Trawling with light pioneers recognised
Icelandic development company Optitog, which has been developing and trialling a system of fishing with light to herd shrimp into trawl gear, has been recognised with an award from the…
Atli Már Jósafatsson of Pólar Fishing Gear, Ministry of Foreign Affairs director general María Mjöll Jónsdóttir and Haukur Alfreðsson of Kaldara Group after signing the grant agreement.
Supporting development of Kenya’s fisheries
Icelandic trawl door manufacturer Polar Fishing Gear is embarking on a co-operative venture to modernise fisheries in Kenya, in terms of greater efficiency, improved catch handling and in introducing a…
Scottish fishing technology adopted as standard
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…
Hampiðjan’s new environmental director
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…
Funding secured for precision fishing technology
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…
Fishing gear recovery and re-use initiative launched in the Maldives
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…
Commitment to recycling fishing gear
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…
Coastal longline systems for Greenland and Norway
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…
New doors from old nets
Trials with Pluto doors on board a coastal boat in Iceland look promising, putting to work the first pairs of doors engineered for small-scale trawlers, while also being made using…
PingMe tracks lost gear
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…