Trawler Photos
Welcome to the new Trawler Photos
We’re here to provide a comprehensive overview of fishing industry news and key links.
The galleries bring you an overview of posts from across community sites for seamless access to what’s going on in the fishing industry right now, alongside our continuous newsfeed. Trawlerphotos covers the entire North Atlantic region with daily updates.
An ice-free chilling system for fresh fish, developed by Icelandic company Skaginn 3X and already is use on board a number of Icelandic trawlers, is now to be fitted to a new trawler under construction at Karstensens Skibsværft. Havfjord is one of a pair of new 36 metre LOA, 9.50 metre beam seine netters being […] [...]
Seventy tonnes of fishing gear from Shetland’s pelagic fleet have been donated to the Oor Bairns Charitable Trust, which takes them apart for recycling and uses the proceeds to help support several projects from Africa to the UK. Retired Fraserburgh skipper Willie Whyte cleans the nylon nets and removes other materials such polypropylene and metal […] [...]
The Forillon Shipyard has signed a contract with the community of Listuguj for the construction of a multi-species fishing vessel which will primarily fish for crab and groundfish. Following a rigorous bid analysis process, the Listuguj community chose Forillon Shipyard as the prime contractor. The community was impressed by the Gaspé boat manufacturing and repair […] [...]
Initial Seafish economic performance estimates for 2020 show a total operating profit of the UK fishing fleet having dropped by almost a fifth in 2020. Operating profit fell by 19% from £264 million in 2019 to £214 million in 2020, and turnover, which had been above the £1 billion mark for the previous three years, […] [...]
Latest Fishing News
Keep a close eye on the industry with our daily updates. The fishing industry is developing rapidly
all the time, with innovations reaching the market all the time. We track and monitor these developments and bring them to you as they happen to keep you updated. We’re also watching the industry’s steadily evolving politics with the constant demands for fishing to be greener and cleaner – keeping track of the industry landscape as it changes.
FiskerForum is behind Trawlerphotos, and produces around 2500 industry-related articles each year, sourced mainly from the North Atlantic region – with the focus on the Nordic countries, as well as the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK and Ireland.
Newbuildings
NEW BUILD SH81 BARDUR – BREDGAARD DELIVER ICELANDS LARGEST GLASS FIBER FISHING VESSEL
New Vessels
We keep track of new fishing vessels from all over Europe and around the world, in line with the major optimisation of fisheries that has taken place in recent years. We follow shipyards and designers around the world to keep you updated on newbuilds in the fishing industry.