Fishing Gear – Page 22
-
News
Wesmar's new trawl sonar goes superlight
Wesmar unveiled a new trawl sonar system at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle which it says weighs less than any other trawl sonar on the market. The sled for the new system has an in-the-water weight of just 9.9lbs (4.5kg), a practical weight for the ground-fish industry.
-
News
Nylon - small is strong and economic
Germany''s echanische Netzfabrik of Oldenburg, reports the recent introduction of a full range of nylon fishing nets with very small meshes and strong, heavy duty twine.
-
News
Simrad to launch innovative monitoring system
Norway''s Simrad reports it will be launching new catch monitoring systems in May, the PI44 and PI54 and in the meantime it is putting a new height sensor on the market.
-
News
Twins via Poland to Faroes
The growing trend for hull building in Poland continues with two new pairtrawlers for Faroes home port Leirvik which have been fitted out by Faroes company Vónin Ltd., based in Fuglafjørdur .
-
News
The flying monster
Morgère France say their aeroplane is the most popular of their mid-water trawls and it has been in use for 14 years since they designed it with the French National Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer). Now they have boosted its capacity.
-
News
Egersund Trål AS helps to reduce fuel costs
Egersund Trål AS from Norway says that it has been able to get the average fuel cost down as much as 15 per cent and improved the catch rate for large vessels using 20 tonnes of fuel a day during the trawling season. This reduction is due to a new ...
-
News
Euronete introduces new combination rope
After one year of developments, Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group has just launched Blue Fin Combination Rope, a new combination rope made out of double galvanised wires and with improved Eurosteel yarns to increase the abrasion properties. The company says that the new rope has already been tested in ...
-
News
Rocking and rolling on the bottom
Scanmar of Norway are working on a prototype for bottom sensing which they believe is so good that patents are being applied for. Part of their work has been on board Norway''s flagship research vessel the G.O. Sars and Scanmar say the scientists refused to let them take the ...
-
News
Kiwis help seabirds through French connection
Money has been put up for New Zealander Malcolm McNeill and Jakob Hals from Norway to go to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean to work with French longline fishermen on techniques to reduce the number of seabirds killed by hooks in the Southern Ocean.
-
News
NZ - changing vessels changing minds
Stark Bros Ltd and Ocean Fisheries Ltd have launched their new FV Frontier and they say the build period which took 19 months has been an exciting time for them. More important, they say they believe the FV Frontier will revolutionise the mindset for small-boat fishing in New Zealand. It ...
-
News
NZ boat chooses Swedish system
Pacific Explorer is a commercial trawler owned by Forty South Ltd in Napier NZ.
-
News
Volvo Penta engines in high-speed fishing boats
The fishing industry in Iceland is changing and the demand for high speed fishing boats is growing. Volvo Penta''s D12-650 engine provides these boats with ideal features for small-scale fishing: rapid acceleration, high top speed and high fuel efficiency.
-
News
New trawler for Shetlands
The Norwegian shipyard Solstrand completed and delivered its latest building, the MFV Altaire, to her Scottish owner Altaire Fishing Company, from the Shetland Islands, last month. The ownership of Altaire is shared by seven people but only two of them, John Peter Duncan and Jerry Ramsay, will be going ...
-
News
Good reports for Sapphire
Garware Wall Ropes has had some impressive feedback from customers using its new Sapphire rope. "I pull a four barrel (two trawls from each side of the boat). We rigged the Port side with Sapphire and the Star board with traditional nylon. The auto-pilot tacked 2-3 degrees correction, constantly for ...
-
News
Vonin completes a trawl for Holland
The 120 metre long Dutch factory trawler Frank Bonifaas SCH 72 took onboard a new Herring -- Bluewhiting trawl this summer, after mounting a new crane on deck.
-
News
Sustainability, what does it mean? What should it mean? And what they want us to believe!
Dear readers, A lot has been said, and much more heard, on the subject of sustainability lately. Politicians, scientists and stakeholders are becoming more and more aware about the importance of responsible fishing. Keeping the stocks healthy, at sustainable levels, is a sine qua non condition in any fishing policy ...
-
News
New longline system to increase quality and profits
The Norwegian company Delitek was awarded with the Nor-Fishing Innovation Prize for developing an automatic longline hauler system (ALH), a puller mounted on the side of the vessels that helps to improve both fish quality and working environment and encourage the use of conservation orientated fishing methods in the name ...
-
News
Parsons shows its latest Profile range
Parsons Chain has officially introduced at Nor-Fishing its new 19mm middle and long link Trawlex Profile Chain launched last April.
-
News
Security doors to save juveniles
Cetap, a Portuguese based company, presented for the first time at the show what it claims to be a revolutionary system in cages under the motto ''Fishing, protecting the fish''.
