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Í fjóra túra voru EKKÓ Semi HAR 8.5fm hlerarnir…
Afhending - delivery.
Rikki skipstjóri og Maggi stýrimaður á Hring SH-153 hafa…
Ekkó toghlerana er hægt að þyngja tímabundið og létta…
Í fjóra túra voru EKKÓ Semi HAR 8.5fm hlerarnir…
Afhending - delivery.
Rikki skipstjóri og Maggi stýrimaður á Hring SH-153 hafa…
Ekkó toghlerana er hægt að þyngja tímabundið og létta…
The Ekkó trawl door is an Icelandic design from decades of experience. The designer of Ekkó is Smári Jósafatsson. Smári worked for decades with his father Jósafat Hinriksson, the maker of the Poly-Ice trawl doors. Making them, in research and development, and as sales and marketing manager.
Making them, in research and development, and as sales and marketing manager of the Poly-Ice trawl doors which were among the best-selling trawl doors in the world at that time. Accumulating years of experience in the industry and the technology.
Out of the experience and observations on the limitations presented in existing trawl doors he decided to start research and pursue his vision of the EKKÓ shape.
Shareholders are Smári, Jón, Frosti, Tennin ehf. and Inning ehf. Phone: +354 896 2300
Email: smari@ekko.is
HB Grandi / Brim hf. one of Iceland’s largest seafood companies.
AVS fund for fisheries research. Rannís, Research and innovation fund, tax benefits, project with HB Grandi / Brim and international Patent application grant.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 781043.
Ekko trawl doors are environmental and eco-friendly Icelandic trawl doors that reduce oil consumption and work without contact with the bottom, which protects the bottom and living environment at the bottom, protects the ecosystem and reduces the environmental footprint. Ekkó is a patented Icelandic design reduces the emission of greenhouse gases.
The concept of Ekko is based on the same idea as airplane wings, which is the Bernoulli effect, where the door design itself opens the trawl with the same functionality.
Ekko two-spoiler Semi doors are pulled at a fishing angle of 25-30 degrees, which reduces the resistance.
Semi and pelagic one-spoiler doors are pulled at an angle of 20-25 degrees, which reduces the resistance of the doors even more.
The Ekko doors have been developed with fishing captains.
Tests on Ekko to maximize their´s results have been conducted at sea, in fishing gear flume tanks and with current simulation model calculations in supercomputers.
Trawl door manufacturer´s main testing in fishing gear test tanks is to measure the value of CL/CD which is the expansion forces (Lift) divided by the resistance of the trawl doors (Drag). The Ekko single spoiler pelagic trawl door delivered a CL/CD of 5.4 which is probable the best CL/CD seen in tank trials.
Many trips to the experimental flume tanks in Denmark and in Canada.
Catching with fourteen trawlers off Iceland and Sweden.
Trawling for demersal fishes off Iceland.
Catching shrimp/prawns with one trawl and catching lobster and fish in twin trawls in Sweden.
During research and searching for pelagic fish species off Iceland
Two new pairs of Ekko doors were delivered to:
Bjorgulfur EA-312 took Ekko Semi 2-spoiler doors 7.5m2 3900 kg/each into use mid-December 2022.Vestmannaey VE-54 took Ekko Semi 2-spoiler doors 4.1m2 1400 kg/each at the beginning of January 2023