Wednesday 27 August 2008

SUMMER HERRING SEASON


The summer herring fishery is now open. This past week the Shetland pelagic fleet has started their quotas after a few months of lay up. Pictured above is the trawler Antarctic II arriving back into Lerwick, Stats below....

Norwegian built (2004) steel Pel Trawler. Built at Sedef-Kalkavan ShipyardRegistered in Lerwick (Scotland) and measuring 60.33m LOA, 11m BM and 7.85 Dt. 532 net tons and 1771 gross net,IMO 9287508

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