Fish Handling

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkey’s Tersan Shipyard has announced the launch of NB1124 – soon to be named Takapo – a new state-of-the-art fishing vessel commissioned by Aurora Fisheries, a part of the Solander Group.

19th March 2025

Tersan launches Aurora Fisheries’ new factory freezer trawler

19th March 2025

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Norwegian fishing company Bluewild’s new trawler Ecofive has been handed over by the Westcon yard and this innovative new vessel has steamed to Ålesund for the last stages of outfitting before it…

4th March 2025

Ambitious thinking behind new factory trawler

4th March 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cflow has won a deal with Salmon Evolution, the world’s largest land-based fish farming facility, for its second phase build-out at Indre Harøy, Norway.

10th October 2024

Cflow wins Indre Harøy deal

10th October 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Celiktrans Shipyard in Turkey has delivered the 48.1 metre LOA, 14-metre breadth groundfish trawler Sigurbjörg ÁR-67. It was built to a Nautic design for the Westman Islands-based fishing company.

30th August 2024

Triple-rigger for Ísfélag of Iceland

30th August 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Kongsberg Digital has concluded a new project funded by FHF (the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund) for the development of its K-Sim Fishery simulator to incorporate a new purse seine application. The new…

17th May 2024

Enhanced simulator improves safety and prevents fish loss

17th May 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Norwegian fishing company Liegruppen is no stranger to innovation, and its new pelagic trawler Liafjord is outfitted with the first system of retractable foils to be delivered to a fishing vessel.

16th February 2024

Pelagic trawler grows wings

16th February 2024

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corporation (QFC) has confirmed its largest factory fishing trawler to date, Saputi II, will have an advanced Carsoe processing facility onboard.

30th January 2024

QFC newbuild to feature cutting-edge Carsoe factory

30th January 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Owners of Atlantic Enterprise, delivered in late 2023 to the joint-venture between Canadian seafood group Clearwater and Danish fishing company Ocean Prawns, weren’t interested in half-measures when the design of the new…

17th January 2024

New shrimp catcher built to Polar Code standards

17th January 2024

FISH HANDLING

FISH HANDLING

Temperature solutions provider PTG has secured contracts for the record delivery of 17 onboard refrigerated sea water (RSW) plants to Karstensens Shipyard in Denmark and three RSW plants to Westcon Yards in Norway. 

30th November 2023

PTG to supply RSW systems for seven new fishing vessels

30th November 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Svolvær, Norway, -based supplier of refrigerant solutions to the aquaculture and fisheries industries Proff Kulde AS has extended its footprint in northern Norway with a new facility in Tromsø. The company has…

1st September 2023

Aquaculture supplier expands to Tromsø and rebrands

1st September 2023

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

A new underwater robotic sorting device to help trawlers reduce bycatch is being developed.

3rd July 2023

Smart fishing net reduces bycatch

3rd July 2023

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Bluewild AS, Ulstein Design & Solutions AS and Westcon Yards have been awarded Ship of the Year 2023 for the environmentally-friendly factory trawler Ecofive. 

7th June 2023

Groundbreaking fishing vessel wins Ship of the Year

7th June 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

After four years operating a simple shrimp line that froze industrial shrimp grades in vertical plate freezers, Havfisk AS’s factory trawler Nordtind has been upgraded with a new solution by Carsoe that grades and…

13th January 2023

Carsoe upgrades shrimp line

13th January 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Alaska seafood processing company Northline Seafoods has confirmed the successful funding and launch of a new project to build a mobile commercial salmon processing platform.

5th December 2022

Northline processing first

5th December 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Faroese salmon farmer is shipping its produce directly to the States courtesy of its own air cargo service.

30th August 2022

Bakkafrost gets airborne

30th August 2022

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Norwegian shipowner Ervik Havfiske AS has chosen Carsoe to deliver the onboard shrimp and crab processing factory for its new fishing vessel, Ny Frøyanes.

25th August 2022

Innovative new crabber

25th August 2022

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Recognising that with proper handling, the offcuts from processing pelagic fish can be used for more valuable purposes, EU-funded project WaSeaBi has developed new sorting technology that make it possible to separate…

4th July 2022

New pelagic sorting tech

4th July 2022

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Thordon Bearings’ authorised distributor in Mexico, TZ Industrias, has secured an order to supply the Canadian company’s TG100 shaft seals, equipped with a safe return to port (SRTP) emergency seal, to a…

28th June 2022

Mexico win for Thordon

28th June 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Best practice guidance for animal welfare across the UK shellfish supply chain is under development. The work is being driven by the Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) and the industry-led Crab and…

3rd March 2022

Shellfish best-practice

3rd March 2022

NEWS

NEWS

Sæplast has been producing a range of tubs, boxes and other products in Dalvík and was a pioneer in such storage systems for fish. But much has changed over the years and…

16th November 2021

Tub manufacturer faces challenges and opportunities

16th November 2021