the crippling restrictions on Gaza’s fishing community. Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights has reported that...
Big interest in the virtual FishExpo, FishFacts!
Last week we wrote about FishFacts and the Faroese father and son, Óli and Hanus Samró, who are organizing the world's first virtual FishExpo. FishFacts were meant to have a stand at Havfisk in Bergen and NorFishing in Tromsø, but both FishExpos were cancelled due to...
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