![]() Using Dyneema in trawl gear you could measure and fix something, and know that it would stay there. ‘The materials have improved enormously and the arrival of Dyneema was a big change, first for gilsons, and that was a big improvement for safety reasons. ‘There has been no big revolution in this type of trawl gear, but more a gradual evolution,’ he said. After that I had 4½ years with Katla Seafood’s trawlers in Mauritania and some fishing in Morocco, and then six years with Russian company Interacco, fishing in Mauritania and Morocco, still using the pelagic trawl gear built on board,’ he said. ‘The first trawl gear for these was ordered mainly from Vónin, Faroe Islands, and from then on we did everything ourselves on board, with material supplied from Vónin. This was followed by a spell in Africa, fixing the trawl gear on a couple of the same company’s Moonsund trawlers fishing for mackerel, horse mackerel, sardinella and sardines in Mauritanian waters, before heading back home – and then back to Mauritania for a Faroese shipowner, followed by a couple of years with Faroese company Thor Fisheries’ trawlers Hercules and Poseidon in South Pacific. ‘The Russian crew were fantastic to work with. It’s a fishery that calls for good gear spread and height, and low resistance so you can tow at least at five knots, better if it’s closer to six,’ he said. ![]() ![]() We were fixing up our own gear on board and after a while we were building all of the trawl gear on board. ‘We went to the South Pacific in 2003 with three of the trawlers to fish for horse mackerel, and it’s a long way from anywhere. The owners of Kapitan Nazin, Kapitan Demidenko and Kapitan Kaiser were in Vladivostok, but the management was in Seattle, and this was all pelagic fishing for Alaska pollock – in the Sea of Okhotsk in winter and the Bering sea in summer.’įollowing the experience, Oddmar was back in the Barents Sea fishing for cod and haddock for a year, before heading back to the Russian Far East in 2000 to work for a fishing company running nine identical trawlers. Then I saw an advert in Fiskeribladet for trawl masters to work in the Far East of Russia, in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea, and I spent a few years with Dalmore Product. ‘I was on Norwegian trawler Nordstar from 1990-96 as trawl master fishing for Greenland halibut and other species, and that was where I first had experience of working with pelagic gear, fishing for redfish in the Irminger Sea. ![]() A quick running repair to a pelagic trawl as the gear’s shot away / Быстрый текущий ремонт пелагического трала, после того как снасти вылетелиįinding that there was something missing from life ashore, he was soon back at sea, this time working for a couple of years on a netter fishing in Faroese and Greenlandic waters, before spending much of the 1970s and 80s as trawlmaster, mate and occasionally skipper getting to know cod and shrimp trawling and a variety of fishing methods. ‘I started fishing in 1969 on a side trawler called Magnus Heinason, fishing in the Barents Sea and then Newfoundland, then was longlining for a while, before spending a year ashore as a driver,’ he said. But now he’s taken on a new challenge as he brings many years of experience with pelagic trawl gear to the sales team at Faroese fishing gear supplier Vónin. He has been a fisherman since he was fifteen (apart from a year spent driving a van) in a career that has taken him around the world. ![]() Just when it looked like time for retirement after a working lifetime spent at sea, Oddmar Ørvarodd decided he wasn’t quite ready to take it easy – and changed direction. ![]()
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