BFT Season 2024 – First Moroccan fishing vessel at Malta – 27.05.2024
On Monday 27th May, 2024 the first Moroccan fishing vessel to enter Grand Harbour, Malta was the Spanish built purse seiner MIMOUNA 1 bearing fishing matricola as 12-122 with radio call sign as CNA 6020 passing breakwaters at 0837 hrs. She was built by Astafersa at Ferrol, Spain as the Spanish Purse Seiner AITA FRAXKU […]
BFT Season 2024 – 4 Turkish Purse Seiners at Valletta, Malta – 25.05.2024
The eastern bluefin (BFT) migration has supported valuable fisheries in the Mediterranean since antiquity. Initially based on hand lines and beach seines, these fisheries were dominated after the 16th century by tuna cages placed in the path of migrating tuna. After the expansion of purse seines and longlines in the Atlantic (in the 1950s) and […]
BFT Season 2023 – Morrocan Purse Seiner SAAD ALLAH – 31.05.2023
The eastern bluefin migration has supported valuable fisheries in the Mediterranean since antiquity. Initially based on hand lines and beach seines, these fisheries were dominated after the 16th century by tuna cages placed in the path of migrating tuna. After the expansion of purse seines and longlines in the Atlantic (in the 1950s) and in […]
BFT Season 2023 – Algerian Purse Seiner LES FRERES BENAMANE
The eastern bluefin migration has supported valuable fisheries in the Mediterranean since antiquity. Initially based on hand lines and beach seines, these fisheries were dominated after the 16th century by tuna cages placed in the path of migrating tuna. After the expansion of purse seines and longlines in the Atlantic (in the 1950s) and in […]
BFT Season 2023 – Cypriot Fishing Vessel MY HENDRIKA
The eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna was long a symbol of overfishing and fisheries mismanagement. Over the past decade, the stock has recovered, following the rebuilding measures introduced by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is a highly migratory pelagic fish of impressive size (up […]
Delivery – LADY CHANELLE arrive at Malta – 27.04.2023
The first acquisition for CSKC Co Ltd, Malta – LADY CHANELLE passed breakwaters on Thursday 27th April, 2023 at 1543 hrs during her delivery voyage from Mallaig, Scotland to Malta with GBR flag homeported at Stornoway covering 2,690 nautical miles. She was built in 2009 in Vigo, Spain as SANGRE AZUL for Spanish Interests with […]
MSPAP – Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos 32nd Anniversary – 01.08.2022
Last Monday 1st August , Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos (MSPAP) celebrated her 32nd anniversary. It is a great honor and a great joy for me that together with my team we embarked on a great adventure and we are navigating worldwide. For some of you, you think that this is our hobby….We started […]
30th Anniversary of Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos.
Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos was founded on the 1st August 1990 by myself Capt. Lawrence Dalli and the late Peruvian Airforce helicopter pilot Piero JJ Guerra of which today we are the Largest and Leading Photo Library on our Maltese Islands that provides all kind of photography concerning ships, aircraft, emergency vehicles & equipment, military warfare etc. […]
Fishing Vessels – Algerian Purse Seiners NEPTUNE V and YOUNES I during BFT Season 2019
Interesting purse seiners during this year BlueFin Tuna (BFT) Season were the Algerian NEPTUNE V and YOUNES I. NEPTUNE V built in 2006 was seen bearing registration as BZJ165 with ICCAT NO as AT000DZA00005. She was 31.25 m as length with 203 as GRT. YOUNES I built in Turkey in 2006 was seen bearing registration […]
Malta Naval Visits – FS LOIRE A 602 – BFT Season 2019
FS LOIRE A 602 is the first French Navy Offshore Support and Assistance Vessel. She’s the 17th ship to be named as LOIRE, after the longest river in France. The ship was built by KERSHIP, a joint venture between DCNS (French state owned shipbuilders) and Piriou for the building of the Offshore Support and Assistance […]