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Discover more about your favourite fish with Dive Deep – exploring different fish species and their journey from sea to plate. Alaska Pollock and Atlantic Cod are the first to feature but more to follow in the coming months.

Wild
fresh-frozen
at sea

We’re committed to supplying fish as nature intended – with nothing taken, and nothing added.

That’s why we fillet and freeze our fish at sea, hours after it’s been caught. It’s the best way to preserve the freshness and natural quality of our oceans.

Fresh freezing at sea locks in the high-protein cholesterol-fighting effects of fish, including omega-3 acids, plus vitamins A, B12 and D.

But fresh-freezing doesn’t just provide customers with a healthier option, it also provides the freshest possible texture and taste. In fact, fresh frozen fish at sea is the closest thing you can get to catching it yourself.

Fresh-frozen fillets can be stored for up to 2 years, with no compromise on quality.

  • Production

    All our vessels operate a small filleting factory.

    Once the fish is caught and brought into the storage room, it is processed by machines and the fishermen on board. After just a few meters, we produce, pack, and freeze our fillets – all within a few hours after catch.

    That’s the best way to produce the finest fillets. We call it Wild Fresh-frozen at Sea.

  • Production

    This is how our wild fresh-frozen at sea fillets, loins and portions are produced.

    Store fresh
    After catching the fish, it is brought on to the vessel, it is stored for a short period of time before going into the production area.

  • Production

    This is how our wild fresh-frozen at sea fillets, loins and portions are produced.

    The fish is headed and gutted
    The head is cut off and the guts are removed.

    Fillet the fish
    The fish is filleted in a Baader machine. When they shall be boneless, the bones are also removed. And if the product shall be skinless, the skin is removed right after in a skinning machine.

  • Production

    This is how our wild fresh-frozen at sea fillets, loins and portions are produced.

    Control and cutting
    The fillets are controlled and defects and nematodes are removed. If we are producing loins and fillet portions, the cutting takes place here.

  • Production

    Producing Interleaved Frozen Fillet

    Products Packing interleaved frozen fillets
    When the product is interleaved frozen fillets, loins or fillet portions, the seaman lays the fillets in layers in the box with plastic sheets in between to secure that the customer can easily separate them. When all the fillets have been packed, the box is closed and labelled with all relevant information, including the number of the seaman who packed the fillets.

  • Production

    Producing Interleaved Frozen Fillet

    Products Freezing
    The box with the packed fillets is put into the plate freezer, where they are deep frozen to below minus 20°C, which takes about 2 ½ hour.

  • Production

    Producing Interleaved Frozen Fillet Products

    Boxing the interleaved blocks
    The interleaved blocks are packed in a master carton and the carton is closed and labelled with all relevant information about content and for tracability.

  • Production

    Producing Interleaved Frozen Fillet

    Products Storage
    The last step on the vessel is to bring the boxes to the coldstorage on the vessel, where they are kept at below minus 25°C until the vessel discharges its production.

  • Production

    Producing individually quick frozen fillets

    Freezing individual quick frozen fillets
    One of our vessels has an IQF tunnel, where fillets are frozen. The fillets are laid on the conveyor belt, which brings them into the freezing tunnel, where they move for less than two hours until deep frozen at below minus 20°C.

  • Production

    Producing individually quick frozen fillets

    Glazing and packing
    When they come out of the IQF tunnel, they are put for short time in water to give them protective glazing. This is followed by packing them into the master carton, which when full, is closed and labelled with with all relevant information about content and for tracability.

  • Production

    Producing individually quick frozen fillets

    Storage
    The last step on the vessel is to bring the boxes to the coldstorage on the vessel, where they are kept at below minus 25°C until the vessel discharges its production.

Quality

As a consumer, you want to enjoy what you eat. And for that, you need good raw material for your cooking.

There are quality standards for all aspects of how the final product shall be, and during production, we are constantly monitoring the quality of the fillets against these standards and documenting the findings. Fish is a wild, natural products, and therefore, there will always be some variance from one fillet to another.

Great demands are put on every producer to secure that the food is safe and that various standards for demands put on food are met. Consumers seldom think about this, but we as a producer and others involved in the chain until consumers receive the fillets are constantly meeting them.

Food safety is getting more and more important, every vessel has a control system in place to secure this. It is called HACCP.

Annual controls for every vessel are in place and products are checked for microbiological and other important values.

Regular controls take place after landing to compare results from the what is controlled on board the vessel against our quality standards.

CONSUMER TESTING

Consumer ratings for our wild Fresh-frozen at sea Fillets

Our Wild Fresh-frozen at Sea loins received an outstanding consumer rating, compared to other fresh and frozen fillets.

We wanted to know what consumers thought about our Wild Fresh-Frozen at Sea fillets. We commissioned Wirral Sensory Services, a well-known UK research institute, to conduct an independent consumer survey, comparing our products with similar products from different fisheries and suppliers. Our Atlantic cod loins were rated against fresh-line caught, land frozen and twice-frozen Atlantic cod loins.

The research agency surveyed primary household and health-conscious shoppers, aged 35-45, both male and female. 145 consumers took part in the survey.

All products were unbranded, and offered in a random order. Participants did not know which product they were offered. Participants were asked to score each product on an 11-point hedonic scale, as well as noting down specific likes and dislikes. In addition, participants scored each product on a 5-point diagnostic scale.

The results were clear. Our Atlantic cod loins were rated best overall. Even better, they received the highest rating for flavour and cooked appearance.

Team you can Count on

Our crew make sure your fish is perfectly prepared.

Most of our vessel are staffed by between 17 and 38 crew members, but a few have up to 120 crew members, who are responsible for fishing, processing and packing the catch. Each trip can take between one to three months, often in challenging conditions.

Every fishing vessel in our fleet is vital because each is an independent floating factory. It is also becoming increasingly important for consumers to know where their food comes from; indeed, legislation in many countries demands information about where the fish was caught and by whom.

Here is the list of all vessels producing for Norebo with basic information about each one. More than 30 vessels fish for Norebo and annual catch volume is 300-400,000 MT. There are regular changes in the fleet, so if you do not find a particular vessel on the list, please contact your Norebo representative.

OUR VESSELS

Our Vessels

PACIFIC OCEAN LONG LINERS
Lagart

Main products: Pacific cod, Pacific cod fillets, Pacific halibut

Registration: PK-8504 | 38S
Length: 60m
Built: 2011
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Long Liner Fleet
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: YAMSy

Gruper

Main products: Pacific cod, Pacific cod fillets, Pacific halibut

Registration: PK-1392 | 10A
Length: 52.5m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Long Liner Fleet
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: YAMSy

Blanket

Main products: Pacific cod, Pacific cod fillets, Pacific halibut

Registration: P-1390 | 06A | CH-06A
Length: 52.5m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Long Liner Fleet
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: YAMSy

Kalam

Main products: Pacific cod, Pacific cod fillets, Pacific halibut

Registration: P-1393 | 08A | CH-08A
Length: 52.5m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Long Liner Fleet
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: YAMSy

PACIFIC OCEAN GROUNDFISH - FILLETS
Vladimir Starzhinsky

Main products: H&G, WR, APO fillets. Named after Vladimir Starzhinsky, head of Dalryba, one of the biggest fishing companies in the world

Registration: PK-2259 | 05M
Length: 105m
Built: 1993
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Vladivostok
Harvesting Company: Roliz

Boris Trofimenko

Main products: H&G, WR, fillets. Boris Trofimenko is named after famous leader of fishing industry in Russian Far East region.

Registration: PK-1430 | 65N | CH-571
Length: 105m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: AKROS

Viktoria I

Main products: APO fillets, H&G. The vessel bears a woman’s name, which is unusual.

Registration: PK-0925 | 18A | CH-18A
Length: 64m
Built: 1992
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: AKROS

Mys Lovtsova

Main products: APO fillets, H&G. Named after a cape in the Sakhalin island

Registration: PK-2417 | 42D | CH-42D
Length: 64m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Nevelsk
Harvesting Company: Sakhalin Leasing Fleet

Mys Muravjeva

Main products: APO fillets, H&G. Named after a cape in the Primorsk region on the western coast of the Tatar Strait.

Registration: PK-2416 | 35A | CH-35A
Length: 64m
Built: 1995
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Kholmsk
Harvesting Company: Sakhalin Leasing Fleet

Mys Kruzenshterna

Main products: APO fillets, H&G. Named after a cape on the northwestern coast of Alaska.

Registration: PK-2485 | 37A | CH-37A
Length: 64m
Built: 1995
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Kholmsk
Harvesting Company: Sakhalin Leasing Fleet

Petr Iljin

Main products: APO fillets, H&G. Named after a hero of the Soviet Union.

Registration: P-0767 | 17A | CH-17A
Length: 64m
Built: 1992
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: AKROS

Aleksey Chirikov

Main products: Alaska pollock fillets. Named after the Russian navigator Aleksey Ilyich Chirikov (1703-1748).

Registration: P-0818 | 16A | CH-16A
Length: 64m
Built: 1990
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: AKROS

Vilyuchinsky

Main products: APO fillets, H&G. Named after the town Vilyuchinsk on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.

Registration: P-0768 | 15A | CH-15A
Length: 64m
Built: 1990
Flag: Russian
Region: Pacific Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Harvesting Company: AKROS

NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN GROUNDFISH-FILLETS
Mys Slepikovskogo

Main products: cod, haddock fillets

Registration: MK-0682 | 73P
Length: 64m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Murmansk
Harvesting Company: Rybprominvest

Mys Gvozdeva

Main products: cod, haddock fillets

Registration: MK3732 | 53P
Length: 64m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Murmansk
Harvesting Company: Alternativa

Vasiliy Golovnin

Main products: cod, haddock fillets. Named after the Russian navigator and explorer Vasiliy Mikhailovich Golovnin (1776-1881).

Registration: MK-0361 | 19A | CH-19A
Length: 64m
Built: 1992
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Murmansk
Harvesting Company: Murmansk Trawl Fleet

Mys Sheltinga

Main products: cod and haddock fillets

Registration: MK3906 | 25P | CH-25P
Length: 64m
Built: 1995
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Nevelsk
Harvesting Company: Fishing Company Sogra

Mys Korsakova

Main products: cod & haddock fillets

Registration: MK3755 | 26P | CH-26P
Length: 64m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Kholmsk
Harvesting Company: Fishing Company Sogra

Kapitan Gromtsev

Main products: cod, haddock fillets. The vessel is named after captain Victor Serafimovich Gromtsev (1935-1999)

Registration: M-0410 | 19F | CH-19F
Length: 62m
Built: 1987
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Murmansk
Harvesting Company: KZB-SELD

Kapitan Dolgikh

Main products: cod. haddock fillets. The trawler is named after the captain Vasily Aleksandrovich Dolgikh

Registration: M-0349 | 07M | CH-07M
Length: 57m
Built: 1987
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Murmansk
Harvesting Company: Rybprominvest

Bukhta Naezdnik
Out of Operation in 2019

Main products: cod, haddock fillets. The vessel is named after the Bukhta Naezdnik bay, close to Vladivostok in the Sea of Japan

Registration: M-0278 | 28G | CH-28G
Length: 64m
Built: 1991
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home Port: Murmansk
Harvesting Company: Murmansk Trawl Fleet

Mys Chikhacheva

Main products: cod, haddock fillets. The vessel is named after the after a bay on Sakhalin

Registration: MK3882 | 91P
Length: 73m
Built: 1994
Flag: Russian
Region: North Atlantic Ocean | Groundfish-Fillets
Home port: Kholmsk
Harvesting company: Karat-1


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