Fishing Gear

Work is well underway on a new industrial harbour at Dhabba in Yemen and it will be the largest facility of its kind on the Southern Arabian Peninsula. According to a Deutz…

Germanys echanische Netzfabrik of Oldenburg, reports the recent introduction of a full range of nylon fishing nets with very small meshes and strong, heavy duty twine.

The growing trend for hull building in Poland continues with two new pairtrawlers for Faroes home port Leirvik which have been fitted out by Faroes company Vónin Ltd., based in Fuglafjørdur .

Norways Simrad reports it will be launching new catch monitoring systems in May, the PI44 and PI54 and in the meantime it is putting a new height sensor on the market.

Egersund Trål AS from Norway says that it has been able to get the average fuel cost down as much as 15 per cent and improved the catch rate for large vessels…

After one year of developments, Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group has just launched Blue Fin Combination Rope, a new combination rope made out of double galvanised wires and with improved Eurosteel yarns to…

Scanmar of Norway are working on a prototype for bottom sensing which they believe is so good that patents are being applied for. Part of their work has been on board Norways…

Morgère France say their aeroplane is the most popular of their mid-water trawls and it has been in use for 14 years since they designed it with the French National Institute for…

Cyclone-hit folk on shore and sea

Money has been put up for New Zealander Malcolm McNeill and Jakob Hals from Norway to go to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean to work with French longline fishermen on techniques…