What happens when traditional fishing methods meet green technology?

Page date: Published 27 Mar 2023; updated 21 Sep 2026. 4 min read.

The article profiles longliner captain Kjell Gunnar Hoddevik and partner Jonny Årvik, who designed a new vessel called Atlantic. It says there were 23 Norwegian autolining boats at the time; autolining mechanizes longline fishing for species including cod and haddock. The planned 64-metre vessel, designed by Skipsteknisk, was to have an extensively automated onboard processing line, handling fish from catch through sorting, weighing, cleaning, packing and freezing, with optional filleting. The article says fish are stunned before processing and describes the existing operation as environmentally certified and regularly inspected.

The new vessel was designed with diesel-battery hybrid propulsion. The captain says batteries alone were unsuitable for month-long trips, and that propeller motion would generate electricity for onboard lighting or heating. Enova helped finance the hybrid system, which the article says was expected to cut fuel use and associated emissions. It also reports an NOx cleaning upgrade on the operators’ older vessel, reducing emissions from 54 kg to 6.5 kg per metric tonne of fuel, according to the captain.

Further sustainability efforts described include Atlantic Longline’s investment in Ecobait to develop less resource-intensive bait, freezing fish-processing cuttings for sale as inputs to other businesses, and Skipsteknisk’s work on the vessel design. The page contains stale project timing: although its publication/update metadata is 2023/2026, it says the hull was planned to launch in April 2020 and completion was expected in October, without specifying the year. Treat the vessel’s planned status and performance claims as historical article content, not confirmation of present status. Related link: Maritime.