On the island of Goeree-Overflakkee, local and regional municipalities, businesses and education and knowledge institutions are pursuing a pioneering project called H2GO. The H2GO project is a project that researches the role green hydrogen can fulfill in our society through eight different scalable sub-projects. One of these projects is making the local fishing fleet of Goeree-Overflakkee CO2 neutral. Due to technical limitations, adaptations to make the fishing vessels CO2 neutral will not be possible for the coming years. For the shorter term, the project is therefore also looking for different ways to make the fleet more sustainable. A substantial polluting factor for this type of fishing vessels is the refrigeration unit, used to cool the freshly caught fish. A technology, called thermally driven metal hydride cooling, shows potential to provide an alternative for the current refrigeration system. In this thesis, the technical feasibility is explored of replacing the conventional ice slurry machines that fishing vessels currently employ with this technology. In order to do this, a literature review on different types of metal hydrides and the state-of-the-art on metal hydride cooling systems has been conducted. After this, a numerical model is presented and validated with an equivalent model and experiments. The model shows good similarity regarding overall system performance compared to the experiments. Finally, a metal hydride cooling system, containing another low temperature metal hydride is proposed that is capable of achieving a cooling capacity of 16 kW at a cooling temperature of -10 to -20 ◦C. This leads to the conclusion that the system has some efficiency drawbacks, but that the metal hydride system is technically feasible for use in the fishing vessels at Goeree-Overflakkee. This, in return, reveals a significant opportunity for employing this new technology to lower the environmental impact of the Goeree-Overflakkee fishing fleet.