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...
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...
It’s time to send a signal to Beijing that a crisis is approaching. China’s use of grey zone tactics is intensifying. This worsening trend line has been evident for several years and seems headed towards an unintended violent incident, a crisis, and possibly armed conflict. Attempts need to be made...
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...
Canadian fish harvesting company Cooke Aquaculture has confirmed the passing of co-founder Gifford Cooke on March 3. Born in the New Brunswick community of L’etete in 1938, Gifford Cooke co-founded Cooke Aquaculture in 1985 with his sons Glenn and Michael. Prior to that, he was a marine mechanic in...
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...
Best Aquaculture Landing Craft – Turas a ‘Bhradain – Macduff Ship Design As with all Macduff Ship Design vessels, this compact but ultra-versatile aquaculture work boat is impressively innovative and beautifully detailed. Practical, simple, economical and rugged, it will serve very well in the remote, cold Scottish lochs where the nation’s economically important salmon farming […]
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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...
Best Purse Seiner – Nord-Fugløy – Skipskompetanse Your reviewer was overcome with envy while re-reviewing this beautiful ship. He remembered the first commercial fishing boat he crewed on 58 years ago, an ancient cockroach- and rat-infested converted pearling lugger that was totally devoid of...
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,...