Trialling steel grid to replace flexible excluder

FHF/Cetus

Source: Wenche Vigrestad Hadland/Egersund Trawl

A flexible grid tested onboard Norwegian pelagic trawler Cetus looks promising after being tried out for two trips on Norway pout

The development work behind the flexible grid has been conducted by Egersund Trål and the Institute of Marine Research in a project partly funded by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry Research Funding (FHS) and the Directorate of Fisheries in Norway.

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