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Boeing buys C-Map
The Boeing Company recently announced it has concluded its purchase of C-Map, a leading provider of digital maritime cartography, data services and other navigational information.
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McMurdo acquired by Digital Angel
Late last year, Digital Angel Corp’s UK subsidiary Signature Industries, entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets and customer contracts of McMurdo Ltd, the UK’s premier manufacturer of emergency location beacons, from Chemring Group PLC.
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Viking recalls RescYouTM life rafts
Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S is recalling its RescYouTM life rafts, after being informed that there are potential problems with the pressure relief valves.
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NewsSearch and rescue boost for Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Another gap in the effective search and rescue coverage along the coast of Africa and out into the Indian and Atlantic Oceans was filled in January with the inauguration of a new Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) in Cape Town, South Africa.
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NewsWWF’s International Smart Gear Competition
The third annual WWF International Smart Gear Competition, launched in early February, is seeking new designs for fishing gear that reduces marine bycatch – the accidental catch and related deaths of marine mammals, birds, sea turtles and fish species in fishing gear.
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ASDA casts out old fishing hooks
UK supermarket ASDA has teamed up with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and fishermen in Sri Lanka in a bid to save thousands of endangered marine turtles that are accidentally snagged by longline fishing hooks each year.
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NewsMarport announces Trawl Explorer G2
Marport, a leading subsea acoustics technology company, has announced availability of its second generation digital net sounder.
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NewsNew line thrower L-75
Although the main business of Vónin Ltd. is trawl, the company sees the importance in providing vessels with products that increase efficiency and safety onboard vessels.
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Simrad SP90 software upgrade
The popular Simrad SP90 fish finding sonar has been upgraded. A new software package offering new functionality is available from Simrad dealers around the world.
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NewsPair trawling in Scotland
Pair trawling is becoming more popular in Northern Europe, with over 25 vessels pair trawling in the Faeroes. Many of these have chosen Scantrol’s iSYM PairLink to control and monitor the trawl winches.
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HB Grandi forms new company
Icelandic company HB Grandi hf., the company with the largest quota in the oceans around Iceland, has announced that it is to form a daughter company, Atlantic Pelagic B.V., in The Netherlands.
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NewsLeading in a competitive sea
Euronete says that it''s commitment to the fishing industry is “Leading in a competitive Sea” and, due to this commitment, the company is continuing to develop new products and improve the present product range.
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NewsNozzle improves fishing efficiency
Built in 1988, MV “Trygvason” is a single-screw trawler originally equipped with an open-type, 2600mm-diameter CPP.
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NewsThe Seafish Fuel Efficiency Programme
The soaring price of fuel has become a major issue for the UK fishing industry in recent years, especially since it has come at a time of ever tighter quotas and other catch restrictions; all of which put extreme pressure on the viability of the fleet.
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NewsFuel savings and greater efficiency for new GE engine
GE Transportation has introduced new V250 12- and 16-cylinder medium-speed diesel engines for marine and stationary applications which are claimed to deliver fuel savings of as much as 6.5% compared to the company’s earlier models, and offer 25% greater power density in the compact designs, while meeting US Environmental Protection ...
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New GPS-DGPS sensors
SAM Electronics has introduced two high-precision R4 GPS and Differential GPS sensors designed for worldwide navigation aboard vessels of all types and sizes as well as delineation of fishing grounds and support of hydrographic surveying operations.
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Redfish tagging cruise
The Marine Research Institute (MRI) of Iceland recently conducted a redfish tagging cruise using Underwater Tagging Equipment (UTE) from Star-Oddi.
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Sonartron electronics for “Sanmar II”
Sonartron Limited has provided the full electronic equipment package to Irishman Patrick Friel’s latest vessel, the “Sanmar II”, making this latest edition to the inshore fleet the most technically advanced crabber built.
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News“With SEVSAT we are connected all the time”
Willum Anderson, chief engineer on the “Huginn VE-55”, a 68m Icelandic fishing vessel which used to be out of range 95% of the time, says that SEVSAT gives them internet and telephone access on fishing grounds far away from shore.
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New Olfish-2007
Olrac, the company that developed Olfish, the software for the collection, management and reporting of commercial fishing data, launched the new version of its software, Olfish-2007 in January 2007.
