This is the report from our Mr.Yoshinori Nagaura, Managing Director, who visited Denmark in June of this year, 1999, concerning his watching the local fishermen's fishing operation with gillnets on the boats.

This photo shows throwing fishing nets on this class of fishing boat into the water of the depth of around 20-30 meters. In this fishing season, they are using a gillnet of around 2000kn a limit. The operation is made mostly by one fisherman. The net they use is made of Multimono #6, around 110mm Mesh size.
This season,June, becomes the End of fishing season, and the quantity the fishermen use becomes decreased in comparison with the golden age. Then, the target of fishing becomes mostly Cod only. Flatfish and Kasago fishes are also caught, but market price of these fishes is extremely cheap, so they are released. Size of Cod is in large and small of all various sizes. In recent years, its size is somewhat looked like smaller. If it is too small, it is released.
Using 3-step Roller method, operated by one man, and speed of the roller is fairly slow and safety seems to be high. Putting a fish on a hook and take out from the net, and put the fish into the box being prepared on the left, and the nets are in backward of the box for preparation of throwing fishing nets again.
Oil pressure Roller, which is used by the gillnet fishing boat, larger type than the above-mentioned fishing boat. Showing the inside of the fishing boat in the left. This boat carries Sole fish nets. Net cleaning machine. It is used when these nets after used for fishing operation for unloading of gillnets and for storing.