Fishing Gear – Page 24
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Joy of the trawl door
Hampidjan of Iceland says it is working on a radical, new, trawl-door design for the pelagic market which would ''fly'' like a plane and be controllable from the bridge with a joystick.
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SaveWave offer new device aimed at keeping dolphins away
A Netherlands based company, SaveWave, has just launched a new device that is aimed at keeping dolphins clear of fishing nets. Representatives from the company have stated that this new technology will save the industry time as well as money, and will also save countless dolphins from certain death.
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Volpak's tuna packer saves costs
Volpak''s SP tuna packer, available from Selpak Automation, creates flat or stand up pouches from a reel of flexible film and dispenses the tuna without flaking it (by compacting the lions).
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Halyard attempts to reduce noise
UYK company Halyard has recently achieved a Lloyd''s Register Type Approval for two of its produsts that have been designed to reduce noise and vibration on board vessels.
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NME launch NOR FiFi range to help with vessel safety
This is portable and fixed Fire Fighting units for external fire on offshore installations or vessels in fire etc. They can be used on deck of Offshore Support Vessels, tugs, harbour vessels, barges or other facilities in connection to sea.
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New Marel partnership
The Marel group has named Intralox, the conveyor belt supplier, for its European manufacturing outlets.
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McMurdo MT-1 approved for US use
The European approved McMurdo MT-1 has now been agreed for use in US waters.
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New ships with old names for Donegal from Denmark
Karstensen Shipyard Ltd in Skagen, Denmark have now delivered two new vessels one to Irish Owner Frank Doherty, of Kincasslagh, Donegal and the other to Pauric Conneeley, Gregboy, Claregalway, Donegal . The new vessels replaces the owners'' previous vessels. They are Western Chieftain and Girl Stephanie.
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Stealth Rope beats underwater resistance
The Stealth Rope is reported to be working very well on mid-water trawls according to its manufacturer Van Beelen of the Netherlands.
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Hawaii P.O. helps birds escape long arm of the claw
If you think Alaska means winter ice storms and Hawaiian conch-shell blowing fisherman swinging garlands in the warm sun, then Sean Martin and Jim Cook seem to have the best of both worlds in their new 78-foot F/V Caroleigh
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Longline dolphin saver tests
Dutch company SaveWave is in the final development stages of a new product to tackle dolphin bycatch. Called the Longline Saver, it is being tested for its effect on killer whales in Norway and Japan. It is expected to be available this summer, SaveWave said.
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Galicia spools out more longliners
Four new longliners will be delivered in 2004 and 2005 for Spanish shipowners from the Vigo-based shipyard in Galica, Spain, of M. Cies. They are being built for use in Atlantic fishing grounds.
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Longer life on greasy tightrope
Ymuiden Stores Holland says it has recently launched a new range of steel wire rope products including EURAL wires, produced with a special heavy coating which offers up to 25 per cent more life. It says the coating offers strong corrosion protection combined with improved grease adhesion. EURAL warps are ...
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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 ...
