The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has agreed to adopt a new Scottish-designed fishing technology as the new international standard for co-ordinated demersal fish population surveys…
After ten years of working with fishing gear research at Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Georg Haney has been appointed as Hampiðjan’s new environmental director. Georg came to Iceland…
SafetyNet Technologies has secured £1.8 million in new funding to accelerate the development of precision fishing technology for the commercial fishing industry. The investment round was led by Mirova’s Althelia…
Spanish technology company Satlink has partnered with the Olive Ridley Project (ORP) and the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) to establish a programme for the removal and reuse of…
American Seafoods plans to recycle over 100 tonnes of used fishing gear with Net Your Problem this year, in addition to the 106 tonnes already recycled. Net Your Problem has…
Mustad Autoline’s fitters have been busy. A new system has just been fitted to Greenlandic coastal boat Mille Kuka. Mustad Autoline’s market in Greenland is managed by the company’s subsidiary…
Since being unveiled more than a year ago by researchers at the Norwegian-based Ocean Space Acoustics (OSAC) there has been growing interest in the PingMe reporting tool set to bring…
Successful trials of a new GPS tracking system has seen drifting ghost nets retrieved from the Torres Strait under the Australian Government’s $14.8 million Ghost Nets Initiative, as CSIRO research…
Vónin has acquired Danish engineering and design company Volu Ventis. Based in Silkeborg, Volu Ventis and its managing director Søren Hjørt have a long background in the energy and green…
As Michel Dagorn, who has managed Saint Malo fishing gear company Morgère for the last decade is set to retire last this year, the company is set for some big…