Lighter nets, streamlined trawl doors, and smarter rigging choices are helping trawl captains burn less fuel, spend less time ...

The boat was originally built as a shrimp trawler for the Gulf of Mexico and was later modified. It was owned by Seattle-based Katmai Fisheries Inc., which the NTSB said is no longer in business.

• The video camera showed that the two trawl doors were missing from the stern, or back, of the boat while it rested on the sea bottom. That indicates that they could have broken lose from the ...

William and his father untie the trawl doors, two massive wrought-iron boards, which rest on either side of the boat. They attach these doors to two wires and drop them in the water.

Fishing is NET Systems main business, but it also supplies net for recreational and scientific uses. Finally, there’s the steel shop, where metal components like the trawl doors used to spread ...

South Africa's lifeboat organization, the National Sea Rescue Institute, previously said 20 crew had been on board the missing trawler. Nine survivors were found by other fishing vessels on a life ...