Jan Klein, V\u00f3nin Canada’s sales manager, was onboard the vessel for a few days, trying out the V\u00f3nin shrimp grid and V\u00f3nin says that the results were quite remarkable. The V\u00f3nin Grid was mounted in the portside trawl, while the starboard trawl had another grid with the same amount of space between the bars.<\/p>\n
Skipper Andrew Titus said of the grid: “We had an opportunity to try one of V\u00f3nin’s new shrimp grids. On the first 105t we caught with twin trawls, the Vonin shrimp grid out-fished our regular grid by 30t. After that we were hooked on it. On short tows of two hours or less it would almost double our regular grid. On tows from two to four hours it still out-fished our regular grid by one and a half to two tons. We found the V\u00f3nin grid to be of excellent construction and easy to deal with on deck and look forward to using it in the future.”<\/p>\n
In many areas, vessels are required to use a grid, for example when fishing shrimp in Canada, Greenland and Norway. V\u00f3nin has its own plastic grid for this purpose. With the vertical bars raised over the horizontal ones, there is nothing going across the sorting surface, and this means close to optimum sorting. The bars can easily be replaced if damaged or bent. The frame of the grid is also very solid and strong.<\/p>\n
Some skippers call the grid a revolution, because it has a much better water flow and catching capability than other grids on the market.<\/p>\n
The Greenland vessel Akamalik mounted the old grid in one trawl and the new V\u00f3nin shrimp grid in another and they could see that the trawl mounted with the new grid had a greater catch and sorting of shrimps in the bag in every tow.<\/p>\n
The Faroese pelagic trawler Finnur Fr\u00ed\u00f0i has received its new 1856m hex mesh herring trawl.<\/p>\n
The trawl is custom-made for the 11,000 horse power vessel. The forenet is spliced from the new double braided Super-12 net twines. The head rope is Dyneema and the foot rope is chain with polyester cover. The belly is made from braided nylon netting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the largest and most modern shrimp trawlers in Canadian waters is the Mersey Phoenix owned by Mersey Seafoods Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-gear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","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=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}