Deliveries include a gillnetter and a fish farm workboat to operators in Norway and a factory trawler to a German seafood company. Sea trials have meanwhile been completed on a scallop boat for use in UK waters. Gillnetter delivered to Austevoll owner Icelandic boatbuilder Trefjar has delivered a...
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...
WORK BOAT WORLD: Sonia Malaluan has been selected to serve as the new administrator of the Philippines’ Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA), taking over from Hernani Fabia. Malaluan was previously MARINA’s Deputy Administrator for Planning, serving in the post since November 2022. She has spent...
Iceland-based fish farming company Háafell recently acquired a new feed barge that will support its salmon harvesting activities in the north-western part of the country. Built by Faroe Islands-based GroAqua, the barge is designed to be operated at exposed sites with a feed system and space for six...
A new report published by the UK Government has highlighted a dramatic reduction in Scottish salmon farmers’ use of antibiotic medicine by more than half in the space of a year, farming association Salmon Scotland confirmed recently. The new Veterinary Medicines Directorate’s Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance (VARSS) report shows that 2022 usage of […]
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WORK BOAT WORLD: Silver Ships has recently promoted Jason Powers to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Previously, he held the role of Director of Business Development and has been a member of the Silver Ships team for more than 25 years. As COO, he will direct daily production operations...
Norwegian manufacturer Pascal Technologies and compatriot design consultancy Moen Marin have introduced a high-speed vessel prototype built for crew transfer duties in support of the aquaculture industry. The vessel is notable for having fully electric propulsion with shore charging capability as a means of significantly reducing emissions during extended operations in and around fish farms. […]
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The Scottish government will make over £500,000 (US$623,720) in funding available to support the protection and recovery of wild salmon populations. The funding will be used by District Salmon Fishery Boards and Fisheries and Rivers Trusts across Scotland to carry out monitoring of adult salmon populations and the sampling of juveniles through the National Electrofishing […]
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Hobart, Australia-based naval architecture firm Southern Ocean Solutions (SOS) has confirmed the delivery of two new aquaculture support catamaran workboats in a series to two separate owners in New Zealand. SOS said the design is extremely flexible with one vessel being used for net cleaning duties and the other being configured with a 12-tonne SWL […]
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Norwegian aquaculture support specialist the FSV Group recently added a new hybrid-powered workboat to its fleet. Multi Arctic was built by compatriot shipyard Fitjar Mekaniske Verksted (FMV) to perform numerous roles including towing, freight transport, and maintenance in support fish farm operators. Design work was provided by Solstrand Trading. The 27- by 12-metre, 359-tonne vessel […]
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