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Furuno has taken its TimeZero technology and employed it within the industry's first multiple-touch multifunction display -- the NavNet TZtouch. Multiple touch means users can control the touchscreen much like a smartphone display with two-finger gestures like pinch-to-zoom. Furuno also added a rotary knob to make adjustments in rough sea conditions where touching the screen could be difficult. Customizing windows to show sounder, plotter, radar and other data is simple with drag-and-drop positioning. Read More

NOAA has announced a new statistical process that jumpstarts a long-awaited update of how recreational catches are counted. That means, NOAA is looking differently at the numbers collected from various surveys to tell us — for instance — how many red snapper were caught by Gulf of Mexico anglers last year. Calling that revised calculation method a more accurate gauge of angling success, NOAA published side-by-side comparisons of catch rates going back to 2004, tallied under the old and new methods. Some of the numbers go up, some go down, and some stay about the same. Read More