Renat Besolov Ренат Бесолов · Biography

A first voyage at age 21 — a real test of endurance, on which Renat earned $20,800, noticeably more than many foreign workers made at the time.

He was invited aboard by a captain he had worked with before. Here Renat begins to collect owners’ contacts — notes that would later form the basis of a catalogue of Norway’s fishing vessels.

Norway introduces a minimum industry-wage law: foreigners and locals start to be paid equally. Owners drop agencies — and the only way to get hired is by sending your CV directly.

Renat is trusted to lead a deck crew of five. To train newcomers fast he develops his first methods — knots, gear repair, hydraulics, safety — which later became the core of the BFISHERMAN training programme.

Coordinating the deck crew, running the fishing gear and the on-board processes. For his willingness to stay at sea for six months or more without a break, colleagues nicknamed him “crazy”.

Work on fishing and crab vessels in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, plus a contract in Scotland. The same year Renat completes a major course and becomes a qualified seafood factory production technologist.

A contract on Norway’s largest ice-class crab vessel. In parallel, Renat develops BFISHERMAN — step-by-step training for people who have never been to sea. For the official launch he obtains an education licence and other permits to run the training legally.

The vessel was built in 2021 and equipped for combined fishing — purse seine and longline — allowing it to harvest various demersal and pelagic species. In late 2025 it was refitted for crab fishing. On board is a full processing plant: the catch is cleaned, cut, frozen and stored in dedicated holds at deep sub-zero temperatures.