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Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia 15 July 202115 Issue £3.30 5574 KELSEY KELSEY media KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL SHELLFISH BOILING BAN THREAT REPORT Orkney Westra Fjord completes trials off Danish coast past five years – the Keila, the Aalskere and now the Westra Fjord, which make up the entire Orkney whitefish fleet. Westra Fjord will work twin-rig whitefish trawls from three sets of split sweepline winches (2 x 13t) located at the fore end of the full-length trawl deck. Three 21t split trawl winches are mounted midway along the shelterdeck. The hydraulic deck machinery package, which also includes two bagging drums (11t) and two codend Gilsons, was manufactured by Bopp. Shooting away the single-rig Catches on Westra Fjord will be hopper net during fishing trials off hauled up the stern ramp on the Thyborøn last week. vessel’s centreline, before being delivered to a VCU automated The 24m Caspian K was fish-handling/washing system on built by Macduff Shipyards as the main deck. Caspian BF 38 for local skipper Westra Fjord features a Colin West and partners in 1997. Mitsubishi S6U main engine, Caspian was sold to Orkney in Hundested gearbox and 2012 and renamed Russa Taign matching 3,000mm-diameter K 193, before becoming Caspian CP propeller in a high-efficiency K K 148 in 2020. nozzle. Two 195kVA Mitsubishi auxiliaries supply electrical power. Built for Peter, Paul Westra Fjord returns to Hvide Sande after completing engine trials. and Tom Harcus of the Harcus Fishing After running successful engine and crew took their new Stal-Rem shipyard in Gdansk, Company, in partnership trials at the end of June off Hvide command north to Thyborøn Poland last November and towed with Don Fishing, Westra Sande, the new 28m twin-rig for final painting and to rig out to Hvide Sande for engine/ Fjord was built to replace whitefish stern ramp trawler for fishing trials, which were machinery installation and fitting Caspian K (ex Russia Westra Fjord K 193 is expected completed last week. out by Vestværftet ApS. Taign), which recently to cross the North Sea later this With a beam of 9.5m and a The new vessel was designed crossed the Atlantic month to begin her fishing career. moulded depth to shelterdeck by Ove Kristiansen of Vestværftet to be delivered to new At the start of July, Orkney of 6.77m, the new Westra Fjord ApS. The shipyard has designed owners in St John’s in An aerial view of Westra Fjord, showing skippers Peter and Paul Harcus was lifted into the water at the three vessels for Orkney in the Newfoundland. the full-length boat deck sidewalks. EXTREME CONDITIONS Heavy Duty and COMFORTABLE www.guycotten.com AVAILABLE AT YOUR GUY COTTEN DEALER BIB AND BRACES UNO WITH APRON X-TRAPPER ISOMAX CHINOOK Manufacturer in France since 1964 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 15 July 2021 Legal move to ban boiling live crustaceans Threat to entire shellfish supplychain It will become illegal to boil crabs and lobsters alive, or send live lobsters through the post, if Background to the bill legislation now going through parliament is passed, reports Tim The government introduced report. Oliver. the Animal Sentience Bill on 11 Some other countries such Last week, peers in the House of May as part of a raft of animal as Switzerland, Norway and Lords put forward amendments to welfare reforms. It replaces EU New Zealand include decapod the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill legislation that legally recognised crustaceans in their animal to recognise that crabs and lobsters that animals can feel pain and welfare laws, but they are not can feel pain. experience emotions. currently included in the definition The campaign group Crustacean The UK Animal Sentience of ‘animal’ in most of the UK’s Compassion has lobbied hard for Bill currently only applies to animal welfare legislation. crustaceans to be recognised as Snappily dressed shellfish campaigners protesting outside ‘vertebrate’ animals – those with Maisie Tomlinson of Crustacean sentient in the bill, which could DEFRA’s Nobel House last week, as peers proposed a bill amendment a backbone. But Crustacean Compassion said: “We hope the see the animals given new legal recognising that lobsters and crabs feel pain. (Photo: Charmaine Evans) Compassion, whose supporters House of Lords votes to accept protections that would mean that include Chris Packham, Bill this amendment at the earliest boiling alive, and possibly live having a CrustaStun-type machine because they do not want them to Bailey, the RSPCA and the British opportunity. Decapod crustaceans exports, would become illegal. that zaps the animal before cooking. die and cost them a lot of money. Veterinary Association, argues are Britain’s forgotten animals, The Lords amendment also “The problem today is that we “Common sense says you look after that the bill does not go far widely recognised as sentient but requests that cephalopods, which are looking at sustainability and an animal that costs you if it dies,” enough. subject to brutal treatment in the includes octopus and squid, are also the environment more than we are said David Jarrad. It says scientific evidence shows food industry. protected by the bill, and has set looking at the need for food. We He said all the big crab processors that ‘decapod’ crustaceans, a “The government made alarm bells ringing throughout the are looking at these products not as in the UK use electro-stunning, group that includes crabs and a manifesto commitment to shellfish industry. food any more.” which results in a better product, lobsters, can feel pain and suffer, promote high standards of animal David Jarrad, chief executive of He pointed out that most lobsters and would carry on doing so. and should be included in animal welfare, and prides itself on being the Shellfish Association of Great are sold live because restaurants The SAGB chief said he believed welfare legislation. led by the science. It cannot Britain (SAGB), who expressed like to buy live lobsters and that the it was ‘far better’ for the shellfish In 2020, in response to pressure decide which animals are sentient concern at the issue at the SAGB crab trade is part processed, part industry to work with Crustacean from animal welfare campaigners, based on political convenience, conference in May, said the live exports. “There is a threat to the Compassion and DEFRA than to the government commissioned and if the independent review implications could be very serious sector as a whole, and particularly adopt a confrontational stance. an independent scientific review of decapod and cephalopod depending on how many of the on potential problems with live “We must engage on this issue, of the evidence for the sentience sentience is so critical to the Lords’ amendments are included in exports.” because we can’t win the moral of decapod crustaceans and Lords’ decision-making, we urge the bill. He said that Crustacean argument,” he said. cephalopod molluscs. However, it them not to delay its release any “If all crustacea are included in Compassion has engaged with “We need to work with them has given no release date for the further.” the bill, and it says that crabs and DEFRA about the issue over the on designing and creating lobsters are sentient, it could have past couple of years, and DEFRA industry codes of conduct to a major impact on the complete has, in turn, engaged with SAGB improve husbandry and handling “We could end up producing “It’s better to do that than to supply chain, from fishermen and the shellfish sector. throughout the whole supply codes of conduct for fishing vessels, be confrontational – we need to to consumers and everybody in “The lobbyists take an emotive chain, from catching, storage, transport, catering establishments, work with them and improve best between,” he told Fishing News. line, talking about boiling crabs processing through to caterers and processors, a different one for each. practice throughout the supply “It will undoubtedly have a big alive and sending lobsters through restaurants. That’s the way I think it should go. chain.” impact on the processing sector the post to tug on the heartstrings, – and domestic consumption will but the vast majority of crabs aren’t possibly go out of the window boiled alive in people’s homes, and altogether. the vast majority of lobsters aren’t MCA investigates Shetland harrassment claims “A lot of restaurants may refrain sent through the post.” The MCA is carrying out an requirements leads to dangerous with the MCA. We’ve asked from using live product because He said that crab and lobster are investigation into yet another situations. It would not be ministers both in DEFRA and the they don’t want the expense of well looked after by wholesalers incident of a foreign-owned vessel appropriate to comment further at Scotland Office to follow it up. harassing a Shetland trawler this time while we fully investigate “If we don’t get a clear answer fishing on its traditional grounds, this incident.” soon, I’d be surprised if it’s reports Tim Oliver. In a similar incident last year not raised again by Alistair The incident occurred on 28 when a Spanish-owned and Carmichael. It’s an issue he took June when Mizpah, skippered German-registered netter, Pesorsa up last year, and I know he was by Ross Robertson, was almost Dos, tried to foul the propeller of keen to follow it up.” in collision with a Fleetwood- the Shetland trawler Alison Kay, The Shetland MP said he had registered, Spanish-owned 30m the MCA said it could not act spoken to some of the fishermen longliner, Genesis FD 19, as it because Pesorsa Dos was German- involved and would be writing to crossed his bow when fishing registered and the incident took the authorities.

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