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Amaltal Fishing Company (ID: 7709)
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Amaltal was established in 1982, in New Zealand's fishing capital of Nelson, as a joint venture between Amalgamated Marketing Ltd of Auckland and Talley's Fisheries Ltd of Motueka. Amaltal, in its own right, has now become New Zealand's third largest fishing company. Amaltal now leads the way in processing at sea. The company has a dynamic and progressive in-house marketing and sales department, which exports product to a global market. Amaltal's fishing fleet is supported by its shore based facilities at Port Nelson, which feather the 160 metre Maitai Wharf. It has a seven metre berth depth, a 4,500 tonne coolstore, a 900,000 litre fuel bunker tank capacity and 80 tonne ice holding for fresh vessels. The Port Nelson installation provides 24 hour unloading as well as full servicing, engineering and supply facilities, not only to Amaltal's own fleet, but also to other participants in the fishing industry. Amaltal Provedoring supplies a wide range of general and specialist products, with access to New Zealand and overseas major wholesalers and distributors with 'bulk' buying power. We are able to give customers quality at a very competitive price from food stores, dry goods, engineering parts, fishing equipment, packaging etc. Amaltal Provedoring supplies goods for many New Zealand domestic vessels as well as overseas charter and foreign vessels. Amaltal has become strategically important to the Nelson region by providing employment for 270 seagoing and 25 shore based staff. Amaltal is a major contributor in salary and wages to the Nelson economy and uses predominantly local contractors and suppliers to supplement the company's vessel servicing activities. Amaltal's fleet presently consists of five freezer trawlers, two joint venture longline factory vessels (which have full Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries packhouse licenses), one purse seine freezer vessel and two fresh fish trawlers. The freezer trawlers fully process the catch onboard to customers specifications, into frozen-at-sea fillet, block or head and gutted form. Factory Fillet Trawlers Amaltal's factory freezer trawlers are all approximately 60 to 70 metres in length and go to sea for six weeks at a time with a crew of around 35 men and women. They process fish into fillets within hours of being caught. Onboard fishmeal plants process the waste product so everything is utilised. click to enlarge Factory stern trawler (twin trawl) Length overall 64 metres Gross tonnage 1970 M/T Main engine 3340 hp Crew 36 Freezing hold capacity 550 M/T Fish meal hold 160 M/T The flagship of the fleet, the Amaltal Columbia leads the world in fishing technology. The ship was the world's first factory freezer trawler to be registered with ISO 9002 certification, an internationally recognised standard which assures customers of consistent high product quality. The ship has extensive capabilities to process all waste products for recycling or non-polluting disposal. Even the ship's boilers are able to run on waste fish oil. The Amaltal Columbia can correctly be described as environmentally friendly. click to enlarge Factory stern trawler (twin trawl) Length overall 64 metres Gross tonnage 1970 M/T Main engine 3340 hp Crew 36 Freezing hold capacity 550 M/T Fish meal hold 160 M/T The Amaltal Atlantis is a sister vessel to the Amaltal Columbia. The Amaltal Atlantis was purchased following the successful operation of Amaltal Columbia in New Zealand waters and has now been converted to a twin trawl net system, the first in New Zealand. Amaltal Atlantis production facilities are among the most up to date in any fishing vessel and it continues to achieve the high production quality standard now consistently proven by the Amaltal fleet. click to enlarge Factory stern trawler (twin trawl) Length overall 68.8 metres Gross tonnage 2412 M/T Main engine 4023 hp Freezing hold capacity740 M/T Fish meal hold 240 M/T The Amaltal Enterprise is the latest addition to the Amaltal Fleet. This vessel will enable Amaltal to put more fishing effort into the southern ocean, where the harsh sea conditions require a larger vessel with more horse power providing a stable working platform. The vessel will also allow Amaltal to increase the product lines through having a much larger factory area to work with, allowing the company to produce more value added products at sea. click to enlarge Factory stern trawler Length overall 60 metres Gross tonnage 1222 M/T Main engine 3260 hp Crew 32 Freezing hold capacity 600 M/T The Amaltal Endeavour processes up to 20 tonnes of pre-packaged fillet per day for direct shipment to international markets. Her factory allows for the quick and easy changeover for both processing Hoki products as well as Orange Roughy and Dory fillets. click to enlarge Factory stern trawler Length overall 65.7 metres Gross tonnage 1386 M/T Main engine 2700 hp Crew 31 Freezing hold capacity 750 M/T The Amaltal Explorer was the first purpose built freezer trawler for New Zealand s deep water fishery, and has caught a New Zealand domestic trawler record of 13800 tonnes in one year. The Amaltal Explorer product is headed and gutted with its main catching species being Orange Roughy, Smooth Oreo Dory, Black Oreo Dory, Hoki and other bycatch species. Bottom Longliners The Amaltal fleet includes two joint venture automated bottom longliners, which fish for Ling using hooks strung on long lines. The hooks are baited automatically and the lines are released very fast. Many thousands of hooks are set each day, the retrieval and setting of these hooks is a continuous 24 hour a day operation. click to enlarge Freezer bottom longliner Length overall 46.5 metres Gross tonnage 1079 M/T Main engine 1054 hp Crew 21 Freezing hold capacity 280 M/T Fish meal hold 100 M/T Bait hold 35 M/T The Janas is based at New Zealand s southern city of Dunedin and goes to sea for six weeks at a time. It has a factory for processing the Ling into fillets which are frozen in packs, ready for market, within hours of being caught. The vessel also has a fishmeal plant. During the summer the vessel operates in the New Zealand Antarctic Zone for Toothfish (Dissostichus Mawsoni) and carrying out research under full CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) licence. The vessel spends 2 months working the icy waters of the Ross Sea before returning back to New Zealand. It operates under the brand name of New Zealand Longline. click to enlarge Freezer bottom longliner Length overall 52.0 meters Gross tonnage 1425 M/T Main engine 2000 hp Crew 20 Freezing hold capacity 350 M/T Bait hold 45 M/T The Avro Chieftain will fish for the Sealord and Amaltal joint venture company New Zealand Longline Ltd. The vessel was built in Kristansund, Norway by Umoe Sterkoder and was completed in 2001. This state of the art longliner will fish for Toothfish under the company s (CCAMLR) licence in the Ross Sea area of the Antarctic, as well as targeting Ling within the NZ EEZ, under the brand name of New Zealand Longline (NZLL). The vessel is the first in New Zealand waters to be fitted with the moon-pool system, this is expected to reduce accidental bird catch. The vessel is positioned directly over the line when hauling in and the line is taken up through the moon-pool using a chain pulley system. This makes it possible to haul the line more smoothly, recover any fish which fall off, and there is less flotsam which may attract sea birds. Fresh Fishing Trawlers Our fresh fish trawlers catch mainly Hoki along with smaller amounts of Orange Roughy, Oreo Dory, and are based at Nelson. They fish for five to seven days at a time and keep their catch chilled in ice. At the completion of each trip the fish is unloaded and processed immediately in a shore based processing factory. click to enlarge Fresh fish stern trawler Length overall 37 metres Gross tonnage 498 M/T Main engine 2000 hp Crew 8 Fish hold capacity 120 M/T The Amaltal Mariner is a purpose built fresh fish Hoki trawler, working all year round in the Cook Strait between the North and South Islands. She was built in Spain in 1997 and has state of the art fishing electronics, landing approximately 100M/T of fresh Hoki each week to a land based factory for further processing. click to enlarge Fresh fish stern trawler Length overall 34 metres Gross tonnage 353 M/T Main engine 1015 hp Crew 7 Fish hold capacity 100 M/T The Amaltal Voyager was Amaltal's first vessel and has caught many thousands of tonnes of fish over the last 15 years. The Vessel targets mainly Oreo Dory as well as Orange Roughy and Hoki during the spawning seasons. Purse Seine Vessel This is a traditional method of catching Tuna and other school fish species. A large net is set in a circle around a school of fish whilst on the surface. The net is then pursed, closing the bottom of the net, then pulling up the net until the fish are caught alongside the vessel. Most of these types of vessels then transfer the fish into a tank filled with brine (extra salty refrigerated water). This freezes large amounts of fish quickly. click to enlarge Purse seining vessel Length overall 68 metres Gross tonnage 1468 Main engine EMD3600hp Fish well capacity 1100 ton Crew 22 Net 1646 metres x 360 metres The vessel targets mainly Skip Jack Tuna but does land small amounts of other Tuna Species as well. The Capt. M.J. Souza is based in the Western and Central Pacific for most of the year. During the summer months the vessel fishes back in NZ around the top of the North Island for Skip Jack Tuna. Trip lengths can vary from 20 to 70 days depending on the fishing. The fish is held in refrigerated brine tanks and unloads either directly to the canneries or is transhipped to carrier vessels to freight to the canneries, leaving the purse seine vessel close to the fishing grounds to continue fishing. Amaltal was established in 1982, in New Zealand's fishing capital of Nelson, as a joint venture between Amalgamated Marketing Ltd of Auckland ... Amaltal Fishing Company