Fishing Gear 1-12 – Page 25
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Sicornete -- thinner and stronger
Sicornete is about to launch a new, high-tenacity polyethylene product after three months of testing. It increases the strength of ropes and nets, using thinner ropes so it reduces trawl drag and fuel consumption, hence nets can be bigger and catches higher, says Albino Matos of Sicornete.
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Euronete factory
Euronete, based in Oporto, and making heavy nets for bottom trawls and pelagic fishing, report they have opened a new braiding factory in the north of Portugal.
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Quintas & Quintas nets ponds
Nets and ropes manufacturer, Quintas & Quintas, says it has not only seen an increase in its sales of nets to fish farms but this sector now represents 25 per cent of total sales for its fishing division.
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Fishnet tights: raw power, style or polyfibres?
When a skipper or company''s supply officer have to spend large sums of money on new nets, one of the problems they have is ''how do they decide which product is the best for which job?'' What makes things more difficult is that really the only good way to ...
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Maaskant delivers beam trawler
Dutch company Maaskant Shipyards delivered the Geertruid-Adriana to Gebroeders H. en B. Marjis C.V. at Arnemuiden in January. The Dutch beam trawler fishes for bottom fish in the North Sea. In order to improve fish handling, a specially-designed system by Maaskant with conveyor belts, sorting and gutting lines has been ...
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Vónin's Blue Whiting trawl goes on-board the Finnur Fridi
Trawling specialist Vónin Ltd has equipped the Finnur Fridi (see World Fishing, February), with toughened purse seining and pelagic trawling gear. Called the "Blue Whiting trawl", it has a circumference of 2,048 metres, 32-metre meshes in the forenet and is made of braided "Super 12" material in different ...
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Poles tailor Baltic trawl for pelagics
Polish company Baltic Net says it is working on a prototype for a new pelagic trawl especially designed to operate in the Baltic pelagic fishery.
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Sparks vs water power
The Atlantic Enterprise (AE), now fishing prawns off Canada, is the world''s first trawler with a complete electrical AC winch control system, provided by Vacon, whose liquid-cooled NX system is controlling the vessel''s 19 AC winches. This means the Danish company Ocean Prawns vessel enjoys the same towing capabilities as ...
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Illante's new separator helps with regulations
ILLANTE S.L. has launched the Hydrocarbon Separator SKIT/S.
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Scantrol develops pair trawl system
New integrated pair trawl system goes towards more efficient fishing - Scantrol has developed a new system for pair trawlers which simplifies the fishery a lot. Earlier the fishermen needed to update each others manually over the radio. This was time consuming, difficult to do and brought along a lot ...
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SimuTrawl from Korea proves its worth
SimuTrawl has been developed by MPSL. MPSL is founded by Marine Production System Laboratory, College of Fisheries Science, Pukyong National University in Korea.
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Olfish presents management dataOlfish presents management data
OLFISH is a unique electronic fishery management system developed by the South African company, OLRAC. OLFISH should not be confused with navigational or charting software. It is a completely unique, intelligent database solution for the capture and management of all fishing data in either real time or from old records. ...
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ROFFS forecasting to be linked to vessel navigation system
Fish forecasting specialists ROFFS, has just announced that all of the five ROFFS Fishing Forecasting Analyses products will be in a format for their clients to download and input directly to their computerized navigation systems.
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The best gets better
For the past twenty years, Pacific Ocean Producers has equipped over 400 fishing vessels with Lindgren-Pitman Monofilament Longline Systems - Pacific Ocean Producers wouldn''t trust their own fleet of fishing vessels to any other monofilament longline system.
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Morgere has successful trial with oval trawl door
Some of trawl door manufacturer, Morgere''s good customers have had the nostalgy of the ''eggshape'' Morgere Polyvalent doors the company designed some 40 years ago.
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NewsNorthstar announces new NETMIND(tm) system bottom contact sensor
Northstar Technical Inc., manufacturer of the NETMIND(tm) Trawl Monitor System, has announced the introduction of the BOTTOM CONTACT SENSOR to the world''s fishing industry. The Bottom Contact sensor, the latest addition to the NETMIND(tm) suite of wireless sensors, is suspended vertically from the footrope of the trawl.
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Van Beelen reports good year
Dutch netting specialist Van Beelen''s new light Enkalon twine for mid-water trawls is proving very popular according to the company along with its Stealth rope.
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Parsons Chain Company launches new addition to Trawlex range
UK based Parsons Chain Company has launched a new Trawlex Profile Chain in an attempt to provide the market with product that is less susceptible to wear, corrosion and stress fractures.
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Lindgren-Pitman introduces revolutionary longline spool
Lindgren-Pitman, Inc., the world''s most innovative manufacturer of commercial longline equipment, has introduced the revolutionary new Super Spool III series of midwater longlining spools. The 40-inch Super Spool III, first in the series boasting Lindgren-Pitman''s new patented technology, has a 22-inch core, almost 40% larger than the current ...
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Vaki-DNG launches new drum for mackerel
Vaki-DNG has developed a mackerel drum for smaller vessels. This new development will enable small vessel fishermen to operate more effectively and safely when jigging for mackerel.
