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In one sentence: “We offer fish trawling technology that reduces operating costs while enhancing animal welfare and ecosystem health.”
About
Precision Seafood Harvesting's "FloMo" codend reinvents commercial trawling. A piece of clever engineering, it replaces the codend section (the bit at the end where the fish accumulate) of a traditional trawl setup.
Designed as "plug & play" (or "plug & fish"), it seamlessly integrates with conventional trawl equipment and provides an "aquarium-like environment for the trawl-caught fish".
As a brand, we want to be simple, distinctive, and bold visually. Stylistically, we want to position ourselves as far away from traditional fishing and the old-school industry as we can. Our brand origin statement captures what we are trying to achieve: Born from the disruptive desire and driven by the belief that there is a better way to fish. We want to be a technology-led challenger rather than a fishing gear provider.
Key Benefits
FloMo provides an array of benefits to its users, which can be grouped in three sections:
- Increased market premiums
- Higher quality catch.
- Extended shelf-life.
- Efficiency gains
- Increase catch volumes without compromising on catch quality (extended soaking times).
- Increased catch selectivity (species & size).
- Faster net reset times (no mesh for fish to get stuck in).
- Potential for longer rest periods for on-deck crew (due to longer tows).
- Environmental goodness
- Healthier fish stocks through improved biomass recovery (reduced mortality rates of unwanted by-catch or juvenile fish).
- Increased ecosystem health (reduced interactions with seabirds and protected species).
- Increased animal welfare.
Applications
FloMo's benefits apply to demersal and pelagic trawl fleets across the globe. Primarily, we are focussing on the US cod fishery, the Scottish Nephron fishery, and the North Sea flatfish fishery.