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FISHING TECHNOLOGY

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

Kongsberg and Viam have expanded their partnership to enhance commercial fishing catches through intelligent automation of fishing sonars.

1st April 2026

Kongsberg expands AI sonar partnership

1st April 2026

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Built to Karstensen Shipyard’s own 75-metre, 16-metre breadth design, the newbuild is the latest in an ongoing series of new pelagic vessels for operators around the Northeast Atlantic.

18th September 2025

Herøyhav delivered to Norwegian owners

18th September 2025

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The latest vessel to join the Norwegian pelagic fleet is Havfisk, delivered by the Karstensen yard in Skagen on a hull fabricated by the Karstensen Shipyard Poland in Gdansk.

4th August 2025

New pelagic catcher for Ålesund operator

4th August 2025

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The successor to the Simrad FS70 headline sonar, the updated and uprated FS80 was first shown last year and has now been released by Kongsberg, following extensive sea trials that returned excellent…

24th July 2025

Kongsberg launches new generation trawl sonar

24th July 2025

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Handed over just a few weeks after the completion of Prion for the Petrel Fishing Company, which also starting fishing this season, newbuild Argos Berbés has an 85-metre overall length and a…

28th May 2025

Second South Atlantic trawler from Galician yard

28th May 2025

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

With its new vessel, Gjögur has followed the trend away from processing at sea – new Hákon is a pelagic trawler/purse seiner with purely RSW capacity. The newbuild is one of a…

6th January 2025

New pelagic catcher joins Icelandic fleet

6th January 2025

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Norwegian-headquartered Kongsberg Discovery has unveiled its new FS80 Trawl Sonar, hailing the compact, modular and multifrequency solution as the market’s first sonar system to combine net monitoring, intake profiling and bottom detection in…

25th November 2024

Kongsberg launches next-gen trawl sonar

25th November 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The steel hull of the 31-metre, 8.7-metre beam Eilean Croine was fabricated in Poland and brought to Killybegs for outfitting by Mooney Boats. This new vessel is designed as a pelagic trawler…

28th October 2024

Pelagic pair team complete

28th October 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

There had been delays to the newbuild’s delivery, due to the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine and delayed deliveries of equipment, but Kjell-Gunnar Hoddevik and business partners Johnny Årvik and Jan-Ove Langeland have…

24th June 2024

Whitefish, shrimp and crab options for new Polarbris

24th June 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The lines of new Christina S FR-224 are unmistakeably those of the Karstensen yard in Skagen, which has in recent years delivered a series of highly advanced pelagic vessels to fishing owners…

22nd January 2024

Christina S cuts a dash

22nd January 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

There’s been a long series of pelagic vessels sailing from Shetland under the Altaire name, with the last few built at Norwegian yards. However, this time around, the Altaire Fishing Company opted…

11th October 2023

New-generation Altaire joins Shetland fleet

11th October 2023

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The Scottish pelagic partnership that has  taken delivery of new vessel Artemis started out fishing in 2020 with the former Resolute – the 64-metre pelagic trawler renamed Artemis – while its new…

5th January 2023

Artemis delivered

5th January 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Rasmussen family from Klaksvík in the Faroe Islands haven’t been shy of making investments in both fishing capacity and activities ashore, and the latest development is the delivery of new pelagic…

18th April 2022

Setting a new standard

18th April 2022