Fishing Gear

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