Fishing Gear – Page 19
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NewsWWF’s International Smart Gear Competition
The third annual WWF International Smart Gear Competition, launched in early February, is seeking new designs for fishing gear that reduces marine bycatch – the accidental catch and related deaths of marine mammals, birds, sea turtles and fish species in fishing gear.
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ASDA casts out old fishing hooks
UK supermarket ASDA has teamed up with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and fishermen in Sri Lanka in a bid to save thousands of endangered marine turtles that are accidentally snagged by longline fishing hooks each year.
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NewsMarport announces Trawl Explorer G2
Marport, a leading subsea acoustics technology company, has announced availability of its second generation digital net sounder.
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NewsNew line thrower L-75
Although the main business of Vónin Ltd. is trawl, the company sees the importance in providing vessels with products that increase efficiency and safety onboard vessels.
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NewsPair trawling in Scotland
Pair trawling is becoming more popular in Northern Europe, with over 25 vessels pair trawling in the Faeroes. Many of these have chosen Scantrol’s iSYM PairLink to control and monitor the trawl winches.
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HB Grandi forms new company
Icelandic company HB Grandi hf., the company with the largest quota in the oceans around Iceland, has announced that it is to form a daughter company, Atlantic Pelagic B.V., in The Netherlands.
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NewsLeading in a competitive sea
Euronete says that it''s commitment to the fishing industry is “Leading in a competitive Sea” and, due to this commitment, the company is continuing to develop new products and improve the present product range.
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NewsHigh visibility fishing rainwear
One of the best known names in the supply of clothing to the fishing industry is Stormline-Leda Corporation. Stormline is based in Invercargill the Southernmost City of New Zealand’s South Island, close to the major fishing port of Bluff.
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Neptune doors in Gulf shrimp fishing
During the last year, Western Seafood Company, Inc., through its subsidiary Marine & Industrial Specialities (MIS), has been trialling fishing gear with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and increasing operational efficiency, and Polar Fishing Gear was involved in the trawl doors project where several types of trawl doors were ...
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NewsWarning for beam trawlers after Belgian tragedy
The latest report to be published, in November 2006, by the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) concerns the loss of a beam trawler through snagging of its trawl gear.
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Netmark’s latest development
Since Netmark A/S opened its production plant in Lithuania in 2003, the company has gone from strength to strength.
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Introducing the ‘Cosmos 3000’
Danish shrimp trawl specialist Cosmos Trawl A/S is increasing it’s efforts to ease the difficulties faced by the cold water shrimping market by introducing the Cosmos 3000 – a new ground fish trawl.
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Hemmer T90 – new bottom trawl from Fjarðanet
Fjarðanet’s netmaker and trawl designer Hermann Guðmundsson has developed a revolutionary new demersal trawl that is constructed differently to demersal trawls already on the market.
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NewsLonglining the Mustad way
Until the early 1970s, baiting, coiling and handling longline gear was done by hand. Nowadays, however, this can be done automatically with the Mustad Autoline System. There are three major phases to autolining:
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NewsSimple steps to responsible longlining
Despite being introduced to reduce the amount of by-catch caused by trawling, longlining still attracts a variety of animals that are not their targets – albatrosses and other seabirds among them.
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Simulation for tuna seining
As computer software reaches into every area of fisheries, the design of seine nets is no exception. French netting specialist Le Drezen has pioneered the use of a unique modelling software program that digitally simulates a haul, thus helping vessel owners and skippers to design the seine best suited to ...
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Positive feedback for Sapphire
Sapphire, the flagship brand of PE compact nettings from the Indian manufacturer Garware Wall Ropes Ltd, is becoming more and more popular amongst trawl owners around the world, with a particularly good response from skippers in South Africa and Namibia.
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NewsTrawl monitoring for “Bergur Huginn” and “Gjogur”
Marport, a marine technology company that designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of acoustic sensing, processing and communications products, announced in early August that it has been selected as the supplier of complete trawl monitoring and net sounder systems for the fresh fish trawlers “Bergur Huginn” NB44 and “Gjogur” NB45.
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NewsNeptune for I&J vessels
Earlier this year, the South African based Irvin & Johnson purchased a pair of 8m2, 3400kg Polar Neptune trawl doors for their Sterkoder type, “Bluebell”.
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NewsNotus vessels see immediate fishing improvements
According to Notus Electonics Ltd, “install Notus and you see improved fishing immediately”. The company claims that this has been the result for the ever increasing number of trawlers installing the Trawlmaster.
