It’s now ten years since Icelandic fishing gear manufacturer Hampiðjan introduced its Dyneema-construction trawl warps as an alternative to conventional steel wire rope. Now the company’s developers have come up with a way to combine warps with power supplies, making it possible to route both energy and signals to the fishing gear via the warps.
New Norwegian factory trawler Ramoen is now in its first trip, having been delivered last month by the Astilleros Armon yard in Spain.
The latest factory vessel to join the Norwegian fleet, the Rolls-Royce-designed Ramoen built at Armon in Spain, is ready for sea.
Swan Net Gundry’s 95x51fm design is a proving popular choice for leading Scottish and Irish pelagic vessels.
Vessel owners form Urk and Zoutkamp are combining their efforts towards a new dedicated stern trawler for targeting flatfish and shrimp.
The latest delivery from Macduff Shipyards is the new Forever Faithful PD-289, delivered to Andrew West of St Fergus.
Two Rolls-Royce-designed stern trawlers have contracted to be built by the Freire Shipyard in Spain for Greenland companies Qajaq Trawl and the other by Polar Seafood.
Cees de Boer of Urk fishing company Osprey Fish looks back on the crisis years as the time when Dutch fishing companies repositioned themselves to cope with rapidly changing events as they fought to survive.
A first new coastal trawler for Lorient has been completed at the Socarenam yard in Boulogne for Jean-Pierre Camenen.
Van Beelen Netten has begun producing trawl warps in Dyneema, in response to requests from medium-sized Dutch twin-rigger operators.