Fishing Gear – Page 21
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
