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TecnoPesca Argentina’s New Freezer Trawler Prototype
TecnoPesca Argentina (TPA) has been developing of a new design for a freezer trawler to replace a 50-year-old boat operating in the Argentine red shrimp fishery in Patagonia. The new trawler, which is still waiting for its substitute license, has to keep the same fishing capacity of the previous vessel. ‘That’s our biggest challenge. There’s an equation that includes several parameters, including engine power and storage capacity, and we have to meet all of these requirements,’ TPA’s director Enrique Godoy said. photo’s, >click to read< 13:38
Tecnopesca Argentina Modernizes 30 Year Old Trawler
After seven years at the quayside in the Argentinian fishing port of Mar del Plata, the 42.70 metre Cabo Vírgenes, which used to fish for hake, was missing some of its equipment. Electrical systems had been stripped out and rust was eating away at its steelwork. Now, after ten months at the TecnoPesca Argentina (TPA) shipyard,, ‘It’s working as a fresher trawler, with no processing or freezing systems on board. Basically, it’ll be fishing for hake but is also able to fish for Argentine red shrimp,‘ photos,,, >click to read< 10:01
