Reliance III Launched at Whitby
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Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia KELSEY KELSEY 17 September17 2020 Issue 5532 £3.30 media KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk THREAT TO FISHERIES BILL TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Reliance III launched at Whitby A proud day for skipper John Clark and his family. Left to right: Nicole Wood, David Clark, John Clark, Brenda Clark and Maria Clark. The new Banff twin-rig trawler Reliance III BF 800 was lifted into the river Esk by a specialist heavy- lift crane and named in suitably fine weather and warm autumn sunshine at Whitby on Thursday, 3 September, reports David Linkie. Skipper John Clark’s wife Brenda and daughter Maria christened Reliance III in the customary manner, watched by his son and fellow skipper David and his fiancée Nicole Wood. Covid-19 regulations meant that only John Clark’s immediate family were present at the socially A specialist heavy-lift distanced launch of Reliance III. crane smoothly lifted the 197t Reliance III is lifted into the river Esk at Whitby. Continues on page 5 Reliance III into the water. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 September 2020 Big buyers back damaging changes to fisheries bill Industry anger at lack of consultation with catchers A powerful alliance of 22 major ‘disappointed and outraged’ at the number of weaknesses that could illegal fishing in UK waters, it is would, if accepted, make the UK supermarkets and seafood way in which the SSC had formed seriously damage the sustainability vitally important that the UK is fisheries inoperable. processors are pressing the an alliance with the greens without of UK fisheries. able to achieve full and verifiable “We are about to escape from the government to adopt major green consultation with catchers. They say they are committed to documentation of catches, including CFP, whose main flaw has been its amendments to the new fisheries “It’s pretty outrageous the way it’s responsible sourcing of seafood, catch certificates’. overcentralisation and inflexibility. bill that would seriously damage the been done, and I think there’ll be and are calling for sustainable “Eradicating illegality in Why would fisheries managers catching sector if they go through, a pushback from the industry,” he fishing limits and ‘robust the supply chain is of utmost and the fishing industry want to tie reports Tim Oliver. told Fishing News. monitoring and enforcement’. importance for UK businesses as themselves back into arrangements The Sustainable Seafood “It’s an open question as On sustainable catch limits, they part of basic due diligence,” the that are in some respects even more Coalition (SSC) has written to whether the supermarkets say that the CFP aims to restore SSC tells George Eustice. rigid than the CFP? to DEFRA secretary of state understand what they are stocks above biomass levels capable It also calls for ‘clear “The buyers who have signed this George Eustice calling for strict signing up to. Their proposals of producing maximum sustainable sustainability criteria’ in relation are either gullible and ill-informed, implementation of MSY targets will make the landing obligation yield (MSY) and includes a legal to negotiations with the EU or intimidated – I’m not sure for all stocks by 2020, remote and management in mixed commitment to fish in line with and other coastal states such as which.” electronic monitoring (REM) with fisheries unworkable. I doubt they MSY by 2020. But, they say, the Iceland, Norway and Faroe on the Elspeth Macdonald, chief onboard cameras on all vessels, and understand the significance of it. fisheries bill regresses from these management of shared stocks. This executive of the SFF, said that the catch limits in line with scientific They should have been talking to us standards and instead ‘relies merely should include a commitment to SFF supports the fisheries bill as advice in negotiations with other and to government.” on aspirational objectives and as agree catch limits that are in line originally introduced to parliament coastal states. The SSC, which includes nearly yet undrafted fisheries management with scientific advice. in January, as the right framework They point out to the minister all the major supermarkets and plans’. Barrie Deas said: “The major legislation for fisheries management that these issues have also been major processors such as Young’s, “The fisheries bill should commit buyers have been coaxed into this for the future. raised by Greener UK, a coalition have asked George Eustice for a the secretary of state and fisheries move which, if successful, would She told Fishing News: “We must of 13 environmental organisations. meeting to discuss ‘vital changes’ authorities to set fishing limits mean the retention of some of the learn the lessons of the CFP and Their move has been made to be made to the fisheries bill. It at or below MSY, in line with most rigid inflexible parts of the avoid constructing a prescriptive without any consultation with the was in everyone’s interests to get international best practice,” says CFP, some of which have seriously and inflexible set of rules in the bill catching sector, despite the impact the bill right, and ‘as major buyers the SSC. “This is vital to protect undermined effective fisheries that can’t respond to the dynamic the amendments would have if they of seafood in the UK, we have against short-term political pressure management, especially of mixed natural systems that our industry are adopted. particular concerns’, they told the to set catch limits higher than fisheries. relies upon. SFF looks forward to NFFO chief executive Barrie minister. scientific advice, which would lead “I don’t for a second think that working with both Scottish and Deas said the amendments were They acknowledged that the to overfishing.” the government will accept the UK governments on the fisheries ‘completely contrary’ to what the bill is a framework only and not On monitoring and enforcement, amendments that have come down management plans that will flow catching sector wanted, and he was detailed legislation, but say it has a the coalition says that ‘to avoid from the Lords, because they from this framework bill.” ‘Greens trying to replicate CFP in UK’ Signatories Reflecting on the passage of the will allow this to impede the coercive approach to fisheries “The Lords amendments fisheries bill and the influence of central thrust of the bill,” he said. management’, and that the were extreme, particularly environmentalists on the process, “The bill was well conceived government understood that the sustainability one, and to the letter Barrie Deas said that the bill was at the outset, and the government this approach doesn’t deliver overturned the main thrust of the The 22 signatories to the SSC ‘the green lobby’s last hurrah’, learned the lessons of the CFP. sustainable fishing and profitable legislation. letter are: Tesco, Waitrose & and that in the wake of Brexit They don’t want to go back fisheries. “My feeling – and it’s just a Partners, The Co-op, Marks they were trying to replicate the into a situation where the “That’s why they’ve gone down feeling – is that the government & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, CFP in UK legislation. contradictions in the CFP are the road of co-management, and won’t be swayed into agreeing to Morrisons, Lidl GB, Whitby He did not think the green just replicated in domestic UK having individual management amendments that undermine the Seafoods, Lyons Seafoods, amendments tabled in the Lords fisheries management. plans where the people who are central thrust of the bill, having Bidfood, Hilton Seafood UK, would be finally adopted as “What the amendments do affected by the management learned the lessons of the CFP.” Direct Seafoods, Young’s, they stand as the bill makes its for the most part in terms of plans have a say in shaping He hoped that the bill’s New England Seafood way through the parliamentary sustainability is to reintroduce them,” he said. passage would be concluded by International, the National process. He believed the those elements of the CFP that “The greens have lost the mid-October, but said that there Federation of Fish Friers, The government would use its 80-seat were most problematic and make leverage they had in the CFP and would then be a ‘huge’ amount of Big Prawn Co, World Wise majority, if forced to do so, and things more difficult, especially are trying to replicate it within work to be done. “The fisheries Foods, Seafresh Group, Joseph the elected House of Commons in terms of managing mixed domestic fisheries management. bill is a framework bill only – Robertson Ltd, The Happy would ultimately prevail. fisheries.” I don’t think the government will then it’s up to us to develop these Prawn Co, Lynx Purchasing “I don’t think the government He said that the CFP was ‘a give way very much. individual management plans.” and Meridian Sea. New Fraserburgh trawler Taoiseach to meet POs to discuss penalty points row Taoiseach Micheál Martin statutory instrument, or a for the panel making the ready for launching will meet representatives of replacement instrument that penalty point decisions. Ireland’s fish POs to discuss better reflects the concerns of “There’s also concern – and Macduff Shipyards is scheduled to launch Fraserburgh skipper Adam Tait’s new twin-rig the controversial penalty points the industry. I think this is very important trawler Jacqueline Anne FR 243 at Buckie on Friday, reports David Linkie. system, which he signed into “An administrative penalty – about the standard of proof Of 24.5m LOA and 7.60m of beam, Jacqueline Anne will be transported by law while acting as minister point system can work, but it required to be penalised.” specialist low-loaders from for agriculture, food and the will have to reflect the needs Industry representatives outside Macduff Shipyards’ marine last month, reports and concerns of the fishing want SI no.