Electro Trawling Trials onboard MT Boltby Queen

Summary

The report describes the present state of development of the electrified array system intended to replace ‘tickler’ chains on trawls designed for flat fish capture. The system has been developed over some 7 years and has involved trials with Beam and Otter trawls modified to carry the electrified arrays. The latest series of trials, with a modified version of a Lowestoft C4 Otter trawl, are described in the report. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Publication Reference No.

SR206

Publication date

01 April 1983