Fishing Gear – Page 17
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NewsMore gill nets with floatlines
New technology is opening the way for faster and easier handling of large gill nets, by using floatlines, says Danish company Fischernet.
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NewsScallop dredge sea trials show cost savings
Sea trials to test the use of more cost effective materials and components in Queen Scallop dredges have shown cost savings and positive environmental benefits in reducing seabed impact, leaving less sand in the dredge, much cleaner queens and a reduction in the King Scallop bycatch.
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Global competition seeks to net smartest hook, line and sinker
A $US 57,500 prize fund is on offer for the best new fishing gears designed to reduce bycatch in the fourth International Smart Gear Competition, launched by WWF.
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Trawlers switch to Dyneema® D-Netting
Dutch netting and rope producer, Van Beelen BV, began this year with a large increase in demand for its Dyneema® D-Netting, thanks to successful trial results from New Zealand customer, Motueka Nets, last year.
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NewsBrazil pledges to help save seabirds
Brazil has recently formally ratified a major global seabird treaty.
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NewsSecond West Coast longliner installs WESMAR stabilizers
Captain Rodney McVicker is the second West Coast longliner to install WESMAR stabilizers and as a result, he reports more steady and plentiful fishing.
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Saving time and money
According to fishermen, the Oilwind''s new AutoLine System makes work easier and saves a lot of time and money.
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Focus on trawl geometry and save on the fuel bill
Scanmar has always focused on developing equipment that will help fishermen increase efficiency, save costs, prevent damage to the gear and reduce wear and tear.
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News'Net losses' for South African seabirds
A study of trawl fishing in South Africa suggests that around 18,000 seabirds may be killed annually in this fishery, highlighting trawl fisheries as a major threat to seabirds, especially several species of albatross already facing a risk of extinction.
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Xstream technology - reduced turbulence
Over the last 18 months Hampidjan has been carrying out a great deal of development work on the company’s Poly Ice trawl doors.
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Triple the catch with SuperSquall
In 2006, according to an order by Murmansk Trawl Fleet, Fishering Service constructed and commissioned the ''SuperSquall'' mid-water trawl for the blue whiting fishery.
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NewsLine fishers catching fewer...birds
Safeguards introduced in recent years to protect seabirds from longline fishing activities are successfully reducing the number of accidental bird kills, and experts are now calling for similar measures to be used in other forms of industrial fishing in areas where seabirds are at greatest risk.
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NewsDecisions based on facts
An optimal trawling process is always dependent on the quality and the quantity of information provided to the decision maker.
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New way of mounting gillnets
A new way of mounted gillnets has been invented by Icelandic company Neptunas.
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NOAA names trawl gear for fisherman involved in its invention
NOAA’s Fisheries Service has named a fishing trawl recently approved for use in the Northeast for its co-inventor, Phil Ruhle. The Rhode Island commercial fisherman was lost at sea in July when his vessel sank off the New Jersey coast.
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NewsNew ATW-CatchControl system
Naust Marine will be promoting its ATW-CatchControl system at Icefish 2008, marketing manager, Helgi Kristjánsson tells World Fishing.
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Traditional equipment on display
Isfell will be showing traditional equipment at Icefish 2008, explains managing director, Hólmsteinn Björnsson.
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Marport announces trawl geometry system
Marport Canada Inc has announced its new trawl geometry system. TrueTrawl™ is a wireless monitoring system designed to improve trawl geometry in pelagic and bottom trawling operations.
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NewsHawaii longline logbook summary report
The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Part of NOAA''s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has released a report of the fish catch and fishing effort of Hawaii-based longline vessels during the first quarter of 2008. World Fishing looks at the data.
