Skipper Kristjan Helgason has this to say: "On boarding Yamato I was a bit shocked at how badly equipped they were for trawling. They had nothing to tell them if the trawl is being towed askew or against the current..... Read More

Always Uses A Scanmar TrawlEye In The Belly - Baldvin Thorsteinsson, Iceland

Hákon Thröstur Gudmundsson is one of the skippers aboard the Icelandic trawler, Baldvin Thorsteinsson EA-10. He went to sea in 1976 at the age of 15. He tried various kinds of fishing such as hand-lining in deep water, seine fishing and purse seining. In 1980 he first sailed on trawlers. In 1983 he was on board the factory trawler “Akureyrin EA”, by which time he had also obtained his skipper’s certificates. Since then he has been with the Icelandic shipping company Samherji, serving mainly on “Akureyrin” and “Baldvin Thorsteinsson”..... Read More

Major Fuel Savings Using The TrawlSpeed/Symmetry Sensor - Eros, Norway 

Skipper and engineer Jonvar Otto Aarvik: We can clearly see that we used less fuel on this trip than ever before! On the Eros, we mounted two TrawlSpeed/Symmetry sensors. One forward (on the centre of the headline) and one in the tunnel, at the transition between the 80 and 200 mm meshes. When towing, Eros uses a speed of some 4 knots. The TrawlSpeed/Symmetry sensor at the front shows generally just below this. ..... Read More

With A Perfectly Adjusted Trawl! - Krossfjord, UK 

With Scanmar sensors, we can see that the trawl behaves in precisely the opposite way to what we thought before we got the Scanmar equipment. Skipper George Nicol is enthusiastic about the vessel's performance now he has Scanmar's ScanBas system on board..... Read More

Door Distance/Depth Was The Key Sensor For Redfish - Langvin, Norway

Skipper Torbjørn Sørensen and mate Leidulf Roald could tell that the redfish were deep down, mostly between 800 and 1,150 metres. (spring 2005) Roald recounts that this year, as in previous years, the redfish were very concentrated, which means that the vessels in the fleet have to huddle very close to each other..... Read More

ScanAngle sensor - Critical For Monitoring The Doors' Motion - Selvåg Senior, Norway 

His first year as a Scanmar user pelagic-trawling for blue whiting and then silver smelt was an eventful one for Egil Sørheim. From telephone conversations and meetings at Scanmar, we exchanged a lot of experience and, equally importantly, some screendumps from the field. Egil tells his story..... Read More

A TrawlEye In The Belly Of The Net Is A Must For Pelagic Fishing - Vilhelm Thorsteinsson, Iceland 

Samherji HF is one of largest companies in the Icelandic fisheries industry, with 8 trawlers, 1 purse seiner and on-shore factories. The headquarters are in Akureyri in the North of Iceland. The company has a total herring quota of 40,000 tonnes, which is fished by the pelagic vessels Vilhelm Thorsteinsson and Baldvin Thorsteinsson..... Read More