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FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

At Norshipping in June Mustad Longline and Havyard their cooperation in a project designed to revolutionise longline fishing on a global scale. The two companies will now work together on the development…

1st September 2009

Major longlining project

1st September 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Kongsberg Maritime has announced that its 100th deep-water multibeam echo sounder system has been ordered and will be delivered in November 2009 to the US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO).

1st September 2009

Kongsberg Maritime receives 100th deep-water multibeam order

1st September 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Brian Styke, Master of the 334-foot Bering Sea factory trawler Arctic Storm, says that WESMARs powerful HD850 sonar has the ability to find the fish other sonars miss.”

1st September 2009

Finding the bigger fish

1st September 2009

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

C A Clase showed the SeaCross CX100 navigation system at Seawork 2009 for the first time. Complete with unique radar functions, incredible system reaction time and an easy to use interface, the…

1st September 2009

C A Clase presents SeaCross CX100

1st September 2009

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The latest completion by Macduff Shipyards Limited is the Ellorah for the Shaulora Fishing Company Limited, which will be skippered by Graeme Buchan and Graeme Smart, owners of the company.

1st September 2009

Ellorah

1st September 2009

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Live lobsters from Nova Scotia, Canada, are now being shipped to Europe by sea, a method of transport that considerably reduces the cost compared with airfreight, which had always been used. It…

1st September 2009

Sea takes over from air for shipping live lobsters to Europe

1st September 2009

NEWS

NEWS

Industry demands SPFRO - Day by day, Chile’s dwindling fishing grounds become more and more depleted due to the lack of control and regulation over fisheries in the South Pacific Ocean, reports…

1st September 2009

Chile

1st September 2009

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Every so often it may be worth taking a deeper look at how your operation runs and how it is protected from risk. The old adage of ‘wash your hands’ is the…

1st September 2009

Time to clean out

1st September 2009

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Worrying news - US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists have now confirmed that their satellite data indicates development in the central Pacific Ocean of a new El Niño of not…

1st September 2009

A new El Niño looming – but how strong?

1st September 2009

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Last month, this column dealt with only a few of the subjects brought up by the EU’s 2009 Green Paper (GP). Here are some more:

1st September 2009

EU Green Paper part 2

1st September 2009