“We have been working for a long time to make sure this vessel can conduct the most environmentally-friendly fishing operations ever,” says Thore Veddegjerde, Project Director at Rimfrost. “We’re confident that it will revolutionise krill fishing in Antarctica.
“Krill is a highly important element of the Antarctic ecosystem. It’s a keystone species, feeding whales, penguins, seals and seabirds. It’s our obligation to ensure that catching it does not affect this fragile ecosystem undesirably, and that our industry as a whole operates in a responsible manner.”
That’s been the driving force behind the latest addition to Rimfrost’s fishing fleet, the state-of-the-art krill trawler designed by Kongsberg Maritime and currently under construction in Turkey.
With experience of harvesting krill in Antarctica dating back almost a decade, the company is a world leader in the production of krill-based products, as well as research and development into ways of creating those products as efficiently and sustainably as possible.