Ervik Havfiske AS – Norway’s largest longlining company -18 °C. This preserves the good quality of the fish. In 2010, our boats delivered more than 20,000 tons of high quality products, primarily as headless/gutted fish. The catches mostly consist of cod, haddock, ling, and cusk, and are caught on Norwegian and Russian quotas. The fishing takes place in the Barents Sea, North Sea and Norwegian Sea, as well as in EU waters. Through our partnerships with French and British companies, we are involved in advanced, demanding fishing for Patagonian toothfish in which substantial Norwegian competence in the development and carrying out of fishing is involved. Inspectors onboard monitor the
fishing and ensure that an important resource is properly managed and that vulnerable nature is protected. More than 1,500 tons of the gourmet Patagonian toothfish come from the Southern Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica. In the 2011/12 season, the Group will also have a Norwegian flagged boat in this fishery in addition to the other three from the UK/France. Ervik Havfiske AS is proactively leading the way in the ecolabelling of fisheries in both the north and the south. This work is ongoing.
Ervikfisk AS
Nordic Marine delivers supplies and equipment in containers that are sent to America and Africa to supply boats in the Ervik fleet. Nordic Marine delivers both bunkers and bait, as well as a large range of tools and spare parts, and all the other equipment modern fishing boats need. The professionals in their own joinery department carry out the maintenance onboard the boats.
Vest Økonomisenter AS
Arctic Linefish AS
In 2008 the company moved to the industrial park in Borgundvågen in Stadlandet where it has its own workshop and offices, as well as a warehouse and production hall. Its location here, at the middle of the shipping lane between Måløy and Ålesund, provides the company with ready access to its own and the local authority’s quays. Westmek produces equipment for processing fish onboard seagoing fishing boats. The company plans, designs and installs equipment made from stainless steel, acid resistant steel and aluminium throughout North Western Norway. The company also does work on other vessels and carries out class work through a good, close collaboration with Det Norske Veritas, Bureau Veritas and the Norwegian Maritime Directorate. The company also provides services to onshore industrial facilities and the fishing farming industry in the region.
Nordic Marine AS was founded in 1996, and is located in Otneimsneset in Stadlandet. Here the company has one 13 metre and one 40 metre long quay, and modern warehouses for supplying fishing boats, both domestic and foreign.
Photo: Iselin Valvik
Nordic Marine AS
Photo: Oskar Andersen
Westmek AS was founded in 2004. The company eventually became a wholly owned subsidiary of Nordic Marine AS and assumed responsibility for maintaining the Ervik Group’s boats. The company was based in Nordic Marine’s offices in Otneimneset until April 2008.
Photo: Iselin Valvik
Arctic Linefish AS is our sales company. As the name suggests, the company mainly focuses on selling line-caught fish. The company participates in fish auctions and buys fish not just from the Ervik Group’s boats, but also from other longliners in Norway. The raw materials bought and sold are primarily so-called H/G products, i.e. headless and gutted fish Fish that arrive onboard alive and are dealt with one by one, and where the period between coming onboard and being frozen is short, results in top quality. It is important for us that Arctic Linefish AS promotes the special quality achieved by longlining. We take consumers’ environmental requirements and demands for sustainable fishing and safe food seriously. Arctic Linefish AS is MSC approved for the sale of Norwegian Arctic cod, saithe and haddock.
Westmek AS
Vest Økonomisenter AS is an authorised accountancy firm and handles the accounts of most of the companies in the Ervik Group. The firm also keeps the accounts of companies and businesses outside the Group.The firm has employees with more than 25 years’ experience in accounting and lot settlements for shipowners. The firm can also provide services such as bookkeeping, billing, payroll and tax return assistance for fishermen. Vest Økonomisenter is located in the office building in Otneimneset, Stadlandet.
Vestkapp Handel AS The Joker shop in Refsnes, near the Vestkapp Plateau, was founded as a village shop in 1978. The employees eventually took over the shop when the original owner wanted to retire. Close ties with the Ervik Group resulted in Ervik Havfiske AS coming in as a co-owner. The shop deals with and organises deliveries of provisions for the Group’s boats, either directly from the shop or through agreements with other suppliers around Norway where the boats might call to unload catches. The shop is also the local shop for the villages on Ytre Stadlandet and a large provider of jobs for women in the district.
Photo: Iselin Valvik
Photo: Olav Steimler
Ervikfisk AS is the brand for line-caught, frozen, consumerready fish from Ervik Group. Vacuum packed cod, haddock, ling, cusk, halibut and special products. Ready for the pan. The goal is to build up a quality product in the retail trade based on catches and production from Frøyanes, supplemented by consumer-ready products from other boats in the fleet. Ervikfisk will be available in the shops - for the pleasure of consumers in Norway and the rest of Europe.
Photo: Iselin Valvik
Ervik Havfiske AS is the ’operator company’ in what is often called Norway’s largest longlining company. Today, we are involved in the operation of 15 longliners and one trawler. Ervik Havfiske AS has ownership interests in seven of these via subsidiaries and associated companies. In addition to this, Frøyanes AS has ownership interests in four other boats. There are various cooperation agreements with the other boats. All the fishing, with MS Stålholm as the exception, involves bottom lines with automated baiting. The fish are brought onboard one by one. As soon as the fish is onboard, it is sent through the production lines and then onwards to freezing at a temperature of less the
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