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'Wear a PFD – for Your Family's Sake' Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia KELSEY KELSEY 21 2020 May Issue £3.30 5515 media KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL STOCKS ON THE RISE REPORT Mooney Boats to deliver new pair- trawlers for Castletownbere skippers Computer images of Vestværftet ApS, the sisterships will The wheelhouse packages will come the 31m pair-trawlers have an LOA of 31m, 8.7m of beam and from Barry Electronics. Eilean Croine S 238… a draught of 5.8m. Of round bilge hull The new builds will replace the present form, the hulls will be built at the Stal-Rem boats of skippers Donal O’Neill and Eric shipyard, Gdansk, Poland, before being Murphy, the 33.4m Sparkling Star D towed to Killybegs in the spring of next 437 and the 33.3m Eilean Croine S 238, year for full machinery installation and which were built at Hakvoort shipyard, internal fit-out by Mooney Boats. Monnickendam, Holland in 1974 and 1980. Both boats will feature ABC main engines, Heimdal gearboxes, 3,400mm-diameter VP propellers and two Scania auxiliary engines. SeaQuest Systems of Killybegs will supply the hydraulic deck machinery for each boat. This will include two split trawl winches (28t), lifeline and tail-end winches (28t) and three net drums (38t and 28t), together with deck cranes, fish pumps and hose reels. The vessels’ five RSW tanks will be served by refrigeration systems installed by the KER Group. Castletownbere skippers Eric Murphy vessels, Eilean Croine and Sparkling Star, This Killybegs company will … and Sparkling Star D 437, which Mooney Boats is and Donal O’Neill have signed contracts in early 2022, reports David Linkie. also manufacture the vacuum scheduled to deliver to Castletownbere skippers Eric for Mooney Boats Ltd to deliver two new Designed by Ove Kristensen of landing equipment. Murphy and Donal O’Neill in early 2022. ‘Wear a PFD – for your family’s sake’ On the fourth anniversary of the Daniel Willington’s body was together, Flowing Tide II, and the loss of her husband and son, Gail never found. two of them sailed her back from Willington has called on fishermen The MAIB investigation the Outer Hebrides to Milford to wear personal flotation devices concluded that both men probably Haven. They ran a successful for the sake of the families and went overboard while shooting gear shellfish fishing business with friends they might leave behind. in the vicinity of Ramsey Island. Gareth’s help and support. All Gareth and Daniel Willington Gail Willington said: “I feel I three of them had skipper’s tickets. were lost from the 11.6m potter must try to reach the hearts of all “Following this, as Nick had Harvester M 999 in Abereiddy fishermen and their families. other work commitments, Gareth Bay, North Pembrokeshire on 28 “My husband Gareth – known as and Daniel carried on the business April, 2016. When the Harvester Spike – had been shellfish fishing successfully. was found grounded, a search and for 30-plus years. “On the day in question, they rescue operation was launched, “My son Daniel had been fishing went out to check pots by Ramsey and the body of Gareth Willington for approximately 10 years. Six Island, and Gareth said they would was recovered three miles away. or seven years previously, he and be back around lunchtime. That a good friend from school, Nick was the last time we spoke.” Gareth and Daniel Willington. Howells, bought their first boat Continued on page 3 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 21 May 2020 Stocks and recruitment rise as effort falls All indicators show NE Atlantic stocks in good health Most fish stocks in the North East that began around 20 years ago. “It also confuses consumers who, Atlantic are healthy and increasing, We’ve known from ICES that because of aggressive campaigns according to a new report from the there has been a trend of reducing from these organisations, may think EU Commission, reports Tim Oliver. mortality and increasing stocks that the oceans and fish stocks are in It shows that fishing pressure for the past two decades – the a dire situation and that consuming has been reduced by almost half in turning point was the year 2000. fish would contribute to harm the the period 2003-2018 for the stocks The question this raises is how environment, when it is totally the assessed and is at an all-time low, long the NGOs’ narrative based opposite. and that most stocks are at MSY on overexploitation and decline “The reality is that in the last 10 level. Fish populations have been can be maintained, in the face of to 20 years, no industry has made increasing significantly, reaching the evidence? It stands up in the so many efforts and commitment levels in 2018 that are 50% higher Mediterranean, but certainly not in towards sustainability as the than in 2010. the North East Atlantic.” European fishing industry.” The annual report on the Daniel Voces, managing director Europêche argues that part of the performance of the CFP is from of EU fishermen’s organisation problem lies with the fact that the the EU Commission’s Scientific, Europêche, said: “The news on main EU fisheries law introduces Technical and Economic Committee sustainable fisheries is unequivocally targets and objectives which go for Fisheries (STECF), which good. The majority of fish stocks in against scientific advice and the provides independent scientific the North East Atlantic are healthy fisheries reality. In this sense, even advice to the Commission. and thriving. That’s thanks to many though scientists acknowledge that it It shows overall positive trends years of sacrifices being made by is not possible to achieve MSY levels for many stocks in the North East the EU fishing fleets, and intensive for all stocks at the same time, this is Atlantic, where the proportion of collaboration with scientists and an actual objective of the CFP. overexploited stocks was reduced public authorities to improve fishing Daniel Voces concluded: almost by half compared with 2007 practices and fisheries management. “Incredible accomplishments to figures. The proportion of stocks Overfishing in the EU is at an achieve sustainability in our waters outside safe biological limits shows all-time low.” have been made in a record time, to a similar downward trend over the Europêche said it regretted the point that almost 100% of the same period. that radical environmental NGOs landings from EU-regulated stocks “Kinda ironic... more fish in the sea than for over 20 years, and Another healthy indication is continue to launch ‘gloom and doom come from catches fished at the that recruitment figures show that studies’ trying to prove how terrible MSY levels. we’re stuck in here with the bloody pub shut!” the number of young fish entering things are in European waters, by “However, the introduction of the stocks has been consistently analysing the number of fish stocks unachievable policy objectives in the “If 2020 is an atypical year between the scientific advice increasing since 2012. or tonnes overfished in the past. CFP, reform after reform, unfairly in terms of fishing patterns and and well-informed management Industry spokesmen welcomed “It really upsets the industry that gives the impression to citizens and activity, how is that going to be decisions. As we move towards the the report, and said it raised the some NGOs do not recognise the consumers that the fishing industry taken into account in the science autumn negotiations, along with question of how environmental good progress made in the past 20 is not sustainable. Policies need to be and the management measures for everything else that’s going on, it’s NGOs could continue to portray years,” said Daniel Voces. ambitious, but rational at the same 2021?” he asked. one of the things we’ll have to take to the public a picture of declining “It frustrates the efforts of our time.” “I’m hopefully not jumping to into account.” stocks and overexploitation of companies that invest in sustainable Barrie Deas questioned how the conclusions, but it’s certainly not The graphs from the STECF fisheries, in the face of such evidence practices and want to do things dramatic fall in fishing effort and going to be normal. The concern report illustrate the increase of – at least for the North East Atlantic. better. It generates an ambience changes in fishing patterns in 2020 would be that the scientific models biomass (Figure 1), the significant NFFO chief executive Barrie of mistrust, jeopardising the due to the Covid-19 virus would be work by looking backwards and reduction of fishing pressure (Figure Deas said: “The STECF report collaboration of the industry with reflected in the scientific advice for projecting forwards, and I suppose 2) and recruitment (Figure 3) in the confirms the positive stock trends scientists, governments and NGOs. fishing opportunities in 2021. this is where the difference lies North East Atlantic. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 1: Trends in the indicators of stock biomass (median values of the model-based estimates relative to 2003). Three indicators are presented: one for the North East Atlantic (53 stocks considered, blue line); one for the Mediterranean and Black Sea (41 stocks, black line); and one for data-limited stocks (ICES category 3, 73 stocks, green line). Figure 2: Trend in F/FMSY (based on 46 stocks). The figure shows the indicator values since 2016 close to 1, which means that over all stocks, on average, the exploitation levels are close to FMSY. The dark grey zone shows the 50% confidence interval; the light grey zone shows the 95% confidence interval.Figure 3: Trend in decadal recruitment scaled to 2003 in the North East Atlantic (based on 53 stocks).
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