Fishing Gear – Page 24
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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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Poles tailor Baltic trawl for pelagics
Polish company Baltic Net says it is working on a prototype for a new pelagic trawl especially designed to operate in the Baltic pelagic fishery.
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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 ...
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Sparks vs water power
The Atlantic Enterprise (AE), now fishing prawns off Canada, is the world''s first trawler with a complete electrical AC winch control system, provided by Vacon, whose liquid-cooled NX system is controlling the vessel''s 19 AC winches. This means the Danish company Ocean Prawns vessel enjoys the same towing capabilities as ...
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Illante's new separator helps with regulations
ILLANTE S.L. has launched the Hydrocarbon Separator SKIT/S.
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Scantrol develops pair trawl system
New integrated pair trawl system goes towards more efficient fishing - Scantrol has developed a new system for pair trawlers which simplifies the fishery a lot. Earlier the fishermen needed to update each others manually over the radio. This was time consuming, difficult to do and brought along a lot ...
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SimuTrawl from Korea proves its worth
SimuTrawl has been developed by MPSL. MPSL is founded by Marine Production System Laboratory, College of Fisheries Science, Pukyong National University in Korea.
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Olfish presents management dataOlfish presents management data
OLFISH is a unique electronic fishery management system developed by the South African company, OLRAC. OLFISH should not be confused with navigational or charting software. It is a completely unique, intelligent database solution for the capture and management of all fishing data in either real time or from old records. ...
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ROFFS forecasting to be linked to vessel navigation system
Fish forecasting specialists ROFFS, has just announced that all of the five ROFFS Fishing Forecasting Analyses products will be in a format for their clients to download and input directly to their computerized navigation systems.
