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Fnw1834-4-Compressed.Pdf Find us on Twitter £3.25 Join in the conversation 23 August 2018 Issue: 5426 @YourFishingNews £300M FLEET INVESTMENT TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Mary May – new Cygnus Typhoon 40 for Seahouses REGIONAL NEWS Seahouses skipper Neal Priestley’s new Cygnus … preparing to Valentine’s crew ‘on Typhoon 40 Mary May… start potting from Seahouses. guard’ for Folkestone Trawler Race 2018 Twenty-fiveboats and imaginatively-dressed crews took part in the popular Folkestone Trawler Race, held in fine sunny weather on 11-12 August. Further details on page 23. This year’s winners were: ● Valentine – first boat home, sponsored by Folkestone Trawlers ● Viking Princess – second boat home, sponsored by the Ship Inn ● Gilly – first motor boat home ● Poseidon – first visiting boat home ● Valentine – best-dressed fishing boat ● Viking Princess – best-dressed fishing boat crew ● Silver Lining – last boat home Seahouses skipper Neal Priestley, together with crewmen completion of a 900-mile delivery trip from Co Kerry. Darren Flanagan and Daniel Blackie, have started to fish static Insured by Sunderland Marine, Mary May is designed for gear on the new fast potter Mary May BK 8 off the coast of pot self-hauling and shooting. North Northumberland, reports David Linkie. Catches of lobsters and brown and velvet crab will be The battle-weary crew of the overall winner of Mary May is based on a Cygnus Typhoon 40 hull, moulded kept in optimum condition by an innovative sprinkler system Folkestone Trawler Race, Valentine, salute as they return and fully fitted out by Murphy Marine Services at Valentia fitted in a large hold amidships, before being landed daily to to harbour, ahead of Viking Princess in second place. Island. Berwick Shellfish Ltd. Neal Priestley and his brother Scott berthed Mary May Further details of Mary May will be included in Fishing in Seahouses harbour for the first time last month, on News next week. REGIONAL NEWS 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 23 August 2018 50+ new boats scheduled to join UK fleet by 2021/22 Extensive new-build programme brings a wide range of benefits More than 50 new boats, ranging in size from 7m to 80m, are scheduled to be delivered to UK skippers in the next three years, representing an unprecedented reinvestment in the fishing industry of around £300m, reports David Linkie The last quarter of this year will Lunar Bow is one of 50-plus new see the delivery of some 10 new boats scheduled to be completed for boats, including whitefish, pelagic UK skippers in the next few years. and shellfish vessels. A similar level of new fleet additions is scheduled for 2019 and 2020. Of particular significance is the fact that the new builds encompass a wide range of “Aye a fine like wee boat... just bear in mind we’ve vessel types, target species and only got 100 creels.” geographical areas. Fly-shooters, pair-seiners, scallopers, single-, twin-rig and The benefits – which accrued much to the wide range of service beam trawlers, vivier crabbers more quickly than most anticipated companies that are involved in and pelagic vessels are at various – were instrumental in persuading the manufacture and supply of stages of design and build for build state-of-the-art new vessels Others will replace boats built in bank managers to view requests new machinery and equipment owners in Shetland, Orkney and that will enable skippers and their the past 10 years, as skippers who for funding for new boats in a totally to each new vessel. Engine the Western Isles, Devon and crews to catch their annual quotas have experienced at first-hand the different light, and give favourable and deck machinery suppliers, Cornwall, as well as North East with enhanced safety, efficiency financial benefits of new boats, go responses. electronic and refrigeration Scotland. Inshore static-gear and financial viability, is a very again in order to retain momentum. companies, as well as netmakers, boats are also well represented. positive and welcome sign. At a time when the UK fleet has Wide-ranging benefits are all reporting increased The level of interest that New boats incorporating new an average age of 35 years, the The current level of investment business. skippers continue to show in ideas and the latest technological importance of recent and future in new boats is also bringing a The bespoke levels of catch purpose-built new boats is such developments, allied with minimal new builds cannot be overstated. cascade of related benefits. quality and full traceability that UK boatyards have healthy maintenance costs, have long been UK skippers, together with The imminent arrival of new associated with new boats will order books stretching several recognised as representing the designers and boatyards, have long vessels is stimulating activity in continue to generate confidence years ahead. most cost-effective way of fishing. been associated with progressive second-hand boat sales. Given with retail companies and When some 40 new boats However, the lack of clarity and thinking and innovation. Such that these are also well-recognised consumers, at a time when their handed over to owners in the past certainty that generally prevailed in forward thinking continues to be as being a barometer of a viable requirements and expectations of two years are taken into account, the industry, at a time when quotas seen, with new ideas constantly industry, this represents further seafood are at an all-time high. this represents extremely strong and fishing opportunities were on being implemented to further positive news. In recent years, the Skippers and processors levels of commitment and a steady downward spiral, meant enhance safe working practices, level of boat sales in the UK fleet alike have worked extremely confidence in the long-term future that strongly motivated younger fuel efficiency and catch quality. has probably been at an all-time diligently for some time now to of the UK fishing industry. skippers were unable to firmly That such developments low, largely due to the shortage increase demand for all types The level of current investment grasp the initiative by taking the are being delivered is largely of orders for new builds, which in of seafood and develop new in any industry has always been then quantum leap to a new boat. attributable to the healthy and turn meant an acute shortage of markets. In a highly competitive recognised as a strong indicator Some of the new boats now sustainable stocks now present modern second-hand vessels. international market, the current of its long-term future. Therefore, joining the UK fleet are replacing in UK waters, as a result of the Now, relatively modern boats level of investment in new boats the fact that over £400m is being boats that have more than 30 pioneering measures fishermen scheduled to be replaced by new sends out an extremely positive invested over a five-year period to years of service under their keels. implemented some 15 years ago. tonnage, are quickly being snapped message that will generate further up by younger skippers looking to confidence in the all-important advance their careers. end user, without whom, new With strong order books for vessels would not be being built. UK immigration minister at Kilkeel several years ahead of them, UK immigration minister Caroline boatyards are also benefiting from Nokes MP visited Kilkeel on the continuity and stability this Thursday, 9 August, 24 hours after brings. spending time at harbours around Three of the leading boatyards in the Clyde, to discuss issues relating the UK, Macduff Shipyards, Parkol to non-EEA crew and their welfare. Marine Engineering and C Toms & During her visit to Co Down, the Son, have recently expanded their minister spoke with crew, owners, boatbuilding and slipping facilities. representatives of the Fishermen’s Further developments, including Mission, and other industry increasing their workforce and The 24m twin-rig trawler representatives. taking on apprentices, are also Uberous is nearing an advanced Afterwards, Alan McCulla, ongoing. stage of completion at Whitby for CEO of the Anglo North Irish Fish New builds are equally important Fraserburgh skipper Ian Duthie. Producers’ Organisation and Sea UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes MP onboard Glenluce Source, and chair of the Fishermen’s Fishing Company’s trawler Unity N 292 at Kilkeel harbour with, left to Welfare Alliance, said: “We’ve met right, Harry Wick of NIFPO, Alan Orr of Glenluce Fishing Company, and Tragedy on Sunbeam the minister in London twice this Alan McCulla OBE, CEO of ANIFPO and Sea Source and chair of the A crewman on Sunbeam FR 487 Marine Accident Investigation year about crew welfare, and finding Fishermen’s Welfare Alliance. died, and four others required Branch and Maritime and a solution to the critical issue of publication of the latest report from to demonstrate how we are putting urgent medical attention, following Coastguard Agency teams travelled posting non-EEA crew to UK fishing the Migration Advisory Committee. this into practice through our work an incident while they were carrying to Fraserburgh to carry out inquiries vessels – so we were very pleased “The minister also visited the sea with the maritime charity Human out maintenance work when the into the incident in conjunction with that the minister was not only able border with the EU, which is only Rights at Sea, and with the Safety vessel was berthed in Fraserburgh Grampian Police. to visit the Co Down industry on 20 minutes from Kilkeel, and this Folder, which was discussed by the harbour last week. A spokesperson for Sunbeam Thursday, but also that based around helped emphasise the point that post- NFFO’s Robert Greenwood.
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