Everything to minimise towing resistance
Ísfell is set to break into the market in Iceland for pelagic gear with its M1771 trawl, with the first set of this new design already on board and ready…
New insight into scalloping with gear-mounted camera
SN Tech’s CatchCam has been in use on US scalloper K.A.T.E. II while fishing on the Georges Bank scallop grounds, and the hours of resulting footage from the gear have…
CatchCam goes deep
The fishing gear-mounted CatchCam developed by SafetyNet Technologies has been making waves since its launch in 2020. Now it’s going deeper, providing opportunities to monitor fishing gears at greater depths…
Trawl door control – coming soon
Thyborøn Trawldoor has begun the rollout of its Type 32 Bluestream pelagic trawl doors, a major development in efficiency and a big step towards full control of the doors during…
David Warwick will be running the Seafish flume tank courses in future
David Warwick joins Seafish as fishing gear technologist
With more than 30 years of fishing experience behind him, David Warwick has joined Seafish as its new fishing gear technologist, taking over from Mike Montgomerie who retired at the…
Hampiðjan has developed a headline sounder cable with fibre-optic data transfer capacity. Image: Hampiðjan
Lightning fibre-optic link to the fishing gear
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…
This year’s International Training Course in Trawl Technology will be held at the end of October at the flume tank in St Johns
Fishing gear gurus hold international trawl gear training course
The International Training Course in Trawl Technology that takes place every second year has been announced for the end of October, and for the first time this will be held…