Fishing Gear – Page 5
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NewsIbercisa at work on the fishing grounds
Earlier this year three technicians from Ibercisa Deck Machinery went to sea with America’s Finest to optimise and adjust the trawl winches supplied to the new trawler owned by Fishermen’s Finest.
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NewsDoes sustainability depend on technology?
You don’t tend to hear the ‘plenty more fish in the sea’ phrase quite so often these days. Apart from this expression being a bland platitude, it’s more significant that the phrase is in danger of becoming a literal falsehood.
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NewsSNG introduces new Excluder
A marine mammal caught in a trawl never fails to be a nightmare. Gear designers at Killybegs fishing gear company Swan Net Gundry have a simple innovation to avoid this situation – saving both the fisherman and the mammals much grief.
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News?Irish fleet does well in albacore season
With over a dozen Irish pelagic and polyvalent vessels currently working south of Ireland and as far down as the Bay of Biscay in their attempt to fill their annual albacore tuna quota, SNG tuna trawls are a strong presence in this fishery.
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NewsT90 mesh for whitefish discard reduction
Trials with 90mm T90 codends showed major reductions in catches of undersize roundfish, increased monkfish and no loss in flatfish species, reports BIM Fisheries Conservation Manager Dr Ronán Cosgrove.
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NewsHampiðjan’s fibre-optic data breakthrough
A new fibre-optic data cable developed by Hampiðjan represents a breakthrough in the speed at which data can be channelled from trawl sensors to a trawler’s wheelhouse.
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NewsResqunit sets up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
The Norwegian venture behind the innovative flotation device designed to allow lost lobster and crab gear to be retrieved has set up in Canada, with its new headquarters in the Dartmouth Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship’s (COVE) Start-Up Yard.
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NewsIncreased visibility with illuminated nets
Scientists are testing nets illuminated with LED lights to see if increasing net visibility reduces sea turtle bycatch in gillnet fisheries.
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NewsFishtek Marine crowdfunds bycatch prevention
Marine bycatch prevention pioneer Fishtek Marine has netted its full £900,000 impact investment crowdfunding via the Triodos Bank UK crowdfunding platform, enabling Fishtek to develop its range of products, conduct more live sea trials and help enhance global awareness.
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NewsKiwi technology approved for inshore fishery
After seven years of trials, Fisheries New Zealand has approved the use of the Modular Harvest System (MHS) in North Island inshore fisheries for snapper, tarakihi, trevally, red gurnard, and John Dory, with specific conditions.
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NewsIdeal selectivity combination
Experience of a T90 mackerel codend rigged on DynIce Quicklines has been excellent on both mackerel and herring, according to one of Síldarvinnslan’s pelagic skippers.
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NewsFishering Service: Pulling the strings
The days of chasing fish and hoping for the best belong in the past, according to Andrey Fedorov, director of fishing gear manufacturer Fishering Service.
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NewsGearingUp gets ready for growth
The GearingUp project, set up as an online tool capable of being used to share technical fishing gear information in anticipation of the Landing Obligation, is now heading for a version 2.0 now that the crucial 1st January 2019 date has passed.
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NewsEvery fish alive
Four panel codends, made in netting with a T90 configuration and rigged on Quicklines, have led to higher quality catches for one of HB Grandi’s fresher trawlers.
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NewsThyborøn’s trawl door technology leap
Switching to a pair of Type 23 Bluestream semi-pelagic trawl doors has boosted gear spread by an impressive 50 metres, reports Tonni Karlsen, skipper of Norwegian trawler Ole-Arvid Nergård.
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NewsFull trawl door control is here
The first full-scale trials with a pair of controllable Poseidon doors developed by Icelandic company Polar Trawl Doors has shown that the concept works and that adjustment of doors during a tow is here.
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NewsShrimp trawl setup as good as new after two years
Delivered at the beginning of 2017 and designed to fish shrimp all year round, Newfoundland Victor operates across different areas and fishing grounds that range from practically clean to rugged ground where gear damage is inevitable.
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NewsBetter economy with Thyborøn Type 23 doors
Based on the company’s experience with its Type 14 doors, Thyborøn Trawldoor has introduced its new BlueStream Type 23 semi-pelagic doors. These powerful doors are predicted to result in significant fuel savings when demersal fishing, with no reduction in catches.
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NewsAll the spread with Storm doors
Expensive doors can turn out to be the cheapest doors, according to Vónin’s Søren Havmand. He explained that the company’s Storm demersal doors were designed without even thinking about the cost, as the design team set out their criteria.
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NewsVónin pelagic gear scores on mackerel
Greenlandic trawler Markus took delivery of its 1680 pelagic trawl from Vónin last year, ahead of the mackerel fishery, and finished the season as the top catcher, and since then Vónin has supplied the same trawl type to Russian company Dobroflot for fishing mackerel and herring.
