A pelagic trawl for both intensive and dispersed fishery

The Gannet trawl has a large opening in relation to the overall size of the gear, making it an effective catching tool for both intensive fishing with short tows, as well as for long tows on dispersed fish. The long belly provides an excellent water flow, making it light to tow relative to its size.

Robust construction

Vónin designed the Gannet pelagic trawl for heavy work, including coping with the exceptional demands of the springtime blue whiting fishery west of the UK. It is made in diamond mesh throughout and its robust construction gives it an exceptionally long working lifetime.

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This pelagic trawl design is well suited for both intensive fishing and dispersed fish.

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The forenet is built with diamond meshes, and the preferred material is Capto.

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The robust construction makes the trawl well suited for the springtime fishery west of the UK islands.

Effective and versatile pelagic trawl

Originally conceived for fishing blue whiting, this is where the Gannet pelagic trawl has been the market leader for some time. This has also been shown to be a versatile trawl design that also performs well in herring, and pollock fisheries.

Gannet’s versatility has resulted in it becoming one of Vónin’s most popular trawl design, as it is the most effective under a wide variety of fishing conditions from close to the seabed, right up to fishing a few metres from the surface.

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This footage was taken onboard Høgaberg while trawling west of Ireland for Blue Whiting. Høgaberg is using a 2304 mtr trawl and Codend from Vónin.

Vónin Gannet articles

Pelagic trawl tailored to towing power

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

Great trip with Vónin Gannet pelagic trawl

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.

Borgarin with 2600 Vónin Gannet pelagic trawl

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

2600 scores on scattered fish

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…

No 1 on Blue Whiting with 2600 & 2300 Capto Trawls

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…

Willem van der Zwan goes for 2304 Capto trawl

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…

Other relevant products

Vónin Seagull

Pelagic trawl with a very large and long belly, which is capable of swallowing large shoals for high volume fishing.

Vónin Falcon

Pelagic trawl with a compact belly which is easy to manoeuvre for chasing fast moving marks and get the gear in the right spot.

Vónin Hawk

A compact pelagic trawl for lower-powered and factory trawlers that target fast-moving marks.

Vónin Twister

First launched in 2020 as manual trawl doors, the Twister have since evolved into fully controllable smart doors.

Vónin Tornado

Pelagic trawl door with an extreme lift. Customers have in average reduced their trawl doors by 25% when switching to the Tornado.

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