World Fishing News – Page 912
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Fishnet tights: raw power, style or polyfibres?
When a skipper or company''s 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 best for which job?'' What makes things more difficult is that really the only good way to ...
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Maaskant delivers beam trawler
Dutch company Maaskant Shipyards delivered the Geertruid-Adriana to Gebroeders H. en B. Marjis C.V. at Arnemuiden in January. The Dutch beam trawler fishes for bottom fish in the North Sea. In order to improve fish handling, a specially-designed system by Maaskant with conveyor belts, sorting and gutting lines has been ...
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Poles tailor Baltic trawl for pelagics
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.
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Vónin's Blue Whiting trawl goes on-board the Finnur Fridi
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 metres, 32-metre meshes in the forenet and is made of braided "Super 12" material in different ...
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Balancing political fish logs at home and abroad
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 a successful achievement at a time when the trend in Europe is towards more cuts and restrictions. Were ...
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Suiting-up with Ziegra's 3-in-1 ice for storms gear
Ziegra is introducing new on-board StreamIce systems for the production, storage and pumping of ''liquid'' ice. The new gear, Ziegra says, when combined with correct handling techniques, beats the opposition with significant improvements in shelf life, quality and freshness.
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Icy Eve Evaporates
Scotsman Ice System is offering its Enhanced Vertical Evaporator (EVE) for industrial storage, processing and transportation needs of the fishing industry.
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Waiting for a Mediterranean plan
Most of the vessels, particularly from Sicily and the southern Adriatic, work local Mediterranean fishing grounds with a small number of vessels heading out to operate on high seas.Fishing activities inevitably follow the contour of the country's coastline, with many small harbours alongside some of the big industrial ports such ...
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Norway delivers Sheanne to Ireland
Solstrand has delivered its new build no. 77, MFV Sheanne to owner O''Shea Fishing Company, Killybegs, Ireland
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Steel Berlewen takes over from wooden Defiance
Nick Chapman of Padstow has taken delivery of his 15-metre gill netter Berlewen, from Steel Kit partners S.C Mcallisters and Parkol Marine, to replace his 16.7m wood-built Defiance.
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New from Perkins Genset Sabre range
With the introduction of the new 415GM genset engine, Perkins Sabre now offers net engine power outputs spanning from 13.5kWm to 161kWm. The new 415GM delivers a maximum net engine power output of 13.5kWm at 1,500rpm, and 16.2kWm at 1,800rpm, while the continuous net engine power output at 1m500rpm is ...
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New propulsion from MAN B&W
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 medium-sized vessels. The first will be installed in April for Karstensens Shipyard, Skagen, Denmark for a 38-metre, triple-deck, ...
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Sparks vs water power
The Atlantic Enterprise (AE), now fishing prawns off Canada, is the world''s first trawler with a complete electrical AC winch control system, provided by Vacon, whose liquid-cooled NX system is controlling the vessel''s 19 AC winches. This means the Danish company Ocean Prawns vessel enjoys the same towing capabilities as ...
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Fiskekroken Deepchills
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 consortium of five local fish-farming companies.
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YORK Marine takes permafrost office to sunny Vigo
Ice-maker machine company YORK Marine has opened a permanent office in Vigo (Spain).
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Vigo floats ice meet in February
Vigo, Spain, will be hosting a technical conference on flow ice and its applications in the fishing sector on February, 5. The focus of the technical discussions will be on the advantages offered by this new product. They include: quick cooling capacity, wide surface contact, no damage to the product, ...
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American tuna fishers offer own bodies to challenge mercury
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 challenge against scientific reports on the dangers of eating tuna, which threaten the tuna consumer market. The 400-strong ...
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Making it cheaper with DATANET
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 such as distance, water temperature and depth.
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MARELEC's push and pull warp speed
ARELEC says it has developed a unique, twin-rig control using precision warp-pull meters for additional control of the fishing gear.
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Easy-to-use VHF with mobile phone features
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).
