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New Zealand fishing company Sealord recently announced an order for the country’s largest and most sophisticated new fishing vessel to be built since the mid-1990s and the order for the deck equipment has gone to Norwegian company Rapp Marine Group.
New Zealand fishing company Sealord has placed an order for a new factory trawler, the company’s first newbuild for more than twenty years.
The inaugural Maori Innovation Award at the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards has been won by Precision Seafood Harvesting for its revolutionary technology that allows fish to be landed alive and in perfect condition.
Following Greenpeace’s revelation that New Zealand’s fishing industry is responsible for its own monitoring, Sanford’s Volker Kuntzsch has responded by saying that Greenpeace should be supporting, not attacking an industry that is investing to ensure the best technology, monitoring and research available on fisheries.
Volker Kuntzsch of New Zealand company Sanford has made a robust response to the University of British Columbia report, Reconstruction of Marine Fisheries Catches for New Zealand (1950-2010), which uses historical catch information from New Zealand fisheries and claims these are 2.7 (between 1950 and 2010) times larger than the official records.
Thirteen fire appliances attended a fire on board a trawler in the Port of Lyttleton in New Zealand this morning. The fire was quickly brought under control. Six of the crew were treated for smoke inhalation and four were taken to hospital.
New Zealand fishing and processing group Sanford has responded to government proposals to establish a recreational fishery park.
Multibeam sonar manufacturer, WASSP Ltd, part of the ENL Group has launched a new look website at: http://www.wassp.com
Designed to be the complete online resource for multibeam sonar, the new site is more interactive than ever before.
WASSP S has been developed to bring the benefits of multibeam sonar to the survey, dredging and scientific research markets. In a versatile and cost-effective package, WASSP S provides accurate and reliable real-time seafloor and water column information in an intuitive user interface.
New Zealand authority has announced workshops promoting Seabird-Smart fishing practices.