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Midwater Trawls
The Diamond Wing Midwater Trawl was developed in order to take advantage of the resiliency and efficiency of hexagonal mesh front end while eliminating the problems associated with overly large mesh sizes at the very front of the trawl. It is a four bridal trawl which incorporates an hexagonal section in the mid part of the front end. The wings are then filled in with diamond meshes. Cantrawl used extensive computer modelling (with the expertise of Matthias Borstad) to tune the trawl design. The result is the inclusion of a single section of variable length ropes which markedly improves the trawl's self opening properties. Additionally the variable length section results in more balanced loads throughout the meshes. Cantrawl can use the Diamond Wing design for any of our hexagonal mesh trawls, but we particularly recommend it for any with a headline length greater than 300'. Diamond Wing 1000' Headline  |