THE stability of French-made Morgere Polyfoil doors have proved their value in trawling for shrimp in the North Atlantic and allowed the company to break into a new market.

"Skipper Inge Pedersen has been using a pair of Polyfoil doors to fish for cod on the twin-rig trawler J Bergvoll from Ytre Rolloya, " Jean-Gabriel Podeur of St. Malo-based Morgere says.

"He saw that the doors remained steady even towing into very bad weather when there is a great deal of vessel motion, and noticed from the Scanmar sensors that the spread of the doors remained constant.

"On that occasion there were only two trawlers still fishing and, by keeping the towing speed slow and steady, the doors did not drop at all and he decided that they should also be good for shrimp trawling."

J Bergvoll was fitted with a pair of No. 19 doors for shrimp trawling and, also, works with a solid clump weight.

She has been using them very successfully on shrimp.

"This fishery has traditionally had very heavy doors and we are sure that there is no need for this additional weight.

"We are sure that there is no real need for them to be as heavy as they have become in this fishery, so our target is to cut the weight of the doors and clump by 20 per cent, while keeping the same efficiency."

Other vessels have also fitted Morgere doors, including Barents Eagle which is now working with a pair of 3.7 tonne No. 18 Morgere Polyfoil doors.

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