The Trawlmaster installs on single, twin, triple and quad rigs. A typical installation monitors the spread on each net, measures all trawl wires and provides a middle wire adjustment. Other sensors include headline height, depth, temperature and catch.<\/p>\n
Two examples of improved fishing can seen on the FV \u201cScarlet Chord\u201d and FV \u201cCopious\u201d.<\/p>\n
Skipper John McKee of the \u201cScarlet Chord\u201d says, \u201cbefore we were guessing and now we are sure. We certainly increased our gross with Notus.\u201d One specific example he provides, \u201cwhen going from hard to soft bottom you can see the gear is under-spreading and make the proper adjustments. Now if I tow for six hours and if prawns are on the ground, I know I’m for a good haul.\u201d In setting up new trawl gear John comments he has had \u201cnew nets and new doors set up very quickly. Normally this would have taken much more time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skipper Mark Anderson of the \u201cCopious\u201d has also seen immediate payback from the Trawlmaster. He says \u201con the first tows the readings from Notus showed we were over-spreading the gear and that when the engine speed dropped below 1150 rpm, the doors became unstable.\u201d<\/p>\n
On adjusting the wires, Mark comments \u201cimplementing the small adjustment for the length of the middle wire calculated by the Notus system has immediate benefits in terms of gear opening.\u201d In reference to the detailed spread history, Mark says \u201cthe pattern of the doorspread achieved throughout the tow is useful, as any changes quickly become apparent and you can avoid wasting fuel when continuing to tow, for example, after a net has picked up a boulder or a sweep might have parted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to Notus Electonics Ltd, \u201cinstall Notus and you see improved fishing immediately\u201d. The company claims that this has been the result for the ever increasing number of trawlers installing the Trawlmaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-gear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}