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Mustad Environmentally Friendly Catching Method
(NORWAY, 11/25/2009)
Mustad Autoline is a system from Mustad Longline AS for longlining offshore where baiting of hooks, setting and hauling of lines are mostly automatic. 
The mainline consists of a rope or monofilament, and the line can vary in length from a few hundred meters up to 50-60 kilometres. The number of hooks that are set and retrieved each day can vary from 20.000 up to 50.000. Hook spacing varies from 1 up to 50 metres. Snoods, hooks and type of bait also vary depending on targeted species.
Longlining is an environmentally-friendly fishing method. It is passive, selective, requires limited energy and is not harmful to the seabed. There are in offer over 15,000 different fish hooks to choose from.
Preservation and protection of spawning grounds and growth areas is important, but so is selective fishing and reduction of waste. Of the total world catch of 100 million tons of fish, an estimate of 30 million tons are thrown overboard. Researchers claim that longlining is a very resource-friendly catch method that makes it easy to
target the species and avoid waste.
Another advantage is that automatic longlining gives much better working conditions for the crew than with manual longlining. Autolining is a “low cost” fishing method that gives large fish and excellent quality, little waste, very good prices and high profitability.
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About Mustad Longline AS
Mustad Longline AS is a Norwegian manufacturing company owned by the holding company Mustad AS and 6th generation of  the Mustad family. The company is based in the town of Gjøvik, about 15 kilometres north of the capital, Oslo. Mustad was Norway’s first multinational company in the end of 1800.
Mustad manufactures and sells equipment for the longline fleet world wide and has more then 90 per cent market share. The Mustad products are sold and distributed in more than 170 markets world wide today. Mustad Longline employs 60 people and has sales and service personnel in Aalesund, Seattle, Iceland, Argentina, New Zealand, Russia, Greenland, Faroes and France.
In the 1970s O. Mustad & Son developed the Mustad Autoline System, which mechanized the operation of longline fishing: a system securing a resource-friendly and profitable fishery for the future. Since then Mustad has supplied more than 700 systems worldwide. developed the Mustad Autoline System, which mechanized the operation of longline fishing: a system securing a resource-friendly and profitable fishery for the future. Since then Mustad has supplied more than 700 systems worldwide.
By Margaret Stacey
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