{"id":220450,"date":"2025-10-17T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:12:12","slug":"new-saputi-ii-fishing-vessel-to-arrive-in-canada-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220450\/","title":{"rendered":"New Saputi II fishing vessel to arrive in Canada in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp.\u2019s new ship can process twice as much shrimp as the vessel currently in use<\/p>\n<p>A new $100-million fishing vessel is expected to make its way to Nunavut in time for the 2026 fishing season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaputi II will enhance product quality and efficiency at sea,\u201d Harry Flaherty, president and CEO of Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp., told Qikiqtani Inuit Association board members Oct. 7 while describing the new ship.<\/p>\n<p>Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp. is owned by Qikiqtaaluk Corp., which is the business arm of Qikiqtani Inuit Association, the organization responsible for promoting the rights of\u00a0Qikiqtani Inuit.<\/p>\n<p>Saputi means \u201cfish trap\u201d in Inuktitut. It\u2019s also the name of the 76-metre-long ship currently used by Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries. Built in 1987, it will soon make way for the new, larger Saputi II.<\/p>\n<p>Saputi II will be able to carry up to 1,100 tonnes of shrimp \u2014 twice as much as its namesake predecessor \u2014 or 750 tonnes of turbot.<\/p>\n<p>The new ship\u2019s onboard processing plant will be able to freeze 50 tonnes of turbot or 100 tonnes of shrimp per day, roughly double the capacity of the plant on the current ship. That should allow the Saputi II to fish for longer periods without docking, Flaherty said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful facility with eco-friendly engines, dining rooms and a movie theatre,\u201d Flaherty said. \u201cSo we\u2019re looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/ads\/251003-gn-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760728332_253_A-14595.93b.gif\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designed by Norwegian company Skipsteknisk, with support from Allswater Marine Consultants in Nova Scotia, the Saputi II is under construction at Freire shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The ship is 79 metres long, 17 metres wide, and has capacity for 34 crew members.<\/p>\n<p>With a price tag of around $100 million, Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries <a href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/stories\/article\/qikiqtaaluk-corp-signs-deal-to-acquire-new-fishing-vessel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the deal to buy the new vessel two years ago. Now the ship is set to arrive in Canada in mid-May next year and make it to Iqaluit in August, Flaherty said, adding he will soon go to Spain to inspect the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Once Saputi II is ready to use, the older ship will be listed for sale.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the old Saputi caught a total of 7,504 tonnes of seafood \u2014 4,616 tonnes of shrimp and 2,888 tonnes of turbot, according to Qikiqtaaluk Corp.\u2019s annual report.<\/p>\n<p>Saputi II will be bigger than its predecessor, but still smaller than Baffin Fisheries\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/stories\/article\/largest-canadian-owned-fishing-vessel-christened-in-iqaluit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly-christened<\/a> Inuksuk II fishing vessel. At 79.5 metres in length, the Inuksuk II is about a half-metre longer than Saputi II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries Corp.\u2019s new ship can process twice as much shrimp as the vessel currently in use A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-220450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}