SCANMAR Trawl Eye an advanced "echo sounder” placed on the trawl
The Trawl Eye is Scanmar’s most advanced sensor and more than 1000 Trawl Eyes have been sold since their introduction in 1990, and we are still alone on the market with such an advanced sensor. The Trawl Eye is suitable for use in bottom trawling as well as pelagic trawling in most fisheries around the world. Many of the species are in fact impossible to see on an echo sounder or sonar, and trawling without a Trawl Eye is like fishing blindfolded.
Because the Trawl Eye, when placed on the headline, is close to where the fish is, it has much better detecting ability than anything corresponding mounted on the vessel. A skipper with experience will therefore easily determine whether it is fish or bait, and if he is fishing for the “right species”, and not wasting time and resources unnecessarily.
More and more of those who do pelagic trawling have begun to use an extra Trawl Eye in the belly, often together with a Flow sensor or an Angle sensor, in order to ensure that what they see in the trawl opening ends up in the back of the bag.
