Latvian P&P, Samherji kjøper "Newfound Pioneer" - blir "Dorando 2"

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Latvian P&P, Samherji firm buys trawler from Canada’s Newfound Resources

A Latvian firm owned by European fishing giants Parlevliet & Van der Plas and Samherji has bought a 67.4x14.5-meter trawler from Canada's Newfound Resources.

The trawler, Newfound Pioneer, will be renamed Dorando 2, Newfound Resources president Brian McNamara told Undercurrent News.

Although McNamara did not comment on this, the existing Dorando vessel is owned by a Latvian firm named Batterfisa.

Diek Parlevliet, CEO of the Dutch fishing and processing group, confirmed it's a joint venture between P&P and Iceland's Samherji.

The vessel "is a replacement for the current Dorando and will catch redfish and other NAFO [Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization] and NEAFC [North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission] quotas", Parlevliet told Undercurrent. "She will also catch some shrimp."

The company recently held a "vessel tribute" for former crewmembers in the port of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland.

"There were a lot of mixed emotions as the crew bid farewell to a great vessel that has operated very successfully for almost two decades and provided full-time, year-round employment for 50 offshore fishermen at any given time," he said.

"It has been one of the best performing vessels in Canada for the last 19 years, landing over 100,000 metric tons of shrimp and turbot for delivery to over 20 countries throughout the world, with a value of over CAD 500 million [$375.7m], contributing many-fold to the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador."

In more recent years the vessel also fished for an entity owned by one of Canada’s largest indigenous groups, Makivik Corporation of Nunavik, employing Inuit crewmembers and helping to develop and grow the rapidly expanding fishery in Ungava Bay in Canada’s far north, McNamara added.

The crew have now moved on to their new state-of-the-art vessel, Newfoundland Victor, which was delivered early in 2017. The CAD 60m, 79-meter shrimp vessel was designed and equipped by Rolls Royce, and built by Norwegian shipyard Vard Group.

"The new owners [of the Pioneer] have acquired a great vessel, and we wish them much success in their new venture," concluded McNamara.

At one time Newfound Resources had hoped to utilize both vessels, with the Victor taking over shrimp fishing and the Pioneer moving into surf clams.

However, following a controversial application process, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans in the fall of 2018 confirmed the remaining 25% of the surf clam fishery quota -- for which it had previously sought a new entrant -- will be fished by the current holder for both 2018 and 2019.

This means Clearwater Seafoods will hold 100% of the total allowable catch until 2020 when DFO intends to "identify a new participant" for the fishery. "This will allow for the economic benefits to remain in coastal communities while Fisheries and Oceans Canada continues to work to broaden access to this fishery," it said.

Undercurrent previously reported a First Nations group from Newfoundland was set to work again with a joint venture between Cooke Aquaculture and Newfound Resources in a bid for the 25% of the quota in 2019.

Kilde: Undercurrentnews

"Newfound Pioneer"
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Foto: via Newfound Resources
 
"Newfound Pioneer" er opprinnelege "Cape Adir", levert 10. November 1989 fra Ørskov Christensens Staalskibsværft som bygg nr. 171
 
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