Our history · 1903 — today
More than 120 years of fishing experience.
From the Sjøvik archive.
1903
The start
Three brothers — Ivar Andreas, Knut Andreas and Anton Elias Misund — founded a part-owned shipping company and purchased the vessel “Brothers”. Knut Andreas moved to Sjøvika and took the name Sjøvik the same year.
1931 — 1947
Sjøvik ex. Greyhound
1938 — 1953
Misund
1940 — 1951
Sjøvik II ex. Tvende Søstre
1945
1945 — 1961
Sjøvik I
The company contracted a new ship, “Sjøvik I” — a combined purse seiner, fishing boat and trawler, completed in 1945.
1947 — 1948
Tyfon-Sjøvik
1948
1948 — 1971
Sjøvik ex. Svega
Rebuilt in Sjøvik’s own workshop in Sjøvika for purse seining and longline fishing off Greenland and Newfoundland — the first fishing vessel with twin cabins and a mess for crew.
1952 — 1956
Sjøvik II ex. Uddu
1964 — 1981
Høststjerna
1966 — 1969
Sævar
1973
1973 — 1992
F/T Sjøvik III
62.5 metres, built by Soviknes Yards in 1973 — the first fishing vessel in Norway with bulb, Becker rudder and data-based synchronisation of trawl winches.
1986
1986 — 1999
F/T Concordia
67.3 metres, designed and built by Langstein yard on order of Sjøvik to develop an industrial scallop fishery in Norwegian waters — the first purpose-built vessel in Norway for fishing and onboard production of scallops.
1988 — 1990
Seabay Alpha
Sister ship of Concordia. At the request of the owners’ bank, Sjøvik found new uses for the vessel.
1988 — 1992
F/T Sjøvik
67.5 metres, built by Soviknes for trawling with factories for whitefish and fishmeal — the first built without “spring”, today standard for all new vessels of this type.
1989
Pioneering scallops in Argentina
Test fishing with Seabay Alpha found large scallop deposits. Political unrest closed the project — today an extensive fishery exists there, in a field named the “Seabay Alpha” field.
1993
Seabay Clam Company Inc.
Established in Canada. Concordia was transferred after a successful trial; the Stimpson’s surf clam licence was later added in return for a 50% stake for partner National Sea Products Inc.
1997
Management in eastern Russia
Management of twelve longliners fishing Pacific cod in eastern Russia. In this period, Sjøvik was the world’s largest supplier of Pacific cod.
1999 — 2005
F/V Midøy Viking
A combined purse seiner / trawler factory for onboard production of pelagic species, taken over by Sjøvik in 1999.
2001
F/V Karelia II
Whitefish fishing in the Barents Sea under Russian flag — producing fillet, H/G, canned liver and fishmeal.
2005
M/V Midoy Dakhla I
Midøy Viking was renamed and sent to Sjøvik’s fishing operation in Morocco.
2006
Project in Dakhla
Pelagic trawling off Dakhla with Midøy Dakhla 1 — sardines, mackerel, horse mackerel and sardinella.
2017
F/V Ocean Venture
Sjøvik operates the pelagic trawler F/V Ocean Venture through its subsidiary Sjovik Morocco S.A.
Innovation
Early with new solutions — generation after generation.
1948
First fishing vessel with twin cabins and a mess for crew.
1973
First Norwegian fishing vessel with bulb, Becker rudder and data-based trawl winch synchronisation.
1986
First purpose-built Norwegian vessel for fishing and onboard production of scallops.
1988
First vessel built without “spring” — today standard for all new vessels of its type.
1989
Pioneering scallop fishery in Argentina — the “Seabay Alpha” field bears our vessel’s name.
1997
World’s largest supplier of Pacific cod through management of twelve longliners in Russia.
Today
Ocean Venture