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Maximize Your Catch
Information recorded is anaiyzed to improve trawls in order to
maximize catch. Remote control equipment on board a shrimp
boat.
Located in ísafjörður on the Western Fjords, a short
steam to the richest fishing grounds around lceland, is
Netagerð Vestfjarða hf, a major manufacturer of
bottom trawls, nets and shrimp trawls with decades of
experience.
Netagerð Vestfjarða's sophisticated underwater camera records
trawl performance under various conditions. In this instance ifs
a shrimp trawl.
The reason for the company's success is the
sophisticated underwater video camera that goes down
with the trawl and records its every movement under
various conditions. The videos are then studied carefully
by a team of experts that uses the information to
experiment with improvements to the trawl to
maximize catch.
Netagerð Vestfjarða is the only private company in
lceland with such technologically advanced equipment,
and in fact one of the few in the world.
When you add decades of experience to the best in
high-technology, the result is a company that has the
strength and the vision to take fisheries into the future.
For more information, contact
NETAGERÐ VESTFJARÐA HF
Grænigarður, P.O.Box 137, 400 ísafjörður, lceland
Tel. (354-1) 3413, Telex: 2367, Fax: (354-1) 4588