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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 12 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs Innovative beam trawl design; a possible replacement for traditional prawn trawling? The Wing Trawling System is an advanced fishing method designed to improve efficiency and sustainability in USA shrimp trawlers. “Is this innovative beam trawl design; … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Precision Fishing
Published - 12 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs Support for Innovation: links and programs Fishing businesses and fleets are full of novel ideas and designs that could revolutionize the way businesses operate and fishers feed the community. Knowing how … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Support for Innovation
Published - 10 February 2025 By Steve Eayrs Outside-the-box vessel design Investing in new tech, particularly vessels, is a major undertaking for any business. In 2018 a revolutionary fishing vessel was proposed for Australian fisheries by … Read More Fisheries Landscape, Trawl Vessel Design and Machinery
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 - 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
