Contact
Sæmundur Elíasson
Project Manager
saemundur.eliasson@matis.is
Five companies, with support from the Technology Development Fund and the AVS Fund, are currently working on the development of a new system in high-speed fishing boats that ensures good handling, cooling and finishing of catches and records information in a cloud.
The companies are Frostmark ehf. which produces cooling equipment, Trefjar ehf. which produces Cleopatra fast fishing boats, the fishing company Blakknes ehf. which makes such boats, Sæplast which produces pots and Matís, which directs the research aspects of the project.
Fiber boats are very productive, but there are some problems with installing a controlled cooling system in these boats. Frostmark has designed a new type of sea cooling system that circulates cold seawater at consistently low temperatures.
In this project, a fully equipped system for high-speed fishing boats will be designed, which delivers cooled catch directly to a tank in a train, where recycled cooling sea is used in a bleeding tank on deck. The benefit to the fishing industry is well-cooled catch, which gives the possibility of processing into more expensive products and strengthens the competitiveness of fast-fishing boats.
News about the project was published recently Morgunblaðið.