Baird Maritime once again trains the spotlight on the global fishing industry by reviewing newbuild vessels entering service in Europe and the Far East. As readers will see this week, offshore aquaculture platforms are steadily becoming more widespread in China while Russia's crab fishing fleet is undergoing modernisation through the introduction of some of the first crab boats to be built in the country's Far East since the 1990s.
Feature articles cover new concepts in aquaculture, including developments that intend to make operations possible in conjunction with the offshore renewables industry. Among other things, this enables two very distinct sectors of the global maritime industry to maximise use of available resources.
We invite readers to visit our pages regularly to be kept up-to-date on the highly important fishing and aquaculture sectors.
– "It is a one-of-a-kind vertically integrated vessel that will operate in Alaska's Bristol Bay during the commercial fishing season."
– "The project team decided upon the deployment of examples of the farm in and around offshore wind sites as a viable means of ensuring continued production of mussels in the face of declining numbers in traditional sheltered areas."
– "As one of the organisms defining the ecological system in the region, the purple sea urchin has long been used as an animal model in developmental biology and as an indicator in the assessment of environmental quality."
– "The project promoters have assessed that the sonar sampling could be conducted entirely on smaller vessels, since the sonar itself is quite small."
– "The surveillance and law enforcement working group is arguably the most important aspect of the agreement."
– by Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, lecturer and senior researcher at the Center for Sustainable Ocean Policy at the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia
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