Published - 24 October 2025 By Steve Eayrs 5 rig trawl efficiency – A chat with Tony Sterling Curious about the potential value of multi-rig trawl for your business? Take a look a this chat with industry innovator Tony Sterling and FRDC Extension … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Precision Fishing, Trawl Gear Engineering, Videos
Published - 15 November 2024 By Steve Eayrs What is so good about the Tom’s Fisheye? The Tom’s Fisheye is a bycatch reduction device (BRD) used in the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) and is being evaluated in the Queensland East Coast Otter … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Precision Fishing
Published - 24 October 2025 By FRDC Ocean Insights: Social License Social license is a term that gets thrown around a lot, but what is it and why does it matter to trawl fisheries? Join the … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Social Responsibility, Videos
Published - 13 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs New hopper design to improve catch handling and bycatch survival Managing the catch once it hits the deck is a major consideration for any skipper. Choosing/designing the right kind of hopper to improve catch handling … Read More Catch Handling, Fisheries Landscape
Published - 19 September 2025 By Commercial Prawn Fishing: A South Australian tour Every fishery is different, and its great to see how things are done in different ports. Grab a cuppa and join the crew on the … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Videos
Published - 12 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs Innovative codend improves selectivity, survivability, and quality The FloMo codend is an innovative fishing technology designed to improve the selectivity, survivability, and quality of the catch. Unlike traditional mesh codends, the FloMo … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Precision Fishing, Videos
Published - 25 June 2025 By Steve Eayrs Innovative Fishing Gear: Transforming European Fisheries Recently fishing technologists and others in Europe have been active developing and testing innovative fishing gears, including bottom trawls. In 2023 an international workshop on … Read More Fisheries Landscape
Published - 11 June 2025 By Steve Eayrs Innovative Horizons in Fishing Technology: Pioneering Sustainable Practices and Behavioural Insights – WGFTFB 2025 In 2025 the WGFTFB (more formally known as the ICES-FAO Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour Working Group) met over 6 days in Sicily, Italy, to … Read More Catch Handling, Fisheries Landscape, Precision Fishing, Trawl Gear Engineering
Published - 7 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs A resilient industry is valued by society; Seafood Industry Australia – our pledge The Trawl Network-Fishing Innovation is designed to help improve industry resilience and future-proof trawl fisheries around the country. While our core focus is technological innovation, … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Social Responsibility
Published - 15 November 2024 By Steve Eayrs Quad rig trawl: Pros and cons? South Australian fishers are at the forefront of gear trials as part of a new project looking to evaluate the pros and cons of quad … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Trawl Gear Engineering
Published - 10 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs Innovation required to reduce fish waste Waste in any business costs money, and the pressure to reduce our impact and be as efficient as possible is only growing. Fish waste is … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Next-Gen Catch Products
Published - 15 November 2024 By Steve Eayrs Showcasing efforts by commercial fishers to innovate The FRDC recently invested in a digital campaign to showcase efforts by commercial fishers to innovate. Innovation is more than just profits; it’s about the future … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Support for Innovation
