Trawl doors made by Faroese company Rock have been successful in Iceland since the first pair of Super Shark doors were sent there for testing in 2006, and Rock continues…
‘It’s a low-maintenance all-round trawl that’s light to tow and sits well on the bottom,’ said Víðir Jónsson, skipper of factory trawler Kleifaberg, describing the T90 Hemmer trawl supplied by…
Over the last week the clean-up programme run by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries with leased clean-up vessel Liafjord has lifted 1200 snow crab traps and around 50,000 metres of…
EdgeTech, a specialist in high resolution sonar imaging systems, acoustic release systems and underwater technology, has announced the introduction of its new Ropeless Fishing System. EdgeTech’s development team have been…
In a concrete effort to address the challenge of plastic pollution, Darren Fisher, MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and Andy Fillmore, MP for Halifax, have announced a new gear retrieval contribution…
Fishing gear group Hampiðjan aims to enable a new generation of fishing gear technology with its DynIce Optical Data cable. This brings fibre-optic speed to the data transfer from headline…
A shrimp trawl worth NoK200,000 (€20,150) retrieved during the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries’ latest clean-up cruise has been reunited with its owner, Brønnøysund fisherman Tor Inge Larsen. He trawls for…
A miniature transponder that can be attached to fishing gear is being developed and trialled as part of a project aimed at reducing ghost fishing. The acoustic devices attached to…
Vónin’s Flyer, a headline lift device designed to replace trawl floats, has is becoming increasingly popular, most recently on an English trawler. St Austell trawler Copious FH-145 has been using…
‘We won the prize for the best stand in the exhibition in 2017, so we’ll certainly be back next time,’ said Egersund Ísland’s sales manager Benedikt Ernir Stefánsson. Closely linked…
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