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Scottish Seining

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Travelling in Newfoundland to Select a Vessel

RPF decided to try Scottish seining
and David Tait Sr has been contracted to choose an experimental ship in their fleet. After traveling over Newfoundland, was chosen the ship MV REIT Fury V  "ex " Boston Fury  "." It also oversees the implementation of hydraulic deck equipment and gear selected and fishing trials then conducted. Bill Savoury was chosen as skipper. There have been some initial between the crew in the routine work as misunderstandings they were all trawlers, but these problems were resolved quickly and the vessel started regular trawlers FPI outfish. In the draft of a Scottish Seine Crimond 570 has been used. with 12 coils on each side of 30 mm rope combination of the Seine. The project was so successful that the REIT has placed an order for two new vessels in Marystown Shipyard, Newfoundland. Should be to double Scottish seiners / Gill Netters.They was named the "Newfoundland - Arrow" and the  "alert Newfoundland.
 


MV "Fury V" FPI Experimental Scottish Seiner

 


 

Installing Rope Reels on MV "Fury V"

 


MV "Fury V" Good Haul
MV "Fury V" Another Large Haul

 


MV "Fury V" in dock

MV "Jessey and Shelley ex "LouiseR"

The ship operated from Sambro. Nova Scotia and has been owned and operated by Silas Stewart. He chose a Scottish Seine 570 and for trawling operations he used a trawl with 350 Balloon # 9 Bison doors. Sy was a very successful fisherman who has unfortunately died. .

MV "Jessey and Shelley" Good Haul of Cod
MV "Jessey and Shelley"

 


MV "Jessey and Shelley" Homeward Bound

Another customer is Luke Hache Skipper of the "Mylene H"
Caraquet, in New Brunswick. Canada. He had several seines Scottish built including a Rockhopper Seine that he was fishing with 6 30 mm combination Seine ropes strands that allowed him to tow on difficult terrain. Luke now runs the ship and still gets its equipment of Crimond.

The First Self Hauling Rope Reels

There has been a reduction in the number of Seiners in Scotland at this time, but there is a renewed interest, especially by France and Holland, to change to this method as it has a drastically reduced fuel consumption and is not hard on the bottom—ie: more environmentally friendly.

David Tait, Sr., President of Crimond Enterprises, fished with this method on his own vessel in Scotland for nearly 15 years. Since then he has been technical advisor to several technology transfer projects and innovations in the US, Canada, and Guatemala. This work entailed teaching Skippers and crews the technique of Scottish Seining.

When David Tait, Sr., came to Canada one project he was heavily involved in was the design and construction of experimental deck equipment called Self Hauling Rope Reels. The project was in 1984, in Caraquet New Brunswick, and was a complete success. Tait, Sr., took the idea to Europe in the 1980’s and they refused to believe it could be done and did not adopt the idea. However they are now constructing this type of Rope Reels in several European countries. 

Rockhopper Seine Under Construction

Crimond designs and manufactures Scottish Seines. As an experienced ex-skipper, Tait, Sr., has the expertise to consult on gear selection and all aspects of techniques, including the selection and siting of deck machinery.

Crimond SCOTTISH SEINES" 150 H.P. to 1,500 H.P.

DESIGN FEATURES

Crimond Scottish Seines are a product of computer aided, three dimensional design techniques. The company has vast experience in the technique of Scottish Seining. The Scottish Seines are designed in 2 seam or 4 seam configuration and are used to fish roundfish, or flatfish species. They are supplied to the top earning Scottish Seiners in Eastern Canada. The nets are constructed of Braided Polyethylene and the footgear is either the traditional coir rope with lead rings, or miniature Rockhopper gear, which allows seining on hard bottom.

The Scottish Seines are normally used to fish the following species: Cod, Haddock, Pollack, Hake, Flounder, etc. and are used on good to medium ground by a variety of vessels with different horsepower.

Before a Scottish Seine is constructed, Crimond requires certain parameters from the customer which are then generated through a database to determine the net size to suit the particular vessels horsepower.

As with other Crimond trawls, scale models are usually tested in a Flume Tank, and these results are verified by commercial testing at sea with full scale gear.

Example of some SCOTTISH SEINE SIZES (Mouth Circumference)
  TW. Size Headline (Ft.) Footrope (Ft.)

T.S.A.

-328 x 15 cm Mesh 2.5 mm 154 126 33.6
-368 x 15 cm Mesh 3 mm 314 344 121.2
-492 x 15 cm Mesh 2.5 mm 152 180 75.1
-576 x 15 cm Mesh 2.5 mm 172 200  
-620 x 15 cm Mesh 2.5 mm 182 210  
-740 x 15 cm Mesh 3 mm  259

 

About Us

Canadian owned, Crimond Enterprises Ltd.
is a unique kind of fishing gear company offering a comprehensive range of products, equipment and ideas to the mobile, and fixed gear sectors of the Fishing Industry. We specialize in the design and construction of species selective fishing gear and selectivity devices.

Head Office in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
133 Ilsley Avenue, Unit OO
Dartmouth NS
Canada B3B 1S9
Tel: +1 902 468-1355
Fax: +1 902 468-1355
email: crimondenterprises@gmail.com

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