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New sensors from Scanmar
Scanmar says it will launch a whole new generation of sensors with improved technology and new options for users in autumn.
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CJC systems at Danfish Exhibition
C.C. Jensen will be attending Danfish and their motto for the event is "Can you afford to stay in harbour for even one day?" They point out that their filter products are perhaps the simplest and most important piece of equipment to stop your engines letting you down at the ...
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Armchair fishing
The Transas Group, which offers simulation software for skipper training, has now added new features to its fishing simulator as part of its Fishing Bridge package and says it also has all the functions of Mission Bridge. That includes the imitation of situations in fishing areas, monitoring user-trainee activities, ...
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Daconet offers moving walls
Denmark''s Daconet has registered a patent on what it says is a revolutionary and simple way to assemble inner nets with wall meshes, using the already-known edgemesh twine.
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Longliners launch tuna world conservation plan
A group of 80, commercial longline fishing enterprises have issued a "Declaration on Responsible Fisheries" with a 12-point plan to ensure the sustainability of the world''s tuna resources. Meeting at the International Fishers Forum and International Conference on Responsible Tuna Fisheries in Yokohama, Japan at the end of July, a ...
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New hooks could save 90% turtles
Preliminary results from the first large-scale test of specially designed fishing hooks indicate they can reduce the number of endangered sea turtles killed in long-line fishing operations by as much as 90 per cent, while having almost no effect on the catch rate of targeted fish, according to the World ...
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New pinger for humans
Fort Lauderdale-based (FL) ACR Electronics says it has now put on sale one of the smallest, fully-functional radio beacons in the world and hopes it will help expand the market beyond its traditional marine customers.
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Wesmar US expand sonar Eurosales
US company Wesmar says it has installed its TCS335 and TCS345 trawl sonars on vessels in Scotland and France.
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New VHF radio from SAILOR
Despite all the gadgets and new services which the electronics industry throws at us there are certain basic things which you need and it is these which can save your life.
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Tracking burglars thieves, pirates and hazards
Online Telematics, in partnership with S M Group (Europe) Ltd, are offering a GPS-based intruder warning device linked to a mobile phone to provide alerts by automatic text message and also track a boat if it has been moved from pre-set coordinates.
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Borrowing from the bank
The ADB recently awarded Indonesia a grant of US$880,000 towards the consultancy costs of a $1.18 million technical assistance study to help the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries prepare a national long-term marine fisheries development strategy. Due for completion by the end of this year, the study will help ...
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North Coast Fisheries and its president sentenced for false fish landing record
North Coast is a commercial fish receiver and dealer in Santa Rosa that purchased federally-regulated groundfish from fishermen. State and federal law requires that fish receivers, such as North Coast, fill out and submit fish landing receipts in order to report all landings of groundfish received and ultimately ...
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Hungry killer whales, night-flyers, cold pollock & warm humans…
"During the mid-20th century, killer whales (orcinus orca) frequently scavenged from the carcasses produced by whaling. These carcasses were primarily species of large whale, preferred by killer whales, but which normally sink to the bottom after death, possibly putting the carcass beyond the diving range of killer whales," they say ...
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All sea life in acid oceans' threat?
Squid, fish, crustaceans, plankton, larvae, marine mammals and the whole marine food chain are under threat from CO2 as the gas turns the oceans acidic, warns the world''s oldest scientific body, the Royal Society in London, reports Peter O''Neill.
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Domstein goes wild
Norway''s Domstein ASA, have sold off their holdings in salmon farming (Fjord Seafood) and will focus only on wild fish, industrial production and sales and distribution through Domstein Enghav.
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Pelagic giant in the Netherlands
Future changes in the global operation of the two large Dutch fishing firms Jaczon of Scheveningen en Vrolijk of IJmuiden might not be excluded in the longer term, writes Pieter Tesch, but in the immediate future the two firms would continue to operate as two separate companies as they are ...
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Tourists catching too many fish
The volume of the fish caught by tourists and sport fishermen in Norway, writes Hans Morten Sundness, may now be as much as 60,000 tonnes (t) a year and this may match the commercial cod fish catch by Norwegian fishermen in the traditional Lofoten season, according to professor Abraham ...
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Fishermen get grants
The Dutch government has to grant Euro85m in compensation to cockle dredgers after the government decided to ban this year cockle dredging in the Waddenzee, an inshore stretch of the North Sea north of the province of Friesland, according to an independent commission, writes Pieter Tesch.
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Sæplast gets reorganised
ICELANDIC Sæplast reports that is refurbishing its Norwegian factory which makes fenders and buoys, investing in new machinery and equipment, and is also the object of a reorganisation of a number of subsidiaries by its parent company. Sæplast said the company''s rotomoulding production was transferred to a new, independent company, ...
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Optimar celebrates triplets with Visir
OPTIMAR Ice has installed an ice machine on the Sighvatur GK, making it the third for Grindavik-based Visir''s vessels. The latest, a BP-120, has a capacity of 1,000 litres of 40% thick ice per hour and a 2,100 -litre storage tank.
