Fishing Gear – Page 10
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NewsAustralian fishermen design water sprayer to help protect seabirds
Australian fishermen operating in the South East Trawl fishery have come up with a new device to scare birds away from warp lines.
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Poly-DK becomes Nordic Rope
Danish company Poly-DK, specialist in the development of fibre-based ropes and lines for industrial, marine and offshore, has changed its name to Nordic Rope Aps.
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Revolutionary doors from Polar
Polar Fishing Gear’s Poseidon Remote Controllable Trawl Doors have completed successful sea trials onboard the 70m Icelandic research vessel, Árni Fridriksson.
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New environmentally friendly wire rope
Asia One Marine has introduced its Fishcable this year, which aims to reduce pollution caused by ropes greased with petrol based or synthetic chemical greases.
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New generation of multibeam sonars from WASSP
Multibeam sonar manufacturer WASSP Ltd has announced details of the company’s latest range of multibeam sonar’s, now for all commercial applications.
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Mustad’s latest line hauler
Mustad Longline has released a new hauling solution - the SuperHauler H3200, which replaces the H3000.
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Case study: María dels Angels doubles catches
Spanish trawler María dels Angels has been using Notus’s trawl monitoring system over the last two years and has learned a lot about his gear and how to double catch rates in some areas.
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New fishing rope development centre opens
Rope manufacturer Bridon has invested £5m in the recently-launched Bridon Technology Centre (BTC), built for the development of fishing ropes.
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New Chilean fisheries laws
Chile has established a set of new fisheries laws protecting underwater sea mountains, limiting bycatch and setting science based quotas, protecting 150,000km² of marine habitat.
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Industry gathers at launch of rope factory
Industry leaders from companies including Heerema, NOV, and Certex assembled in Northern England at the end of November to watch UK business minister Michael Fallon open a facility that will manufacture the world’s largest ropes.
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MARELEC presents new trawl control
Belgian company MARELEC is presenting its latest trawl control system, MARELEC D.
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Notus celebrates 20th anniversary
Incorporated in Newfoundland in 1992 by Brad Henderson, Notus Electronics Ltd is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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Ibecisa delivers winches to Trident Seafoods
Ibercisa has delivered two winches to North American company Trident Seafoods for installation onboard the Kodiak Enterprise.
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Hovercran helps reduce bycatch
In cooperation with the Belgian Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO), MARELEC has successfully designed and installed its HV1 ‘Hovercran’ electronic fishing gear on multiple shrimp beam trawlers.
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New ‘Afognak Strait’ longliner for Alaska
Kevin O’Leary and his vessel partner, Walter Sargent, have taken delivery of their new longliner.
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Technicold selected for longliner
Technicold by Northern Lights has been selected to supply the cooling and heating system on the environmentally friendly longliner Northern Leader.
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Indian vessel saved by rope made with Dyneema®
Indian company Garware-Wall Ropes Ltd, a household name in the Indian fishing community through its close bond with fishermen, has recently introduced Plateena rope, produced with Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™.
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WireCo acquires Lankhorst Euronete
WireCo WorldGroup Inc, producer of wire rope, electromechanical cable and wire products, has completed the acquisition of Koninklijke (Royal) Lankhorst Euronete Group B.V.
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Better quality can increase incomes
Cod trawlers can increase catch value by more than NOK200m per year if the price difference between autoline and trawled fish caught at sea fish is halved, and new technology onboard trawlers can contribute to achieving this.
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Low-flying doors save fuel
The low-flying 15 VFB trawl door from Thyborøn Trawldoor has been thoroughly tested for bottom trawling onboard the Nueve Joven Josefina of Minorca.
