Whitelink seafood’s scallop dredger Eternal Light FR-35 reports some successful fishing in new areas, thanks to seabed details revealed by their Turbowin 3D plotter.
‘We took a hundred bags of scallops off a small uncharted ridge yesterday,’ said skipper Ian Taylor.
‘The banks, ridges, reefs and gullies revealed by Turbowin 3D have meant that working techniques have been adapted to fish them in a precise, targeted fashion and users are clearly reaping benefits,’ according to Calum West at Seafield Navigation.
‘This means increased catches for the same effort, and allowing new areas to be worked safely. Features that are only one metre high jump out at you, which aren’t included in navigation charts or any of the competitors’ 3D systems.’
Seafield Navigation’s 40-year involvement with the fishing and hydrographic survey industries has enabled them to bridge the gap to produce Hi-Res 3D seabed charts exclusively for their Turbowin 3D plotters.
Turbowin 3D mapping is produced from professionally surveyed and processed seabed data covering from Shetland to France. 3D maps are compiled from soundings spaced every few meters with 10cm accuracy in three dimensions.
Commercial fishing vessels rarely carry technology to compensate for factors such as heave, pitch, roll, swell, tide or atmospheric pressure, but the high quality professional surveys included in Turbowin 3D mapping allow the charts to reveal seabed features that would be almost impossible for a commercial fishing vessel to detect.
‘We have fitted hundreds of Turbowin 3D systems on boats from 75 metres down to 7 metres – with systems in all budget ranges. Every user is able to reap the benefits by enhancing catches through fishing smarter, not harder,’ Calum West said.
Seafield Navigation offers detailed 3D mapping for the seabeds of the UK, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France. 40 trillion soundings have been processed and refined into a seamless set of 3D charts, covering from the beaches out to the 200-mile limit.
