Fishing Gear – Page 20
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New French fuel-saving netting
Le Drezen, the French manufacturers of twine and nets has joined the rush to offer fuel-saving gear with the launch of BrezTop. It is a combination of high tenacity monofilaments and a special twine construction and Le Drezen says this means it has a high breaking strength overall and especially ...
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Morgere celebrates 40 years selling its doors to Spain
French manufacturer of trawl doors Morgere is celebrating 40 years of presence within the Spanish fishing fleet.
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Indian Sapphire cuts Norwegian fuel
Sapphire is reported to be doing very well in different fisheries around the world.
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Jaya Nets expands its markets
Malaysian company Jaya Nets says that its trademark brand Eagle is doing very well in the international market, which now reaches 30 per cent of its production.
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Trawl gear to save on fuel
Hampidjan has introduced some new trawl products, aimed at lowering fuel costs, including Dynex warps, made from Dyneema to replace steel wire. It says the new rope is much lighter and Dynex warp 36mm weighs 0.7 kg/m in air compared to 6.0 kg/m for steel wire. For 2x1,800 m the ...
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Mobile Hands-free for tuna
US-based Lindgren-Pitman has launched a new electric fishing reel (LP S-1200) for artisanal boats targeting catch such as tuna in Ecuador.
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Daconet offers moving walls
Denmark''s Daconet has registered a patent on what it says is a revolutionary and simple way to assemble inner nets with wall meshes, using the already-known edgemesh twine.
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Longliners launch tuna world conservation plan
A group of 80, commercial longline fishing enterprises have issued a "Declaration on Responsible Fisheries" with a 12-point plan to ensure the sustainability of the world''s tuna resources. Meeting at the International Fishers Forum and International Conference on Responsible Tuna Fisheries in Yokohama, Japan at the end of July, a ...
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New hooks could save 90% turtles
Preliminary results from the first large-scale test of specially designed fishing hooks indicate they can reduce the number of endangered sea turtles killed in long-line fishing operations by as much as 90 per cent, while having almost no effect on the catch rate of targeted fish, according to the World ...
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Oval Foil does the job in Iceland
BRITTANY-based Morgère says it is doing well in Iceland with its oval foil door and has already put installations on more than 30 bottom trawlers there. Magnus Eyjolfsson, sales manager of Ã?sfell, distributor of Morgère in Iceland says what is getting sales is how simple it is to use the ...
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Stealth design smoothes way to net profit
DUTCH company Van Beelen says its thinner, profiled ropes and netting are selling well because they are improving fuel consumption and increasing towing speeds by at least 10-15 per cent.
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Hampidjan's latest at the IFE
ICELANDIC company Hampidjan will be showing its new Poly-Ice ''OPEX'' trawl door for the pelagic market at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition.
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Garware-Wall India maximises with Maxilon, value-added and feedback
In this second report from India, editor Pilar Santamaria, reports how Garware-Wall Ropes, Pune, is counting on innovation, quality and price to keep growing in a difficult market.
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India produces global weave
Indian manufacturer Garware-Wall Ropes ltd, keeps its 2,000 employees busy by working at full steam to introduce a whole new range of quality ropes and nets into the market. Pilar Santamaria reports from Pune and at Wai, 300km South of Mumbai, in India.
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Minister shoots out tentacles over seabird catch
In an unprecedented move, New Zealand''s Minister of Fisheries, David Benson-Pope has called the bulk of the country''s squid fishing fleet back to port to prevent seabird deaths.
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MasterCast from ORBIMAGE
ORBIMAGE has released version 6.0 of its software for its SeaStar Fisheries Information Service. It has its own satellite (OrbView-2), and the company says Captains can view the oceanographic maps created by its staff by installing the OrbMapâ„¢ software on a vessels PC. It says the new version allows a ...
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Prion hooked on nude snood
New Zealand-based Prion Technology says their new snood system is getting a positive response on the sea and they hope to sell it into a number of markets, according to director Andy P. Smith.
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Bunkering on the high seas
Per Funch-Nielsen, managing director of O.W. Icebunker Ltd., explains to Peter O''Neill how his company supplies vital fuel and provision to fishing vessels in some of the toughest conditions in the world.
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New 'sea wars light sabre'
US-based Omniglow says it is new 6" Flex-stick ultra lightstick outperforms any other commercial on the market. The company says that in the battle for fish all longliner fishermen know the secret to catching more is light.
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Yemen goes fishing for $30m harbour and new vessels
Work is well underway on a new industrial harbour at Dhabba in Yemen and it will be the largest facility of its kind on the Southern Arabian Peninsula. According to a Deutz Germany statement, the $30M project will house a state-of-the-art processing plant built to the latest ...
