Rock trawl doors buyout
Danish trawl door manufacturer Thyborøn Trawldoor has announced the acquisition of the entire shareholding in Faroese company Rock Trawl Doors. Rock’s production will remain at its current quayside location in…
Danish trawl door manufacturer Thyborøn Trawldoor has announced the acquisition of the entire shareholding in Faroese company Rock Trawl Doors. Rock’s production will remain at its current quayside location in…
A groundbreaking underwater fish-sorting system has been tested on board research vessel Simon Stevin in collaboration with ILVOO Oostende, and innovation company Marelec is satisfied with the successful outcome of…
A pair of CatchCam gear-mounted cameras have been acquired by the Shetland Fish Producers’ Organisation for use by member vessels, and these have already returned positive results. Developed by SafetNet…
Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF) is looking for applications for the NoK5 million it has available towards a two-year development of technology to reduce plastic waste from seine ropes. Plastic-based…
It was a shoulder injury that prompted Norwegian crab fisherman Jim Harald Sæternes to take a hard look at the way things have always been done, and to come up…
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…
The clean-up operation run every year by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries has this year returned record results, with 37,000 metres of nets retrieved from fishing grounds, in addition to…
A new demersal trawl door design – Champion – has been trialled extensively by French and Spanish skippers, and Morgère is now ready to start promoting it. Morgère’s managing director…
This year's clean-up cruise to locate and retrieve lost fishing gear in Norwegian waters is underway, with pelagic vessel Vikingbank this year chartered for this purpose. Vikingbank sailed on 10th…
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI), and the Spanish Association of Tuna Freezers (AGAC) have joined forces to launch the innovative FAD Watch Project. This…