Norwegian seafood company Atlantic Seafish, via subsidiary Polarbris, recently acquired a new groundfish seine netter designed and built by Karstensens Skibsværft of Denmark. The vessel, which is also named Polarbris (“Polar Breeze”), has an LOA of 43.5 metres, a moulded beam of 11.5 metres, a...
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...
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that flooding into the lazarette, a compartment below the main deck, or port void (empty) space likely caused the purse seining vessel Hotspur to lose stability, capsize, and sink near Nunez Rocks, Alaska, on August 2, 2022. On the...
A new hybrid-powered seiner/trawler has been handed over to Norwegian family-owned fishing company Liegruppen. Designed by compatriot naval architecture firm Salt Ship Design in compliance to Bureau Veritas class rules, Liafjord replaces a 2013-built trawler in the owner’s fleet. Like the slightly larger, 2021-built Libas, which was also designed by Salt Ship, Liafjord has a […]
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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...
Norwegian shipbuilder Larsnes Mek Verksted recently delivered a new seiner to compatriot fishing company Camaro Fiskeriselskap. Named after a local island, Nord-Fugløy was built to a DNV-compliant design developed by local naval architecture firm Skipskompetanse for seine netting and purse seining. Kent-Arild Apneseth, project manager at Skipskompetanse, said the brief from the owner was to […]
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Norway’s Teige Rederi has expanded its fleet of fishing vessels with the recent acquisition of a large combination purse seiner and trawler fitted with a hybrid propulsion system. The DNV-classed Sunny Lady was built to a design developed jointly by Norway’s Salt Ship Design and Turkey’s SU Ship...
Fisheries Development Oman (FDO), via subsidiary Al Wusta Fisheries Industries (operating under the trade name Oman Pelagic), has taken delivery of a new tuna purse seining vessel designed for the sailing conditions prevalent in the Indian Ocean. Acila was built by Spain’s Zamakona Yards to a...
Norwegian fishing company Arnøytind has expanded its fleet with the recent acquisition of a new purse seining vessel built by compatriot company Stadyard. The newbuild, which is also named Arnøytind, was designed and built in fulfillment of DNV class rules as well as the owner’s requirement for a...
Norwegian company Sorheim Holding recently took delivery of a new pelagic trawling and purse seining vessel to be operated by subsidiary Selvag Senior. The vessel, which is also named Selvag Senior, was designed by Norwegian naval architecture firms Skipsteknisk and SU Ship Design in compliance to DNV class requirements to replace a similarly named 1999-built […]
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