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North Atlantic Fishing Company is continuing its support of the UK fishing industry, investing in training for its staff, with Jonathan Dixon the latest member of the Cornelis Vrolijk to receive his Class 2 Fishing qualification.
At 28 years old, Jonathon has an impressive seafaring backgr...Read More
My dad served in the Royal Navy for 12 years and afterwards he bought a boat, making a career as a fisherman for a further 10 years. Now he trains fishermen in our hometown of Hull, so you can see that I’ve always been in and around seafaring.
Life at sea always interested me. When I was ...Read More
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) made a visit to the Cornelis Vrolijk (H171) at the beginning of March to renew the vessel’s International Fishing Vessel Safety Certificate (IFVSC), which is completed on an annual basis, to ensure the safety of the crew.
The crew completed severa...Read More
NAFC are pleased to announce that their newly purchased fishing vessel NORTHERN JOY H 225 sailed on its maiden voyage on 14th July 2017 after completing a major re-fit. NORTHERN JOY is a 44 metre (LOA) twin-rig trawler that will target plaice and sole in the North Sea with a crew of 6. The vess...Read More
The Pelagic Freezer-trawler Association (PFA) and its member companies Parlevliet & Van der Plas, Cornelis Vrolijk and W. van der Zwan, signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Greenpeace. Shared objective is to achieve a sustainable (pelagic) fisheries, such as the herring a...Read More
Scientifically, it makes no difference whether a thousand tonnes of fish are caught by one large freezer trawler or by 100 inshore fishing boats. What is important, both for scientific stock assessments and the long-term sustainability of the stock, is that every tonne caught of both target an...Read More
