Factory trawlers' have Ireland-sized impact off B.C.'s coast, investigation claims

Factory trawlers' have Ireland-sized impact off B.C.'s coast, investigation claims

Over the past 15 years, a wave of factory trawling vessels has quietly arrived on British Columbia's coastline, often targeting ecologically rich regions off at the edge of the continental shelf in direct competition with endangered killer whales, a multi-year investigation has found. Released Tues...

Fisheries Company Installs Inmarsat NexusWave on 12 Trawlers

Parlevliet & van der Plas (PP) Group, a Netherlands-based fisheries company, has signed an agreement with Inmarsat to install NexusWave on 12 factory trawlers. NexusWave will serve evolving crew and operational connectivity needs across PP Group’s entire fleet of fish processing vessels. With its unlimited data and global coverage, Inmarsat’s NexusWave will empower the PP Inmarsat will empower the PP Group crew members through NexusWave to keep i