Polar’s remote controlled trawl doors
The Poseidon animation received a lot of attention at the exhibition
Local trawl door design and manufacturing company, Polar Fishing Gear, was very busy during the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.
Polar and contractor, Hleragerdin, are the only remaining local trawl door manufacturers in Iceland.
At the exhibition, their present models of trawl doors - Neptune bottom doors, Hercules and Mercury bottom and semi-pelagic doors and Jupiter pelagic doors – received positive attention from many happy users of their doors.
During the exhibition, Polar Fishing Gear also presented its newest invention, remote controlled trawl doors.
“This is the best attention we have ever received at the exhibition” said Atli Mar Josafatsson about the response to the 3D animation film the company showed at the exhibition.
The remote controllable doors, named Poseidon, are designed to control the water flow through the doors so that the complete fishing gear can be guided to a preferable position in the sea.
The inner construction of the doors can be adjusted with remote control from the vessel to reduce or increase the water flow through the door and the upper and lower sections can be controlled separately.
To reduce the spread, the wings are opened and to increase the spread, the doors are closed.
This new technology is currently in the design phase and has been tested via computer simulation. The company hopes to move it to the flume tank for testing at either the end of this year, or the beginning of 2012.
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