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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL NTZ REPORT SLAMMED REPORT New Shetland whitefish trawler Courageous launched auxiliary engines running electrical generators will also be housed in the aft engineroom. The vessel’s fuel capacity will be 50,000 litres. A double bottom tank under the fishroom floor will allow 16,000 litres of freshwater to be carried, along with 20,000 litres of processing water serving the ice machines in the forepeak. Four two-berth cabins, together with the galley, messroom and TV lounge, will be situated at main deck level. An ensuite skipper’s cabin will be positioned on the port side of the trawl deck. The new Courageous will replace the owners’ single-rig trawler of the same ‡ … before being smoothly lowered into name, which they bought in 2015 as the water. Guardian Angell LK 272. The 26.5m Courageous was built at Campbeltown reduction gearbox and a matching Heimdal Shipyard as Guardian Angell K 535 for 2,800mm-diameter CP propeller in a high- Orkney skipper Balfour Bain and partners in efficiency nozzle. Two Mitsubishi 6D24 1992.

‡ A heavy-lift floating crane takes the strain as the new Whalsay whitefish trawler Courageous clears the stocks at Gdansk…

The new 28m single-rig whitefish stern from two sets of split sweepline winches trawler Courageous LK 470, being built (2 x 15t) located at the fore end of a full- by Vestværftet ApS for a young Whalsay length trawl deck. Two split trawl winches partnership, was lifted into the water at (21t) will also be mounted midway along the Gdansk, Poland last week, reports David shelterdeck. The hydraulic deck machinery Linkie. package, which also includes two With a beam of 8.7m and a moulded depth bagging drums and a codend Gilson, was to shelterdeck of 6.66m, Courageous will manufactured by Thyborøn Skibs & Motor. now be towed to Hvide Sande, Denmark for Catches on the new Courageous will be engine/machinery installation and fitting out bagged over the transom on the vessel’s by Vestværftet ApS. centreline, before being delivered to a VCU Courageous is being built for skipper Ian automated fish-handling/washing system on Shearer, in partnership with James Johnson, the main deck. ‡ Partners James Johnson, Ian Shearer, Christopher Irvine and Malcolm Reid standing Malcolm Reid, Christopher Irvine and LHD Ltd. Courageous will feature a Mitsubishi under the bow of Courageous, where a profile map of Whalsay is proudly depicted on Single-rig whitefish trawls will be worked S12R main engine, a Heimdal 11.5:1 the trawler’s stem crest. Bridlington research lab takes first berried lobsters

A new state-of-the-art shellfish the laboratory. delayed by funding and other problems, research facility that has just opened The Holderness Fishing Industry and then by Covid. at Bridlington received its first berried Group (HFIG) facility is located at the There will be more details of the lobsters from local potter Perseverance fish quay on Bridlington’s South Pier. laboratory’s work in a future issue of II on 22 July, reports Tim Oliver. Jamie Robertson, chief executive of Fishing News. Perseverance II skipper Pete HFIG, said that the small laboratory is Sanderson was pictured on Twitter with not a lobster hatchery like the one at Yorkshire port aims to be ‘lobster the first lobsters landed. His vessel Padstow, for example, but was purely capital of Europe’ – pages 8-10 is one of a small number that have a for research purposes. ‡ special dispensation from the North He said it should have been up and ‡ Skipper Pete Sanderson with the first Eastern IFCA to land berried hens for running two years ago, but had been berried lobsters landed by Perseverance II. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 Industry blasts report proposing NTZ network Green ‘zealots’ ignore fishermen’s livelihoods The English fishing industry has launched a lacerating attack on proposals to introduce highly protected marine areas (HPMAs) in England, in which all fishing and other activities would be banned, and on the report that recommends the areas, reports Tim Oliver. The proposals were spelled out in the recently published Benyon Report (Fishing News, 18 June, ‘No-fishing zones planned’), and came under fire at a recent teleconference organised by DEFRA to discuss it. In a report on the meeting, the NFFO says that it revealed ‡ Small-scale inshore boats would be particularly hard-hit by the strength of feeling across displacement caused by NTZs. (Photo: Nina Constable Media) the fishing industry against an attempt to shoehorn ‘no-take operating ranges are limited and which demonstrated bad faith. zones’ (NTZs) into the established impacts on livelihoods would be Fishermen who had been involved process for designating and severe. in the Lyme Bay MPA felt that managing marine protected areas Other comments at the meeting they had now been ‘duped and “Known in the industry as the bunion report...” (MPAs). were that: betrayed’. There was deep concern not It also noted that it was very It has been jointly working dubious provenance and confused only at the content of the report • Environmental ‘zealots’ seem likely that if any NTZs were set with government on the best way purpose.” but also at the way it came about. to be in the driving seat, and up, they would be expanded in the to protect the environment, but The federation paid tribute to Questions were raised about the there is an unconcerned attitude future. said that if the recommendations Nathan de Rozarieux’s efforts on independence of the chairman, throughout the report towards The NFFO said it was of the report were accepted and the panel to bring some sense of former fisheries minister Richard real people and their lives and disturbing that the Benyon Report implemented, ‘we will be on course rigour, balance and proportion to Benyon, who was a leading livelihoods had been ‘helicoptered in after for years of conflict’. the report. advocate of the EU landing • If the government accepts the pressure from the powerful and Summing up, the NFFO said The full report can be read on obligation, the balance within report recommendations, it would well-connected environmental there was nothing independent the NFFO website at: nffo.org.uk the panel, and why organisations drive a coach and horses through lobby’. about the ‘independent’ review. representing the fishing industry any idea of co-management, as Above all, it said, the report “From the outset, it has had been excluded. the scene would be set for endless glossed over the displacement been driven by politically well- The meeting also commented local and national conflicts as of fishing activity, which would connected, socially privileged ‘Not policy’ on confusion at the heart of the fishermen are displaced from their create havoc for fishermen who environmental zealots with an report about what HPMAs would customary fishing grounds were ejected from their customary agenda that bulldozes aside the says Prentis be for. If they were to provide a • The report talks about an grounds. There would be fears and legitimate concerns of scientific control area to assess ‘evidence-based approach and ‘knock-on effects and unintended those who depend on fishing for Fisheries minister Victoria the effectiveness of MPAs, the dialogue with those impacted’, consequences’ in other fisheries. their livelihood. Prentis, who participated in industry said no rigorous case but it makes sure to include and “A truly independent and balanced “One would have to be extremely part of the teleconference call, had been made to justify this emphasise the precautionary group might have explored a bit naïve to believe that it is anything emphasised that the Benyon that would stand up to scientific approach override, and to assume deeper into what displacement other than a Trojan horse for large- Report was not government scrutiny. that whatever legislative route is would mean. Instead that task has scale NTZs. policy, and said that a process If they were being pushed as chosen, NTZs will be bulldozed been left to government,” said the “The weighting of the panel, its was underway to develop part of a wider campaign for in. NFFO. terms of reference, the derisory a government response to NTZs, they were a back-door way During the meeting, the access given to the views of the the report. That would be of managing fisheries, or even a The NFFO said that the federation made clear that it was fishing industry – all give reason published in due course, and project for ‘rewilding’ the seas. industry had been engaged with not, and never has been, against for alarm across the fishing would inform future policy. The NFFO said that the meeting the government for over a decade MPAs and protecting vulnerable industry. In the meantime, DEFRA confirmed that there is a lot for in setting up and designating marine habitats, and that the “The Benyon Report has would be engaging with the the fishing industry to fear in this MPAs and deciding management industry has a responsibility to managed to unite the fishing fishing industry to understand report – especially for small-scale measures, and ‘a parallel keep its ecological footprint as industry in opposition to a badly its concerns and perspectives. inshore fisheries where vessels’ process’ was now being set up, small as possible. timed, ill-judged initiative of Germany licenses new pulse beamer The French environmental group beamers were licensed to use the but the regulation banning issues, which the ombudsman is the other electric trawlers under that spearheaded the campaign to method. The number has been pulse trawling prohibits any new to carry out. German flag,” says BLOOM. ban electric pulse trawling in EU halved, and the method will be licences being granted. Frédéric Le Manach, scientific It says it has filed two waters has accused Germany of completely phased out by June BLOOM claims that a number director of BLOOM, said that complaints against the acting illegally by licensing a new 2021. of Dutch pulse beamers are Germany was ‘in clear breach’ Netherlands with the European vessel to use the method, reports The Dutch fishing industry is fishing illegally, and has filed a of the regulations, when its Commission, but these remain Tim Oliver. continuing to fight the ban, and complaint with the European behaviour as president of the EU ‘unsatisfactorily answered’. The BLOOM group claims that a recent ICES report said that Commission against Germany, should be ‘absolutely exemplary’. Laetitia Bisiaux, in charge of Germany licensed the German- the method is less damaging than which holds the presidency of the BLOOM claims that Dutch the ‘electric fishing’ portfolio registered and Dutch-owned conventional beam trawling. A EU for the rest of this year. companies have used a strategy of at BLOOM, accused the Butendiek BRA 2 at the beginning group of Dutch MEPs is now BLOOM has also called on the flagging their vessels to Germany Commission of ‘turning a blind of April this year. trying to reopen the debate on the European ombudsman to conduct and the UK to exceed the limit eye’ to continued infringements An EU ban on electric fishing back of the ICES report (Fishing an inquiry into the failure of the on the numbers of electric pulse and ‘continuing its headlong rush came into force in August 2019 News, 4 June, ‘ICES: Pulse European Commission to fulfil its beamers they can operate. to protect a fraudulent industry after a long campaign by BLOOM beaming OK’). role as guardian of the EU treaties “The Butendiek is no exception that is endangering marine and UK and other EU inshore A small number of licences will in respect of allowing electric to this rule, given that it too is ecosystems and small-scale fishermen. Eighty-four Dutch be allowed for research purposes, pulse beam fishing and other owned by Dutch capital, just like coastal fishing’. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Barnier: ‘Brexit must not destroy EU fishing industry’ EU chief negotiator Michel the latest talks, saying there for a near total exclusion of EU Nevertheless, he said, all possible scenarios for the end Barnier has warned that the had to be a fisheries agreement fishing vessels from UK waters. ‘until the very last day of this of the transition period at the end UK’s hard line on fisheries in the that ‘shows that Brexit makes a That is simply unacceptable. negotiation and despite the of this year.” Brexit trade talks would cause real difference compared to the “The UK will be an current difficulties, the EU will But he said that despite all the ‘partial destruction of the EU existing situation’. independent coastal state, and the remain engaged, constructive and the difficulties, he believed that fishing industry’ and is making Barnier said that the EU fully respects that. We also respectful’. ‘agreement can still be reached agreement unlikely, reports Tim negotiations were ‘complex’ and recognise that, under the future UK negotiator David Frost in September, and that we should Oliver. that they were ‘still far away’ agreement, there may be change said that ‘substantial areas of continue to negotiate with this With time running out to from a deal. Progress had been to the benefit of UK fishermen. disagreement’ remained on aim in mind’. get a deal, trade talks remained made in some areas, but there “But common stocks need to fisheries and the ‘level playing The two sides need to reach deadlocked at the conclusion of was still no progress on ‘two be managed jointly – according field’. an agreement before October, the latest round of talks on 23 essential topics’ – a ‘level playing to international law and the He said: “We have always been to give time for any deal to be July. field’ to ensure open and fair principle of responsible and clear that our principles in these ratified by the EU member states Both sides said they were still competition, and fisheries. sustainable management of areas are not simple negotiating before the 31 December deadline. far apart on two of the major On fisheries, Michel Barnier resources. And any agreement positions, but expressions of the Informal talks between the issues that were preventing said: “We have to agree on a cannot lead to the partial reality that we will be a fully two teams are continuing ahead agreement – fisheries and the balanced, sustainable and long- destruction of the EU fishing independent country at the end of of the next negotiating round that ‘level playing field’ – but said they term solution for fisheries, with industry.” the transition period. is due to begin on 17 August. will keep talking to try to reach the interests of all member states He said that ‘by its current “Although we will continue Meanwhile, the Telegraph a deal. concerned in mind, and not least refusal to commit to conditions energetically to seek an reported that UK officials were In a statement after the end the many men and women whose of open and fair competition agreement with the EU, we must now working on the assumption of the talks, Michel Barnier said livelihoods depend on it on both and to a balanced agreement on face the possibility that one will that there would be no deal, that Boris Johnson had set out sides. fisheries, the UK makes a trade not be reached, and we must and that we would leave the EU his ‘red lines’ at a meeting before “The UK is effectively asking agreement at this point unlikely’. therefore continue preparing for trading on WTO terms. New figures show drop in landings from Irish vessels last year

Figures just released by the Central were landed. The highest level of and turbot obtained the highest prices. Irish Vessels Foreign Irish Vessels in Foreign Total Landings Vessels in Statistics Office show that landings landings by Irish vessels in foreign ports The median price per tonne of lobsters Year in Ireland Ports by Irish Vessels Ireland by Irish vessels decreased by almost during the same period was in 2010, in 2019 was €18,000. By contrast, 19,000t last year – a drop of 8.9%, when 153,440t were landed. Almost half species with much higher tonnages, like reports Pauric Gallagher. of this (73,535t) was boarfish. Atlantic mackerel, obtained lower prices. Last year, 194,956t were landed by In 2019, the species with the largest Killybegs was the most important port Irish vessels, compared to 213,897t in quantities landed by Irish vessels in for Irish landings in 2019, accounting 2018. Ireland were Atlantic mackerel (45,986t), for 63.1% (123,067t) of all landings by The statistics show that landings by blue whiting (33,548t) and horse Irish vessels. Killybegs (74,693t) and Irish vessels into Irish ports dropped mackerel (27,898t). Castletownbere (23,329t) were the ports by 5.7% or 10,453t. Landings by Irish Over the 2010-2019 period, with the highest tonnages landed by vessels into foreign ports decreased by Atlantic mackerel and langoustine foreign vessels in Ireland. ‡ Irish landings over the period 2010-2019. 28.7% or 8,487t. Landings by foreign have consistently been the two species The Celtic Sea accounted for 28% vessels in Ireland were also down, by with the highest-value landings, a (48,620t) of catch tonnages by Irish (22,431t). 22% or 29,091t. pattern continued in 2019 with Atlantic vessels that were landed in Ireland The busiest months of 2019 in terms The highest level of landings by Irish mackerel at €66.7m and langoustine at in 2019. The South West of Ireland of tonnes landed were January to April, vessels in Ireland during the decade €51.1m. was next highest at 22.6% (39,295t), with 64% of the catch landed by Irish 2010-2019 was in 2012, when 249,205t In terms of prices, lobsters, black sole followed by the West of Ireland at 12.9% vessels, and October to December.

Investigation launched after UK Navy confronts Irish trawler Scotland ‘frozen out’ of The Irish Department of crews by a British submarine. Foreign Affairs has launched I thought that we had left this an investigation after it was carry-on behind with the Cold reported that a UK Navy frigate War. maritime security discussions ordered the 32.5m Marliona “For decades, British The Scottish justice Brexit maritime security, has responsibility for many SO 975 to leave the area submarines have infringed on secretary has expressed ‘deep while the EU Exit Operations aspects of maritime security, where it was fishing off the Irish sovereign waters, leading concern’ that Scotland has Committee has had three in particular marine and Donegal coast, reports Pauric to tragedy and loss of life when been excluded from Brexit meetings in the past month fisheries protection, and given Gallagher. submarines have got caught ministerial talks on maritime to discuss the matter, without that Scotland represents a It is believed that HMS up in fishing nets and pulled issues. invitation to the devolved large area of UK waters, we Lancaster was beginning a joint trawlers under. Humza Yousaf has called governments. have extensive expertise to operation with a submarine “It is staggering and for an urgent four-nation Scotland’s waters cover 62% share. which would continue over the unacceptable that this flagrant ministerial meeting on of the UK’s domestic exclusive “We have had a good following three days. disregard for the safety of Irish fisheries and maritime security economic zone, and many working relation with the UK Sinn Féin spokesperson on fishing crews is continuing. This after being excluded from functions relating to maritime government, but it is deeply foreign affairs and defence John cannot be allowed to stand. the UK government’s Brexit security are devolved, concerning that devolved Brady said: “On one level, we “I understand that the preparation talks. including fisheries compliance governments have now been have the outrageous scenario of Department of Foreign Affairs Writing to the UK transport and protection. frozen out of UK ministers’ a foreign power ordering an Irish has launched an investigation secretary Grant Shapps, Mr Yousaf said: “While we maritime Brexit discussions. vessel out of Irish waters. On the into the incident, and I will be Humza Yousaf complained that remain opposed to leaving “This is more than other, we have a situation where in contact with the minister to devolved governments have the EU and believe it is just another example of a British warship was engaged ensure that the government’s been omitted from the UK extremely reckless to rule out UK ministers seeking to in a joint operation with a British response reflects the government’s ministerial EU an extension to the transition undermine devolution submarine. seriousness of the matter. Exit Operations Committee, period, as a responsible and respect for devolved “The disregard for Irish “I also want to commend where maritime issues are government we want to competencies – it sovereignty is arrogance of the the response of the Irish Navy, being discussed. be as fully prepared for compromises our ability to highest order. But alongside which ordered Irish vessels to The UK government has had Brexit as possible, including protect Scottish interests and this we have the endangerment the area to ensure the safety of no ministerial-level discussions working with the other UK seriously hampers the UK’s of Irish fishing vessels and their the fishing vessel in question.” so far this year with the governments. Brexit preparations on this Scottish government on post- “The Scottish government critical matter.” 4 COMMENT/LETTERS/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Greens in the driving seat EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ Environmental considerations have commissioned the Benyon Report on highly They are against the application of rigid, KELSEY.CO.UK exerted an increasing influence on fisheries protected marine areas (HPMAs), and that simplistic policies that ignore the immense management in the past couple of decades the report inevitably strongly recommended complexities of the marine environment. Kelsey Publishing Ltd, or so. that they should be introduced. They are against policies that are focused The Granary, Editor This emphasis has been part of a The English industry is clearly alert to entirely on biological considerations and Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie growing wider alarm about the effects of the dangers of HPMAs and the damage ignore socio-economic effects. Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] human activity on the world’s flora and they would potentially inflict on the inshore They also rightly want to be centrally Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 fauna, both terrestrial and marine, on the sector in particular. It has made a powerful involved in the decision-making processes planet’s resources and on the climate. defence of its interests in response to the that affect their livelihoods. The gestation As more and more evidence has emerged Benyon Report’s recommendations, and and production of the Benyon Report of the serious damage that has been and is will doubtless continue its fight to stop this and its recommendations fail on all these being done to the overall environment, the dangerous development. criteria. debate about how to tackle these issues has Fishermen are in no way against sound We already have a comprehensive risen to the very top of the political agenda. fisheries management that protects fish network of MPAs in place to protect the This concern is reflected in every stocks and the marine environment they marine environment, and another layer of aspect of fisheries management, where depend on for their livelihoods. It is in their HPMAs on top of these would be almost every policy development and interests that stocks should be healthy, are a step too far. Managing editor announcement includes numerous fished sustainably and provide high yields. The Benyon Report should be News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] references to ‘sustainability’. What they are against are extreme left on a shelf to gather dust, but it email: [email protected] Given this political climate, it is and doctrinaire policies that are based on will not be – the political pressures not surprising that the government ideology rather than real-world situations. of our times will not allow it.

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This completion of 11 feasibility studies, saw researchers work closely will see them submitting proposals where ideas undergo initial testing to with fishers to measure the rate as part of a closed-application see if they would work. at which baited hooks sink in a session, competing only with the The studies, submitted during floated demersal longline fishery, other feasibility studies within their the fund’s inaugural round of and proposed gear modifications to round. Successful applicants could applications, are the first to have reduce the risk of seabird by-catch. receive up to £250,000 from the benefited from the support of the Computer simulations identified a fund to complete full research and government’s £10m UK Seafood series of modifications to the gear development projects over the next Innovation Fund. Through this which could accelerate the sinking 18 months. new fund, the UK government of hooks beyond the reach of diving Meanwhile, the second round has committed to rewarding ‡ In one successful project, Reef Cubes were deployed next to a seabirds. A series of follow-up of applications to the UK Seafood innovative ideas that aim to make shellfish aquaculture site… trials are planned to test how these Innovation Fund closed on 26 a significant improvement to the modifications can reduce seabird June, with double the number of future sustainability, profitability and breadth of innovation that the by-catch in the fishery. applications than in the first round. efficiency of any part of the seafood fund is here to support. Although Two studies tackled the issue The next round of successful sector. the work was completed during of how data can be better utilised applicants will be notified of their Fisheries minister Victoria challenging times for UK research to improve the efficiency and award by October 2020, and this Prentis said: “It is great to see and seafood industries, the feasibility resilience of seafood businesses. The cohort of projects is expected to the Seafood Innovation Fund in studies’ success are a testament to CoFIDaCoM project confirmed the start work soon afterwards. action, showcasing the benefits the resilient nature of these sectors.” need for improved data collection The UK Seafood Innovation Fund of investing in research and new ‡ … to create new habitat for A number of the studies were and management in the fishing is administered by CEFAS on behalf technologies. We want a profitable wild crabs and lobsters, with the aligned with the fund’s objective sector, with a view to helping fishers of DEFRA. and sustainable fisheries industry as aim of encouraging aquaculture to support a sustainable future collate and use information to For more information on the we become an independent coastal operators and shellfishermen to for UK fisheries. Reef Cubes were enhance safety, reduce time spent at completed projects, visit: bit. state. These studies demonstrate the work together. designed and successfully deployed sea, and limit environmental impact. ly/3hP2H3S innovation and drive that exists in next to a shellfish aquaculture site Fishers who were consulted said that our world-leading fishing, seafood Fund steering group and pro-vice to create new habitat for wild crabs being able to consolidate data about and technology industries, and I chancellor of research and and lobsters. Researchers from ARC their catch, vessel location, efficiency look forward to seeing the further innovation at the University of Marine hope that the co-location of and productivity would help them development of these interesting East Anglia, said: “These are the artificial reefs with the aquaculture make decisions that promote better projects.” UK Seafood Innovation Fund’s operation will offer support to the use of fishing time, fuel and effort. Professor Fiona Lettice, chair first completed projects, and we shellfish fishery, while strengthening These feasibility studies are now of the UK Seafood Innovation are proud that they showcase the the relationship between fishers and eligible to apply for further funding Survey to gauge Covid-19 New minister meets impact on UK processors Irish industry to A major survey is underway by family members have been Seafood Association, said: to discover the financial and reporting that they were able to “While we know the challenges socio-economic impact of quickly implement new working we are facing, we should never discuss Brexit Covid-19 on the seafood methods and continue to underestimate the importance processing industry in the operate throughout. of clear statistical and financial Ireland’s new minister for quota shares and existing UK, and compile an up to the “Some small processors data on the sector. agriculture, food and the reciprocal access to UK minute profile of the sector. have also been able to adapt “When the Scottish marine Dara Calleary has met waters. I will continue to Running through July and by setting up or scaling up government was developing with representatives of the four press for the maintenance of August, the survey is being home delivery offerings and the Scottish Seafood Business Irish POs, the National Inshore the linkage of fisheries to the conducted by Seafish. Seafood online sales. This has offset the Resilience Fund, it was Fishermen’s Forum and the overall economic partnership processors are being asked absence of wholesale trade, data from previous Seafish Irish Fish Processors’ and agreement, as this will be to provide information on how and the increased margins processing surveys that they Exporters’ Association, reports central to a successful Covid-19 has affected their associated with retail have seen turned to. This really illustrates Pauric Gallagher. agreement. business, and how they are some businesses reporting that to me that, while we can debate He heard first-hand their “I assured the industry responding. The survey also profits are up compared to the whether the right support has concerns about the EU-UK representatives of my asks for financial data and same period last year. been provided, we will always be negotiations on fishing, and commitment and that of the information on operations and “For larger processors who better placed to make our case the challenges arising from government to work towards recruitment, to determine the may be more dependent on to governments if we have the the Covid-19 crisis. The a fisheries agreement with the size and economic performance wholesale trade, and who have data to support it. representatives made clear the UK that protects their interests of the sector. had to remodel work spaces “I would strongly encourage serious long-term issues that and ensures a long-term future Seafisheconomist Ana to meet new guidance, we are seafood businesses of all sizes, their members would face if for our coastal communities Witteveen said: “Early returns tending to see a gradual return wherever you are in the UK, the UK’s demands for a greater dependent on fisheries.” from the survey show that, of workers, with more being to fully engage with Seafish to share of fish stocks and In relation to the challenges unsurprisingly, many seafood brought back from furlough complete the survey and provide restricted access to UK fishing arising from the Covid crisis, processing businesses had each week. the requested financial data.” grounds were granted. Mr Calleary said: “The to reduce production or close “These, of course, are only the Seafishwill attempt to contact Each of the representatives government’s clear intention down completely in response early indications from the first all UK seafood processing also set out the very difficult is to provide supports that to Covid-19 and lockdown businesses we have spoken to. businesses and invite them challenges arising because of help to revitalise all areas restrictions. Sadly, for some It is clear that we are looking to take part in a short phone the currently weaker markets in the economy, including businesses the doors may never at a mixed and complicated call, and in some cases a and reduced prices for fish. the seafood sector. I will be reopen, with smaller processors landscape. We would invite all subsequent online survey. After the meeting, Minister working across government to at particular risk of owners seafood processing businesses The 2018 Seafish processing Calleary said: “I listened devise measures to support opting to wind down or retire to take part in the survey, to survey revealed 353 sites which carefully to the clearly jobs and communities over the early. help us put together the most derive 50% or more of their articulated challenges facing coming period. “However, some smaller accurate picture we can of the annual turnover from seafood the fishing industry, both “Finally, I set out the huge processors have proved sector as it weathers current processing, supporting 19,191 in the context of Brexit and ambition in the Programme particularly agile in responding challenges, adapts to new full-time equivalent jobs. arising from the Covid-19 for Government for building to the extraordinary working practices and prepares For more information, go crisis. I made clear that I will a sustainable fishing sector. I circumstances of recent for the future.” to: bit.ly/2P7tv36 or email: be pressing for a fisheries look forward to working with months. Businesses with Jimmy Buchan, chief processingenquiries@seafish. agreement with the UK the sector to delivering on that small workforces or staffed executive officer of the Scottish co.uk that upholds both existing objective.” 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 New order boosts restart at C Toms & Son After the Covid-19 shutdown, the team at the Polruan boatyard are making up for lost time. Phil Lockley reports

onstruction of a third which have earned a reputation for interesting project is to shorten the U10 steel trawler for R&B their reliability and low operational Newlyn-based vivier-crabber Chris CFishing Ltd will soon begin and through-life costs’. Tacha PL 26, bringing the vessel at the Cornish boatyard of C Toms down to measure just under 15m & Son. ‘Steady stream’ of refits in length. We have taken 300mm Designed by Ian Paton of Visitors to C Toms & Son will from the bow section and had SC McAllister & Co Ltd, the see the yard ‘very busy’, said Paul to clip the bulbous bow; the rest vessel will be a near copy of Toms. Alongside the new builds, of the shortening came from the R&B Fishing’s Saxon Spirit and refits, re-engine contracts, general stern. Apart from the bulbous bow Claude Henry – both built at C maintenance and painting jobs are looking different – and we had Toms & Son, like many of the in progress. no options there – the rest of the company’s fleet. R&B Fishing has However, he said: “It’s all very boat looks like it should be, and is its headquarters in Lowestoft, but well to say that we are packed with not out of proportion for a boat of most of its vessels operate around work – yes, at present we are busy, those dimensions. the South West. and we expected that. Following “Its partner boat, the Harriet “The new build is most the breakout of Covid-19, the yard Eve TO 50, is presently having welcome,” said Paul Toms, who was shut down for four weeks; a major paint job. The surface is runs the boatyard. “It will take we are now working hard to being taken down to steel by the place alongside the construction catch up on that lost time. We are use of water-blast, following which of a 19m twin-rig new build for more than willing to talk to other a complete repaint will take place. Scotland, the keel of which was skippers and/or owners about “General maintenance is in recently laid. Construction of that future new builds. progress on several vessels, a is progressing quite fast.” “We have Les Burt’s new couple being previous builds of The 19.7m twin-rigger Loch vivier-crabber in its final stages ours like the Southern Spirit LT Inchard II, for Ian Mackay of the of completion, and the two new 1056. Others include the Provider Loch Inchard Fishing Company, builds will keep our 16 welders, II BM 422 for general maintenance Lairg, Sutherland, will be the ‡ The twin-rigger Ocean Spirit is returned to the water after a refit and three engineers and other to its engine; the Looe trawler biggest fishing boat ever built at work to the shaft at C Toms & Son. shipwrights busy. But we must Guardian FY 28 has completed a the yard, said Paul Toms. “It might always look to the future.” refit, and work is also taking place not be the biggest steel boat that different from those of present draws on inspiration from our Current refits and maintenance on the Rebecca V FH 665. Work we have ever built, but it’s the boats of similar dimensions, archive MDI Napier fishing work at C Toms & Son cover the on the shaft of the twin-rig trawler biggest fishing boat, giving our but new ideas are present – vessels: more efficient hull shapes, spectrum of the South West fishing Ocean Spirit BM 493 was recently firm a good opportunity to show ones introduced by senior naval combined with the higher capacity industry, from large beam trawlers completed. what we have to offer to the UK architect Alasdair Honeyman of and regulatory requirements that a like the Martine BM 15 down to “Work on the Brixham beam fishing industry as a whole. Marine Design International Ltd, modern fishing vessel must have. several from the U10 sector. trawler Martine is going ahead – “It is nice to build a vessel based in Glasgow.” “The vessel is 16.46m in Paul Toms said: “One general maintenance and a major that is a bit different, a different On its website, Marine Design registered length and 19.7m in design. The lines are not massively International says: “The concept overall length, with a capacity of 570 boxes in a hold well-centred in the vessel for optimum trim through the loading range. The design ethos has consistently been used to improve efficiency, while maintaining capacity as far as possible. “The engineroom is forward, allowing more gentle aft lines and a good waterflow to the propeller, which is set in a high-efficiency nozzle, followed by triple rudders to reduce steering drag. “Various hulls were run in CFD software with some extreme concepts tried, to ensure that we were making progress ahead of generally accepted principles. The hull shape was also optimised for ‡ The hull of the new 19.7m Loch Inchard II is rapidly taking shape. form stability in order to reduce ‡ Southern Spirit LT 1056 and Provider II BM 422 waiting for attention ballast and therefore displacement by C Toms & Son – over the past few weeks, as many as nine boats have and fuel consumption. The been waiting at the pontoon. technical capability has had some distinctive and attractive styling added, resulting in a useful and desirable vessel for that sector.” Paul Toms added: “We’re getting excellent support from Marine Design International. Quite some time before the build began, we were issued with plenty of drawings. Presently we are in the early stages of build, but we expect the boat to be completed by next autumn.” Proteum, the UK and Ireland distributor for Moteurs Baudouin, has just announced that it has won the contract to power the new vessel. A Baudouin 6M33.2 main propulsion engine and Baudouin 6W126 APU will be fitted. Neil Taylor, head of sales at Proteum, ‡ Making up for time lost to Covid-19, staff at C Toms & Son are gaining said that the choice ‘is a huge ‡ Steve Green and his team have carried out a major repaint on the pace on the new build. endorsement for Baudouin engines, Brixham beam trawler Martine. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 SIFCA vessel assists inshore boat with engine trouble

While out on patrol on 23 July, towed’ up the river and placed the Sussex Inshore Fisheries back on its berth in Newhaven. and Conservation Authority Tim Dapling, Sussex IFCA’s (SIFCA) vessel Watchful picked chief fisheries and conservation up communications on VHF officer, said: “A key benefit Channel 16 between fishing of operating our patrol vessel vessel Southern Head and Solent Watchful within the Sussex IFCA Coastguard, reporting that it had district is our ability to assist mechanical trouble with its main fishing vessels in emergencies. engine and required assistance to Management of inshore fisheries get back to Newhaven harbour, ‡ Once the tow had been includes supporting operators reports John Periam. established, Southern Head was in times of need. However Watchful was heading safely back in Newhaven within well vessels are maintained, eastward along the three nautical the hour. unforeseen issues can often ‡ Newlyn vivier-potter Chris Tacha is undergoing work to reduce the mile limit, and located Southern occur. Our vessel’s crew were vessel’s length to under 15m. Head on AIS in the vicinity overhead. pleased to provide support, of Cuckmere Haven, just west Watchful skipper Charlie and safely tow this local fishing of Beachy Head – just over 15 Hubbard has a wealth of boat with its crew back into minutes’ steam away. Skipper experience in such matters, Newhaven.” Charlie Hubbard immediately having been a fisherman most Charlie Hubbard added: “We established communications with of his working life, as well as a share a good working relationship Solent Coastguard and offered member of the Shoreham lifeboat with the local RNLI stations assistance. crew. “It is all about making sure along the coast, as well as the The Coastguard accepted the tow line is fast whilst keeping MCA. I cannot stress enough SIFCA’s assistance and the patrol the vessel at a safe distance. It is the importance of safety at sea, vessel’s crew contacted Southern important we can see the vessel and the need for fishing vessel Head directly. Once on the scene, in tow all the time and maintain a skippers to keep in touch all mate Matt Wiseman and fishery suitable speed to do that.” the time using the relevant officer Nick Rogers worked with The vessels arrived at the communication channels on VHF the crew of Southern Head to entrance to Newhaven harbour – at the same time as advising rig a good tow, while the SAR after a 40-minute steam. their home port of where they are helicopter from Lydd hovered Southern Head was then ‘beam operating.” Call for fisheries and

‡ Just 300mm has been taken from the bow section of Chris Tacha, with the remainder of the reduction taken from the stern. Alongside is the trade commission new-build vivier-potter for Cornish skipper Les Burt, which will leave the yard soon. A Hull MP has called for a Yorkshire Post, she said it was “Fishing and trade are not fisheries and trade commission true that fishing represents only mutually dependent, they repaint by Steve Green and his booked for the nearby charter to be set up to protect the only a small part of the are virtually one and the same staff – and shortly after that, the fleet of sailing ships – normally a interests of fishermen and the total UK economy, but that thing,” she said. new trawler from Newlyn, Crystal routine winter booking. The leisure fishing industry, reports Tim the government should not “UK fishermen still need Sea SS 118, will take its place on trade came to an end with Covid- Oliver. undervalue the thousands of an open and frictionless the slipway. 19, and the owners haven’t used Emma Hardy, Labour MP jobs fishing creates, not just global market to trade in and “We are very pleased with the their boats to any great extent. We for Hull West and Hessle, on boats large and small, but open waters to fish in, while steady stream of refit work and have to be prepared for any further said that fishing and trade in processing, logistics and processors will need a good maintenance. Each year some of downturn – but we have the new were indivisibly linked, and foodservice. supply of fish from UK waters those contracts are booked in on builds to keep our workforce busy fishing was not a second-class “They are also at risk and beyond, as well as an a long-term basis, but there are throughout the winter.” n industry. of ignoring the cultural open export market to sell their always urgent tasks where the She made her comments and historical importance products into,” said Emma skipper has unforeseen problems following the government’s of fishing as part of our Hardy. and needs to have the vessel lifted creation of a new Trade and maritime heritage and our “British retailers and out. We will always respond and Agriculture Commission that communities,” she said. consumers will need a plentiful have space for that; we are more will bring together farmers, “While trade and agriculture supply of fresh fish from than aware of the cost of downtime retailers and consumers to interests are brought together waters such as those between for a fishing boat. advise government on future in the same commission, the Greenland and Norway, where “We have taken on more staff trade policy. government seems content the fish for our national dishes and are back up to speed, catching But while welcoming the that fisheries and trade are most abundant. up after the Covid-19 crisis. creation of the new body for policies do not mix.” “For the sake of the Initially we lost four weeks of farming, she said a similar She said that while Britain fishermen of Hull, Bridlington operation, but that was followed approach was needed for the imports most of the fish eaten and Whitby and for coastal by a further four weeks when only fishing industry. in this country (largely cod, communities all around the a few staff were allowed to work. “The creation of the haddock and salmon) from country, the government It is difficult for all boatyards to commission seems to waters controlled by Norway, must lay ideology aside and get back that lost time, but we are recognise the need for close Greenland, Iceland and the recognise that fishing and very pleased with the support from collaboration in policy-making Faroes, most of the UK catch trade go together in exactly the our staff, who are working hard to on food production and trade is exported, mainly to the same way as agriculture and respond. – something any farmer would EU27. This meant that for trade. “Sadly, this winter I think tell you was common sense most people in the industry, “Fishing is not a second- all boatyards may see an overall – so why have our fishermen as well as for retailers and class industry, and our downturn in maintenance work. been left out?” asked Emma consumers, the ‘number one fishermen deserve a fisheries No one really knows where the ‡ Another major painting job is Hardy. priority’ is a healthy cross- and trade commission to Covid-19 crisis is heading. Already, taking place on the Newlyn vivier Commenting in the border trading environment. protect their interests now.” we have no maintenance work boat Harriet Eve. 8 BRIDLINGTON Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 YORKSHIRE PORT AIMS TO BE ‘LOBSTER CAPITAL OF EUROPE’ A plan is in hand to raise the profile of the East Yorkshire port of Bridlington by linking its fishing industry to tourism, reports Tim Oliver he development stems from a study carried out by Hull TUniversity, ‘Project Pincer 2’, commissioned by the North Eastern IFCA and funded by the Holderness Coast Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) to look at the future of the local lobster industry. The FLAG covers the East Riding of Yorkshire, from Flamborough Head to Spurn Point on the Humber estuary. Bridlington is the largest shellfish landing port in the UK, and is the hub of a major shellfish fishery for lobster, crabs and whelks carried out along the Holderness coast, including the smaller towns of Hornsea and Withernsea, where boats work from the beaches. Lobster landings in 2018 were 300t worth £4.4m, according to MMO figures. Crab landings were 2,612t worth £5.4m, and 652t of whelks were landed, valued at £710,000. The Hull University Business School study said there was scope to add value to the lobster catch, which is currently mostly exported live to France, Spain and Portugal, ‡ The East Yorkshire holiday resort and fishing port of Bridlington is aiming to brand itself the ‘lobster capital of Europe’, in a bid to boost with little local processing. tourism and the local economy. (Photo: HFIG) Ray Williamson, regeneration and funding advisor at the FLAG, be sold when market prices were largest lobster port in Europe to representatives and academics ‘Bridlington Bay – lobster capital of said that the Hull University study strong. There are holding tanks support and develop tourism in the went to Newfoundland in January Europe’. made a series of recommendations now at Bridlington, but they allow region, as well as boost business. to see how they do things there, “I am currently preparing a on adding value to the product, storage for only a few days. “We’ve got an enormous lobster and one of the places they visited five-year strategy to turn what we including more local processing, The report also suggests landing port, but we’re not making was Shediac in New Brunswick. believe is an enormous but improved quality control, grading developing the domestic market much of that. You go to the USA, They call themselves the lobster unexploited economic opportunity and business-to-business branding. more to reduce the current reliance Canada, Newfoundland, they’re all capital of the world – they don’t into a reality.” It also looked at the feasibility of on exports. making a big thing about being a land anything there, but they have developing local facilities for A major proposal in the study is lobster capital,” said Ray an enormous processing industry Resistance longer-term storage of lobsters, for that Bridlington should take Williamson. – and they have built an enormous Ray Williamson said he expected two to three months, so they could advantage of its position as the “A group of local fishing industry tourism industry on the back of there would be some resistance that, with 300,000 visitors a year. from the local industry to the plans, “We believe Bridlington can do particularly to add more value and the same, and we have set up a reduce exports. steering group of local stakeholders “Until recently, there’s been a to take forward the very lucrative export market paying recommendations in the study very good money, so we’re not based around the concept, expecting that to change

‡ Bridlington is the hub port for the Holderness region, which extends to ‡ Landing shellfish on the fish quay on Bridlington’s South Pier. the river Humber. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BRIDLINGTON 9 FLAG SUPPORT FOR LOCAL INDUSTRY he Holderness Coast FLAG A recent major project for the has invested £6.5m in the local FLAG has been setting up a popular Tfishing industry since 2011. health training facility in Bridlington. Projects have included a lobster “It was well received, and we’ve research facility on Bridlington’s now got a mobile facility that travels South Pier, fishing compounds at along the coast offering a wide range Hornsea and Withernsea, and a of medical and health services that slipway at Withernsea, as well as is exceptionally popular with the grants to individual fishermen and fishermen,” said Ray Williamson. investment in tourism projects linked FLAGs have been financed by the to the fishing industry. European Maritime and Fisheries The FLAG also provided Fund (EMFF). They have been assistance to the Holderness replaced as a transitional measure by ‡ Harvester FH 198 is one of Bridlington’s successful fleet of potting boats. Fishing Industry Group (HFIG) to the national Maritime and Fisheries acquire and run its research boat Fund (MFF), and the government was significantly, once we get over Covid and business-to-business branding and developing Huntress. HFIG was originally set due to consult the FLAGs on new Brexit,” he said. more of the domestic market, rather than up to negotiate with wind farms on long-term arrangements after Brexit. “We’re not expecting fishermen to suddenly purely just export. the interface between the offshore “DEFRA told us there would be start doing things completely differently, but “Ironically, the study, which was carried out and fishing industries. It later set a full replacement of the FLAGs in nevertheless, I think they can see the potential, last year before Covid-19, warned of the up a commercial arm and is now England by April 2021, but there has particularly with what’s going on now. dangers of being too reliant on exports and not increasingly orientated towards been no consultation yet because “So it’s about working with the sector, not developing the domestic market. marine and scientific services, as of coronavirus, so we’re not sure just the catchers but also the processors and “I expect there will be resistance – people get well as being a representative voice what’s going to happen,” said Ray retailers, to develop first of all a quality set in their ways, they don’t like change.” for the region’s fishing industry. Williamson. product. A lot more can be done from the He said it would require public sector industry side with that, looking at branding, investment to get the project going. SUPPORT FROM LOCAL INDUSTRY BUT DOUBTS OVER ADDING VALUE and if it puts Brid on the map, so develop the domestic market. much the better.” Coronavirus has seen more small boats with Registered Buyers and Added value Sellers permits selling their On the proposal from Hull catches directly to local University that the local industry restaurants and the public, but the should add value to the product amounts are not enough to sustain rather than exporting it live to the the fishery. Continent, Jamie Robertson was “If we can sell more of our more doubtful. product to the domestic market He thought the higher price for rather than export 90% to Europe, the end product would be more that would be great – we’ve got than the market would be nothing against trying to do that. prepared to pay. But I think it’s going to be very “Fresh lobster is already difficult – it’s like trying to climb expensive, and I don’t think Everest backwards!” people will pay the extra price that However, he pointed out that adding value would mean, either Brexit, and whether or not there is here or on the Continent,” he said. a trade deal, could change things. “We’ve already got well- “If there is no deal and we are established markets for live going to have lots of veterinary lobster, and the same with crab, checks, inspections, paperwork although the crab market is and delays for live vivier trucks, crashing at the moment due to then mortality of live exports is China not importing from the UK. going to increase. That percentage, The merchants have worked hard which could be 6-7%, will be a to develop the markets they have significant loss, and that loss will ‡ Lobsters are of crucial importance to the Bridlington potting fleet. now, and they won’t be willing to filter down to the fishermen. change.” “They have already suffered a ‡ he local fishing industry is think it’s as clear as the FLAG people are scared of it – they don’t He said he supported efforts to loss of income from the ban on supportive of the concept of thinks it is – and that’s not being know how to cook it. Even locals Tboosting Bridlington’s image negative. here at the seaside ask me how to and tourism as the Holderness “The problem isn’t getting cook it, when in fact there’s FLAG is proposing, but industry Bridlington on the map as the nothing simpler. leaders think it will be difficult to ‘lobster capital of Europe’ – it’s “We’ve got two or three local MARKET IMPROVING put into practice. getting the great British public to outlets in Brid promoting our There are also doubts about the be brave enough to try the product catch, whether it be crab or hen Fishing News orders for the local or UK suggestion that the local industry that’s on their doorstep. lobster, but not much else. We spoke to HFIG on 22 market. Now we’re getting should add value to more of the “We’re already the lobster tried a freshly caught lobster and WJuly, Jamie Robertson around 20-22t of lobster and lobster catch, rather than capital of Europe, which we say brie grilled sandwich recently said that markets had picked 40-45t of crab a week away exporting the great majority of it when we’re talking to people – from one of the local places, and it up and the price of lobster to the Continent, so things are live to the Continent. we’ve been saying it for years. was beautiful and only £5.95 – was around £12/kg. certainly looking better. The Holderness Fishing Industry “The first problem in promoting you’d pay that for a rubbish “The harbour’s empty “I hope we can manage Group (HFIG) represents more local lobsters is the price. Fresh burger.” today. There’s just one boat things better if there is another than 35 mainly potting vessels in local lobster is a premium He said that this was a difficult in having a new engine fitted, coronavirus spike – we’ve all the region from Flamborough product, and the imported product time, with Covid-19 and the so that’s a good sign, and I been learning. The scientists Head to Spurn Head, as well as from North America is much uncertainties of Brexit ahead expect that boats along the say it would be in the autumn shellfish processors and cheaper. People are reluctant to adding to the problems of making coast will be at sea as well. or winter, and that would merchants. pay the higher price for the local far-reaching changes. “Before, boats were fishing affect the Chinese crab Jamie Robertson, chief executive product, and some retailers also “I hope it works – whatever we to order, going to sea two market – but we might get of HFIG and a former fisherman, put a bit on top as well. can do to make it work, we’ll do it. days a week just to fill small away with it.” said: “We’re all for it, but I don’t “The second problem is that We certainly need to be involved, 10 BRIDLINGTON Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020

boosting the local fishing industry is that the public perception of fishing is that it isn’t a profession, HFIG AIMS TO UPGRADE which doesn’t help with recruitment of young people. “People very much tend to RESEARCH VESSEL think of it with an ‘I’ll go fishing, there’s nothing else’ kind of attitude. But some of the guys I grew up with, who were deckhands and now own their own boats, will tell you otherwise. To be a good fisherman, you’ve got to be switched on, and you’ve got to be a good businessman as well. “There are some very go-ahead ‡ Facilities at the new HFIG research laboratory on Bridlington’s South young men in the port in the Pier. (Photo: HFIG) generation that’s coming through now, and it’s the same up and landings of berried lobsters and knows what’s going to happen.” down this coast. the introduction of escape “The industry and fishing need hatches, and it all adds up, so that Recruitment a new image, which I think will could make a difference. But Jamie Robertson said that one of happen eventually – it’s just not ‡ HFIG operates the 10.8m research catamaran RV Huntress, but we’re only guessing – no one the key problems in terms of happening yet.” now needs a bigger and faster vessel. (Photo: HFIG)

FIG is unique in being the Huntress with something ‘BRID SHOULD LEARN FROM N AMERICA’ only fishermen’s group that’s 2m longer and 15 knots Hthat operates its own faster, but it’s hard to find the r Mike Roach, a scientist research vessel. money, especially in the current with the Holderness Fishing The group acquired climate. We’re living hand to DIndustry Group (HFIG), the 10.8m catamaran RV mouth now. added his personal support for the Huntress in 2013, when it was “The commercial work we FLAG plan, although he said he a commercial potter named do subsidises the scientific could not speak for HFIG. Huntress of Grimsby. research we carry out, but He also has doubts over the Based in Bridlington, the we’re not getting that work at proposals to add value to the lobster vessel is owned solely by HFIG, the moment because of the catch. but works on collaborative range limitations of Huntress. He and a local skipper were projects with Hull University “The lockdown has also invited last year to visit the USA to and the North Eastern IFCA. It hit our commercial work and meet the Massachusetts is used for stock assessments, we’ve lost 50% of our running Lobstermen’s Association and talk and to assess the effects costs, but we’re clawing it back to them about the work they do and of offshore operations such – we’re getting there. how they work with the wind farm as wind farms and their “We are looking at other industry. associated activities on avenues for funding, which “The Americans are about to be shellfish stocks and grounds. is the way of the world with hit by wind farms, and myself and a It was used to carry out a scientific research – you spend skipper gave presentations to 300 ‡ Bridlington has a fleet of modern shellfish boats fishing for lobster, major six-year survey of the a lot of time just chasing fishermen over four or five days, crabs and whelks. effects of the Westermost grants.” visited ports and talked to them Rough wind farm on lobster He said that HFIG does a lot about their concerns,” he said. round the harbour and have no idea earnings from live exports are so stocks (Fishing News, 30 of work with Hull University as “What I love about the US model of it. good, and UK consumers are July, ‘Research shows lobster well as offshore and onshore is that the communities recognise “So I’m all in favour of increasing reluctant to buy the premium stocks unaffected by wind fishery liaison work, guard boat how important their industry is. public awareness and labelling product.” farm’). duties and work on underwater That is sorely lacking with us, not Bridlington as the ‘lobster capital of But on the other hand, there was Jamie Robertson said that camera surveys. just here but in the UK in general. Europe’. We land more lobsters into the question of Brexit and what Huntress had served them well, “We’re doing another “We’ve seen a bit more awareness Bridlington than anywhere else in might happen to the export market but they now needed a bigger shellfish stock assessment as a result of the lockdown, with Europe – we are the lobster capital if there is no trade deal. “In that and faster vessel to work on on the Humber Gateway wind people putting orders in with some of Europe.” case, there might be a spike in the projects such as at wind farms farm for Hull University, which of our skippers for lobsters for the He said that the port’s biggest British market for the home-grown that are 50 or more miles off Eon is funding. So we do have first time ever, which is fantastic. lobster catch was 457t in 2017 – the product – you just don’t know Hornsea. things going on, but we could “Bridlington survives on fishing year the ban on landing berried what’s going to happen.” “We need to replace always do with a little bit more.” and tourism – the fishing industry is lobsters was introduced in October. He said that lobsters are a estimated to be worth £20m to the This had cut landings by a third in premium product commanding local economy, but people walk following years, and the Covid-19 high prices. Even in the peak effects had cut catches further this season, when supplies increase and year. prices fall, they still make £8-£9 per “The next biggest lobster landing kg, and in the winter months and port, as far as I’m aware, is the run-up to Christmas they can Scarborough, where they land about make up to £25 per kg, because 133t a year.” there is high demand from the With regard to the FLAG’s Continent and the weather affects proposal to add value to the lobster fishing. catch, Mike Roach said he could But crab prices had hardly foresee problems with this. changed from £1-£1.50 per kg for He said that Bridlington gets very the past 30 years – apart from the good prices for its lobsters because past couple of years and the boost it can basically guarantee supplies to from the Chinese market. Europe, and there may be a In 2019, 2,669t of crab were reluctance to change this successful landed in Bridlington, and 310t of market model. lobsters. The lobster landings were “I think there will be some only 11.6% of the crab landings, resistance to the idea of adding but were similar in value. value – to succeed, it would mean Mike Roach said that the market trying to get the British public to had been very tight during the ‡ The ban on landing berried spend the money on a quality Covid-19 lockdown and a lot of lobsters, introduced in October product. fishermen had developed a local 2017, has hit landings at “I’d love that to happen, but I domestic market – but it was now Bridlington. think it’s unlikely because the slowly improving. n ‡ A well-fished parlour pot. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 11 SFPA seizes more IUU lobsters country, and some of which may of pots allowed, declawing mainstay of many small vessels have originated from Northern every crab they catch, storing fishing all around the coast of Ireland.” All were returned alive undersized and V-notched Ireland. The majority of inshore to the sea. lobsters in keep boxes, and fishermen fish legally and Dr Susan Steele, chair of selling them. This is highly work in conjunction with the the SFPA, acknowledged the unfair and frustrating for all SFPA and other state agencies support of the public in alerting licensed commercial fishermen, to ensure the protection of the SFPA, and encouraged who have invested heavily the species, which has been people who have concerns about in making their fishery a in decline in recent years. suspected illegal fishing or sustainable one. Their behaviour However, the actions of a few activity that could compromise is having a significant impact on could undermine the future food safety to contact their stocks, it depresses the lobsters’ viability of the fishery. local SFPA port office. She overall value, and undermines “We are very fortunate in the said: “The volume of such a all our stock enhancement stocks and marine ecosystems find of undersize lobsters is work.” that we have around the Irish both significant for the future A spokesperson for the coast. Everyone can play their viability of the fishery and National Inshore Fishermen’s part in conserving them by concerning given the scale of Association told Fishing News: fishing legally. The allowance ‡ Some of the 86 lobsters caught illegally by a recreational fisherman in the find.” “We very much welcome the for recreational fishing is the southeast of Ireland, which were recovered by the SFPA. An inshore fisherman recent actions of the SFPA, limited, as such catches told Fishing News: “Since particularly as many members are intended solely for the Three seizures of illegally caught crabs or lobsters in a keep box recreational fishing was put have expressed discontent consumption of the person who lobsters inside a fortnight have at sea, and their catch cannot be on a legal footing, the problem this year regarding an alleged caught them and their family. been welcomed by Irish inshore offered for sale. of undersized and V-notched increase in illegal or IUU And when purchasing crabs or fishermen, who say that their The incident in Mayo follows lobsters being sold to the public activity. lobster, we ask that people buy livelihoods are under threat the seizure of 86 illegally caught has exponentially increased. “The lobster fishery is from commercial fishers only.” from so-called hobby fishermen, lobsters from a recreational While these seizures are very probably the most important People with concerns about reports Pauric Gallagher. fisherman in the southeast welcome, from an enforcement to our members collectively, suspected illegal fishing in The latest seizure was made of Ireland, and the seizure of point of view, policing therefore its future sustainability Ireland can contact the SFPA in by Sea-Fisheries Protection almost 700 undersized and recreational fishing is all but is critical to their economic confidence on: 1890 76 76 76 or Authority (SFPA) officers who V-notched lobsters from a impossible. survival. Many of our members by email at: [email protected] found 28 lobsters that had been shipment for Spain, acting on “Giving recreational fishing have been V-notching lobsters caught illegally off the Mayo information from a member of a legal footing has left the for decades, and have been very coast, with the intention of the public. inshore sector wide open to proactive in terms of trying to selling them direct to the public In the second operation, the abuse. Because, as it stands, ensure there is a viable fishery and restaurants. All the lobsters Dunmore East team of SFPA there is no requirement to for future generations. were returned alive to the sea, officers detained a vivier lorry independently mark creel buoys “The vast majority of inshore and a file is being prepared in Rosslare destined for Spain and no individual registration fishermen are acutely aware for the director of public with approximately 6,000 or tagging system in place, it of the need for common-sense prosecutions. lobsters onboard. means the numbers of pots used conservation measures and By law, recreational fishers An SFPA statement said: by any recreational fisher can regulations such as V-notching who do not have a fishing “Over 630 undersize lobsters exceed the six pots allowed, and and minimum conservation licence can only fish for lobster and almost 60 V-notched the actual number used can only reference sizes and, more and crab from 1 May to 30 lobsters were seized from the be determined by how many importantly, the need for fair September, fishing up to a lorry. Further investigations pots are aboard their boat in the and effective enforcement of the maximum of six pots. They are are underway as to the origin event of any inspection. same.” ‡ The intercepted shipment to permitted to retain up to five of these fish, which the SFPA “We know of several Following the latest seizure, Spain included almost 60 V-notched crabs and one lobster daily. believes were collected from ‘recreational’ fishermen fishing Dr Susan Steele said: “The lobsters, which should have been They are not allowed to store the northwest and west of the up to 10 times the number fishery for lobster is the returned to the sea. Big changes in mackerel distribution An ICES expert group has (centred on the Norwegian Sea) million square kilometres. From fishing opportunities. New nations recent years coincides with a identified significant changes in during summer and autumn, and 2014 to 2019, the distribution have entered the fishery following declining stock size, but is not the distribution of NE Atlantic spawning in the southern part range has retracted, specifically the expansion of mackerel into concurrent with changes in mackerel in the past decade or so. from January to July, south of the in the westward expansion area their exclusive economic zones, temperature or prey abundance. The Working Group on the Norwegian Sea. (beyond longitude 10°W), as the creating conflict with traditional It is not understood why mackerel Integrated Assessments of the From the mid-2000s, large westward boundary retracted mackerel fishing nations. The distribution in the westward area Norwegian Sea (WGINOR) says changes have been observed from the east coast of Greenland dispute has not yet been resolved, has drastically retracted compared that three stocks – Norwegian in mackerel summer feeding (longitude 44°W) to the west and mackerel is fished above the to mackerel distribution in the spring-spawning herring, distribution. Prior to this, coast of Iceland. Retraction of the advised amount. Norwegian Sea. blue whiting and NE Atlantic mackerel summer feeding westward area coincided with the The expansion in mackerel’s In 2019, temperature in the mackerel – dominate the pelagic distribution was limited to the centre of gravity shifting towards summer distribution range westward area was within the zone, utilising the high summer Norwegian Sea (east of longitude the northeast, locating it east of was concurrent with the more range preferred by mackerel, productivity for feeding and 10°W and south of latitude 72°N), Jan Mayen in 2019. than doubling of the stock size. mesozooplankton abundance generally migrating to other areas the North Sea and the shelf west During the International Directions of expansion were was similar or higher compared during their overwintering and of Scotland. Ecosystem Summer Survey in the constrained by availability of to years when mackerel was spawning season. All three stocks From the mid-2000s to the Nordic Seas research in July 2019, preferred temperature (9-13°C), abundant in the area, and are fished by many nations, but mid-2010s, mackerel feeding mackerel distribution range in preventing mackerel from estimated spawning stock size NE Atlantic mackerel is the most distribution range expanded west the westward expansion area was expanding into the cold polar had only declined 16% from peak commercially important. towards the coast of Greenland limited to shelf areas southeast, waters of the Greenland Sea and abundance in 2014. Mackerel is a widely distributed by approximately 1,650km, south, and southwest of Iceland. instead expanding westward, in Further research on the and highly migratory stock. and north towards Svalbard by The distribution range was the warm Atlantic waters, along the unpredictable changes in mackerel Its north-to-south distribution approximately 400km. smallest measured, apart from south coast of Iceland towards summer feeding distribution boundary ranges approximately Simultaneously, the stock’s in the first year of the survey in Greenland. Mesozooplankton is part of WGINOR’s current from 78°N to 36°N in the North centre of gravity has shifted 2007. abundance within habitats of work. During the next few years, Atlantic. Its migration cycle is northward and westward. During The expansion of mackerel preferred temperature was also a WGINOR will conduct research characterised by feeding in the July 2014, distribution range distribution has resulted in factor in mackerel distribution. into mackerel seasonal migration northern part of its distribution peaked when measured as 2.5 international disputes over sharing Distribution retraction in movements. 12 GIRL DEBRA E 444 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 GIRL DEBRA: TWIN-RIGGING FOR LEMON SOLE ON 15M BRIXHAM DAY-HAULER David Linkie looks back 10 years to a trip on skipper Dave Driver’s Girl Debra E 444, one of the day-boats that are integral to the South Devon port’s reputation for landing premium-quality fish he day started at 3.30am. The Lister engine fired on Tthe first swing before Simon Driver took the tiller of Girl Debra’s mooring punt and headed across Brixham harbour from the Town Quay towards the breakwater where the versatile trawler was swinging on her buoy. After the punt was secured alongside Girl Debra, which loomed large overhead in the darkness, the stores for the day were passed aboard. Less than five minutes later, the heavy mooring rope was slipped off the whaleback as, with limited water under Girl Debra’s keel at low tide, Dave Driver slowly guided the 14.95m day-boat towards the entrance, ever mindful of the risk of discarded tyres being drawn into the nozzle. On rounding the light, the engine revs were increased as Girl Debra passed under the looming cliffs of Berry Head close by on the starboard side. It was expected to be a fairly typical day’s work for a Brixham day- boat, looking for lemon sole and a general mix of other prime groundfish in the traditionally leaner mid-summer period before squid started appearing on the banks. Just over an hour later, by which time Girl Debra was some ‡ Girl Debra E 444.

‡ Shooting away the twin-rig trawls as the sun comes up on a fine morning…

‡ … before skipper Dave Driver starts to run 97 fathoms of sweeps off ‡ Going alongside Girl Debra, lying on her mooring in Brixham harbour, in the early hours of the morning. Girl Debra’s custom-built Rapp three-drum winch. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews GIRL DEBRA E 444 13 GIRL DEBRA: TWIN-RIGGING FOR LEMON SOLE ON 15M BRIXHAM DAY-HAULER

‡ … before checking the wire as it starts to swim clear.

nine miles east of Start Point, the Driver had previously used in twin-rig prawn gear and that used codlines were tied and the 20-fathom format when single-rig by Girl Debra became apparent hydraulics clutched in ready to trawling. as 97 fathoms of sweeps were run shoot the twin-rig trawls. As a The relative smallness of Girl off the winch barrels. From the strong sun lifted clear of the Debra’s twin-rig nets, the wing ends of the nets, these skyline to the east, the wind had headline of which featured consisted of 12 fathoms of splits already freshened from that colour-coded floats to help with (10mm-diameter wire/32mm direction, at the start of what identification in the event of a combination), 70 fathoms of Dave Driver correctly 32mm-diameter ‡ The single-vented Pukka trawl door ready to be shot… predicted would be a ‘sun combination and 15 fathoms up, wind up’ morning. Each deck pond yielded of 16mm wire behind the Made by the well-known two to three baskets of doors. Looe netmaker Clive Palfrey, Whether single- or who supplied and lemons, plaice and bib twin-rig trawling for lemons, maintained Dave Driver’s long sweeps have always wide selection of fishing whiting, together with a been of paramount gear, the 2 x 16-fathom wing smaller mix of prime fish, importance, together with trawls were rigged on the requirement not to ground gear that comprised including a few brill, turbot tighten them too much by 6in and 8in discs rigged with overspreading the gear, in chain danglers to add extra and monks order to maximise the weight and maximise herding effect by keeping ground contact. The twin-rig bad frap, was immediately the bridle bouncing on the trawls gave a maximum headline apparent as they were shot away bottom. height of between 8ft and 9ft. to lie on the surface astern, while Girl Debra used a set of 97in Used to take mixed catches of Simon Driver prepared to clip in single-vent Pukka trawl doors high-value groundfish, together the sweeps wound on the trawl made by Bob Smith of A1 with squid, red mullet and, from drums and release the net drum Fabrication and Welding September until December, pennants. Services, Newton Abbot, together cuttlefish, the twin-rig trawls A significance difference with a 600kg chain clump, to were based on a similar design of between the personally more spread this arrangement of ‡ The 16-fathom twin-rig trawls are hauled back to the stern... Strachan net that skipper Dave familiar set-up of Scottish twin-rig gear.

‡ … as the sweeps are taken onto the net drums... ‡ … followed by the toe ends... ‡ … and the bellies. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews GIRL DEBRA E 444 15 VERSATILE BRIXHAM DAY-HAULER Girl Debra was built at Falmouth in 2000 to replace skipper Dave Driver’s previous under-10m scalloper/trawler Girl Debra, which was built new at Padstow in 1989 to a Denis Swire design before being sold within Brixham and renamed Marina BM 190. Girl Debra has a registered length of 13.98m, a beam of 6.18m and a 4m draught. ‡ … and Mitsubishi main… ‡ … and auxiliary engines. Developing 221kW @ 1,800rpm, the original bulb to maximise waterline Skipper Dave Driver was Cummins KT 19 main engine length and improve hull named Demersal Fisherman of drove a 2,200mm-diameter efficiency by easing the angle the Year at the Fishing News Lips propeller through a 7.4:1 of entry at the waterline. Awards 2019. reduction Reintjes gearbox. New Mitsubishi main and Girl Debra and Brixham The hydraulic system was auxiliary engines were also fishmarket were featured on driven off a PTO from the fore installed in place of Girl Channel 4’s documentary end of the main engine. A Debra’s original Cummins KT series ‘Devon and Cornwall’ Cummins 4BT auxiliary drove 19 and 4BT units. last week. a 55kVA Newage Stamford 415/3/50 generator. With a galley/messdeck arranged forward on the ‡ Girl Debra leaving Whitby… main deck and a four-berth cabin situated between the as it gives a skipper vital forward engineroom and flexibility over the course of a refrigerated fishroom, Girl year. At a time when inshore Debra is ideally suited to the skippers have lost access varied requirements of inshore to some of their traditional fishing, including having the grounds and continue to be capability to work two- to faced with restrictive quotas, three-day trips when fishing the need to be able to engage further off on the mid-Channel in contrasting forms of fishing grounds. has seldom been greater. Eight years after this trip, ‡ … following installation of a At the time of this trip, Girl Debra underwent an new bulbous bow… Girl Debra had shown her extensive refit at Whitby, versatility in the first six carried out by Parkol Marine he ability to alternate months of the year by the fact Engineering. smoothly between that the 14.95m vessel had Work included fabricating Tdifferent fishing methods already combined single- and a new fuller and wider has always been recognised twin-rig trawling with beam bulbous bow, designed by SC ‡ Dave Driver is presented with the Demersal Fisherman of the Year as a cornerstone and key trawling (4m gear) and scallop McAllister & Co Ltd, and fitting award by Peterhead harbour master John Forman at the Fishing strength of inshore fishing, dredging. it into position over the existing News Awards 2019.

After 140 fathoms of various times of the year, Dave drum unit when Girl Debra 16mm-diameter trawl wire were Driver was the first Brixham changed over to either beam run off the drums of the Rapp skipper to work twin trawls for trawling or scalloping. winch and the outer wires were more than 10 years. The upper single net drum chained up to towing strops Having seen these boats take previously mounted within the centrally located on the aft gantry, similar amounts of prime goalpost-style beam/trawl gantry Girl Debra started to tow groundfish and cuttles from was replaced with 2 x 6t split net eastwards in 33 fathoms. Shot to shorter days than single-rig drums fitted with aluminium the north of more banky ground trawlers, skipper Dave Driver had flanges in order to minimise where the Brixham beamer made a move he had been weight. Amber J was visible on the thinking about for a number of Some three months down the horizon, Girl Debra was towing years. There is never a right time line, Dave Driver was satisfied over weedy soft ground not to invest in new equipment, but with the initial results, although ideally suited to beaming. he decided that 2010 was as good aware that the payback period Another five Brixham day-boats, a time as any. would be long-term. Angelena, Eloise, Gerry Ann C, Modifications included Rapp Initially using physical Gina Louise and Sea Otter, were Ecosse UK building a bespoke measurements rather than towing within a two-mile radius three-drum (12t) trawl winch electronic readings from a of Girl Debra. specially designed and built to net-monitoring system to Girl Debra’s Cummins KT 19 bolt down in place of Girl Debra’s determine door spread, Dave main engine was running at original Bopp AR-70 four-drum Driver was happy with a spread 1,350rpm as skipper Dave Driver winch. Drum capacity was easily of 520ft. This was 160ft more worked the tide to cover the sufficient for nearly 100 fathoms than the 360ft that Girl Debra ground at around 2.8 knots. of sweeps plus 160 fathoms of achieved when towing a These settings were reported to 16mm trawl wire. 20-fathom single trawl. Generally typically return an economical A new tubular gantry, on which taking three four-hour tows, Dave fuel consumption of around three hanging blocks were Driver reported seeing twice the 4,200 litres for six days’ fishing. positioned above the winch quantity of lemons, compared to Although four similar-sized barrels, was situated above the two five-hour tows using a single Looe/Plymouth trawlers, Charity winch and bolted onto the deck net. While fuel consumption was and Liberty, Guiding Light II, and wheelhouse. clearly higher, a weekly increase Copious and Ocean Spirit, fished This arrangement ensured that of around £500 was offset by twin-rig trawls successfully on the three-drum winch could be improved catch rates. Although ‡ Transferring a basket of lemon sole into the fish washer. similar grounds to Girl Debra at easily replaced with the four- these were not large amounts, any 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews GIRL DEBRA E 444 17 sources of fish caught on the southwest grounds, where species such as lemons and cuttles all come from the east. While increasing amounts of fish help to offset the continual financial pressure of bank loans, vessel insurance and so on – for which boats have to earn on a regular basis – they can also create difficulties as a result of quota allocation lagging several years behind stock levels experienced on the grounds over the course of a year. With 25 years’ membership of the Cornish FPO behind him, skipper Dave Driver expressed his appreciation for the service provided by Paul Trebilcock and his team at the Newlyn office, ‡ … as Girl Debra rounds Berry Head… who met any request for quota with the response: “If it’s there and you can catch it, we will do our job for you by resourcing whatever quota is needed.” This proactive attitude had proved particularly beneficial in recent years by allowing Girl Debra to engage in an enlarged haddock fishery – the appearance of which went some way towards easing the pressure on other species. An uneventful second four- hour tow resulted in a similar quantity and mix of fish to the first, as slowly but surely a viable day’s work came aboard, ahead of landing later that night. The presence of a couple of stone of squid in the second haul ‡ … before landing into the day-haulers’ section of Brixham’s new provided an added bonus. Apart ‡ A skipper’s work is never done – Dave Driver fills in the log sheet... market. from making £7 per kg the following morning on Brixham days like this” – a sentiment few a turn in the gear. securing strop, before for the third time, before Girl market, the appearance of squid lifelong fishermen would Fortunately, the favourable disconnecting and dipping the Debra got underway for Brixham, raised hopes that this dispute. conditions enabled a strop to be twisted sweep. Although Dave and just under two hours’ steaming increasingly important fishery Shortly after 8pm, the attached to the chain clump with Simon Driver used their time to the north. would gather momentum over hydraulics were clutched in for the relative ease, allowing it to be experience to make the operation Shortly after berthing outside the second half of the summer, third time in 14 hours, as the lifted clear of the starboard door, look deceptively straightforward, the day-haulers’ section of before the Brixham fleet started amount of wire on the drums of while still leaving a twist in the less favourable weather would Brixham’s impressive new to look for the important cuttle the trawl winch started to build up sweeps. This was moved down have presented a different fishmarket, the day’s catch, which fishery to set in on the banks while Girl Debra stemmed a towards the wings of the starboard challenge, providing a reminder of included 27st of lemons, 29st of from mid-October onwards. strong 2.5-knot tide. net after the sweeps were the difficulties always lurking plaice, 10st of prime and 22st of In what had become near- With most of the final 25 transferred to the net drum under the surface, irrespective of bib whiting, was swung ashore to perfect conditions as the wind fathoms of wire in, Girl Debra pennants and released from the the prevailing fishing method. be automatically weighed, graded, dropped after the sun had passed canted slightly to starboard as the trawl doors. On reaching the The consistent catch rates of the reboxed and labelled by Brixham its zenith, Girl Debra took the load on that side’s warp appeared wings, the twist was efficiently two earlier hauls were maintained Trawler Agents, ready for the 6am third tow heading west into to increase. Dave Driver’s initial cleared by the use of another when the gear was taken aboard sale the following morning. n strong early-evening sunlight comment – “We’ve clumped” – towards Prawle Point, flanked by proved correct, as the starboard Bolt Head to the west and Start door and the chain clump surfaced Point. The mood in the together at the quarter. As the wheelhouse was summed up pressure came off the door, it had when Dave Driver said: “Fishing skewed inboard with the tide and is the best job in the world on flicked the middle clump, putting

‡ A sprinkling of squid was a welcome sight, and a promise of more later in the summer. ‡ Weighed, graded and labelled lemon sole from Girl Debra awaits auction on Brixham fishmarket. 18 A TRAWLERMAN’S REMINISCENCES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 BETWEEN THE WARS: GOOD DAYS AND BAD A TRAWLERMAN’S REMINISCENCES – PART 10 The tenth article in the series by Hull skipper William Oliver, first published in 1953/54. Photographs courtesy ofAlec Gill

wo months before our problems with poor- T quality coal in 1926, I had been speaking to Mr McCann – the boss of trawler firms Pickering and Haldane and Yorkshire Steam Trawling Company – outside the office, and admiring a ship named Foamflower H 313. She was a new vessel built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell and was lying in the dock close by the P&H offices. She had been built for a certain firm, but it was understood that there was some difficulty about completion of payment for her. Mr McCann asked me what I thought of her, and I replied that I liked the look of her very much, and thought she was for sale. I also said that if the price was right, someone would get a very nice ship. It turned out, in fact, that during my last trip to sea in October 1926, Mr McCann had bought her, and this was the ship I was to take. I was delighted about it, as she seemed to me an ideal steam ‡ Surf Flower, pictured in the river Humber, was one of two new trawlers that Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co built around 1928 – the other was trawler, and she afterwards Sprayflower. proved to be so. The next morning, I with the Foamflower and that, So 20 years after being received a phone call from if I wished, I would be allowed first engaged by Mr McCann the office to the effect that to become a shareholder in as a skipper, I became a Mr McCann would like to the new company. I was not shareholder in his company. see me as soon as I could to decide in a hurry, but to We made £1,996 the first trip conveniently get down. consider it carefully and give and everything looked grand, On arrival, he informed me my decision on my return but after two more moderate that as a result of serious from my first voyage. I replied trips, I fell ill. Following consideration overnight, he at once that it did not need a an attack of influenza, had decided to reform the trip’s consideration, and the pneumonia developed, and Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co answer was a grateful ‘yes’. I had to have three trips ‘FRENCH GEAR’ REVOLUTIONISES TRAWLING An important development 20 fathoms in rough. around this time was the The sweep of the otter doors introduction of the Vigneron- covered a wide area, and the Dahl (VD) or ‘French’ gear that bight of the cables scraped the French fishing industry had on the bottom of the sea, begun using. digging out the flatfish. The ‡ Some of the crew of Surf Flower. It was introduced in Hull in headline of the trawl was now 1928 and was a highly efficient interspersed with metal floats, gear that revolutionised fishing. thus increasing the height of ‡ Before the VD gear was Formerly, the trawl was the mouth of the trawl. A vastly introduced, the trawl was shackled on directly to the otter increased catching power was attached directly to the trawl boards, and the trawl and doors thus created, which would in doors, with no cables or sweeps lowered away preparatory to time gradually denude all the being used. shooting. With the French gear, well-known grounds of fish. the trawl was shackled onto Great difficulty was certain changes, with the result a kind of spreader termed a experienced at first in that today it is no more of a Dan Leno. This spreader was, preventing chafe of the problem to operate French in turn, connected to the otter lower wings of the trawl, and gear than the previous types. door by cables, or sweeps or invariably in rough or hard Nevertheless, it was the cause bridles as they were known in ground, the lower parts of the of many anxious trips for the other ports. The cables were of trawl were torn away on every pioneers before it became varying lengths according to the haul, owing to the cables biting successful, and the younger nature of the ground, rough or the ground. With characteristic generation certainly owes a smooth. The ideal lengths were patience, however, the debt of gratitude to the older found by experience to be 50 fishermen gradually overcame fishermen for overcoming the fathoms in smooth ground and this difficulty by adopting difficulties. ‡ Waveflower, built in 1929 at Cochrane & Cooper’s yard at Selby, pictured in the river Humber. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews A TRAWLERMAN’S REMINISCENCES 19 TRAWLERS SHELVE MORE FISH

Another change that was growing in importance at about this time was a difference in the method of icing fish. I refer to the shelving of cod, sprags and haddocks. Although shelving had been adopted years before I went to sea, it was only done on the last haul or two in the near waters, and about 24 hours before landing. ‡ Stowing the fish on shelves Then it gradually spread to instead of in bulk prevented Faroe ships and proved very crushing and was increasing at successful. In time it came this time. to be adopted by the Iceland ships. First, only the last few batten, and on those battens hauls were shelved; then, as boards were placed, covered fish gradually became scarcer, with ice and fish laid upon the time was extended. them, but no ice on the fish on Ordinarily, of course, when top. This enabled the fish to fish is stored in the fishroom, be landed without any signs of a certain quantity is thrown or crushing and unmarked by ice. laid in the pounds and then It meant, of course, that there covered with ice, then another was much waste space in the quantity and another covering fish pound, but as the larger of ice, and so on until the fish type of trawler was very rarely reaches a certain height. Then, filled, that did not really matter. to prevent undue crushing, Occasionally, owing to ‡ Skipper Oliver’s eldest brother, George Oliver, was washed overboard and lost when he was mate of the boards are placed on battens the better appearance and Hull trawler Jade (pictured here), in September 1928. which are covered with ice, quality of the shelved fish, it and the operation continues. made much better prices than ashore, my mate, G Booth, These shelf boards take the the bulked fish, but in time, taking the ship as skipper. For weight of each succeeding shelving nearly defeated its the whole of February 1927 I quantity of fish from those own object. Before the last was practically delirious and, underneath, so, as will readily war, the larger types of trawler although I returned to sea at be understood, the more could spare a large amount of the end of April, I have never shelves there are in a fish space for shelving and, owing been properly well since. pound, the better the condition to the quota on catches which We continued to do fairly of the fish is likely to be. was imposed about 1936-7, well, one particularly good The operation of shelving never filled up. The merchants trip next year being from was on the same principle, could sometimes satisfy all Faxa Bay, making £1,870 for except that every layer of fish their needs with shelved fish, 16 days. It was whilst I was was self-contained. Every the bulked fish remaining at home after this trip that I board in the pound has a unsold. received news that my eldest brother, George Oliver, who was mate of the trawler Jade, steam trawler from Cochrane payable trips right through had been washed overboard & Cooper’s yard at Selby and the year. This encouraged and lost his life, leaving a named her Waveflower H 58. Mr McCann to order several widow and eight children. On 12 June, I landed my last more ships of the same type. This was in September 1928. voyage in Foamflower – we One was the Crestflower for The Yorkshire Steam were from the White Sea and the Yorkshire Co, another the Fishing Co had built another ‡ Waveflower’s success encouraged her owners to build Lord made £1,250 for 22 days. On Lord Brentford for Pickering & two new trawlers, these being Brentford and Crestflower, pictured here alongside each other in 26 July, we ran the trial trip of Haldane. Surf Flower H 363 (skipper Queen’s Dock in Hull, which was filled in during the 1930s. Waveflower. Everything was The class of fish now F Norton) and Sprayflower very satisfactory. She attained being landed from Bear H 437 (skipper C Petersen – Island for fish. Trawlers had been unsuccessful. Now, in a speed of 11 knots, the Island was very good, and ‘Big Chris’). All these ships been there before; whether 1928, they began to bring big fastest I had ever travelled in a offered serious competition were doing very well, and the they had not been in the catches of cod and codlings, steam trawler. to the Iceland variety. All Yorkshire Co was prospering. right place or whether they with a fair proportion of Waveflower proved to be new ships being built for It was about this time that had gone in the off season, haddocks, from Bear Island. a very successful vessel Hull were becoming larger vessels started to go to Bear I cannot say, but they had By this time also, the filleting in every way. She had very and had a greater carrying of fish at Billingsgate had good accommodation, and capacity with each issue, and started, and the Bear Island was light on consumption it became obvious that the fish met with a ready sale. For of coal, very speedy when catching power would very myself, I preferred to remain necessary, and extremely soon outstrip the merchants’ at Iceland, and in the winter of handy to operate. We did very capacity to absorb and 1928-9 had my best year ever. well in her, making very good distribute the fish. n Early in 1929, Mr McCann informed me that he was building a new ship for the Yorkshire Co. She was to be 150ft long, with the same beam and horsepower as Foamflower. In other words, another Foamflower with 5ft added to each end. This, he calculated, would make for increased speed. I was to take her, and my wife was granted the privilege of launching her. I felt greatly honoured. On 25 May, 1929, ‡ Cochrane’s yard at Selby built many trawlers for the Hull and ‡ Steam trawlers in Hull’s St Andrew’s Fish Dock in the 1930s. my wife launched the new Grimsby fleets over the years. 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? THE 2-SPEED CROSSWORD SUDOKU You can choose to do either quick or cryptic clues, the answers are the same. 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It does this by providing “The FLAG scheme under Details of the Irish FLAG “For Seafarers UK, Fathom Fisheries Innovation Scotland. grants to organisations and my department’s EMFF scheme and how to apply can has shown breadth, depth and The podcast also regularly projects that make a real Seafood Development be found at: bim.ie/schemes sector-wide intelligence in its hears directly from fishers, to difference to their lives. 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES PETERHEAD SEES WELL-BALANCED LANDINGS In another week of well-regulated haddock made £2.45-£3.65, selected market last Wednesday morning. This landings in line with ongoing Covid-19 £1.75-£3.10, small 40p-£2.05, chippers sale, the smallest of the four days, safe working practices, nearly 25,000 45p-£1.65, metros 70p-75p and round included 1,052 boxes of gutted and 60 boxes of whitefish, including a good haddock 50p. Gutted whiting were at boxes of round haddock, 793 boxes species mix, were landed to the first 60p-£1.25 and round whiting 45p-80p of cod, 659 boxes of whiting (552 four markets of last week at Peterhead, per kg. Monkfish sold at £1.50-£4.35, rounders), 642 boxes of hake, 403 boxes reports David Linkie. lemon sole £1.40-£6.95, megrim 30p- of coley, 258 boxes of monkfish, 217 Prices were fairly consistent, with £3.60, hake 35p-£3, ling 25p-£1.10, boxes of ling, 158 boxes of flatfish, 66 cod peaking at £5.50 per kg, haddock coley 50p-£1, plaice 95p-£2.40 and boxes of squid and 51 boxes of megrim. £4.30, whiting £1.35, hake £3, lythe squid £2-£8.25 per kg. Nine boats, Emulator, Apollo, Boy £4.20 and coley £1.15. The following morning, 10 boats, John, Rosebloom, Celestial Dawn, Eleven boats, Jolanna M, Victory Rose, Our Lass III, Virtuous, Harvest Hope, Steadfast Hope, Fruitful Endurance, Kathleen Ann, Shalimar Summer Dawn II, Golden Gain, Fladda Vine and Sunrise, along with two II, Falcon, Ocean Vision, Shalanna, Maid, Serenity, Vision IV, Transcend consignments from Norlan and Ocean Victory Rose, Our Lass III, Opportunus and Gratitude, together with five Endeavour, contributed 6,494 boxes to IV and Aquarius, together with 14 consignments from Venture III, Deeside, last Thursday’s market at Peterhead. consignments, contributed 6,878 boxes Chloe Ella, Silver Cloud and Asteria II, This total included 1,859 boxes of gutted to the first market of last week at landed 6,685 boxes. Tuesday’s tally haddock, 1,094 boxes of cod, 639 boxes Peterhead. included 2,102 boxes of gutted and 158 of hake, 563 boxes of coley, 531 boxes Monday’s sale, the largest of the first boxes of round haddock, 998 boxes of monkfish, 505 boxes of whiting (339 four days of last week, included 2,160 of hake, 853 boxes of cod, 735 boxes rounders), 477 boxes of ling, 201 boxes boxes of gutted and 108 boxes of round of coley, 482 boxes of whiting (353 of megrim and 158 boxes of flatfish. haddock, 986 boxes of cod, 943 boxes rounders), 256 boxes of megrim, 210 Last Thursday morning at Peterhead, of whiting (450 rounders), 735 boxes of boxes of ling, 182 boxes of flatfish, 136 large/medium gutted haddock made ‡ The Fraserburgh twin-rig trawler Virtuous landing at Peterhead for coley, 447 boxes of squid, 358 boxes of boxes of monkfish and 116 boxes of £2.85-£4.30 per kg, selected £2.65- Tuesday’s market. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) monkfish, 221 boxes of hake, 188 boxes squid. £4.15, small £2.25-£3.70, chippers of flatfish, 186 boxes of ling and 157 Twelve boats, Vision IV, Aalskere, 75p-£2 and metros 45p-£1.10. Large £1.70-£8.45, megrim 35p-£2.66, hake of haddock (326 rounders), 3,726 boxes boxes of megrim. Forever Faithful, Gracious, Renown, cod sold at £3.65-£5.50 per kg, sprags 35p-£3.05, coley 55p-£1.15 and ling of cod, 2,590 boxes of whiting (1,694 At the start of last week at Opportunus IV, Aquarius, Revival, Golden £3.50-£4.85, medium £3.50-£4.05, 70p-£1 per kg. ungutted), 2,500 boxes of hake, 2,436 Peterhead, large cod sold at £3.10- Sceptre, Achieve, Ocean Dawn and selected £2.65-£3.75 and small £2- Forty-two boats and 24 consignments boxes of coley, 1,265 boxes of monkfish, £4.70 per kg, medium £2.90-£4.15, Courageous, plus three consignments £3.05. Monkfish made £2.05-£3.85, contributed to last week’s four-day 1,090 boxes of ling, 686 boxes of flatfish, selected £2.40-£3.05 and small from Fidelity, Sparkling Star and Fruitful gutted whiting 65p-£1.35, round whiting total of 24,705 boxes on Peterhead 665 boxes of megrim and 629 boxes of £1.35-£2.50. Large/medium gutted Bough, landed 4,648 boxes to Peterhead 65p-75p, plaice £1.10-£3.30, lemon sole market. This tally included 7,499 boxes squid. LIGHTER SHETLAND LANDINGS IN SECOND HALF OF WEEK WEEK OF LOWER SALES AT BRIXHAM Unsettled weather that kept the day-boats for 4s and 90p for 5s. Ling 1s and 2s were Following two opening markets of over 2k boxes last week, haddock made £3.80 per kg, while hake sold at up to £3.31 per tied up early in the week, and generally £3 and 3s £1.90. Prime lobsters were £18 whitefish landings dropped away in Shetland, where a number of kg. Lemon sole made £8.50 per kg on Thursday morning, when lower landings across the board, saw and large £16.90. Mackerel was £5.50 for bigger boats are tied up for refits. mackerel sold for £1.08, megrim £3.62 and turbot £13.09 per kg. predicted sales at Brixham last week down 1s, £4.80 for 2s and £2.20 for 3s. Megrim Inshore line boats working the summer mackerel fishery The highest price for squid was paid on Wednesday’s market, at by some £180,000 on the previous week. made £3.50 for 1s, £3.40 for 2s, £3.20 for continued to account for a large proportion of the boats that £3.67 per kg. Total sales for the full week were expected 3s, £1.70 for 4s and £1.20 for 5s. Monkfish landed. to be in the region of £470,000. 1s averaged £12, 2s £12.20, 3s £10.80, 4s The week started strongly in Shetland when 21 boats landed Over the first four markets last week, £9.50, 5s £8.20 and 6s £5.70. Red mullet 2,022 boxes for Monday’s auction, before 2,252 boxes were put bass fetched £15 for 1s, £14.20 for 2s, sold at £14/kg for 1s, £12.20 for 2s and ashore by 17 boats on Tuesday morning for the largest market of £13.50 for 3s, £10.50 for 4s and £10.40 for £7.20 for 3s. Octopus averaged £2.50. the first four days. Supplies dropped after that, with 1,364 and 5s. Blondie wing 1s were £4.50, 2s £3.80, Plaice 1s averaged £5.40/kg, 2s £4.70, 405 boxes from 19 and seven boats on Wednesday and Thursday 3s £3.20 and 4s £3/kg. Size 1 brill averaged 3s £3.50, 4s £2.40 and 5s £1.40. Pollack mornings respectively, bringing the four-day total to 6,043 boxes £11.20/kg; 2s, 3s and 4s were £8, and 5s 1s and 2s were £5.70, 3s £4 and 4s £3.90. from 64 boats. were £5.30. Cod 2s were £7, 3s £6.80 and Sand sole 1s were £9.50/kg and 2s £6.80. At 36,998kg, cod led the way last week, followed by haddock 4s £6. Large scallops were £8.50 and small (31,532kg), ling (25,678kg), saithe (19,845kg), monkfish Coley 1s were £2.20, 2s £1.70 and 3s £4.70. Dover sole 1s averaged £17/kg, 2s (17,964kg), mackerel (15,894kg), whiting (15,697kg, including £1.50. Conger 3s were £1.50. Cuttlefish £15.50, 3s £16.70, 4s £15.70, 5s £13.20, 8,452kg of rounders), megrim (15,639kg), hake (12,315kg), plaice averaged £5.50 for 1s and £3.40 for 2s. 6s £11.10, 7s £10.20, 8s £9.40, 9s £8.30 (3,012kg) and lemon sole (2,122kg). Size 2 dabs were 50p. John Dory 1s were and 10s £6.20. Size 1 squid were £16 and Top prices varied across the four markets. Cod sold at up to £12/kg, 2s £11.80, 3s £9, 4s £8.10 and 5s 2s £11.50. £5.02 per kg on Monday morning, when halibut made £11.72, ling £2. Red gurnard 2s made £3.60. Haddock Thorny wings averaged £3.50 for 2s, 91p, monkfish £3.65, plaice £3.30, saithe £1.33, gutted whiting ‡ The Fraserburgh seine-netter Faithlie going 1s averaged £4.70/kg, 2s £4.50 and 3s £2.80 for 3s and £2 for 4s. Tubs were £2.29 and round whiting 71p per kg. On Tuesday’s market, gutted alongside to land at Lerwick. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) £1.10. £5.20/kg for 1s and £4 for 2s. Turbot Hake fetched £4.40 for 2s, £4.50 for 3s, averaged £18.50/kg for 1s, 2s £17.50, £4.60 for 4s, £4.40 for 5s, £3.70 for 6s and 3s £16.80, 4s £14.20, 5s £12.50 and 6s £2.70 for 7s. Lemon sole averaged £9.40/ £10.60. Size 1 whiting averaged £3.70/kg, STEADY DEMAND MAINTAINED ON NEWLYN MARKET kg for 1s, £8.70 for 2s, £7.70 for 3s, £2.80 2s £2.20, 3s £1 and 4s 40p. Last Monday’s market at Newlyn was Contributing to the day’s volume were 1.6t Demand and prices were good throughout supplied with 7t from one beamer and of Dover sole, 0.1t haddock, 0.1t hake, 0.1t the morning. inshore boats. Notable high volumes were lemon sole, 3.8t megrim sole, 1.6t monkfish, One netter and inshore boats supplied 0.2t of bass, 1.1t Dover sole, 1.9t mackerel, 0.1t octopus, 0.2t plaice, 0.5t pollack and 0.6t Thursday’s market with 12.7t. Top volumes QUIET MARKET WITH QUALITY 2.3t megrim sole, 0.6t monkfish, 0.1t whiting of witches. Prices were again fair for most were 0.5t blonde ray, 0.5t Dover sole, 0.4t and 0.3t of witches. Demand was good for species, but megrim sole had dropped back haddock, 2.7t MSC hake, 0.3t lemon sole, all species throughout the morning, with N3 slightly, possibly due to the new Covid-19 0.1t ling, 3.1t mackerel, 1.9t megrim sole, 1t BASS AND SOLE AT LOWESTOFT bass £13.82/kg, N1 Dover sole £17/kg and restrictions announced in Spain. monkfish, 0.1t octopus, 0.2t plaice and 1t of With a windy weekend continuing into the start of the week, the auction at Lowestoft N1 lemon sloe £10/kg jumping out as top Wednesday’s market saw a volume of 1.8t pollack. Demand was good for most species was quiet last week, with modest landings from eight boats totalling 0.6t. However, prices. landed from the inshore and hand-line fleet. throughout the morning, with standout prices quality supplies of sole, bass and lobster were seen, and these achieved high prices of Two beamers and inshore boats landed Top-volume species were 0.7t of mackerel, being N2 turbot £18.60/kg, N3 pollack £4.54/ £18, £12 and £16 per kg respectively. A small volume of skate saw high prices of £2, 9.4t for auction last Tuesday morning. 0.2t megrim sole and 0.4t of blonde ray. kg and N1 monkfish £11.80/kg. and crab saw £1.10. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 6 August 2020

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 30 JULY price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 30 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago 30 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago 31 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Catfish £1.98 £2.33 £2.59 £1.18 Catfish (1) 826 £5.29 £5.88 £3.80 Bass (1) 22 £14.09 £15.56 £18.57 Bass (3) 57 £13.72 £14.10 £14.59 Cod (A1) £3.90 £4.68 £4.79 £3.54 Cod (0) 370 £5.80 £6.53 £4.97 Bass (2) 45 £13.92 £14.95 £17.77 Bass (4) 215 £11.86 £14.77 £13.33 Cod (1) 1,876 £6.00 £6.78 £4.64 Cod (A2) £3.82 £4.33 £4.73 £3.33 Bass (3) 264 £13.22 £11.76 £15.62 Bass (5) 107 £11.27 £14.74 £12.50 Cod (A3) £3.36 £3.90 £4.29 £3.13 Cod (2) 6,433 £5.17 £5.54 £4.37 Blonde Ray (L) 388 £2.58 £3.20 £1.95 Cod (3) 10,024 £4.06 £4.19 £3.48 Bass (4) 1,219 £10.21 £8.80 £11.84 Cod (A4) £2.81 £3.24 £3.83 £2.64 Blonde Ray (M) 452 £2.03 £1.87 £1.49 Cod (4) 11,099 £2.84 £3.04 £3.02 Bass (5) 729 £10.32 £8.35 £11.56 Cod (A5) £2.45 £2.75 £2.72 £2.77 Blonde Ray (S) 90 £0.90 £0.70 £0.84 Cod (5) 5,354 £2.54 £2.38 £2.59 Brill (1) 307 £10.52 £10.95 £12.43 Blue Shark (9) 28 £0.90 - £1.11 Haddock (A1) £3.03 £3.68 £3.64 £3.90 Haddock (1) 9,557 £1.98 £2.77 £2.14 Brill (2) 347 £7.83 £7.05 £8.83 Brill (2) 31 £9.74 £9.24 £12.08 Haddock (A2) £3.02 £3.63 £3.74 £3.50 Haddock (2) 5,347 £1.40 £1.63 £1.54 Brill (3) 563 £7.83 £6.57 £8.48 Brill (3) 49 £9.47 £9.03 £9.34 Haddock (A3) £2.01 £2.73 £3.30 £2.84 Haddock (3) 830 £0.51 £0.51 £1.04 Brill (4) 311 £7.86 £6.60 £7.74 Brill (4) 23 £9.25 £7.99 £7.79 Haddock chippers (A4) £0.99 £1.70 £1.78 £2.28 Haddock (4) 474 £0.36 £0.36 £0.09 Brill (5) 4 £8.80 £8.67 £6.40 Haddock metros (A4) £0.58 £0.83 £1.05 £1.38 Hake (0) 13,346 £2.67 £2.30 £2.91 Brill (5) 17 £5.26 £4.48 £5.98 Claws (9) 35 £5.00 £2.68 £3.92 Hake (A1) £2.68 £3.36 £3.41 £2.31 Hake (1) 13,722 £2.44 £2.29 £2.61 Cock crabs 133 £6.40 £5.84 £6.56 Hake (2) 15,527 £2.16 £2.35 £2.14 Cod (3) 29 £5.74 £5.00 £5.25 Hake (A2) £1.57 £2.32 £3.27 £1.84 Cod (3) 19 £6.78 £4.62 £4.18 Hake (3) 2,072 £1.28 £1.04 £1.43 Cod (4) 4 £5.78 £4.76 £2.31 Conger (1) 58 £2.92 £2.23 £1.93 Hake (A3) £1.24 £1.64 £2.49 £1.37 Lemon sole (1) 400 £7.18 £8.66 £4.58 Cod (5) 3 £2.50 £3.80 £2.63 Hake (A4) £0.56 £1.14 £1.77 £1.12 Lemon sole (2) 1,876 £5.60 £4.60 £4.33 Conger (2) 7 £3.09 £2.44 £2.01 Cuckoo ray (M) 218 £0.91 £1.20 £0.91 Hake (A5) £0.38 £0.52 £1.08 £0.68 Lemon sole (3) 4,169 £2.18 £2.17 £2.43 Conger (3) 37 £1.40 £0.67 £0.57 Cuckoo ray (S) 24 £0.28 £0.43 £0.39 Lemon sole (A1) £6.49 £7.35 £6.73 £5.49 Ling (1) 1,745 £2.08 £3.02 £1.61 Cuttlefish (1) 93 £5.23 £4.09 £4.18 Cuttlefish (S) 3 £1.24 £0.80 £2.43 Lemon sole (A2) £4.37 £5.63 £5.49 £6.16 Ling (2) 1,120 £2.04 £2.83 £1.56 Cuttlefish (2) 515 £3.40 £3.07 £2.58 Dover sole (1) 95 £16.57 £17.22 £19.02 Ling (3) 1,176 £0.99 £1.30 £1.45 Lemon sole (A3) £2.00 £2.97 £3.06 £2.45 Dogfish 7,816 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Dover sole (2) 330 £15.23 £16.23 £19.44 Megrim 265 £2.03 £2.93 £0.95 Ling (A1) £0.90 £1.04 £0.95 £1.30 Dover sole (3) 909 £15.31 £18.06 £20.03 Monkfish (1) 1,155 £4.24 £5.25 £3.88 Gurnard (2) 3 £2.92 £3.13 - Ling (A2) £0.87 £0.99 £1.03 £1.78 Dover sole (4) 1,198 £10.93 £13.96 £14.59 Monkfish (2) 2,264 £4.34 £5.29 £3.99 Gurnard (4) 2,842 £0.61 £0.60 £0.63 Ling (A3) £0.92 £1.03 £0.97 £1.87 Dover sole (5) 492 £9.62 £10.35 £9.92 Monkfish (3) 2,851 £4.08 £4.76 £3.92 Haddock (1) 327 £4.53 £4.92 £2.97 Grey mullet (1) 2 £4.00 - - Megrim (A1) £1.37 £2.82 £5.19 £4.09 Monkfish (4) 1,638 £3.58 £3.90 £3.88 Haddock (2) 52 £4.43 £3.91 £2.35 Grey mullet (2) 2 £2.20 £4.41 £3.50 Megrim (A2) £0.86 £1.56 £3.25 £3.39 Monkfish (5) 482 £1.66 £1.85 £2.45 Haddock (3) 22 £1.01 £1.14 £1.32 Gurnard and latchet (L) 28 £3.56 £3.02 £3.71 Megrim (A3) £0.54 £0.85 £2.67 £2.56 Plaice (1) 4,646 £4.44 £3.87 £3.48 Hake (2) 136 £4.37 £3.06 £5.07 Gurnard and latchet (M) 31 £2.04 £2.08 £2.31 Megrim (A4) £0.41 £0.52 £0.48 £0.53 Plaice (2) 11,917 £3.84 £3.04 £3.63 Hake (3) 146 £4.44 £3.42 £4.71 Gurnard and latchet (S) 68 £0.91 £0.78 £0.83 Megrim (A4) £0.51 £0.78 £1.53 £1.16 Plaice (3) 17,450 £2.28 £1.95 £2.77 Plaice (4) 31,281 £1.65 £1.64 £2.06 Haddock (1) 88 £4.66 £4.70 £3.56 Monkfish (A1) £3.50 £3.71 £3.88 £3.47 Hake (4) 476 £4.60 £3.21 £4.46 Haddock (2) 269 £4.17 £3.59 £3.45 Pollack (2) 459 £5.41 £5.04 £4.51 Hake (5) 1,073 £4.31 £2.83 £3.91 Monkfish (A2) £3.55 £3.68 £3.95 £3.64 Pollack (3) 2,978 £3.77 £4.01 £3.52 Haddock (3) 112 £2.91 £3.93 £3.02 Hake (6) 1,228 £3.58 £2.68 £3.57 Monkfish (A3) £3.35 £3.74 £3.65 £3.50 Pollack (4) 577 £3.30 £2.86 £2.86 Haddock (4) 28 £1.01 £0.84 £1.66 Monkfish (A4) £3.00 £3.37 £3.20 £3.30 Saithe (1) 884 £1.98 £1.94 £1.55 Hake (7) 672 £2.60 £1.86 £2.93 Haddock (5) 24 £1.50 £1.88 £1.17 Monkfish (A5) £2.09 £2.27 £2.05 £2.59 Saithe (2) 3,181 £1.62 £1.64 £1.27 Hen crabs 934 £1.93 £2.05 £1.98 Hake (1) 19 £4.10 - £3.89 Plaice (A1) £2.69 £2.86 £3.25 £2.00 Saithe (3) 14,483 £1.25 £1.12 £1.13 John Dory (1) 76 £11.88 £12.05 £13.10 Hake (2) 61 £4.30 £5.00 £4.37 Plaice (A2) £1.83 £2.37 £1.40 £1.34 Saithe (4) 13,769 £0.95 £0.81 £0.95 John Dory (2) 127 £11.70 £10.42 £12.35 Hake (3) 187 £4.17 £3.48 £4.40 Squid 1,017 £1.07 £0.91 £1.57 Plaice (A3) £1.45 £1.61 £1.38 £1.17 John Dory (3) 384 £8.81 £7.46 £10.21 Hake (4) 654 £4.10 £3.70 £4.22 Turbot (0) 33 £16.22 £15.42 £16.32 Plaice (A4) £1.08 £1.33 £1.31 £1.02 Hake (5) 1,107 £3.61 £3.08 £3.40 Turbot (1) 128 £13.79 £17.37 £14.54 Lemon sole (1) 147 £9.17 £7.93 £8.28 Hake (6) 758 £2.29 £1.80 £2.46 Pollack (A1) £4.32 £4.39 £2.97 £3.55 Turbot (2) 59 £14.80 £16.45 £12.66 Lemon sole (2) 213 £8.58 £7.32 £8.62 John Dory (1) 11 £10.07 £11.11 £12.64 Pollack (A2) £3.46 £3.53 £2.97 £3.31 Turbot (3) 256 £9.12 £13.20 £10.91 Lemon sole (3) 601 £7.53 £5.67 £7.71 Pollack (A3) £3.85 £3.85 £2.15 £2.59 Turbot (4) 516 £3.91 £3.93 £5.13 John Dory (2) 51 £10.36 £10.43 £12.67 Lemon sole (4) 1,425 £2.63 £2.49 £2.57 John Dory (3) 66 £8.67 £7.84 £9.93 Pollack (A4) £3.23 £3.61 £2.70 £2.70 Whiting (1) 59 £1.36 £1.25 £1.33 Lemon sole (5) 580 £0.89 £0.95 £0.83 John Dory (4) 42 £7.42 £4.71 £7.67 Round Haddock £0.51 £0.52 £0.62 - Whiting (2) 738 £1.45 £1.54 £1.38 Line mackerel (1) 24 £5.34 £6.50 £5.59 John Dory (5) 25 £4.99 £2.05 £5.73 Whiting (A1) £0.98 £0.98 - £1.55 Witch (1) 257 £6.58 £6.47 £2.30 Witch (2) 697 £4.48 £4.18 £1.40 Line mackerel (2) 102 £4.75 £4.35 £4.36 Lemon sole (1) 89 £9.11 £6.00 £8.44 Whiting (A2) £1.48 £1.54 £1.65 £1.82 Witch (3) 464 £0.65 £0.90 £0.70 Line mackerel (3) 357 £2.03 £0.88 £2.73 Lemon sole (2) 69 £7.98 £9.14 £8.82 Whiting (A3) £1.14 £1.32 £1.34 £1.49 Lemon sole (3) 104 £7.61 £5.99 £6.76 ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Lobster 103 £17.63 £16.40 £13.33 Whiting (A4) £0.61 £0.72 £0.81 £1.42 Lemon sole (4) 182 £3.44 £2.44 £2.22 TO 30 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (1) 120 £12.41 £10.40 £11.11 Whiting (round) £0.60 £0.74 £0.95 £1.29 Lemon sole (5) 52 £0.58 £0.40 £0.39 Blue ling (gutted) 288 £0.63 - - Monkfish tails (2) 283 £11.48 £10.45 £11.79 Ling (L) 134 £1.27 £1.00 £2.09 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Catfish (gutted) 18,732 £1.42 £0.90 £0.84 TO 30 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (3) 447 £10.75 £10.12 £10.80 Ling (M) 56 £1.14 £1.50 £2.56 Catfish (ungutted) 83 £0.06 £0.17 £0.47 Monkfish tails (4) 1,300 £9.26 £9.39 £10.17 Catfish 94 £1.12 £1.84 £2.09 Cod (large, gutted) 8,364 £2.31 £2.05 £1.25 Mackerel (LM) 543 £3.63 £2.74 £4.97 Cod (2) 4,230 £3.39 £3.71 £4.23 Cod (large, ungutted) 211,224 £2.22 £1.67 £1.76 Monkfish tails (5) 854 £8.06 £8.02 £8.74 Mackerel (M) 2,798 £1.55 £2.29 £3.34 Cod (3) 3,533 £3.14 £3.54 £3.57 Cod (small, gutted) 374 £0.89 £0.58 £0.61 Monkfish tails (6) 482 £5.69 £5.03 £4.44 Mackerel (S) 2,395 £0.44 £0.54 £0.72 Cod (4) 1,416 £2.82 £2.91 £2.79 Cod (small, ungutted) 5,488 £0.70 £0.73 £0.63 Octopus 584 £2.63 £2.46 £2.12 Megrim (1) 64 £3.99 £5.74 £5.54 Megrim (2) 282 £3.63 £5.42 £5.56 Cod (5) 1,155 £2.16 £2.41 £2.50 Greenland halibut (gutted) 2,558 £0.05 £0.20 £1.61 Plaice (1) 1,166 £5.15 £3.94 £4.69 Haddock (large, gutted) 202 £1.27 £0.73 £1.83 Megrim (3) 539 £3.65 £4.03 £3.94 Cod (6) 575 £1.23 £2.52 £2.64 Plaice (2) 1,642 £4.50 £3.18 £3.35 Haddock (1) 233 £3.09 £3.17 £2.86 Haddock (large, ungutted) 23,703 £2.01 £1.46 £2.28 Megrim (4) 1,001 £1.95 £2.72 £2.78 Haddock (small, ungutted) 427 £0.08 £0.25 £0.51 Plaice (3) 2,231 £3.37 £2.61 £3.08 Megrim (5) 2,815 £1.24 £2.12 £1.90 Haddock (2) 765 £2.90 £3.28 £3.36 Halibut (gutted) 456 £3.64 £2.87 £2.91 Plaice (4) 1,765 £2.29 £1.97 £2.07 Monkfish (1) 73 £10.28 £10.14 £11.75 Haddock (3) 1,165 £1.46 £2.05 £2.46 Lemon sole (gutted) 1,545 £3.00 £2.33 £3.51 Plaice (5) 4,361 £1.33 £1.39 £1.69 Monkfish (2) 241 £10.40 £11.46 £11.95 Haddock (4) 2,681 £0.83 £0.99 £2.21 Ling (gutted) 3,021 £0.92 £0.86 £1.11 Pollock (2) 142 £5.68 £4.77 £5.15 Monkfish (3) 555 £10.29 £11.29 £10.82 Haddock (5) 4,406 £0.25 £0.48 £1.27 Ling (ungutted) 2,774 £1.08 £1.18 £0.87 Pollock (3) 396 £3.95 £4.25 £4.04 Monkfish (4) 778 £9.60 £9.69 £10.16 Hake (2) 644 £1.22 £2.49 £3.94 Megrim (gutted) 4,133 £1.10 - £0.00 Monkfish (5) 1,324 £6.76 £6.12 £7.40 Hake (3) 151 £0.82 £1.57 £2.74 Monkfish (gutted) 1,269 £2.79 £3.67 £3.72 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 155 £4.42 £2.95 £4.54 Octopus (M) 272 £2.38 £2.49 £2.33 Plaice (gutted) 18,544 £2.00 £1.93 £1.32 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 491 £3.68 £1.80 £3.03 Hake (4) 2,770 £0.20 £0.78 £1.53 Plaice (1) 149 £4.54 £4.59 £3.61 Redfish (ungutted) 32,652 £1.16 £0.95 £0.78 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 921 £3.04 £1.35 £2.58 Halibut (3) 116 £11.18 £11.50 £10.92 Plaice (2) 87 £4.50 £4.12 £3.16 Halibut (4) 66 £8.33 £9.30 £8.23 Saithe (gutted) 5,559 £0.49 £0.29 £0.57 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 126 £3.40 £0.95 £1.87 Saithe (ungutted) 14,427 £0.42 £0.18 £0.42 Plaice (3) 76 £4.26 £3.50 £2.92 Lemon sole (2) 367 £7.36 £6.95 £6.06 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 512 £2.72 £0.93 £1.91 Skate (gutted) 25 £0.06 - £0.56 Plaice (4) 60 £2.64 £2.26 £1.80 Lemon sole (4) 661 £2.35 £2.08 £2.45 Spotted catfish (gutted) 401 £1.45 £0.95 £0.51 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 166 £1.97 £0.52 £1.70 Pollack, lythe (2) 12 £3.83 £2.69 £5.48 Ling 3,984 £0.57 £0.74 £1.50 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 524 £1.21 £0.84 £0.34 Red mullet (1) 15 £3.20 £3.54 £3.25 Pollack, lythe (3) 528 £4.49 £6.03 £4.07 Lythe 15 £1.48 £3.26 £3.77 Tusk (gutted) 5 £0.07 £0.53 £0.28 Red mullet (2) 10 £3.64 £3.28 £2.94 Pollack, lythe (4) 804 £3.88 £5.22 £2.79 Mackerel 6,607 £0.68 £0.60 £1.93 Tusk (gutted) 5 £0.07 £0.53 £0.28 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 2 £0.10 £0.10 £0.42 Red mullet (3) 17 £12.47 £11.92 £11.86 Megrim (2) 1,265 £3.31 £2.83 £5.16 Tusk (ungutted) 2,253 £0.27 £0.28 £0.20 Prawns (L) 8 £7.00 - £3.38 Round pouting 1,395 £0.31 £0.27 £0.46 Megrim (3) 684 £2.59 £1.98 £3.74 Whiting (gutted) 672 £0.38 - - Prawns (M) 85 £1.73 - £3.38 Scallop (2) 2,446 £2.41 £2.06 £4.73 Megrim (4) 826 £1.51 £1.20 £2.24 Whiting (ungutted) 1 £0.00 £0.23 £0.34 Red mullet (1) 7 £11.52 £14.80 £11.96 Monkfish (1) 165 £2.95 £3.04 £3.42 Witch (gutted) 93 £1.41 - - Sole (1) 408 £16.66 £16.86 £19.10 Red mullet (2) 4 £7.48 £10.16 £10.50 Monkfish (2) 1,250 £3.45 £3.40 £3.80 Witch (ungutted) 966 £1.22 - - Sole (2) 869 £15.35 £15.34 £19.94 Red mullet (4) 5 £5.75 £1.78 £6.68 Saithe (2) 26 £2.09 £2.00 £1.91 Monkfish (3) 1,185 £3.45 £3.42 £3.87 SCRABSTER, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Sole (3) 849 £16.32 £16.72 £21.67 Monkfish (4) 958 £3.21 £3.24 £3.79 TO 29 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Sole (4) 1,302 £15.43 £15.78 £20.33 Saithe (3) 2 £1.60 £2.20 £1.66 Monkfish (5) 393 £2.34 £2.34 £2.82 Cod £3.56 £3.64 £3.31 £4.61 Sole (5) 853 £13.10 £13.39 £15.95 Saithe (4) 3 £0.50 - £1.30 Scallops 111 £1.35 £2.24 £1.68 Monkfish (6) 156 £1.22 £0.98 £1.71 Hake £0.60 £0.60 £1.13 £1.83 Sole (6) 1,089 £11.01 £13.14 £14.53 Sea Breams (2) 3 £4.00 £7.00 £13.92 Plaice (2) 280 £2.94 £2.98 £2.59 Lemon sole £0.75 £6.00 £3.25 £4.82 Squid (1) 2 £15.96 £14.73 £10.23 Sea Breams (3) 1 £14.50 £11.29 £11.73 Plaice (3) 626 £1.75 £2.38 £2.20 Ling £0.78 £0.78 £1.25 £2.14 Squid (2) 67 £10.98 £12.80 £9.88 Shagreen ray (L) 17 £1.80 - £1.31 Plaice (4) 955 £1.00 £0.78 £1.27 Megrims £1.00 £2.05 £2.75 £2.25 Monkfish £3.30 £3.30 £3.52 £3.71 Squid (mix) 87 £9.27 £9.35 £8.51 Shagreen ray (M) 53 £0.90 - £1.10 Saithe (2) 1,423 £0.32 £1.11 £1.52 Plaice £0.36 £1.36 £0.67 £1.59 Turbot (1) 41 £17.38 £18.67 £19.59 Shagreen ray (S) 6 £0.20 - £0.47 Saithe (3) 1,897 £0.51 £0.86 £1.29 Round whiting £0.44 £0.51 £1.00 £1.09 Turbot (2) 81 £16.57 £16.08 £15.68 Smoothhound (M) 35 £0.80 £0.30 £0.26 Saithe (4) 3,745 £0.43 £0.66 £0.88 Whiting £0.76 £0.76 £1.63 £1.83 Turbot (3) 67 £15.68 £13.55 £15.68 Squid (M) 38 £9.40 £7.80 £10.33 Skate 221 £0.59 £0.50 £0.65 Thornback Ray (M) 24 £0.93 £1.55 £1.20 Skate, mixed 41 £0.40 £0.42 £0.29 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Price/kg Price/kg Avg, Avg, 4 Turbot (4) 182 £13.49 £12.04 £13.30 TO 30 JULY minimum maximum yr ago yr ago Turbot (2) 10 £18.60 £15.96 £18.34 Turbot (5) 415 £12.29 £10.14 £11.70 Skate, roker 180 £1.21 £0.81 £0.95 Turbot (3) 4 £12.00 £16.54 £18.03 Bass £10.00 £12.00 £14.50 £15.00 Turbot (6) 92 £10.46 £10.55 £9.51 Squid 332 £3.00 £2.90 £4.01 Turbot (5) 19 £11.31 £11.78 £14.07 Crab £1.10 £1.10 £0.00 £0.00 Turbot 28 £10.22 £10.74 £11.04 Whelks 223 £1.15 £1.59 £1.30 Turbot (6) 24 £12.21 £10.43 £12.18 Whiting (2) 210 £0.91 £2.09 £2.05 Dover sole £5.00 £18.00 £19.00 £14.75 Whiting (1) 52 £3.63 £3.54 £2.75 Whiting (1) 30 £2.40 £1.00 £2.04 Whiting (3) 468 £0.68 £1.23 £1.84 Lobster £14.00 £16.00 £16.00 £18.27 Whiting (2) 124 £2.06 £2.28 £2.18 Whiting (2) 22 £1.74 £2.94 £1.19 Whiting, round 3,243 £0.43 £0.52 £0.98 Skate £1.00 £2.00 £2.40 £2.18 Whiting (3) 287 £0.83 £0.83 £1.80 Whiting (3) 24 £0.74 £0.82 £0.84 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

UK monthly pelagic and shellfish landings & prices, last two years

UK mackerel landings into UK ports UK herring landings into UK ports UK sardines landings into UK ports 30,000 2.00 25,000 1.20 2,500 12.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 1.80 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) 25,000 1.00 10.00 1.60 20,000 2,000 1.40 20,000 0.80 8.00 1.20 15,000 1,500 15,000 1.00 0.60 6.00 Landings (t, left scale) 0.80 10,000 1,000 10,000 Price per kg (right scale) 0.40 4.00 0.60 0.40 5,000 500 5,000 0.20 2.00 0.20 - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK other pelagic landings into UK ports UK total pelagic landings into UK ports UK total shellfish landings into UK ports 9,000 1.00 30,000 1.80 25,000 3.50 Landings (t, left scale) 8,000 0.90 1.60 Price per kg (right scale) 3.00 25,000 20,000 7,000 Landings (t, left scale) 0.80 1.40 2.50 Price per kg (right scale) 0.70 6,000 20,000 1.20 15,000 0.60 2.00 5,000 1.00 0.50 15,000 4,000 0.80 1.50 0.40 10,000 3,000 10,000 0.60 0.30 1.00 2,000 0.40 5,000 0.20 5,000 Landings (t, left scale) 0.50 1,000 0.20 0.10 Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK nephrop landings into UK ports UK crab landings into UK ports UK scallops landings into UK ports 5,000 5.00 4,000 3.50 3,500 3.00

4,500 4.50 3,500 3.00 3,000 2.50 4,000 4.00 3,000 2.50 2,500 3,500 3.50 2.00 2,500 3,000 3.00 2.00 2,000 2,500 2.50 2,000 1.50 1.50 1,500 2,000 2.00 1,500 1.00 1,500 1.50 1.00 1,000 1,000

1,000 1.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 0.50 Landings (t, left scale) 500 0.50 500 500 0.50 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK lobster landings into UK ports UK whelks landings into UK ports UK squid landings into UK ports 600 25.00 9,000 1.60 600 6.00

8,000 1.40 500 Landings (t, left scale) 500 5.00 Price per kg (right scale) 20.00 7,000 1.20 400 6,000 400 4.00 1.00 15.00 5,000 Landings (t, left scale) 300 0.80 300 3.00 4,000 Price per kg (right scale) 10.00 0.60 200 3,000 200 2.00 Landings (t, left scale) 0.40 2,000 Price per kg (right scale) 5.00 100 100 1.00 1,000 0.20

- 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK cuttlefish landings into UK ports UK cockle landings into UK ports UK prawn landings into UK ports 1,000 6.00 3,000 2.50 300 20.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 900 18.00 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) 5.00 2,500 250 800 2.00 16.00

700 Landings (t, left scale) 14.00 2,000 200 4.00 Price per kg (right scale) 600 1.50 12.00

500 3.00 1,500 150 10.00 400 1.00 8.00 2.00 1,000 100 300 6.00

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£3.25 25 April 2019 2. The East Anglia Three Offshore Wind Farm Order 2017 (2017 Order) granted development consent to EATL for an Issue: 5460 16 MAY 2019 TURN TO offshore wind farm with a gross electrical output capacity of 1,200 megawatts (MW) located approximately 69km off £3.25 PAGE 2 FOR SUBSCRIBE TODAY 4 April 2019 THE FULL Issue: 5457 16 MAY 2019 £3.25 REPORT 21 March 2019 Issue: 5455 the coast of Suffolk. The East Anglia THREE Offshore Wind Farm (Correction) Order 2018 was granted on 12 July 2018 N SEA SAITHE CHOKE FEARS 16 MAY 2019 Nichola of Ladram arrives at Brixham REGIONAL NEWS to correct certain errors in the 2017 Order. Subsequently the 2017 Order was amended in June 2019 to increase the The South West fishing company Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launched BREXIT STOCKS DANGERShas taken delivery of the new 15m steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXIT MELTDOWN TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORTcrabber Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Western Isles TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT in Brixham from the Luyt yard at Den Oever in The new 15m automated scalloper White Eagle maximum generating capacity from 1,200MW to 1,400MW. Holland earlier this month. REGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulic hoist into the SAVE £££s OFF THE Skipper Richard Carroll and his crew of six river Fowey alongside the quay at Polruan, where wasted no time in getting the new boat to sea Westro and Carvela naming ceremonies Commemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built by C Toms & Son, as soon as the paperwork was all completed, New Taits arrives at Fraserburgh reports Phil Lockley. to start placing Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab the 50th anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port of Kallin on Skipper James West with his family, pots. before Westro’s naming ceremony on North Uist, White Eagle is a step aside from 3. The Application seeks to make a non-material change to the Offshore Substations Stations (OSSs) and Wind Waterdance managing director Nigel Blazeby the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers said that the company is delighted with the new used in southwest England. crabber, which represents a milestone for the Having split winches, with full winch control Waterdance fleet, as the company’s first new from the aft wheelhouse, was a request from the build for some considerable time. Turbine Generators (WTGs) comprised in the authorised project as follows: vessel owners and operators, brothers Konrad and “We’re very pleased her, and also with the Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. work done by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram White Eagle is expected to run sea trials from to such an innovative design,” he said, adding Polruan in the next two weeks. that while Waterdance and a number of other Further details of White Eagle will be included in Fishing News shortly. • The changes in OSS parameters subject to the non-material change are: continues on page xx COVER PRICE o Reduction in the number of OSSs from 6 to 1; ‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering Fraserburgh harbour for the first time following its delivery trip from Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials.

The new 74.8m midwater trawler quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge west of Ireland. port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple AS, Taits incorporates a number of to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded o Increase in the number of pin piles per OSS jacket leg from 1 to 4; and new features. These include a heat by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. recovery system, in which hot water Norway, reports David Linkie . from the main and auxiliary engines Featuring an extensive full-length † The new Orkney vivier-crabber After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas EUROPE £175 REST OF WORLD £190 skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving style on Teesside. immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion the blue whiting fishery, before Taits and manoeuvring system; two stern A detailed feature on Taits will be included in Fishing News soon. o Increase in the number of legs of the OSS from 4 to 6. Two new Scottish fishing vessels, ‡ The SC McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates Westro PD 20 and Carvela K ‡ Waterdance’s new vivier-crabber Nichola 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enable the scalloper to hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorialof Ladram to the eight will Longhope be fishing lifeboat South men West and operate with maximum efficiency in the waters around sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. waters, and landing in Brixham, the Outer Hebrides and beyond. reports David Linkie. Salcombe and Newlyn. The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members of the Longhope lifeboat who Westro was christened at lost their lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, NEVER• The MISS changes AN ISSUEin WTG parameters FREE DELIVERY subject to DIRECT the non-material TO YOUR changeDOOR are: Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launching to assist a disabled Libyan 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentland Firth, were honoured by lifted into the water and named, commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friends were joined by six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, including four traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe o Reduction in the maximum total number of WTGs from 172 to 121; on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. Shipyards Ltd. See pages 14-17 for further coverage of the Ronnie and Maureen moving tributes. Norquoy’s daughter Erika named Carvela, built by Parkol Marine Engineering at Middlesbrough. REGIONAL NEWS o Increase in the maximum tip height of 247 m to 262 moffer (relative code to Lowest Astronomic Tide); Continued on page 13 yourfishingnews.co.uk o Increase01959 in the minimum 543 air draught 747 of all WTGs from 22FNWP101 m to 24 m (relative to Mean High Water Springs); and o Increase in rotorHotline diameter open: Mon - Fri from 8am - 6pm. 220m to 230 m. 4. Hard copies of the application can be viewed at OrbisEnergy, Wilde St, Lowestoft NR32 1HX. However, in light of the current public health situation surrounding coronavirus (COVID-19) inspection is by appointment only. To arrange an appointment, please contact OrbisEnergy on 01502 563368. Infection prevention and control measures are in place.

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The South West fishing company Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launched • The ScottishPower Renewables Website here: https://www.scottishpowerrenewables.com/pages/east_anglia_ BREXIT STOCKS DANGERShas taken delivery of the new 15m steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXIT MELTDOWN TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORTcrabber Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Western Isles TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT in Brixham from the Luyt yard at Den Oever in The new 15m automated scalloper White Eagle Holland earlier this month. REGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulic hoist into the SAVE £££s OFF THE three.aspx Skipper Richard Carroll and his crew of six river Fowey alongside the quay at Polruan, where wasted no time in getting the new boat to sea Westro and Carvela naming ceremonies Commemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built by C Toms & Son, as soon as the paperwork was all completed, New Taits arrives at Fraserburgh reports Phil Lockley. to start placing Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab the 50th anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port of Kallin on Skipper James West with his family, pots. 6. The latest date that these documents will be available for inspection is 11.59pm, 30th September 2020. North Uist, White Eagle is a step aside from before Westro’s naming ceremony on Waterdance managing director Nigel Blazeby the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers said that the company is delighted with the new used in southwest England. crabber, which represents a milestone for the Having split winches, with full winch control Waterdance fleet, as the company’s first new from the aft wheelhouse, was a request from the build for some considerable time. vessel owners and operators, brothers Konrad and 7. A free digital copy of the Application can be obtained from the Applicant using the contact details provided above. “We’re very pleased her, and also with the Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. work done by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram White Eagle is expected to run sea trials from to such an innovative design,” he said, adding Polruan in the next two weeks. that while Waterdance and a number of other Alternatively, a paper copy can be obtained from the Applicant by emailing [email protected] or Further details of White Eagle will be included in Fishing News shortly. continues on page xx COVER PRICE by calling 07710 049240.

‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering Fraserburgh harbour for the first time following its delivery trip from Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials. 8. Due to ongoing restrictions imposed as a result of COVID-19, it is preferable for any representation about the The new 74.8m midwater trawler quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge west of Ireland. port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple AS, Taits incorporates a number of to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded application to be sent by email to the Planning Inspectorate at [email protected]. new features. These include a heat by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. recovery system, in which hot water Norway, reports David Linkie . from the main and auxiliary engines Featuring an extensive full-length † The new Orkney vivier-crabber After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas EUROPE £175 REST OF WORLD £190 skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving style on Teesside. immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. Alternatively, in writing to: National Infrastructure Planning, The Planning Inspectorate, Temple Quay House, 2 The Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion the blue whiting fishery, before Taits and manoeuvring system; two stern A detailed feature on Taits will be included in Fishing News soon. Two new Scottish fishing vessels, ‡ The SC McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates Westro PD 20 and Carvela K ‡ Waterdance’s new vivier-crabber Nichola 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enable the scalloper to Square Temple Quay Bristol BS1 6PN. Please quote reference “East Anglia THREE (EN010056)” on any correspondence. hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorialof Ladram to the eight will Longhope be fishing lifeboat South men West and operate with maximum efficiency in the waters around sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. waters, and landing in Brixham, the Outer Hebrides and beyond. reports David Linkie. Salcombe and Newlyn. The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members of the Longhope lifeboat who Westro was christened at lost their lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, NEVER MISS AN ISSUE FREE DELIVERY DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launching to assist a disabled Libyan 9. Please note that any representations received by the Planning Inspectorate in response to the consultation will be 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentland Firth, were honoured by lifted into the water and named, commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friends were joined by six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, including four handled in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and published on the Planning traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. Shipyards Ltd. See pages 14-17 for further coverage of the Ronnie and Maureen moving tributes. Norquoy’s daughter Erika named Inspectorate’s Infrastructure Planning Portal (https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk) with all personal Carvela, built by Parkol Marine Engineering at Middlesbrough. REGIONAL NEWS offer code Continued on page 13 yourfishingnews.co.uk information removed. FNWP101 01959 543 747 10. The deadline for the receipt of representations in relation to the Application is 11.59pm, 30th September 2020. Hotline open: Mon - Fri 8am - 6pm. East Anglia Three Limited 6 August 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CLASSIFIEDS/PUBLIC NOTICES 25 PUBLIC NOTICE

on the project website (www.bostonaef.co.uk). A copy of the leaflet can also be obtained ALTERNATIVE USE BOSTON PROJECTS LTD FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 NOMINATIONS SHORTLIST - SEE PAGES 12 - 17 ❯❯❯ free of charge until 10 September 2020 by contacting the Applicant using the details set UK fisheries SECTION 48, PLANNING ACT 2008 out at the end of this notice. minister George Eustice resigns £3.25 REGULATION 4 INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (APPLICATIONS: TURN TO PAGE 8 The PEIR, together with the consultation leaflet, plans, maps and other documents, which 7 March 2019 Issue: 5453

TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR PRESCRIBED FORMS AND PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS 2009 show the nature and location of the Proposed Development (the ‘consultation documents’) THE FULL U10 E-CATCH REPORTING SOON REPORT (THE ‘REGULATIONS’) are also available for inspection free of charge on the project website at Pilot Me – 12m Cougar catamaran for Filey owners NEW UK 2018

The first 12m Cougar catamaran, CATCH RECORD https://www.bostonaef.co.uk/consultation/ from 10 August 2020 until 10 September 2020. Pilot Me, heads off to the potting grounds from Bridlington. Record £1,004m catch BOSTON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FACILITY value by UK fleet in 2018 Electronic or hard copies of the consultation documents can be ordered using the contact NOTICE PUBLICISING A PROPOSED APPLICATION FOR A details set out at the end of this notice. A reasonable copying charge may apply up to a DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER maximum of £250 for the full set of documents and £10 for an electronic copy on CD or ‡ UK vessels landed an annual record catch value USB stick. of £1,004m in 2018. UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m Alternative Use Boston Projects Ltd (the ‘Applicant’) of 26 Church Street, Bishop’s Stortford, Starboard quarter in 2018, according to provisional figures published The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the Hertfordshire, England, CM23 2LY (Company Number 11013830), published a Notice in Information Events Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect son Jamie, Pilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to companies. £1,449 from £1,358. Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose June 2019 publicising a proposed application for a Development Consent Order and tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the The Applicant is holding information events but due to COVID-19 limitations on public name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. advising of its intention to make an application (the ‘Proposed Application’) to the Secretary gatherings, it is not possible to hold public exhibitions as was previously done. However, Fishing News next week. continues on page 2 of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Section 37 of the Planning Act in order to ensure that your questions can be answered, the Applicant is hosting two 2008 (the ‘2008 Act’) for a Development Consent Order (‘DCO’) authorising the webinars and, for those without access to a computer, a telephone surgery. Details of when construction, operation and maintenance of a power-generation plant, known as the the webinars and telephone surgery are taking place are set out below. Please book your Boston Alternative Energy Facility, within the Riverside Industrial Estate, Boston, place using the contact details set out at the end of this notice. Lincolnshire (the ‘Proposed Development’). Webinars Summary of Proposed Development Each session will last between 1–2 hours, depending on the number of questions from the FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 NOMINATIONS SHORTLIST - SEE PAGES 12 - 17 ❯❯❯ UK The Proposed Development would comprise: public. These are taking place on— fisheries minister • an Energy from Waste facility comprising three thermal treatment units and steam George Eustice Webinar 1: Tuesday 11 August 2020 at 12.00pm resigns £3.25 TURN TO PAGE 8 7 March 2019 turbine generators to generate up to 102 MW (gross) of energy; Issue: 5453

TURN TO Webinar 2: Thursday 20 August 2020 at 12.00pm PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL • a wharf with cranes and berthing points; U10 E-CATCH REPORTING SOON REPORT Telephone Surgery Pilot Me – 12m Cougar catamaran for Filey owners NEW UK 2018

• a storage bunker and contingency external storage area for the temporary storage of The first 12m Cougar catamaran, CATCH RECORD Pilot Me, heads off to the potting These are 15 minute slots where you can speak directly with a member of the project team. grounds from Bridlington. Record £1,004m catch Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) bales; value by UK fleet in 2018 This is by appointment only. An additional session may be arranged if this is required. • a RDF bale shredding facility (a sealed building) to remove bale wrap and reduce the Please check the project website for the latest information. particle size; Telephone Surgery: Wednesday 26 August 2020 10.00am–4.30pm ‡ UK vessels landed an annual record catch value • conveyors to transfer RDF bales and processed material; of £1,004m in 2018. UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m Starboard quarter in 2018, according to provisional figures published The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. Responding to the Consultation Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of • turbine plant comprising three steam turbine engines, make-up water facility and Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect son Jamie, Pilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to Any person may comment on the Proposed Development or otherwise respond to this companies. £1,449 from £1,358. associated piping and ductwork; Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, publicity. Responses must be received by 11.59pm on 10 September 2020. When cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. • air-cooled condenser structure, transformer pen and associated piping and ductwork; providing your response, please include your name and address or, if you would prefer Fishing News next week. continues on page 2 • an on-site grid connection and substation to facilitate the export of up to 80 MW to the your comments to be anonymous, your postcode only. Please also confirm the nature of National Grid; your interest in the project. • a lightweight aggregate manufacturing plant to process the thermal treatment ash and Responses can be submitted in the following ways— air pollution control residues into two separate aggregate products; Website: By completing a Comments Form on the project website at • two carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plants, allowing a proportion of the CO2 from two www.bostonaef.co.uk of the three thermal treatment units to be captured and converted to food grade CO2 for off-site industrial use; Email: By emailing [email protected] • a storage area for lightweight aggregate product prior to removal (by ship) from the site; Freepost: In writing to Freepost RTLY–RLGH–GKSE, Boston Alternative Energy Facility, NEVER MISS and 25 Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1JL • associated infrastructure including a visitor centre, car parking, onsite roads, site The Applicant will have regard to all consultation responses before submitting its AN ISSUE! surfacing, site security, storage and workshop facility, weighbridge, fencing, site control application for a DCO to the Secretary of State. centre and welfare facilities. Copies of your comments may be made available to the Planning Inspectorate, the The Proposed Application will also seek authorisation for the compulsory acquisition of Secretary of State and other relevant statutory authorities so that your comments can be SUBSCRIBE interests in and rights over land, the temporary use of land, and the overriding of easements noted. Personal details are not placed on the public record and will be kept confidential. and other rights. Your personal details will be kept securely by the Applicant and any appointed agent of the Applicant in accordance with data protection legislation and will be used solely in TODAY Consultation connection with the consultation process and the Proposed Application. Your personal The Applicant carried out statutory consultation in relation to the Application from 25 June details will not be passed to any third parties except as noted above. Respondents do not 2019 to 6 August 2019 but did not publish the statutory notice in Lloyd’s List or an have to provide any personal information, but this information will help the Applicant to CALL 01959 appropriate fishing trade journal as required under the Regulations. This Notice is being understand the range of responses, and to provide updates about the project and the published in Lloyd’s List and Fishing News Weekly to rectify this omission and to seek outcome of the consultation. 543 747 representations from those who may not have had an opportunity to respond earlier. This Please note that the deadline for receipt of consultation responses on the Proposed consultation is taking place from 10 August 2020 to 10 September 2020. In addition to Application is 11.59pm on 10 September 2020. FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 NOMINATIONS SHORTLIST - SEE PAGES 12 - 17 ❯❯❯ this statutory consultation, the Applicant is also carrying out further non-statutory UK Contacting the Applicant fisheries consultation during the same period. minister George Eustice The project website (www.bostonaef.co.uk) contains all relevant and current information resigns £3.25 Preliminary Environmental Information TURN TO PAGE 8 7 March 2019 Issue: 5453

about the consultation and the Proposed Application. TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL The Proposed Development is ‘EIA development’ for the purposes of the Infrastructure REPORT If you have any questions about the consultation, Proposed Development, Proposed U10 E-CATCH REPORTING SOON Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017. This means that the Pilot Me – 12m Cougar catamaran for Filey owners NEW UK 2018

The first 12m Cougar catamaran, CATCH RECORD Application or wish to request copies of any of the consultation documents, please contact Pilot Me, heads off to the potting proposed works constitute development for which an Environmental Impact Assessment grounds from Bridlington. Record £1,004m catch is required. Accordingly, the Proposed Application will be accompanied by an the Applicant using the following details : value by UK fleet in 2018 Environmental Statement containing information about the likely significant environmental Email: [email protected] effects of the Proposed Development. Post: Freepost RTLY–RLGH–GKSE, Boston Alternative Energy Facility, 25 Priestgate, ‡ UK vessels landed an annual record catch value of £1,004m in 2018. During the 2019 statutory consultation, preliminary environmental information was Peterborough, PE1 1JL UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m Starboard quarter in 2018, according to provisional figures published The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of included in a Preliminary Environmental Information Report (the ‘PEIR’) and summarised Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect Telephone: 0800 0014 050 son Jamie, Pilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to companies. £1,449 from £1,358. in a non-technical summary of the PEIR. Since the PEIR was prepared there have been Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. Alternative Use Boston Projects Ltd the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, changes proposed to the project. The Applicant has therefore prepared a leaflet cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. summarising these changes. This leaflet is available to view and download free of charge 6 August 2020 Fishing News next week. continues on page 2

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25 April 2019 25 April 2019 25 April 2019 Issue: 5460 16 MAY 2019 Issue: 5460 16 MAYIssue: 2019 5460 16 MAY 2019 UK fisheries TURN TO TURN TO TURN TO minister £3.25 PAGE 2 FOR £3.25 £3.25 PAGE 2 FOR PAGE 2 FOR SUBSCRIBESUBSCRIBE TODAY TODAY SUBSCRIBE TODAY George Eustice 4 April 2019 THE FULL 4 April 2019 4 April 2019 THE FULL THE FULL Issue: 5457 16 MAY 2019 £3.25 Issue: 5457 16 MAY 2019Issue: 5457 16 MAY 2019 £3.25 £3.25 REPORT REPORT REPORT resigns 21 March 2019 21 March 2019 21 March 2019 £3.25 Issue: 5455 16 MAY 2019 Issue: 5455 16 MAY 2019Issue: 5455 16 MAY 2019 TURN TO PAGE 8 N SEA SAITHE CHOKE FEARS N SEAN SAITHE SEA SAITHE CHOKE CHOKE FEARS FEARS 7 March 2019 Nichola of Ladram arrives at Brixham REGIONAL NEWS Nichola ofNichola Ladram of arrives Ladram at arrivesBrixham at BrixhamREGIONALREGIONAL NEWS NEWS Issue: 5453 TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR The South West fishing company Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launched The South West fishing companyThe SouthWaterdance West fishingNichola company of Ladram Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launchedWhite Eagle launched THE FULL BREXIT STOCKS DANGERShas taken delivery of the new 15m steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXIT MELTDOWN BREXITBREXIT STOCKS STOCKS DANGERShas takenDANGERS delivery of the new 15mhas steeltaken vivier- delivery of theberthed new 15m at Brixham. steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXITBREXIT MELTDOWN MELTDOWN REPORT TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORTcrabber Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Western Isles TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT TURN TO PAGETURN 2 TOFOR PAGE THE 2FULL FOR REPORT THEcrabber FULL Nichola of LadramREPORT E 1,crabber which arrived Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Westernat Polruan Isles for WesternTURN IslesTO PAGETURN 2 FOR TO PAGETHE FULL 2 FOR REPORT THE FULL REPORT in Brixham from the Luyt yard at Den Oever in in Brixham from the Luyt yard atin Den Brixham Oever from in the Luyt yard at Den Oever in The new 15m automated scalloper White Eagle The new 15m automated scalloperThe White new 15mEagle automated scalloper White Eagle U10 E-CATCH REPORTING SOON Holland earlier this month. Holland earlier this month. Holland earlier this month. REGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulic hoist into the REGIONAL NEWSREGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulicCY hoist 525 into was the lowered by hydraulic hoist into the SAVESAVE £££ £££s sOFF OFF THE THE SAVE £££s OFF THE Skipper Richard Carroll and his crew of six Skipper Richard Carroll and hisSkipper crew of Richardsix Carroll and his crew of six river Fowey alongside the quay at Polruan, where river Fowey alongside the quay atriver Polruan, Fowey where alongside the quay at Polruan, where Pilot Me – 12m Cougar catamaran for Filey owners NEW UK 2018 wasted no time in getting the new boat to sea wasted no time in getting the newwasted boat noto seatime in getting the new boat to sea Westro and Carvela naming ceremonies Commemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built by C Toms & Son, Westro and CarvelaWestro andnaming Carvela ceremonies naming ceremoniesCommemorations markCommemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built bythe C steel-hulled Toms & Son, vessel was built by C Toms & Son, as soon as the paperwork was all completed, New Taits arrives at Fraserburgh as soon as the paperwork was asall sooncompleted, as the paperwork was all completed, New TaitsNew arrives Taits atarrives Fraserburgh at Fraserburgh reports Phil Lockley. reports Phil Lockley. reports Phil Lockley. to start placing Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab to start placing Nichola of Ladram’sto start 3,000 placing crab Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab The first 12m Cougar catamaran, CATCH RECORD the 50th anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port of Kallin on the 50th anniversarythe of 50th the anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port ofSoon Kallin destined on for its home port of Kallin on Pilot Me, heads off to the potting Skipper James West with his family, pots. Skipper James West with his family, Skipper James West with his family, pots. pots. North Uist, White Eagle is a step aside from North Uist, White Eagle is a stepNorth aside Uist,from White Eagle is a step aside from grounds from Bridlington. before Westro’s naming ceremony on Waterdance managing director Nigel Blazeby before Westro’s naming ceremony onbefore Westro’s naming ceremony on Waterdance managing director WaterdanceNigel Blazeby managing director Nigel Blazeby Record £1,004m catch the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers the West Pier at Peterhead. the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedyLonghope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sizedtraditional scallopers deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers said that the company is delighted with the new said that the company is delightedsaid with that the the new company is delighted with the new used in southwest England. used in southwest England. used in southwest England. value by UK fleet in 2018 crabber, which represents a milestone for the crabber, which represents a milestonecrabber, for which the represents a milestone for the Having split winches, with full winch control Having split winches, with full winchHaving control split winches, with full winch control Waterdance fleet, as the company’s first new Waterdance fleet, as the company’sWaterdance first new fleet, as the company’s first new from the aft wheelhouse, was a request from the from the aft wheelhouse, was a requestfrom the from aft wheelhouse,the was a request from the build for some considerable time. build for some considerable time.build for some considerable time. vessel owners and operators, brothers Konrad and vessel owners and operators, brothersvessel Konradowners andand operators, brothers Konrad and “We’re very pleased her, and also with the “We’re very pleased her, and also“We’re with verythe pleased her, and also with the Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing.Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. work done by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram work done by Luyt in building Nicholawork done of Ladram by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram White Eagle is expected to run sea trials from White Eagle is expected to run seaWhite trials Eagle from is expected to run sea trials from to such an innovative design,” he said, adding to such an innovative design,” heto said,such addingan innovative design,” he said, adding Polruan in the next two weeks. Polruan in the next two weeks. Polruan in the next two weeks. that while Waterdance and a number of other that while Waterdance and a numberthat while of other Waterdance and a number of other Further details of White Eagle will be included in Further details of White Eagle willFurther be included details inof White Eagle will be included in Fishing News shortly. Fishing News shortly. 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‡ UK vessels landed an annual record catch value ‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering Fraserburgh harbour for the first time following its delivery trip from ‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering‡ The Fraserburgh 74.8m midwater harbour trawler for the Taitsfirst timeentering following Fraserburgh its delivery harbour trip fromfor the first time following its delivery trip from of £1,004m in 2018. Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials. Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speedØlensvåg, of 19.5 Norway. knots † on Taits Class recorded endurance a top trials. speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials. UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m The new 74.8m midwater trawler The new 74.8m midwater trawler The new 74.8m midwater trawler quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing ANNUALANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: PRICES: UK & UKIRELAND & IRELAND £122 £122 in 2018, according to provisional figures published ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge Taits FR 229 berthed in its home Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge Starboard quarter west of Ireland. west of Ireland. west of Ireland. port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting port of Fraserburgh for the first time port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting system, in which five 55in tilting The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple last week, after being handed over last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple displays can be arranged in multiple Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total AS, Taits incorporates a number of AS, Taits incorporates a number of AS, Taits incorporates a number of to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded to the Klondyke Fishing Company to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded configurations through an embedded potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of new features. These include a heat new features. These include a heat new features. These include a heat by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. video wall controller. recovery system, in which hot water recovery system, in which hot water recovery system, in which hot water Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the Norway, reports David Linkie Norway, reports David Linkie Norway, reports David Linkie . from the main and auxiliary engines Featuring an extensive full-length . from the main and auxiliary engines. fromFeaturing the main an and extensive auxiliary full-length engines Featuring an extensive full-length Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect † The new Orkney vivier-crabber After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping † The new Orkney vivier-crabber † The new Orkney vivier-crabber After arriving at Fraserburgh, After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping son Jamie, Pilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas Carvela is named in spectacular Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas is used to heat all internal areas EUROPEEUROPE £175 £175REST REST OF WORLD OF WORLD £190 £190 skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the pelagic fish both amidships on the throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to style on Teesside. immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. style on Teesside. style on Teesside. immediately started rigging out for immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. starboard side and at the stern. Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion the blue whiting fishery, before Taits the blue whiting fishery, before Taits the blue whiting fishery, before Taits companies. £1,449 from £1,358. and manoeuvring system; two stern A detailed feature on Taits will be and manoeuvring system; two stern andA manoeuvringdetailed feature system; on Taits two will stern be A detailed feature on Taits will be included in Fishing News soon. included in Fishing News soon. included in Fishing News soon. Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose Two new Scottish fishing vessels, Two new Scottish fishing vessels, Two new Scottish fishing vessels, tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the ‡ The SC McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates ‡ The SC McAllister-designed White‡ Eagle The SCincorporates McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates Westro PD 20 and Carvela K ‡ Waterdance’s new vivier-crabber Nichola Westro PD 20 and Carvela K Westro PD 20 and Carvela K ‡ Waterdance’s new vivier-crabber‡ Waterdance’s Nichola new vivier-crabber Nichola name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enable the scalloper to 751, were named within one 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enablea number the scalloper of features to designed to enable the scalloper to the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, of Ladram will be fishing South West and of Ladram will be fishing Southof WestLadram and will be fishing South West and hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorial to the eight Longhope lifeboat men operate with maximum efficiency in the waters around hour of each other in early spring hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorial to the eight Longhope‡ lifeboat The memorial men to the eight Longhope lifeboat men operate with maximum efficiency in operatethe waters with around maximum efficiency in the waters around cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. waters, and landing in Brixham, the Outer Hebrides and beyond. sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. waters,in and Kirk landing Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. in Brixham, waters, and landing in Brixham, the Outer Hebrides and beyond. the Outer Hebrides and beyond. . . . Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. reports David Linkie Salcombe and Newlyn. reports David Linkie reports David Linkie Salcombe and Newlyn. Salcombe and Newlyn. Fishing News next week. continues on page 2 The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members of the Longhope lifeboat who The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members of the Longhope lifeboatThe eight who members of the Longhope lifeboat who Westro was christened at lost their lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, Westro was christened at Westro was christened at lost their lives in horrendous weather loston 17 their March, lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, NEVERNEVER MISS MISSAN ISSUE AN ISSUE FREE FREEDELIVERY DELIVERY DIRECT DIRECT TO YOUR TO YOURDOOR DOOR NEVER MISS AN ISSUE Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launching to assist a disabled Libyan Peterhead, shortly before the Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launching to assist a disabled1969, Libyan after launching to assist a disabled Libyan 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentland Firth, were honoured by 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentland Firth, were honouredvessel byin the Pentland Firth, were honoured by lifted into the water and named, commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of lifted into the water and named, lifted into the water and named, commemorations to mark the 50th anniversarycommemorations of to mark the 50th anniversary of 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. 300 miles away on Teesside. 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. the tragedy. James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friends were joined by James and Patricia West’s James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friends were joined by Relatives and friends were joined by six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, including four six-year-old son Ethan broke the six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, includingrepresentatives four of rescue services, including four traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe traditional bottle of champagne traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrancelifeboat in Aith crews, Voe in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. on Westro, built by Macduff on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. and at Kirk Hope cemetery. Shipyards Ltd. See pages 14-17 for further coverage of the Shipyards Ltd. Shipyards Ltd. 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FPS gets new commander – and new name Command of the Royal Navy’s deliver as the offshore patrol Overseas Patrol Squadron – vessel force grows in size and formerly the Fishery Protection responsibility.” Squadron – has been handed Having joined the Navy in over to Commander David 1998, Commander Louis has Louis, reports John Periam. served on a range of ships He will be responsible for all deployed worldwide, and the River-class offshore patrol has previously commanded vessels – three Batch 1 and various Hunt-class mine four Batch 2, which include countermeasures vessels. the vessels charged with Another change is the New order boosts restart at C undertaking fishery protection squadron’s name, from the in English waters. HMS Spey Fishery Protection Squadron Toms & Son is due to join the Portsmouth- to the Overseas Patrol See pages 6-7 based squadron later this year Squadron. Its work will remain when construction and sea very much the same, and trials are completed. fishermen can be assured Commander Simon that they will still see the Pressdee is moving to a new squadron’s vessels working role at Navy Command HQ, ‡ Commander David Louis (right), the new commander of the around the UK coastline. having taken the helm of the renamed Overseas Patrol Squadron, with his predecessor However, with new vessels Fishery Protection Squadron Commander Simon Pressdee, alongside HMS Tyne. joining the squadron, their last year, overseeing the taskings will also take them enlargement of the squadron with a growing number of what he has achieved, and overseas, so it was felt best earlier in 2020 and the return vessels, exacting taskings in wish him well in his future to change the name to fit to operations of HMS Severn. home water and overseas, and assignments.” this remit. Commander Commander Louis said: “I the ability to demonstrate our Commander Pressdee Louis will run things from find myself in the privileged value to UK defence wherever said: “It has been a rewarding the Royal Naval Dockyard Yorkshire port aims to be ‘lobster position of commanding we operate. period for me, and a at Portsmouth, which will capital of Europe’ a squadron filled with “We are all grateful to sensational squadron and HQ continue to be the home base See pages 8-10 exceptional men and women, Commander Pressdee for staff who have continued to for the squadron. Launch of Fruitful Fund ‘10p for Tradition’ is named after the restored Fund model is asking for lots of ‘Findhorn Beach II’. fishing vessel Fruitful KY 40, small donations on an annual The charity plans to spend built by James N Miller in St payment. Should one drop its first year raising money. The Monans in 1955. out, this will not affect our draw for the first two paintings These are particularly grant-giving capabilities in any will be on 1 June, 2021. After difficult times for everybody, significant way.” that, new paintings will be including the owners of historic In addition, the Fruitful offered, and the charity will Big changes in mackerel vessels, and it has always been Fund will have an annual start looking at awarding small distribution hard to get funding for ongoing prize draw to win paintings grants. See page 11 costs. As with many heritage with a maritime theme. For If you would like to projects, capital funding can the first year, Richard Wemyss donate to the fund and have be available, but after that the has donated his painting ‘The your name added into the project is on its own. Cellardyke Fisherlass’, and annual prize draw, email: As the number of wooden north of Scotland-based painter [email protected] to ‡ The Fruitful Fund is running boats decreases, there are Malcolm Spratt has donated obtain bank details. a prize draw for the chance inevitably fewer skilled to win Richard Wemyss’ ‘The shipwrights. Repairs and Cellardyke Fisherlass’… restoration become more expensive, and over and above Since the devastating that, the ongoing maintenance Girl Debra – Twin-rigging for decommissioning scheme costs can be prohibitive. lemon sole on 15m Brixham that saw the destruction of The Fruitful Fund has set day-hauler hundreds of fishing vessels, up a simple scheme called See pages 12-17 the downward spiral has ‘10p for Tradition’. All it is continued. Generations of asking people to donate is the important vessels have been equivalent of 10p per week, broken up, and each year more by setting up an annual £5.20 boats disappear from our ports. internet payment or standing The Fruitful Fund is a order – or, for businesses, new charity set up with the £36.50 annually, the equivalent aim of reversing that trend. of 10p per day. Its purpose is to provide Richard Wemyss, chair of support and small grants the new trust, says that he has to organisations, trusts and seen many grant aid schemes individuals operating historic set up with good budgets for a fishing vessels, built or limited period, but at the end Peterhead sees well-balanced operated in Scotland, to help of that period the money stops, landings them meet annual maintenance and a new project with a totally See page 21 and running costs, with different focus is created. “This the proviso that the vessels rollercoaster of funding can are used for community or cause as many problems as SEE INSIDE! educational purposes. The fund it solves, and so the Fruitful ‡ … or Malcolm Spratt’s ‘Findhorn Beach II’.