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Waiting for a Mediterranean plan
Most of the vessels, particularly from Sicily and the southern Adriatic, work local Mediterranean fishing grounds with a small number of vessels heading out to operate on high seas.Fishing activities inevitably follow the contour of the country's coastline, with many small harbours alongside some of the big industrial ports such ...
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Norway delivers Sheanne to Ireland
Solstrand has delivered its new build no. 77, MFV Sheanne to owner O''Shea Fishing Company, Killybegs, Ireland
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Steel Berlewen takes over from wooden Defiance
Nick Chapman of Padstow has taken delivery of his 15-metre gill netter Berlewen, from Steel Kit partners S.C Mcallisters and Parkol Marine, to replace his 16.7m wood-built Defiance.
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New from Perkins Genset Sabre range
With the introduction of the new 415GM genset engine, Perkins Sabre now offers net engine power outputs spanning from 13.5kWm to 161kWm. The new 415GM delivers a maximum net engine power output of 13.5kWm at 1,500rpm, and 16.2kWm at 1,800rpm, while the continuous net engine power output at 1m500rpm is ...
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New propulsion from MAN B&W
MAN B&W says that more than 100 of its new engines have now been ordered. The L21/31 orders are mainly for Holeby-GenSets for large vessels and Alpha propulsion plants for small and medium-sized vessels. The first will be installed in April for Karstensens Shipyard, Skagen, Denmark for a 38-metre, triple-deck, ...
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Sparks vs water power
The Atlantic Enterprise (AE), now fishing prawns off Canada, is the world''s first trawler with a complete electrical AC winch control system, provided by Vacon, whose liquid-cooled NX system is controlling the vessel''s 19 AC winches. This means the Danish company Ocean Prawns vessel enjoys the same towing capabilities as ...
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Fiskekroken Deepchills
Fiskekroken AS of Norway has installed a Sunwell Variable-State Ice system for its salmon-packing plant, part of Safish AS. The bulk of the company is now owned by Salten Aqua Invest, a consortium of five local fish-farming companies.
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Vigo floats ice meet in February
Vigo, Spain, will be hosting a technical conference on flow ice and its applications in the fishing sector on February, 5. The focus of the technical discussions will be on the advantages offered by this new product. They include: quick cooling capacity, wide surface contact, no damage to the product, ...
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YORK Marine takes permafrost office to sunny Vigo
Ice-maker machine company YORK Marine has opened a permanent office in Vigo (Spain).
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American tuna fishers offer own bodies to challenge mercury
US albacore tuna fishermen have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test them and their wives and children for side effects from methylmercury. The move is seen as a strategic challenge against scientific reports on the dangers of eating tuna, which threaten the tuna consumer market. The 400-strong ...
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Making it cheaper with DATANET
French company ACELMA has launched DATANET, a low-cost and simpler version of its wireless geometry and trawl-positioning system GEONET. The new software provides spread-door data and can be uprated by adding functions such as distance, water temperature and depth.
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MARELEC's push and pull warp speed
ARELEC says it has developed a unique, twin-rig control using precision warp-pull meters for additional control of the fishing gear.
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Easy-to-use VHF with mobile phone features
UK-based McMurdo Pains-Wessex has now received full UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency approval for its F1 VHF radio with Class D Digital Selective Calling (DSC).
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GRAB YOUR GRIB IN STITCH UP WITH JENIFER
WeatherNet is fast becoming a preferred site according to US-based Ocean and Coastal Environmental Sensing (OCENS) and they have now added new features for 2004.
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Merlin's impossibly magic batteries
The domestic battery bank must be the most important feature for life on board.
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O'Higgins for Norway from Chile
Norwegian director general of fisheries Peter Gullestad and director Odd Berg have been appointed Comendador and Caballero, respectively, of the Chilean "Order of Bernardo O''Higgins".
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Alaska
The row between scientists, over risks from toxins in fishmeal for farmed fish, sparked by Science magazine, may boost prospects for Alaska''s wild salmon. Pilar Santamaria reports. - Last month''s report in the magazine Science, of studies on the health risks of consuming farmed salmon, is expected to hit the ...
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Industrial fleet want to catch within the EEZ's
The Chilean industrial fishing fleet has lodged a new claim against indiscriminate deep-sea fishing. This time around, they made their request directly to the Cabinet, to forbid port landings in Chile by foreign deep-sea vessels that do not comply with the conservation regime in force for the country''s jack mackerel ...
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Capsat gets Lloyd's approval
Thrane & Thrane have announced that the company''s mini-C solution for Ship Security Alert System (SSAS), the Capsat® Ship Security Alert (TT-3000SSA), as the first Inmarsat-C based solution, has been approved by Lloyd''s Register EMEA as well as Inmarsat. Consequently, Thrane & Thrane''s mini-C solution satisfies the new requirements from ...