Better fishing with seabed-friendly ground gear
Semi-Circular Spreading Gear has been attracting interest with the Norwegian trawler fleet. Although this isn’t exactly new, it has taken a while for this idea to catch on. Now that it…
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…
Using AI to revolutionise beam trawling
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…
Shetland PO invests in gear technology
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…
Seeking a solution to seine rope disposal
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…
Less effort and better catches with new-concept crab gear
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…
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…
