Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Utvikle helautomatisk landbasert egnesystem: Forstudie - Develop fully automatic land-based own system: Preliminary study Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Lasse Rindahl (historisk) Coordinator email lasse.rindahl@uit.no
Coordinator institution
SINTEF-SFH - SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2011 End year 2011 Funding (€) € 39,675 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900629/ Summary Despite the fact that a lot of work has been done with the development of pots in Norway, this gear has not achieved sufficient catch rates to gain access to commercial fishing, even though the principle of pot fishing is desired by the fishing industry. The aim of this project was to assess whether there are tine fisheries elsewhere in the world with a technology that will be possible to transfer to Norwegian conditions. Since 1999, work has been carried out on Newfoundland in Canada to develop a pot for use in the cod fishery there, based on the fishing that takes place in the Gulf of Alaska for Pacific cod. This work has borne fruit, and there are several commercial vessels that now fish their entire cod quota with pots. On a trip out with local fishing vessels, the project group experienced an average catch of 100 kilos per pot operated by 28-foot vessels. Feedback from fisherman Øyvind Bolle was that this technology could be operated very well from his vessel in Finnmark. Although the pots used on Newfoundland are much larger than those that have been tested previously in Norway, they are operated by vessels of less than 30 feet, and it will be easy to re-rig most coastal fishing vessels for this mode of operation. It is therefore concluded that a trial of this concept should be carried out in Norway as soon as possible, combining the expertise of local fishermen with personnel with experience from fishing in Newfoundland.
Keywords
Pots;
Fish;
Fishing technology;
Cod;
Prototype;
Marine Region
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Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
42
Barents Sea (27.I)
4
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