François Theret at Scapêche said that it was partly the Talleys connection that that took them to gear from New Zealand, knowing that the Motueka Nets gear had worked on Talleys vessels fishing in deep water.
Andrew Hope at Motueka Nets said that they were an early adopter of Dyneema when it appeared for fishing industry uses in the 1990s and they have been making trawls using Dyneema since 1992.
“The material we used back then was some of the first single knotted Dyneema netting produced by van Beelen, but the problem at that time was that they cost of the trawls was too high to warrant the extra expense,” he said.
“Fuel costs weren’t an issue then and as the single knotted Dyneema netting was being made on existing machines set up for PE netting, there were some issues with knot slippage and the material’s abrasion resistance.
