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…
Hauling a lost net used for fishing Greenland halibut. Image: Gjermund Langedal, Directorate of Fisheries
Record recovery in gear clean-up
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…
Morgère Champion delivers the goods
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…
Lost gear clean-up operation underway
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…
EU tuna operators partner in Seychelles FAD Watch Project
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…
Extra efforts to retrieve lost fishing gear
Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries is adding to its efforts to retrieve lost fishing gear and is planning both a routine open sea retrieval cruise and two trips to search for…
Expanding first drifting FAD partnership
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Hawai‘i and Palmyra have announced the expansion of the first drifting Fish Aggregation Device (dFAD) partnership with commercial purse seine tuna vessels in the Pacific Ocean.…
Shake-up at Mørenot under new ownership
Since acquiring the entire shareholding in Norwegian fishing gear group Mørenot earlier this year, Hampiðjan has worked on streamlining its operations, merging some of these within other elements of the…
Tracking down orphaned fishing gear
The volume of waste fishing gear shipped overseas from Iceland for recycling has roughly tripled in just a few years, from 758 tonnes in 2019 to 1685 tonnes last year.…
Electric longline setup gets thumbs up
After four months of working with an all-electric set of longline deck hardware, the owners and crew of Norwegian longliner Vonar have reported that reduced noise levels and smooth hauling…
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