Fishing Gear
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NewsReCon expands ghost gear removal
Project ReCon expands globally, repurposing fishing buoys for marine conservation and helping safeguard ocean health
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NewsUNOC 2025 echoes down under: New FAO data, Aussie innovation and the future of fishing
Australian scientists and fishers highlight local innovation and global momentum to protect ocean biodiversity in the wake of the UN Ocean Conference
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NewsStudying Normandy’s whelk fishery
A number of gaps remain in the knowledge relating to this important fishery pursued by around 130 fishing vessels in the region
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NewsSecond South Atlantic trawler from Galician yard
Built for the Orion Fishing Company, Argos Berbés was delivered by the Nodosa yard in Marín for the year’s first Falklands squid season
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NewsRecycle Môr: Wales turns the tide on abandoned fishing gear
But successful recycling programme is now struggling to keep up with demand due to limited funding
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NewsReport: Innovation and technology key to reducing marine by-catch, protecting endangered species
High-risk areas ascertained for endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) by-catch in UK seafood supply chains
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NewsFirst net from recycled material
Consortium of companies in Norway and Iceland have put into use netting derived from recycled fishing gear
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NewsTersan launches Aurora Fisheries’ new factory freezer trawler
Takapo set to bring the latest advancements in energy efficiency to New Zealand’s deepsea fishing grounds
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NewsZunibal, AZTI develop new biodegradable FAD
The new platform will now have its durability assessed under real fishing conditions
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NewsKadis urged to affirm stance on bottom trawling
NGOs, industry and scientific community call for a destructive fishing ban in EU’s marine protected areas
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NewsAmbitious thinking behind new factory trawler
Bluewild’s Ecofive has been handed over for the last stages of outfitting before testing the array of new systems on board
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NewsIconic DNG jigging reel revamped
Until now, the reels that first appeared in the 1980s were so far ahead of their time that the intervening years brought only minimal changes
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NewsSelective gears helping rebuild Baltic cod stocks
New EU legislation for flatfish fisheries aimed at reducing incidental catches of heavily-depleted cod
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NewsProject tackling marine plastics problem with circular fishing gear
EU-funded SEARCULAR looking to prevent thousands of tonnes of marine plastic ending up in the ocean each year
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NewsVónin quad-rig shrimp gear for EcoFive
Innovative trawler, under construction for Norwegian fishing company Bluewild, promises to attract plenty of attention when it starts fishing
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NewsPelagic pair team complete
Eilean Croine is part of a longstanding pair trawling partnership with Sparkling Star, delivered a year previously
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NewsShining a new light on shrimp trawling
The recipient of the IceFish 2024 Outstanding Skipper Award, Eiríkur Sigurðsson has brought a new level of imagination to the job
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NewsBiodegradable approach to tropical tuna fisheries
In collaboration with the AZTI Technology Centre, Spanish company Zunibal has begun validation tests on its new floating and submerged fish aggregation devices
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NewsIndia’s shrimp industry loses $500m to US ban
America’s ban on importing wild-caught shrimp from India has been taking its toll on fishers’ livelihoods
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NewsControllable doors ready to go demersal
Esbjerg company MLD is working on applying this new technology to demersal fisheries
