Fishing Gear

Alan Haig-Brown caught up with Captain Josh Trosvig at the beginning of October as he was onboard his new longliner ‘Cerulean’, after leaving Alaska for fishing grounds in the Aleutian Island chain…

Danish producer of fishing equipment, Grønborg Line, has developed a new lead-free line for industrial fishing.

Skipper Karsten Mølgaard from Hirtshals has reported that getting a new set of 15 VF flying trawl doors from Thyborøn Trawldoors was a “very good experience”.

All vessels over 12m operating in certain waters around the UK now have two months to demonstrate compliance with an existing EU regulation to reduce cetacean bycatch, effective from 1 July 2013.

During February the Gear Technology section of Seafish held three trawl gear technology courses for fishermen from England, the last to be funded within the current project, reports Mike Montgomerie, Seafish Gear…

Australian fishermen operating in the South East Trawl fishery have come up with a new device to scare birds away from warp lines.

Polar Fishing Gear’s Poseidon Remote Controllable Trawl Doors have completed successful sea trials onboard the 70m Icelandic research vessel, Árni Fridriksson.

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…

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…

Belgian company MARELEC is presenting its latest trawl control system, MARELEC D.

Technicold by Northern Lights has been selected to supply the cooling and heating system on the environmentally friendly longliner Northern Leader.

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…

Following several years of great performance and results, DIS is presenting the DIS Cloud cleaning system and the D-SAN disinfection product to the Norwegian market.

Low water fishing for sand eel in the North Sea has been put in the spotlight by Danish scientists in order to sedure the future of both the fish stock and the…

Novacavi has recently developed a bespoke composite tow cable, with a special heavy armour and breaking strength higher than 1000kN, to be used in sea fishing systems for flatfish.

Iceland-based trawl door design and manufacturing company, Polar Fishing Gear, has reported good results with its Jupiter t4 model of pelagic doors, especially on high speed fishing for mackerel and herring.