Due to its pristine waters and ideal farming conditions, Iceland’s aquaculture industry is experiencing rapid growth. However, one key challenge continues to slow the pace of expansion: the high cost of oxygen.
Sea-Flux Limited, a leading provider of Digital Vessel Management, has just been awarded the Innovation Award for Electronic and Electrical Systems at the European Commercial Marine Awards (ECMAs) at the Seawork Expo…
North-east Scotland based engineering specialists, Brimmond, have launched the NetJet™ high-pressure net cleaning pump as a rental option. They are the first and only company in the UK to offer a full…
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UK based Parsons Chain Company has launched a new Trawlex Profile Chain in an attempt to provide the market with product that is less susceptible to wear, corrosion and stress fractures.
Lindgren-Pitman, Inc., the worlds most innovative manufacturer of commercial longline equipment, has introduced the revolutionary new Super Spool III series of midwater longlining spools. The 40-inch Super Spool III, first in the…
Vaki-DNG has developed a mackerel drum for smaller vessels. This new development will enable small vessel fishermen to operate more effectively and safely when jigging for mackerel.
The 18 islands that make up the Faroe Islands are surrounded by one of the worlds most hostile oceans, but the waters also possess some of the richest fishing grounds in the…
Swedish made Belitronic jigging machines have been catching fish for fishermen for about 30 years. The common European and North American name jigging machine in fact refers to a line fishing machine…
Dybvad Staal Industri has commissioned a report based on testing and research into the freezing of fish using the plate freezing technique and the importance of using a CO2 refrigerent.
Single contact aluminum freezer plates and the equipment based on this innovative product, manufactured by Gunthela Enterprise Limited, has captured a fair worldwide market.
Skaginn hf in Iceland has last five years developed a new type of IQF freezer. This freezer is built on a new technique where the two traditional methods are combined in one.…
Swedish company Searef has used polythylene piping instead of conventional pipes as part of its latest system for fishroom chillers for vessels between 15 and 35 meteres.
Berg Chilling Systems, Toronto, Canada, has introduced a new ice-making machine (right), called the Ice/Berg LS, which is modular, allowing inexpensive expansion as the users needs grow.
The Common Fisheries Policy needs to be followed exactly the same by each member state before it will have any significant and positive impact on the European fishing industry.
Peterhead Harbours has ridden out a difficult year for demersal landings caused by the very low quota levels for 2001 but is now looking to the future with renewed confidence, thanks in…
An international workshop investigating the impact of lost nets and traps on marine stocks has endorsed a code of practice for European gill-net fisheries and called for the setting-up of a forum…
Spaniard D. Manuel Nores has truly dedicated his life to fishing. After starting as a cabin-boy at 13, during the past 50 years he has built up his own fishing company, which…
A new design of prawn trawl developed by UK based Seafish could play an important role in conserving valuable stocks of haddock and whiting by reducing the unwanted by-catch of juvenile fish.
The Danish gill net supplier DACONET A/S with branches in Skive and Thisted has launched a huge novelty within the gill net fishery with trammel nets - called DACO-TYPE.