Innovative Chainmat

Innovative chainmat: Development of an innovative and light weight chainmat for beam trawl fisheries Since research on pulse fishing, fishing gear technology related research projects have mainly focused on innovations in the net itself (separation panels, LED-BRP, etc.) or on innovations in the opening of the net (LED-beam, etc.). In this project we focus on adjustments to the chain mat or the tickler chains. We develop easily implementable innovations that can be applied in the short term within the Belgian beam trawl fishery. The achievements within this project have the advantage that they are complementary to the promising technical innovations in the net itself. We pay specific attention to synergies with promising technical developments of a still experimental nature that were developed within “LED there be light” (21/UP1/09/Div) and with other promising recent research (e.g. “Kiwikuil” in the Netherlands).

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