Fishing Gear

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The European Union has adopted new legislation to make the flatfish fisheries in the Baltic Sea more selective by reducing incidental catches of cod, a heavily depleted stock, with the use of more…

16th December 2024

Selective gears helping rebuild Baltic cod stocks

16th December 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Combining research and industry expertise from across Europe, EU-funded project SEARCULAR is trialling circular fishing gear solutions, which, if scaled up, could prevent thousands of tonnes of marine plastic ending up in…

11th November 2024

Project tackling marine plastics problem with circular fishing gear

11th November 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The 72-metre trawler is packed with innovation and even before its delivery has won several awards for the new thinking and imagination that have gone into its design. These include the Norwegian…

4th November 2024

Vónin quad-rig shrimp gear for EcoFive

4th November 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The steel hull of the 31-metre, 8.7-metre beam Eilean Croine was fabricated in Poland and brought to Killybegs for outfitting by Mooney Boats. This new vessel is designed as a pelagic trawler…

28th October 2024

Pelagic pair team complete

28th October 2024

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

He’s only just stepped ashore – temporarily – from freezer trawler Reval Viking, one of the fleet of trawlers operated by Icelandic-owned Estonian company Reyktal. Now he’s facing a new challenge to…

10th October 2024

Shining a new light on shrimp trawling

10th October 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) have become a vital tool for tropical tuna fisheries and a need has developed to modify and simplify their construction to reflect the demands of both the industry…

12th September 2024

Biodegradable approach to tropical tuna fisheries

12th September 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The US ban on importing wild-caught shrimp from India has badly affected the livelihood of a large number of fishers, with a new status report on conservation and trade policies estimating a…

2nd September 2024

India’s shrimp industry loses $500m to US ban

2nd September 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Esbjerg company MLD is one of the pioneers of controllable trawl doors, and while this development has been focused on the pelagic sector, the company is also working on applying this technology…

5th August 2024

Controllable doors ready to go demersal

5th August 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A new fishing gear production facility in the Danish port of Skagen is expected to be ready for use this summer as the new Cosmos Trawl net loft takes shape.

5th August 2024

New net loft takes shape on Skagen quayside

5th August 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Although innovative tech company Marelec has expanded in recent years into sophisticated weighing and processing systems, the company’s roots lie in deck and winch systems for fishing vessels – and it hasn’t…

8th July 2024

Ready to revolutionise beam trawling with AI

8th July 2024

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

A UK fisheries and security firm has developed an innovative acoustic location device to help fishing boats find lost gear.

1st July 2024

UK tech helps solve the ghost gear crisis

1st July 2024

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

FISHING TECHNOLOGY

Garware Technical Fibres has unveiled reportedly the first rope made solely from recycled fibres.

29th May 2024

Garware unveils first fully recycled rope

29th May 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A collaborative project with creel fishers has successfully trialled a simple and relatively low-cost solution to the problem of whale entanglement that could be rolled out internationally saving many whales and sharks.

24th May 2024

New gear trials successfully prevent whale entanglements

24th May 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A collaborative project between a group of partners to recycle nylon fishing and aquaculture gear could become an industry turning point, depending on the outcome of full-scale trials now in progress.

3rd April 2024

Circularity breakthrough could be a game-changer

3rd April 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

TorNet, the Spanish arm of Icelandic fishing gear group Hampiðjan, is moving after being in the same building since 2010. The company isn’t moving far, but is going to a more suitable…

10th March 2024

TorNet in new Las Palmas net loft

10th March 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The owners of Wave Crest went to Mooney Boats in Killybegs for their two multi-purpose fishing vessels capable of seine netting and working a variety of trawl gears.

26th February 2024

Multi-purpose Wave Crest joins sister vessel

26th February 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The new gear has only a third of the weight of a comparable set of rockhopper gear and as it generates less seabed contact, this is seen as producing less bottom impact…

26th February 2024

Testing gentler ground gear

26th February 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A pod system for retrieving longline catches developed by engineer Omar Sørvik has been a key part of the fishing strategy of Norwegian-operated, Montevideo-registered longliner Ocean Azul from the outset of an…

22nd January 2024

No more free lunch – eliminating whale depredation

22nd January 2024

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Fishing and aquaculture equipment developer Vónin P/F has finalised the takeover of Mørenot Scotland, with the business renamed Vónin UK Ltd and now trading as Vónin Scotland.

15th January 2024

Vónin grows Scottish presence with Mørenot takeover

15th January 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A lost section of a trawl has been returned and put back to use – more than a year after it came fast in the Barents Sea.

3rd January 2024

Lost trawl gear returned from Svalbard

3rd January 2024