Seattle trawler Storm Petrel has finished its first trips using a pair of Tornado pelagic trawl doors from Vónin, and skipper Acácio DoMar has been impressed with how the new doors have handled.

The new Infigo 576-mesh bottom trawl looked a little strange at first, but the new design has proved to be a real success for them.

Vónin has the last couple of years made large investments in upgrading their aquaculture department at Norðskála with a new production hall, warehouse facility, new offices and a new and larger net washing system.

Norwegian trawler Kågtind II operates in the Barents Sea, and since earlier this year, the demersal gear on board is all from Vónin, with a single Zenith 710 trawl and a pair of Zenith 500s for twin-rigging.

The development of Vónin’s Falcon and Falcon+ mackerel trawls has echoed the evolution of the mackerel fishery over recent years, most recently with the Faroese fleet switching to this type of gear as the nature of the fishery has changed.

Faroese pelagic vessel Katrin Jóhanna has done well on blue whiting this year, and we caught up with skipper Árni Dalsgaard between seasons.

Katrin Jóhanna has just been in Fuglafjørður where they discharged their Blue Whiting to Havsbrún. They had been on a quick trip where they filled up the hull with only four hauls.

When new Icelandic trawler Börkur was delivered last year, the choice of doors went to a pair of Vónin’s Twisters. We spoke to skipper Hjörvar Hjálmarsson to get his feedback on how these doors have performed. “I am highly satisfied. We have been in all types of fishery – capelin, herring, mackerel and blue whiting since we got the Twister trawl doors. Each fishery has its own challenges, but the Twister trawl doors have not disappointed and have performed very well on every occasion,” he said.

New shrimp trawler Nataarnaq, docked in Nuuk for the first time at the end of last year after the delivery trip from the Murueta Shipyard in The latest in a series of sophisticated freezer shrimp trawlers designed by Norwegian company Skipsteknisk, Nataarnaq has four electrical permanent magnet trawl winches allowing it to tow three trawls.

They caught 2700 tonnes in only 6 tows using the 2600 metres Vónin Gannet pelagic trawl together with a set of 12m2 Vónin Twister trawl doors.

The pelagic trawler Borgarin has just been on their first trip with their new 2600 metres Vónin Gannet pelagic trawl and new Blue Whiting codend from Vónin. The trip was excellent and the skipper Kristian Dam has expressed an overall huge satisfaction with both the trawl and the codend

On Monday the 22nd of November the new Greenlandic research vessel Tarajoq arrived in the Faroe Islands. Various small tasks are to be done in the Faroe Islands, before heading for Greenland in January.

Norwegian trawler Tobis was rigged with a pair of 380-mesh Zenith trawls earlier this year and skipper Harald Taranger reports that they have performed well.

From the 1st of October Óli á Gravarbø will join Vónin’s sales force. He will be responsible for the sales of pelagic fishing gear together with Frederik Hansen. Óli is 31 years old and comes from a position as 2nd mate on the pelagic trawler Borgarin. Óli has a degree a as skipper and has since 2009 been sailing with pelagic trawlers.

On 21 September, twelve Faroese companies participating in the Faroese Sustainable Business Initiative – Burðardygt Vinnulív – announced they would at least halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in an effort to mitigate climate change.

A trawler acquired by Polar Seafood to replace Polar Assik, which was lost in a fire on board earlier this year has called in Tórshavn to collect its new shrimp gear, before heading for Greenland.

Faroese fishing gear supplier Vónin was a relative latecomer to the trawl door business, but has achieved some startling results in only a few years, having practically from first principles with its Storm and Tornado doors. Now the Twister doors are showing what they can do.

The Greenlandic trawler Svend C arrived in Fuglafjørður on Monday with a full hull. They discharged the fresh Mackerel for Pelagos before heading for Kollafjørð for discharging the frozen mackerel.

The Norwegian trawler Ishavet has been double trawling for shrimps in the Barents Sea and is on its way to Tromsø to discharge the catch. Ishavet has caught the shrimps with two 3200 meshes Vónin Novaja shrimp trawls and 14m2 Vónin Storm trawl doors…

Sildarvinnslan’s new pelagic trawler arrived in Iceland on thursday and will they be spreading their trawls with a set of Vónin’s new pelagic trawl doors. The Twister trawl doors, which have been used by Høgaberg and Tróndur í Gøtu have already proven to a have very high spreading power and fantastic stability where the vessels have been able to make impressive sharp turns.

Vónin has acquired Danish engineering and design company Volu Ventis. Based in Silkeborg, Volu Ventis and its managing director Søren Hjort have a long background in the energy and green tech sectors, specialising in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Volu Ventis will be fully integrated into Vónin’s research and development structure.

The well known and experienced trawl specialist Oddmar Ørvarodd has joined the Vónin pelagic sales team. Oddmar comes from a position as a chief trawl master onboard the Nikolay Telenkov that has been trawling in West Africa…

Arriving directly from Kirkenes the Russian pelagic factory trawler Mekhanik Sergey Agapov came to Fuglafjørður harbour to take onboard their new set of Tornado trawl doors. Mekhanik Sergey Agapov has been using Tornado trawl doors since 2018, and the results have been so satisfactory that they have opted again for a new set of Tornado.

Vónin’s 2600 metre trawl, a scaled-up version of the successful 2300 trawl, has been in use by a number of Faroese vessels this year, with Gøtunes (ex-Gitte Henning), Tróndur í Gøtu and Arctic Voyager all reporting good results, while a fourth Faroese pelagic vessel has also ordered a 2600 trawl…

Vónin’s 2300 metre pelagic trawl has been around for a while and has already proved what it can do for the Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian and UK fishing vessels that have been using this gear. Now Dutch pelagic catchers have also been calling in Fuglafjørður to pick up these versatile trawls. Annelies Ilena was the first to take a 2300 trawl, back in 2018, and it has served them well on blue whiting, as well as being versatile enough to also fish herring. This year, three more Dutch pelagic vessels have been supplied with these trawls, with Maartje Theodora calling in the spring to collect its gear, followed by Margiris a few weeks later, and finally Willem van der Zwan…

So far this year the faroese trawler Arctic Voyager is the pelagic trawler that has the highest catch of Blue Whiting in faroese zone. Arctic Voyager has all year been using the 2300 metres & the 2600 metres Capto trawls and two different designs of Blue Whiting codends from Vónin. They have expressed great satisfaction with these trawls and codends. When fishing west of Ireland they used the the well proven 2300 metres trawl, but as the Blue Whiting moved further north the Arctic Voyager switched to the 2600 metres trawl, which has a massive opening and is perfect when the fish gets more scattered…

Yet another dutch giant trawler has been in the Faroe Islands to collect their new 2304 Capto trawl. On Thursday Willem van der Zwan arrived at Fuglafjørður port around noon. Their errand was to collect their new 2304 Capto trawl from Vónin. Capto trawl was originally designed for Blue Whiting fishery, where it again and again has showed it efficiency and probably is the most used trawl for catching this species…

With high-energy aquaculture sites to oversee in Scotland’s Western Isles, Mowi Regional Seawater Manager Kris Laird wanted to see for himself how Faroese Fish Farmers operate in highly exposed environments that regularly withstand exceptional hostile conditions.

In the last year Vónin has worked extensively on a new pelagic trawl door that can be controlled. The work has gathered pace and it was last week that Høgaberg was pilot testing the new Twister trawl doors with great success. This new Twister will be a active control trawl door and this is a solution that we will be offering in the near future, but we are still in testing phase of the final product

Vónin’s new groundfish trawl has already shown some promising results on saith, haddock and redfish.

Vónin has seen quite some growth in the Barents Sea fleet that trusts its shrimp gear to deliver the right results. While the company has a long-established reputation for shrimp gear that has been standard for the Faroese, Greenlandic and much of the Canadian fleet, fishing companies in Norway, Iceland and Russia have increasingly been coming to Vónin for trawls for the Barents Sea shrimp fishery, and now the greater part of these trawlers are using shrimp gear from Vónin.

Zephyr with a new 2304 trawl with a heavy duty belly from Vónin. A returning customer Zephyr first chose to use a 2304 trawl from Vónin in 2017 and now they chose to get rigged with their second trawl of this model. Furthermore, the boat is also rigged with codends and Tornado trawl doors from Vónin.