Fishing net frame line and codend with improved fish escape properties
AssigneeHampidjan hf
InventorsGudmundur Gunnarsson, Hjortur Erlendsson
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Abstract
A lace line for forming structures including netting, such as codends, trawl nets, seines and fish pens, The lace line includes at least several distinct loop tails that are interlaced and/or interconnected with one another so as to form several lacing loops, In other aspects, the present disclosure teaches a codend including at least four hung-in riblines having at least four netting panels formed mainly and preferably entirely of T90 mesh, where the T90 mesh mainly and preferably entirely includes a mesh size of between one hundred sixty and one hundred ninety five millimeters, in combination with a hang percentage of between ten and twenty four percent.
Claims12
A method for producing a lace line (17), the method comprising steps of:
- a) forming a structure including a strength member (8) having a plurality of individual loops tails (12) connected to the strength member (8) at distinct locations (10) on the strength member (8);
- b) passing the structure formed by the completion of step (a) above through a braiding machine;
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- c) selecting to withdraw the loop tails (12) from the braiding machine's converging strands that converge at the braid point.
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