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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Adrian Tatum charts the progress of the fishmeal industry over the past year

1st March 2004

Fishmeal industry stands firm

1st March 2004

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Quite often one side of the world does not know what the other is doing. That can be just as true of the European fishmeal industry which sources much of its product…

1st March 2004

Are you tricantering my man? Three-in-one for the price of two

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Trawling specialist Vónin Ltd has equipped the Finnur Fridi (see World Fishing, February), with toughened purse seining and pelagic trawling gear. Called the Blue Whiting trawl, it has a circumference of 2,048…

1st March 2004

Vónins Blue Whiting trawl goes on-board the Finnur Fridi

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Sicornete is about to launch a new, high-tenacity polyethylene product after three months of testing. It increases the strength of ropes and nets, using thinner ropes so it reduces trawl drag and…

1st March 2004

Sicornete — thinner and stronger

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Euronete, based in Oporto, and making heavy nets for bottom trawls and pelagic fishing, report they have opened a new braiding factory in the north of Portugal.

1st March 2004

Euronete factory

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Polish company Baltic Net says it is working on a prototype for a new pelagic trawl especially designed to operate in the Baltic pelagic fishery.

1st March 2004

Poles tailor Baltic trawl for pelagics

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Nets and ropes manufacturer, Quintas & Quintas, says it has not only seen an increase in its sales of nets to fish farms but this sector now represents 25 per cent of…

1st March 2004

Quintas & Quintas nets ponds

1st March 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

When a skipper or companys supply officer have to spend large sums of money on new nets, one of the problems they have is how do they decide which product is the…

1st March 2004

Fishnet tights: raw power, style or polyfibres?

1st March 2004

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Q. This year, 89% of the Irish Sea fleet will be free of the 'days-at-sea' system. The overall quota for Ireland has increased 8% over last year. All this seems to be…

1st March 2004

Balancing political fish logs at home and abroad

1st March 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

MAN B&W says that more than 100 of its new engines have now been ordered. The L21/31 orders are mainly for Holeby-GenSets for large vessels and Alpha propulsion plants for small and…

8th February 2004

New propulsion from MAN B&W

8th February 2004

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The Atlantic Enterprise (AE), now fishing prawns off Canada, is the worlds first trawler with a complete electrical AC winch control system, provided by Vacon, whose liquid-cooled NX system is controlling the…

8th February 2004

Sparks vs water power

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fiskekroken AS of Norway has installed a Sunwell Variable-State Ice system for its salmon-packing plant, part of Safish AS. The bulk of the company is now owned by Salten Aqua Invest, a…

8th February 2004

Fiskekroken Deepchills

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Ice-maker machine company YORK Marine has opened a permanent office in Vigo (Spain).

8th February 2004

YORK Marine takes permafrost office to sunny Vigo

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

US albacore tuna fishermen have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test them and their wives and children for side effects from methylmercury. The move is seen as a strategic…

8th February 2004

American tuna fishers offer own bodies to challenge mercury

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

French company ACELMA has launched DATANET, a low-cost and simpler version of its wireless geometry and trawl-positioning system GEONET. The new software provides spread-door data and can be uprated by adding functions…

8th February 2004

Making it cheaper with DATANET

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

ARELEC says it has developed a unique, twin-rig control using precision warp-pull meters for additional control of the fishing gear.

8th February 2004

MARELECs push and pull warp speed

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

UK-based McMurdo Pains-Wessex has now received full UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency approval for its F1 VHF radio with Class D Digital Selective Calling (DSC).

8th February 2004

Easy-to-use VHF with mobile phone features

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian director general of fisheries Peter Gullestad and director Odd Berg have been appointed Comendador and Caballero, respectively, of the Chilean Order of Bernardo OHiggins.

8th February 2004

OHiggins for Norway from Chile

8th February 2004

NEWS

NEWS

The row between scientists, over risks from toxins in fishmeal for farmed fish, sparked by Science magazine, may boost prospects for Alaskas wild salmon. Pilar Santamaria reports. - Last months report in…

8th February 2004

Alaska

8th February 2004

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Thrane & Thrane have announced that the companys mini-C solution for Ship Security Alert System (SSAS), the Capsat® Ship Security Alert (TT-3000SSA), as the first Inmarsat-C based solution, has been approved by…

23rd January 2004

Capsat gets Lloyds approval

23rd January 2004