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FRV for Bangladesh

MC’s latest ? sheries research and temperature and depth (CTD) packages located on the deck above.

survey vessel design was built in and water sampling equipment to be The equipment can be transferred into

Malaysia for the Bangladesh De- safely deployed and retrieved, with the purpose-designed wet lab imme-

Ipartment of Fisheries. RV Meen lifting accomplished by a dedicated A- diately forward of the alcove using an

Shandhani arrived in Bangladesh in June frame and hydraulic winch combination overhead Toyo monorail and electric after completing extensive sea and ? sh- ing trials and its delivery voyage. The

Australian consultancy’s naval archi- tects and engineers drew on a wealth of relevant experience, data and expertise when developing the vessel’s design.

Formed in 1994, IMC and its principals have a long interest in, and association with, the ? sheries sector. Managing

Director Justin McPherson worked in

Australia’s Northern Prawn Fishery be- fore training as a naval architect and the company’s design library now includes projects covering longliners, purse sein- ers and pearling vessels, as well as re- search vessels such as the 35.8m RV So- lander and 22.6m RV Naturaliste. IMC is currently ? nalizing a prawn trawler design to address the Australian ? sher- ies’ ageing ? eets.

Built at the Sumber Samudra shipyard, the 37.8m Meen Shandhani is capable of mid-water, bottom and otter board trawling, as well as oceanographic re- search including sea bottom and water sampling. The main deck layout re? ects these diverse capabilities, with a net roller, trawl gallows and twin 2,000m capacity single drum net winches, each capable of eight tons pull at 22m per minute, located aft to support stern trawling. Central to all trawling opera- tions are a pair of trawl winches, each of which can store 2,400m of 16mm steel wire rope and provide 10 metric tons pull at 22.5m per minute. Bottom, mid-water and shrimp trawl nets are of

Korean design manufactured in Malay- sia by Jaya Nets, while the otter boards are from BMI in Korea. Forward of the trawl winches, beneath the shelterdeck, there is a stainless steel/aluminum semi- contact plate freezer to port, while IMC designed an alcove into the starboard side. The alcove enables specialist hy- drographic tools such as conductivity, www.marinetechnologynews.com

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