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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL EU TOUGHENS FISHERIES DEMANDS REPORT Fishing continues to be restricted REGIONAL NEWS as Storm Dennis follows Storm Ciara New 12m crabber launched at Shoreham

The Shetland midwater trawler Zephyr running up ‡ Jim Partridge’s new 12m crabber is lifted into on a mark before shooting away west of the Butt of the river Adur. Lewis, before Storm Ciara heavily restricted fishing in all areas of the UK last week. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) It was back in February 2015 that Sussex fisherman Jim Partridge had the hull of his new 12m crabber Fishing activity in all areas of Britain and Ireland was severely delivered to Fisherman’s Wharf at Shoreham, where hampered last week as two deep cyclones quickly tracked his firm Monteum is based. This was the first fishing across the North Atlantic, bringing successive storms, reports boat hull from Pembrokeshire boatbuilder Dale David Linkie. Nelson, known for its quality range of working pilot With a lowest pressure reading of 943mb, Storm Ciara cutters, reports John Periam. brought severe weather conditions to all areas, including a At the time, Jim said: “I am looking forward to the highest wind speed of 97mph in the UK and a gust of 136mph challenge of the fitting-out at Shoreham. It will take a at Cap Corse in France. while, but we will be able to design it to our specific Norwegian vessels engaged in the start of the blue whiting requirements to work along the south coast.” fishery west of Ireland took shelter in Killybegs, while other Five years later, the crabber was finally ready to be pelagic boats dodged at the south end of the Minch before launched. The sun was shining as the crane moved rounding Barra Head late on Tuesday night as conditions into place to lift the new vessel into the water, and started to moderate. then lift out Jim’s current boat, Royal Rebel. Once A small window of quieter weather provided a brief afloat, the new boat was towed by Royal Rebel to her opportunity for skippers and crews to fish blues and mackerel berth, where the final fitting-out will take place. It is again in the second half of last week. anticipated that she will be ready for her first trip in late spring. The lull lasted only 48 hours before Storm Dennis roared in, continues on page 5 bringing 70-knot winds across most of the country. ‡ The calm before the storm – the Brixham beamer Catharina Unsurprisingly, the severe weather reduced the level of towing in the Channel 24 hours before Storm Ciara brought shellfish and whitefish supplies in all areas last week. wind speeds in excess of 60 knots. (Photo: Declan Horan) REGIONAL NEWS 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 EU fishing states demand harder line on access and quotas Negotiating stance toughens ahead of deadline to agree Barnier’s mandate A new draft of the EU’s negotiating mandate for the talks on its future relationship with the UK shows that major fishing states are aiming to commit chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier to maintaining their existing access and quotas, reports Gaby Bartai The original draft mandate The latest draft also reiterates repeatedly stated that the UK EUFA’s position is that the is ambitious. However, we stated: “The objective of the that future arrangements must must agree to let EU vessels future relationship should be are confident that if we build provisions on fisheries should be be based on ‘common technical continue fishing in UK waters based on four core principles: constructively on the existing to uphold Union fishing activities. and conservation measures’ – a if it wants to secure a free negotiating a new fisheries rules and consider fisheries in its In particular, it should aim to reference to the ‘level playing field’ trade agreement with the bloc. framework in the context of the wider context of the upcoming avoid economic dislocation that UK fishermen fear could keep Speaking on 3 February when wider UK-EU economic and economic partnership, we can for Union fishermen that have them trapped within the CFP in all the draft negotiating mandate trade relationship, ‘cementing’ achieve a new agreement that traditionally fished in the United but name. was launched, he said: “Our free the current allocation of fishing does justice to the complex Kingdom waters. EU sources say that the trade agreement must include opportunities, which it says ‘has reality on the ground.” “To reach this objective, the demands on fishing could toughen an agreement on fisheries. This benefited EU and UK fleets’, The Killybegs Fishermen’s provisions on fisheries should still further before the final version agreement should provide for maintaining mutual access Organisation (KFO) welcomed build on existing reciprocal of the negotiating mandate is continued, reciprocal access to to waters, and ensuring the the EU’s draft negotiating access conditions, quota shares agreed on 25 February. markets and to waters with stable ‘continuation of sound, long-term mandate for the forthcoming and the traditional activity of the The aim of the tougher wording quota shares.” fisheries management for our trade talks, saying that it offers Union fleet.” is to tie Mr Barnier’s hands in the Meanwhile, the European shared stocks’. ‘tangible hope’ to the Irish The new text, presented negotiations, and allay the fears of Fisheries Alliance (EUFA), a Speaking to Fiskerforum, EUFA industry. to EU ambassadors over the EU fishing states that he will reach coalition of fishing organisations chairman Gerard van Balsfoort However, KFO CEO Seán weekend of 8-9 February, says a compromise with the UK that set up in response to Brexit to said: “Brexit is undoubtedly an O’Donoghue sounded a note that Mr Barnier must ‘uphold’ will see their boats able to catch represent the interests of EU uncertain moment for European of caution, saying that while existing arrangements, following significantly less in UK waters. fishing fleets, has published a fishermen, their businesses and Michel Barnier had endorsed complaints from France, Sources from EU fishing states paper setting out its vision of their communities. the position of EUFA, of which Belgium, the Netherlands and have expressed concern at Mr the future, entitled ‘Building “It is now time to look ahead, the KFO is a member, there Ireland that the previous pledge Barnier’s careful use of language, a sustainable, strong and acknowledge our mutual was a long way to go before to ‘build upon’ existing access, talking only of a deal that mutually beneficial joint fisheries interdependence and end this an agreement was reached. quota shares and ‘traditional produces ‘stable’ quota shares. management post-Brexit’, which uncertainty. We need to build The KFO added: “The UK activity’ was too weak. However, Michel Barnier has can be read at: bit.ly/39v2sXr a new, long-term common government hasn’t shown itself framework for sustainable to be a model of consistency fisheries management – one that in what are unprecedented Fishing for Leave: UK government must stand firm preserves the existing distribution discussions.” Fishing for Leave (FFL) has It added: “We are angry, the status quo. Fishing is of fishing opportunities and Mr O’Donoghue said: “Mr reacted angrily to EU demands dismayed and worried at why totemic to millions. They don’t upholds mutual access to waters Barnier stated clearly today, that the UK should ‘roll over’ Downing Street seems emollient expect taking back control to and markets.” and I quote, ‘Agreement on current access and quota to the EU’s hollow threats mean business as usual – they He said that the upcoming fisheries will be intrinsically shares, and to what it regards as rather than swatting them down expect it to mean full control negotiations will provide an linked to the trade agreement.’ the inadequate UK government categorically – this is making the of our waters, unhindered by opportunity to build a new, That is what we have implored response. industry very jittery. the CFP, and repatriating our long-term joint framework for from the get-go. As long as our It said: “We are furious at “It’s all very well redeploying rightful share of resources worth sustainable fisheries management negotiators stick tight to this the lack of criticism, by both Mrs May’s worn-out words: ‘we £6-8bn to coastal communities. that benefits both EU and UK position, there remains light at government and some media, will take back control and be “The government must resist fishing fleets and the communities the end of the tunnel. of the false narrative the EU is an independent coastal state’ the EU’s demand that a fisheries they support, stressing the ‘many “Any other outcome is too trying to build that it is a fait – that happens just by virtue of agreement as per the political centuries’ of shared use of the ghastly to countenance, and the accompli that fishing must be terminating our membership declaration means Britain seas by European fishermen. EU27 must now remain united sacrificed for a deal. EU threats – but if we sign up to roll over caving to rolling over current He added: “The timeframe to and strong to retain that crucial are hollow brinkmanship.” current access and quotas, exploitationary access and negotiate the future relationship linkage between fisheries and The UK’s unassailable legal along with surrendering to the quota shares.” between the EU and the UK trade.” position as an independent political declaration terms of FFL concluded: “Mr Johnson coastal state with full jurisdiction regulatory alignment through has won himself the position to over its waters, and the EU’s a level playing field, then it is win back our freedom – he can dependence on both access independence in name only. be either a hero or a Heath. George Eustice promoted to UK waters and UK seafood “Likewise, Boris Johnson “We’ve won the battle to write exports, mean that the UK is in can say he won’t trade fishing our own future. Now we must a very strong position going into away – great – but that could finish the war to obtain complete to environment secretary the trade talks, said FFL. mean he just won’t go below regaining of our independence.” Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle on 13 February saw fisheries minister George Eustice promoted to become secretary of state for Seafood processors call for continued environment, food and rural affairs, replacing Theresa Villiers, reports Gaby Bartai. tariff-free trade and access to labour The MP for the Cornish Scotland’s seafood processors are with the EU and no introduction of as a whole and 70% in the North constituency of Camborne and demanding that any Brexit deal non-trade barriers. East of Scotland, so it is vital that our Redruth since 2010, he had reached between the UK and the EU “In 2016, the UK exported members are able to gain continued six years’ fisheries experience, should guarantee ongoing tariff-free £1,640m-worth of seafood, of which access to this labour pool.” becoming a junior fisheries trade and access to labour. 71% went to EU countries. The SSA is also calling for a minister in 2013 and being ‡ George Eustice. In its new ‘2020 Vision’ “We are urging ministers, in the fit-for-purpose replacement for the promoted to minister of state document, the Scottish Seafood forthcoming negotiations, to balance European Maritime and Fisheries for agriculture, fisheries and with an understanding of Association has outlined the the needs of the processing sector for Fund (EMFF), which will expire at food in 2015. A committed the complexities of fisheries sector’s key objectives for the continued unfettered access to EU the end of the transition period in Brexiteer, he resigned in management’. trade negotiations and beyond, markets with the expectations of the December this year. February 2019 in protest at George Eustice’s new with minimal impact on the sale catching sector.” Jimmy Buchan said: “We Theresa May’s decision to responsibilities as environment of seafood in EU markets and He added: “Equally importantly, believe strongly that the principles allow a vote on delaying the secretary will include ‘oversight recognition of its businesses’ the UK government’s proposed and priorities of the new funding original exit date, but was of Brexit work and post-EU employment needs the joint top points-based framework for regime must not be hamstrung by reappointed by Boris Johnson policy’, but as Fishing priorities. immigration must take into account damaging limitations such as state last July – a move that was News went to press, no SSA chief executive Jimmy the sector’s employment needs. aid, so that access to funding for welcomed by the industry. announcement had been made Buchan said: “Fundamental to “We are dependent upon migrant our members is as open as possible, The NFFO described him as about who would inherit the the processing sector will be the workers from other EEA countries, to allow continued innovation and ‘committed and competent, day-to-day fisheries portfolio. continuation of tariff-free trade who make up 48% of the workforce development across the sector.” 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3

HMS Trent arrives FPS stands ready to at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard ahead of support the industry her sea trials.

There have been recent reports in is now based in the Falkland fishing limits. A spokesperson for the national press regarding the Islands, having replaced HMS the FPS said: “Rest assured the Royal Navy’s Fishery Protection Clyde, which returned to the UK Royal Navy will be there if needed. Squadron (FPS), with various in December (Fishing News, 9 We might not be visible, but have figures suggested for planned January). HMS Clyde is due to be the eyes and ears through modern reinforcements to the fleet, reports decommissioned, but will remain technology to monitor such “That’s Boris on the phone... by painting the boat grey John Periam. available, if needed, until the end of situations. and sticking a couple of tubes up front, we not only get It is important to stress that to March this year. “Leaving the EU will require decommissioning but a nice healthy charter fee.” date, this has not been confirmed Of the new Batch 2 vessels, some changes to the way the UK by the commanding officer of the HMS Trent is currently on fishing industry operates – our squadron, Commander Simon final sea trials around the UK, waters will need protecting, and we Pressdee, nor by the Ministry of concluding with an exercise off will do just that. It is important to Quota allocations out of date, Defence. Plymouth involving the Royal Navy stress also that our Batch 2 vessels Currently, the squadron has helicopters – all Batch 2 vessels will have other working roles Aberdeen study confirms four operational Batch 1 vessels, have helipads. related to overseas operations, as which will continue to operate in The squadron’s role is to protect well as being available to assist the A new study led by Aberdeen past decade, and much of it is UK waters to protect our fishing UK fishermen, and much of the UK Border Force if required.” University has revealed just now in the North Sea.” rights. There are also four Batch recent national press coverage An exclusive feature on the how far out of kilter fish quotas Similar, although less severe, 2 vessels, which will be extending has focused on the possibility of fisheries protection role of HMS are, relative to current fish discrepancies exist between UK their roles to overseas operational antagonism from EU fishermen, or Trent will appear in Fishing News distributions. quotas and current population duties – for example, HMS Forth potential EU infringements of UK soon. EU quotas are based on distributions for cod, haddock, where – and how much – whiting, saithe, plaice and fishermen were catching almost herring in the North Sea, and moving between areas. 50 years ago. However, many for cod, whiting, saithe, hake Professor Fernandes added: fish populations have since and monkfish off the west of “This has wider implications for moved, due to warming oceans Scotland. The only stocks for the management of fish stocks. and stock recovery. In the North which the UK gets more than its It could go towards solving the Sea, for example, the UK is fair share of quota are monkfish mackerel wars, for example, by allocated less than 1% of the in the North Sea and Rockall applying some sensible rules to total hake catch, yet more than haddock. allocating quota in a migrating 28% of the population is in UK Professor Fernandes said: stock like mackerel. waters. “Just as we use scientific “I never thought that Professor Paul Fernandes, evidence to set total catches, the European Union would a fisheries scientist at the we should use existing, readily reconsider quota allocations, University of Aberdeen’s School available scientific evidence of in spite of the overwhelming of Biological Sciences, who led fish distributions to set quota evidence of changing fish the study, said: “It is no wonder shares. The current system is patterns, because it’s very that the UK fleet has such a simply at odds with the policy to contentious. However, with the massive discard problem in land all catches.” UK becoming an independent the North Sea. When the quota The study, published in the coastal state, there is an shares were set up in the 1970s, journal Conservation Letters, opportunity in negotiation with there was hardly any hake in the says that quota shares should the EU to do something more northern North Sea. Now there instead be based on zonal sensible. It should also go are huge quantities of hake, and attachment, and proposes a new towards solving problems like the fishermen have virtually no formulation for zonal attachment discarding.” quota there. The population of which considers both adults and The study can be read at: hake increased fivefold in the juveniles, and accounts for fish bit.ly/37lyjYY Torbay lifeboat tows scalloper to safety Torbay lifeboat volunteers were called out of their beds at 2.47am Brixham harbour and relaunching called out twice within 24 hours yesterday (Thursday, 6 February) to the same location and vessel on 6 February to assist the 14m to a 14m fishing trawler with at 7pm last night. A tow was scalloper Ocean Venture IV PD engine trouble 16 miles south eventually established, and the 340, which was experiencing of Berry Head. The vessel was fishing vessel was brought back to engine problems, complicated by anchored to the seabed by its the safety of a mooring inside the snagged fishing gear, 16 miles off fishing gear, which it was unable breakwater in Brixham harbour at Berry Head on the South Devon to retrieve. 1.30am on Friday, 7 February.” coast. “A 24-hour rescue effort Dramatic video footage of the A post on the RNLI Torbay in poor sea conditions then operation, taken by the Torbay Facebook page related: “Our unfolded, which involved our lifeboat crew, can be seen on their RNLI Torbay volunteers were volunteer crew returning to Facebook page. 4 COMMENT/NEWS/LETTERS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Rising stakes and a fisheries vacancy EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ The toughening of the EU line on fisheries from that basis can a fair deal for UK many in the fishing industry, but it leaves a KELSEY.CO.UK in Michel Barnier’s draft negotiating fishermen be achieved. The EU negotiators vacancy that Boris Johnson will struggle to mandate for the upcoming UK-EU talks is must not be allowed to dictate the terms of fill with someone who can match George Kelsey Publishing Ltd, unwelcome but hardly unexpected. the debate before the discussion has even Eustice’s grasp of the complexities of the The Granary, Editor European fishing nations and begun. fisheries brief. Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie fishermen’s organisations have maintained Although departmental ministers Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] a consistent and unanimous line as the As the stakes in the UK-EU negotiations will not be involved in the front line of Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 Brexit process has unfolded, and their escalate, the promotion of former fisheries negotiations with the EU, the UK industry determination to retain the free access to minister George Eustice to the role of will need a committed and knowledgeable UK waters and favourable quota shares environment secretary comes at a difficult advocate at Westminster to ensure that that they have enjoyed over the past time. fishermen’s interests are kept to the fore, four decades is matched only by British While George Eustice’s new and to head off any suggestion of fisheries fishermen’s determination to reclaim what responsibilities include ‘international being used as a bargaining tool in the wider is rightfully theirs. relations’ and ‘oversight of Brexit work trade talks. It is therefore imperative that the UK and post-EU policy programmes’, they will George Eustice has been well-regarded negotiating team takes an equally strong also include oversight of much else across by the fishing industry. His line, insisting that the UK’s starting point DEFRA’s wide-ranging brief, meaning that successor will need to master an Acting managing editor for the talks is that EU fleets no longer the day-to-day fisheries portfolio will need extremely complicated brief very News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] have any right of access to UK waters, or to be handled by a new incumbent. quickly, at a uniquely challenging email: [email protected] to any rollover of quota shares apportioned The promotion of a committed Brexiteer time for the industry. It is to be while the UK was subject to the CFP. Only to the top job within DEFRA will please hoped that they are up to the job. Fisherman becomes new Seafish gear specialist A trawlerman with 31 years’ left Banff and Buchan College is perfect, and it’s my way of Lincolnshire, East Anglia and fishing experience has in 1992. He spent the next giving something back to the Cornwall correspondent Essex correspondent been appointed as the new few years fishing on various fishing community.” Phil Lockley John Worrall Seafish gear technologist, trawlers in the northeast of David is looking forward email: email: [email protected] building on the work of Mike Scotland, before relocating to to continuing the training [email protected] 07748 644971 01326 340372 Montgomerie, who has retired the West Country. courses at the tank at Hirtshals after 22 years in the job. He said: “Fishing is in my in Denmark, which he David Warwick, who blood. 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Email your letters and comments to: [email protected] Letters may be edited. www.kelsey.co.uk 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 5 Irish coalition talks could herald changes to marine policy Significant changes in Ireland’s Social Democrats and People areas are critical to the socio- to set up maritime conservation marine policy are predicted Before Profit. economic fabric. zones, and to expand the Naval if talks on forming a new Exit poll results showed that During the election campaign, Service. centre-left government prove Brexit was low on the priority the Social Democrats said that Donegal-based politician successful, reports Lorna list for voters, with slightly more MPA designations should be Thomas Pringle, who has a Siggins. concern about climate change. based on scientific evidence and detailed knowledge of the In a result described as Given the scale of the housing community consultation. marine sector, was one of 20 ‘seismic’, Sinn Féin secured and health crises, there was little Ms Whitmore said that these independents elected. 24.5% of the first-preference debate on marine policy during MPAs would include ‘no-take’ His support, along with that of vote – making it a ‘kingmaker’ in the election campaign. zones, while her party also former North West MEP Marian any new coalition government. However, environmental favoured developing a strategy Harkin, who is a strong voice The two centre-right parties, issues such as designating for identifying and protecting on rural issues, is expected Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil – marine protected areas (MPAs) Ireland’s ‘blue carbon’ sites, to be sought in cross-party described as the ‘old firm’ by could prove to be one of many such as beds of seagrass or discussions. one leading commentator – sticking points in discussions kelp, and salt marshes. Former marine minister and secured only 43% of the vote between the parties. The Green The Social Democrats have MEP Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher, between them. Party is seeking to declare up to sought a ban on supertrawlers who has served on European Sinn Féin, which has historic 50% of Irish territorial waters as in Irish waters, as have Sinn parliament fisheries committees, links with the IRA, doubled MPAs. Féin and the Green Party. Sinn failed to retain his seat in ‡ Newly elected Social Democrat its 2016 general election vote Incoming Social Democrat TD Féin wants to see it extended to Donegal. TD for Wicklow Jennifer Whitmore by focusing on key issues of for Wicklow Jennifer Whitmore, an EU-level restriction. Four years ago, Sinn Féin is a former fisheries scientist. homelessness, escalating rents, who is one of 48 newly elected The Green Party also wants promised that a dedicated health and poor public services. parliamentarians, has said that to ban offshore salmon farming department for fisheries, the revitalise the indigenous small The party had previously this percentage is ‘unrealistic’. and switch to ‘closed loop’ marine and marine communities and medium vessel fleet and committed to restoring a single Ms Whitmore is a scientist onshore salmon farms. It would have a specific island stimulate the harbour and dedicated Irish department of who formerly worked with proposed that all processing division, and it said it would processing industry along the the marine, and it prioritised a Ireland’s Marine Institute, plants and fishing vessels over work with islanders on a ‘charter west coast’. ban on supertrawlers in its most studying Nephrops and cod an ‘agreed size’ should have to of rights’. It also promised to ‘incentivise recent election manifesto. stocks in the Irish Sea. She be certified as sustainable by It also promised to ‘rebalance coastal communities’ to provide Sinn Féin is expected to enter subsequently worked in the Marine Stewardship Council, the domestic fish quota ‘enhanced opportunities to discussions with the Green Australia, mainly in water and also sought a ban on pair- distribution’ to ‘ensure smaller diversify and benefit from marine Party and a number of other left- management. She has said trawling. vessels get a fairer share’. resources, outside of the area of leaning groupings, including the that she believes that coastal The Labour Party promised It said this would ‘help conventional fishing’. New 12m crabber launched at Shoreham continued from page 1 taken longer than I thought. This Royal Rebel was then guided into was not intentional, but one had the harnesses and lifted out of the to look at the economics of such a water. Jim said: “I am not sure what build, what type of fishing I wanted I plan to do with her yet – perhaps to use her for, licensing costs, and a major overhaul, or maybe sell the working gear I needed. I also her on. I just need time to see how preferred to use local skills when things go now we are out of the EU. it came to fitting her out. Paul “Fitting out the new boat has Foulis of Sovereign Workboats was

‡ The team involved in the build and launch of the new crabber. Left ‡ Royal Rebel is lifted out of to right: Harry Hubbard, Jim Partridge, the two-man crane team, the water for a full maintenance Paul Foulis of Sovereign Workboats, Andy McCallum, Jade Huxtable, overhaul. George Hubbard and Chris Hubbard. responsible for all the shipwright time after leaving prison. “I have to get the new boat ready for sea. work, ably assisted by Chris encouraged youngsters to come Once in the water, she will have her Hubbard.” into fishing, and this new boat will final equipment added, including Jim is highly respected for his be ideal for them to gain a wealth Yanmar engines offering 720hp. dedication to the fishing industry, of experience. There are going to Then we will be delighted to take which has included offering be changes now we are out of the the team from Fishing News out to inmates from local prisons the EU, and providing the handover is see first-hand how she operates.” chance to work at Monteum, taken carefully, I can see a light at As for a name? “I am keeping building his range of lobster pots the end of the tunnel for fishermen that to myself at the moment – I ‡ The new crabber features a large deck working space and a and gaining experience at sea. wanting to return. have ideas, and once ready, we will distinctive wheelhouse design. One has now joined him full- “This is what encouraged me have a proper naming ceremony.” Latest FishSAFE and KIS-ORCA datasets released The Kingfisher team from Seafish has years, the number of structures on structures.” released the latest updates of the the KIS-ORCA data – potential fishing As well as being available to FishSAFE and KIS-ORCA datasets. hazards – has increased dramatically. download online, the KIS-ORCA and These biannual data releases are There are now over 3,000 wind FishSAFE data is also being supplied produced in conjunction with the turbines and over 88,000km of on a USB card to allow fishermen to European Subsea Cables Association subsea cables charted on the easily install it on their plotters. These and FLTC Services Ltd. The FishSAFE KIS-ORCA plotter data. are being issued now by the SFF and data release contains important “The changing face of offshore NFFO. updates on fishing plotter files, charts oil and gas in UK waters also The datasets can be downloaded and website maps of all UK oil and means new types of hazards for from: kis-orca.eu/downloads gas structures, and the KIS-ORCA fishermen to be aware of, such as and: fishsafe.eu/downloads data covers renewable energy and decommissioned platform footings Fishermen looking to receive a USB subsea cables in northern Europe. and pipeline ends. This dataset card with data should contact their Matthew Frow, Kingfisher is also huge, with over 28,000km relevant fishing federation. information manager at Seafish, said: of pipeline, 800 safety zones, 300 For further information, contact ‡ The number of structures in the KIS-ORCA dataset “Due to the huge increase in offshore dangerous pipeline spans and many Matthew Frow at: Matthew.Frow@ has increased dramatically with the growth of offshore renewable developments in recent hundreds of surface and subsea seafish.co.uk or on: 01472 252336. renewable energy developments. 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 Scottish Fishing Conference 2020 Top speakers lined up for to focus on ‘innovation to action’ Scottish Seafood Summit The theme for the Scottish of looking at what innovation something that will be explored Fishing Conference 2020, means to Scottish fisheries, and in greater detail through delivered by Fisheries exploring all the areas where participatory discussions at the Innovation Scotland (FIS), this innovation can make the event. will be ‘from innovation to greatest positive impact for our The conference itself will be action’, aiming to ‘take the industry and the people driving innovative, delivering interactive temperature of innovation in it.” sessions including a ‘Shark’s the fishing industry, spark While discussion on new Tank’ – the Dragon’s Den of new conversations, and technologies will be central to fisheries entrepreneurship – identify projects to release many sessions, Ms Brydson which is designed to attract the untapped potential in emphasised the breadth of researchers and innovators Scotland’s seafood sector’. subjects the conference will from outside the seafood world FIS has now opened touch upon. “We’ll be covering as well as fishers themselves. registrations for the two-day safety, marketing, finance, data FIS board members conference, to be held in St collection and much more. will conduct live on-stage Andrews University on 1 and 2 I’d encourage anyone with an interviews with leaders from July. interest in the sea, in fish, in current FIS projects, getting FIS executive director Kara tech, in social science – anyone to the heart of the science and Brydson said: “Scotland is with new thinking to share – to engineering that are already rightly proud of its seafood join us.” boosting the sustainability of industry, and in a time of great Extensive pre-conference Scottish fishing practices. change, we must make sure research will identify priority Tickets for the conference ‡ Delegates at the inaugural Scottish Seafood Summit last year. that is true long into the future. areas for change from across are free of charge and can be It’s important that the Scottish the sector, and seek to define reserved at: bit.ly/3bpjEQ5 The Scottish Seafood Summit we want to look at the challenges Fishing Conference delivers its what ‘innovation’ means Tickets for the conference is returning to Aberdeen on and opportunities facing the aim of taking us through from to fishermen, scientists, dinner, to be held on 1 July, will Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 processing and catching sectors. new ideas to concrete actions. academics, environmentalists be available to purchase shortly April following the successful We’ve listened to what the Scottish We’re going back to basics and supply chain businesses – via the registration link. inaugural event last year. industry is asking for and provided Leading industry figures are a platform for them to come being lined up to share insights together to debate and discuss on the current seafood industry what matters to them.” Amethyst donates £1,120 to charity climate and look to the future. As The event, which is free to well as the latest changes affecting attend, will be held at a new venue, The first box of fish landed at the seafood industry post-Brexit, the Mercure Ardoe House Hotel, Fraserburgh by the skippers the first day will look at improving Aberdeen. It opens on 29 April and crew of the new twin-rig workplace standards, incoming with concurrent afternoon sessions trawler Amethyst BF 19 raised changes to regulations for the for the processing and catching a total of £1,120 for charity, processing sector, and advances in sectors, followed by a Seafood reports David Linkie. gear selectivity and gear recycling Fayre showcasing a wide range of Before the sale on for the catching sector. Day two Scottish seafood. The conversation the midweek market at will focus on the economic and will continue the following day Fraserburgh, conducted by political climate as the UK enters with a focus on some of the key Westward Fishing auctioneer the Brexit transition period and the strategic issues likely to impact the Gary Sutherland, it was agreed shifting landscape in securing a seafood supply chain, including that any buyer who wished sustainable supply of seafood. climate change and microplastics to obtain the box of large The event is organised by in seafood. monkfish would donate £100. Seafish. Its Scottish Seafish The Scottish Seafood Summit This resulted in six seafood Advisory Committee, which will bring together 200 delegates companies – Downies of includes representatives from from across the country. Whitehills, MJ French Fish fishing, processing, aquaculture Registration is now open, and Exports, G&J Jack Seafoods, and the Scottish government, has those interested in attending are J Smith of Sandend, Nordic ‡ Amethyst alongside at Fraserburgh after her first trip. helped to shape the agenda based advised to book to secure a place. Shellfish and Whitelink on local needs. A full agenda will be available Seafoods – participating. and £100 respectively. the merchants for their generous Seafishchief executive Marcus soon. For further information The raffle to determine The total donation of £1,120 support of the first box. Coleman said: “As the largest and to book tickets, go to: bit. which company would secure will be shared equally between Built by Mooney Boats Ltd gathering of seafood experts in ly/39oAvjZ the monkfish was won by Fraserburgh Fishermen’s at Killybegs, Co Donegal, the this part of the UK, the Scottish Businesses interested in George Downie. Mission and the RNLI. 20.25m Amethyst is reported Seafood Summit is becoming an exhibiting at the Seafood Fayre Macduff Shellfish and the Amethyst skippers Ralston to have performed well during important event in the Scottish should contact Nikki Hawkins at: vessel’s agents, Westward and Roy Johnston and crew her maiden trip, fished in fairly seafood industry calendar. [email protected] or Fishing Company, donated £420 expressed their appreciation to poor weather. “With big changes coming, on: 07876 035763. SFA questions MSY approach to stock sustainability A new policy paper by the difficult concept to measure in management is not based on cod quota for 2020 was a political production’. Shetland Fishermen’s Association practice, and this can result in the knowledge of the maximum requirement to meet an arbitrary The paper adds: “Further, in the (SFA) casts doubt on the counterproductive management sustainable yields from fish target based on what the cod real world the production of fish effectiveness of the maximum decisions. stocks, but rather on various stock was in 1996. stocks is affected by a multiplicity sustainable yield (MSY) principle MSY is based on the concept proxies. Most of these are based, It argues that in the real world, of varying environmental factors in assessing the sustainability of that there is a maximum amount in turn, on historic levels of it is not possible to identify the which affect their recruitment, fish stocks. of fish in any given stock that abundance. actual maximum sustainable growth and survival. Arbitrary MSY targets are can be fished without depleting “The political commitment yield of a fish stock ‘since we “Consequently, the production a ‘political commitment rather the overall size of the stock to MSY takes no account of the lack a sufficiently detailed of fish stocks varies from year to than a biological or management from year to year, but the paper difficulties of achieving MSY in understanding of the relationships year (and over other timescales): necessity’, according to the new argues that this does not reflect practice. Instead, it has resulted in between the size of fish stocks what may be sustainable in one paper. It points out that although the ‘complexity, variability and unrealistic targets and unrealistic and their recruitment and growth, year may not be sustainable in setting fishing quotas in line with uncertainty of the real world’. timescales.” as well as density-depending another.” MSY is an internationally agreed The paper says: “The so-called The paper points out that the factors such as competition The full paper can be read at: commitment, it is an extremely ‘MSY approach’ to fisheries swingeing cut to the North Sea and predation that affect their bit.ly/2Sg2NaO 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7

Fishing within the law Tristan Harwood, a barrister specialises in fishing-related with the specialist marine law personal injury matters and In this new monthly series, Tristan Harwood – a firm Bartons, is a qualified in the sale and purchase of new-entrant fisherman fishing vessels. To discuss barrister with specialist marine law firm Bartons and and represents fishermen, any fishing-related legal a qualified new-entrant fisherman – shares inside owners and fish producers issues, please call Tristan in MMO, IFCA, MCA or HSE Harwood or the team on: information on how to navigate the regulations. This interviews and investigations. 01752 675740. Further details Bartons is an award-winning can be found at: bartons. month: avoiding IFCA prosecutions marine law firm that also co.uk/marine-law Prosecution fines from Inshore a programme. Prosecutions and fines Fisheries and Conservation will increase before self-regulation is Authorities (IFCAs) are unlimited. reached. skipper. both the owner and the skipper, The fishing industry is seeing higher IFCAs’ decisions on action In a situation where the skipper, bypassing a warning or an FAP. This and higher fines from the courts year following investigation are tiered: ‡ Barrister and fisherman Tristan unbeknown to the owner, has had left the owner paying a large fine on year. Brexit may herald greater ● Warning – kept on record by Harwood. an FAP or other warning by an IFCA that could have been avoided by one resources and funding for fisheries the relevant IFCA; no penalty – for but has not disclosed it, the owner simple step. enforcement and prosecution, not mistakes, oversights or first offences the judge made the point that ‘with may not have the benefit of obtaining In normal circumstances, IFCAs just of foreign vessels, but of our own where there is a reason not to ownership comes responsibility’. a written warning or an FAP, and cannot share information recorded too. This series of monthly articles prosecute For an owner, the liability for the is likely to be prosecuted for a first against a skipper. However, if the is designed to provide owners and ● Financial administrative penalty offending of the skipper is ‘all but offence. This can make a very costly owner, prior to appointing a skipper, skippers of fishing vessels with (FAP) – fine paid directly to the strict liability’. ‘All but’ means that difference. obtains a signed letter from him helpful tips to prevent prosecution – IFCA, with a maximum of £10,000 where an owner or skipper can In one recent case, the skipper stating: “I authorise the IFCA to or provide a possible defence. – for less serious offences, where the demonstrate that they have done was known locally (not by the disclose any previous findings or The IFCAs have the power gain is thought to be under £10,000 all that was reasonably practicable unfortunate owner) to be less than matters recorded against me,” the to make their own law, produce ● Court proceedings – fine and to avoid offending (and provide squeaky clean, and while being a IFCA can then notify the owner of permits and enact byelaws to manage prosecution costs. No maximum evidence of this), they may be good skipper with sound knowledge, any details. The owner can then their districts. The ultimate goal fine – related to the turnover of the afforded a defence in court, or avoid he was boosting his catch by fishing make a sensible decision on hiring of regulation in any industry is to company. prosecution altogether. in closed areas, and also selling catch with all the risks and facts before penalise to a point that lessons are For offences of fishing within a To beat the system, owners can on the side for cash. By the time the them – and should document their learned. As in most other industries, prohibited area or without a permit, no longer sit back, but must take an owner had become aware of this, action, whatever the outcome, to it is likely that fishing regulators hope the fines for owners can regularly be active approach to reduce the risk an IFCA investigation was already evidence the diligence exercised. that the high cost of offending will as high as £20,000-£30,000. The of their vessel committing offences, underway. Due diligence for owners and motivate fishing operations to police skippers themselves often face fines and document these activities (this Because the skipper had been skippers can cost little or nothing, their own activities. If so, the fishing of £10,000-£20,000. is known as ‘due diligence’). This prosecuted before, the IFCA moved and may save tens of thousands in industry is in the early phase of such In a recent fisheries prosecution, starts with who owners employ as a straight to court proceedings against wasted fines and costs. Seafood fund seeks ideas for innovation The second round of applications Help for Scotland’s brown crab exporters to the UK Seafood Innovation A package of support to assist Scotland, totalling £16m a year. funding for businesses to Fund is now open, seeking bids Scotland’s crab export market Fisheries secretary Fergus attend key international trade for projects up to £250,000. Open has been unveiled. This follows Ewing said: “With the Chinese shows, access to a bespoke until 20 April, 2020, the £10m the loss of market access government increasing its ‘showcasing Scotland’ space fund is seeking a new tranche of to China, after the Chinese control measures around the at these shows, and the applicants with plans to transform government increased control import of live brown crab, the facilitation of ‘meet the buyer’ the future landscape for seafood measures for the import of live sector is reaching a critical events, including supporting an supply. Robotics, AI, fishing brown crab, due to ongoing situation. inward mission to Scotland for gear innovations and biomedical concerns about permitted levels “We are working closely international buyers. The aim is to advances are some of the seafood processing sectors. of cadmium. with the UK government to find create more export opportunities innovations that were awarded Professor Lettice emphasised Chinese standards and a resolution with the Chinese to more countries. funding in the first round. that the fund is also searching testing regimes differ from government, but it is a complex “Many of the affected Professor Fiona Lettice, chair beyond the seafood sector. “We EU regulations, which only situation that is taking time to businesses diversified into of the UK Seafood Innovation are keen to hear from innovative cover the white crab meat. The resolve. the Chinese market due to the Fund steering group and pro-vice thinkers in tech, engineering, data law in China covers all edible “Following consultation uncertainties around Brexit and chancellor of research and science and app development, parts including brown meat, with key stakeholders and our future access to the EU market. innovation at the University of whose expertise could bring new which contains higher levels of enterprise agencies, I am unveiling It is only right, therefore, that we East Anglia, said: “We are looking insights to benefit the future of UK cadmium. a package of measures to support seek to support them through for projects that can genuinely seafood.” Bids from collaborative The UK accounts for 90% of this vital coastal industry to seek this very challenging time, as transform or disrupt the seafood consortia are also welcomed. live brown crab imports to China, alternative markets. we continue to work to find a industry. These should be The UK Seafood Innovation and 50% of these are from “This includes providing resolution.” innovative ideas that aim to make Fund is administered by the a significant improvement to the Centre for Environment, Fisheries future sustainability, profitability and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) and efficiency of any part of the on behalf of the UK government. Elegance runs aground in the Tyne seafood sector.” Fisheries minister George Eustice Projects funded in 2019 said: “We want a profitable and Tynemouth RNLI inshore and all-weather lifeboats span the seafood sector, from sustainable fisheries industry were launched early on Friday, 7 February after fishing boats to product sales. that can take every advantage of Elegance PD 33 ran aground on the Black Middens By researching and developing the opportunities as we become rocks inside the Tyne harbour. improved ways to sink longlines an independent coastal state. The skipper of the 19.9m vessel radioed for below the surface, one project Adopting new technologies and assistance after Elegance suffered gearbox failure aims to tackle the issue of innovating will be key to ensuring while sailing out of the harbour, leaving him unable seabird by-catch, improving a renaissance for an industry to avoid the rocks. fishing profitability for skippers at the heart of so many coastal The RNLI lifeboats were launched at 5.20am. A in parallel. Another project will communities around the UK.” tow was attempted, but had to be abandoned as the investigate how data can be Applicants can bid for up tide was falling. As the vessel was stable, the decision better used in the industry, to £50,000 for a three-month was taken to leave it where it was until the next high aiming to create efficiencies and feasibility study, or up to tide. resilience across the seafood £250,000 to fund a research and The lifeboats relaunched at 10.15am, when supply chain, and facilitate development project running for Elegance was successfully pulled clear of the rocks compliance with fisheries up to 18 months. Match funding is and towed the short distance to North Shields Fish ‡ The first attempt to tow Elegance clear of the Black management. not essential, and all applications Quay. Middens was unsuccessful. (Photo: RNLI/Adrian Don) Launching its second open are subject to a highly competitive Adrian Don, spokesman for Tynemouth RNLI, call for applications, the fund is external review process. said: “Since the Tyne became a major harbour, many Tyne way back in 1790. encouraging bids from experts For further information, go to: vessels have been wrecked and lives lost on the “Thankfully, no one came to any harm in this in the fishing, aquaculture and seafoodinnovation.fund notorious Black Midden rocks, which are the main incident, but it serves as a reminder that the Black reason that lifeboats were first established on the Middens are still a major hazard in the river mouth.” 8 LUNAR BOW PD 265 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 NEW PETERHEAD PELAGIC VESSEL QUICKLY STARTS TO PROVE HER CAPABILITIES ON LUNAR BOW WEST-OF-4° MACKEREL The new Lunar Bow arrived at Peterhead from Denmark at the same time as mackerel started to cross the 4° line and swim strongly into the southwest past the Butt of Lewis and Barra Head during a period of heavy North Atlantic weather, which provided an immediate opportunity for the skippers and crew to establish the fishing and sea-keeping credentials of the new vessel, reportsDavid Linkie

‡ Vessel and yard united in a flooring crest.

‡ Skippers Alex and AJ Buchan.

‡ Lunar Bow arriving at Peterhead for the first time.

fter spending a day A repeat situation occurred alongside at Peterhead to last week, when Lunar Bow Atake aboard the balance encountered Storm Ciara before of her midwater trawl gear, fishing southwest of Barra Head. Lunar Bow returned within 48 Father and son skippers Alex hours to land her maiden shot and AJ Buchan and crew were of mackerel, taken in two short quietly pleased with all aspects tows west of Orkney. A few days of Lunar Bow’s performance in later, during which time Lunar the first two weeks of operation, Bow steamed across the top especially at a time when all of Scotland in a storm-force crews were under pressure to westerly gale and dodged down take their 40% allocation of the east side of Lewis for a few mackerel west of the 4° line, with hours before fishing west of the fish moving some 30 miles the Butt, the vessel landed her a day. second shot into Peterhead. That Lunar Bow started

‡ General view of Lunar Bow’s wheelhouse, which features a Furuno big bridge system.

fishing in January, the Karstensens is renowned. fabrication halls at Gdynia, scheduled completion date that Lunar Bow is the first rather than subcontracting hull Karstensens Shipyard gave new vessel to be built by the construction to other yards, skipper AJ Buchan when the company’s newly established gives Karstensens full control of build contract was signed at the subsidiary Karstensens the build schedule – the benefits DanFish exhibition in October Shipyard Poland. Fabricating of which are clearly showcased ‡ Looking down on the aft boat deck, showing the net drums, the aft 2017, is testament to the high hulls and superstructures in- by Lunar Bow. After being pumping arrangements and the purse bin. level of efficiency for which house in one of two extensive launched at Gdynia, Lunar Bow 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews LUNAR BOW PD 265 9

‡ Lunar Bow’s full crew, left to right: Liam Taylor, Mark Brooks, Michael Willox, Alan Dennison, Alan Lawson, Philip Mclean, William Stephen, Gordon Pirie, James Campbell, Alex Pirie, Ryan Cordiner, Alex Buchan, David Mclean, AJ Buchan, Mark Buchan, Zander Strachan, Jamie Reid, David Ritchie and Alexander Lemon.

for the crew, catch handling/ Two hours before Lunar Bow knowledge. This proved storage facilities and propulsion left Peterhead to fish her first invaluable, particularly in terms efficiency/fuel consumption. trip, skipper AJ Buchan said: of fine detail, which often makes In numerical terms, the LOA “We are more than happy with a considerable difference. was increased by 1.45m and the the end result, to which a lot “Taking on a new boat as a beam by 0.5m. of people have contributed. relatively young skipper is an Visually, the main differences Kent Damgaard and the rest exciting but equally challenging are that amidships the hull sides of the Karstensens team were experience, but one that I am ‡ Stern view of Lunar Bow, as the crew take on a new 1,300m dual- are continued up looking forward purpose mackerel/herring net from Jackson Trawls. to boat deck level, to, secure in the thereby enclosing We are more than happy with knowledge that arrived in Skagen in August 2019 Cross PD 365 in October 2016 the RSW tank tops the crew have a for completion. and her sistership Pathway PD at shelterdeck level, the end result, to which a lot vast amount of The new build continues 165 six months later. and the presence experience to the well-established working While these diesel/electric- of a long forecastle of people have contributed support me with.” relationship between the Lunar drive dual-purpose purse- deck/whaleback, Fishing Company Ltd and seiners/midwater trawlers which in addition to increasing extremely helpful and good to General arrangement Karstensens Shipyard, which provided a starting point freeboard at the stem gives work with. Featuring two continuous decks, goes back some 30 years to when the owners and yard Lunar Bow a more traditional “Designing any boat of main and shelter, and built to when a previous Lunar Bow was began discussions, Lunar profile. Aft, the boat deck was this nature is a complex DNV-GL +1A Fishing Vessel lengthened at Skagen. Bow features a totally new hull extended to the trawl gantry and task. Fortunately, from my EO TMON Ice-C, Lunar Bow’s Since then, Karstensens has design, in which increasing recessed inboard around the perspective, having been round bilge hull has an LOA of delivered the 28m whitefish pair- buoyancy and freeboard were fish pump station to port. directly involved in building 80.2m, length between PP of seiners Harvester and Ocean key considerations, together Below the waterline, the and skippering five other new 70.2m, beam of 16m, depth Harvest in 2008, followed by with achieving optimum working underwater hull sections forward pelagic vessels, my father was to shelterdeck of 9.2m and a the 78.75m pelagic vessel Kings efficiency, safety and comfort were filled out. able to draw on his extensive scantling draught of 8m.

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‡ The foredeck layout on Lunar Bow, approaching Peterhead for the first time. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) www.karstensens.dk/en/ 10 LUNAR BOW PD 265 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020

Scanmar ScanBas 365 net-monitoring and catch control Lunar Bow uses a ScanBas 365 catch-/net-monitoring system supplied and installed by Scanmar UK Ltd of Peterhead. A combination of the new wide digital receiver (WDR-42) and the latest 365 software allows the sensors to be configured from the multi-display screens in the wheelhouse. A Trawl Eye system, positioned both on the ‡ Lunar Bow leaving Peterhead for her first trip. headrope and in the tunnel section, provides continually The long forecastle, and As a result, the hull below the updated information on the the upper boat deck aft on the main deck is subdivided into location and movement of fish full-length boat deck, give the forepeak, bow thruster/sonar towards the brailler, on which ‡ Scanmar UK general manager Liam Youngson fine-tunes the vessel a streamlined profile room, RSW pump and manifold six SS4 super-catch and angle Scanmar ScanBas 365 net- and catch-monitoring system. that is further enhanced by the room, insulated RSW tank sensors are mounted along the stylish aluminium wheelhouse, section, engineroom, and aft full length, for fast updates on Scanmar SS4 distance/ hydrophones, mounted on on which a double radar gantry peak with fuel and lube oil tanks. fish movement. As fish move depth sensors on both trawl both port and starboard blister is mounted. At main deck level, the down the length of the bag, doors, partnered with door housings. Having previously been arrangements from forward Scanmar’s super-catch angle angle sensors, provide Four QBC-X1 charging units fully satisfied with the benefits are forepeak, RSW machinery sensors present a visual of information on both trawl are mounted on the charging associated with internal room, forward RSW trunk the bag as the twist reduces, door depths in relation to the wall in a readily accessible corridors at main deck level section, central vacuum landing confirming that the fish are surface. store forward of the trawl deck. either side of the RSW tanks, room, and the two aftmost ‘caught’. Door angle and distance The new Scanmar Sensor together with separate vacuum tiers of RSW tanks. Aft of One combined SS4 depth/ measurements are monitored Configuration Unit (SCU) is discharge and RSW machinery these working arrangements, height sensor is also mounted during alterations to port or also mounted on the charging rooms, the owners opted for a combination of eight single to monitor the depth of the starboard, so that the trawl wall, so that all sensors can be similar arrangements on Lunar and twin-berth ensuite cabins codend during a tow, but also opening is kept optimal while moved from their dedicated Bow. lie to starboard of the vessel’s to monitor the height of the towing. mounting position within the bag in relation to the seabed Sensor signal reception system, or simply reconfigured when heaving up, avoiding while trawling is collected from for different applications on the snagging. four H4B30X50 single-beam trawl.

room, a coffee bar, a large trawl workshop and a fishing sensor charging room. Cooks James Campbell and Gordon Pirie’s customarily equipped stainless steel galley is positioned to starboard in the accommodation structure at boat deck level, together with separate walk-in dry-provision and fridge/freezer rooms, aft of the messdeck, where a large oval-shaped table and heated food self-serve arrangements ‡ The messdeck… ‡ … and adjoining dayroom… are key features. An open-plan spacious day centreline. The engine control lounge is arranged to port, room is positioned on the port forward of a second smaller side, forward of a well-equipped glass-enclosed cinema room. workshop and the hydraulic Four further ensuite skipper’s pump room. A fitness room cabins, together with a walk- is also arranged aft on the in room housing the array of starboard side. computers for the vessel’s A further four single-berth electronic equipment, are cabins and the hospital cabin located on the next deck up are located in the full-width under the wheelhouse. superstructure at shelterdeck Lunar Bow features an level, together with protective exceptionally high level of clothing storage, a changing internal finish throughout the

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Midwater trawling equipment is arranged over three decks aft of the superstructure casing, as viewed from atop the stern gantry.

‡ The starboard galley.

† Cook James Campbell gets ready to shake a few pots. ‡ Pulling a midwater trawl on to the lower net drum. accommodation areas, which really has to be seen to be fully Datatrawl system. This ensures appreciated. A key feature is that the optimum combinations extensive use of solid walnut, of hydraulic pumps are beautifully crafted and finished always available, allowing the in-house by Karstensens. operator to concentrate fully Light-coloured planked flooring on activities on deck – of which underpins a modern look, the commanding trawl console which is further enhanced by a in the wheelhouse provides an combination of modern artwork excellent view, assisted by a and atmospheric photographs good clearance between the taken on previous Lunar Bows. trawl doors. Midwater trawls are worked Midwater trawling from two 110t net drums Karmøy Winch AS supplied the positioned centrally on the extensive package of purse and shelter and boat decks in trawl deck equipment installed and starboard on the boat deck waterfall style, above a single set on Lunar Bow, based on the are operated through a Karm of toe-end weight tracks. owners’ previous successful autotrawl system. give parallel elevated leads to system, which also delivers A 71t lifeline winch for first-hand experience. Spooled with 2,000m lengths the inboard hanging blocks a full hydraulic management handling the bag is located on The 90t core-pull split trawl of 38mm-diameter Bridon suspended within the underside programme controlling the array the starboard side of the upper winches positioned abaft the Starfish wire supplied by of the stern gantry, to which of six 158kW, three 110kW and boat deck, directly above the accommodation casing to port Jackson Trawls, the winches companionways give ready two 88kW electro/hydraulic trawl winch. A 51t tailend winch, access. This arrangement power packs that are situated in used for pulling the bag to the ensures that the crew have clear a dedicated room aft on the port stern before the sock is taken and immediate access to the side of the main deck, in close up and attached to the aft fish midwater gear from two levels proximity to where all of the trawl pump, is positioned in a similar when clipping on/off helper machinery is located. Selected location to port, in line with a pennants/backstrops etc. operating modes matched to dedicated sheave mounted Midwater trawling is just working practices now being within the mid-height trawl one of the functions performed established on Lunar Bow are gantry. by the Karm Datatrawl programmed into the Karm Two outhaul winches are

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‡ Prints depicting fishing on previous Lunar Bows are displayed in the internal companionways and passageways. 12 LUNAR BOW PD 265 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020

Jackson Trawls provides extensive fishing gear package Jackson Trawls of Peterhead continued its long association with Lunar Fishing by supplying an extensive package of midwater nets, sweeps, wires and fishing chandlery to Lunar Bow. While Lunar Bow was berthed at Peterhead for 24 hours before leaving for her first trip, the crew took aboard a new 1,300m dual-purpose mackerel/herring trawl. Based on a well-proven design, this trawl is built with ‡ The starboard 90t split trawl winch. Jacinto twine in the mouth of the net and has an eight-panel ‡ Jackson Trawls delivers a new 1,300m dual-purpose herring/ mounted on the underside of the Two 40t purse winches, tunnel section. Consisting of mackerel midwater net… stern gantry for use when shooting together with a 20t end wire polyethylene-covered nylon, away the bag and other duties on winch, are mounted forward of the Jacinto twine is reported to the trawl deck. When fishing in RSW tank tops on the port side of work well, shooting cleanly and poor heavy weather, the central the shelterdeck. One of the purse quickly off the net drums. opening through which midwater winches is aligned to lead the Featuring colour-coded trawls are worked can be sealed 34mm-diameter Dyform wire aft to wings, 25.6m mesh in the top off by raising a hydraulically a hanging block and the pursing and side panels and 12.8m operated gate, positioned aft of needle, while the second unit has mesh in the lower panel, the the four customary guiding-on a direct lead across the beam to net is rigged on Dyneema pins. a second block on the forward frame ropes. gallows. Jackson Trawls also Purse-seining Supplied by Mørenot AS of supplied two 70m braillers The purse net bin is situated Norway, Lunar Bow’s 430 fathom to Lunar Bow. Incorporating aft on the starboard side and is by 117 fathom purse net will be eight panels along their full recessed into the shelterdeck. In hauled by a Karm Tristar Giant length, the heavily constructed keeping with modern practice, net hauler. When the purse has bags are made to a new and the net is shot away through a passed through the triple rollers, rectangular opening between the the net is pulled through a large- level of the main boat deck and diameter stainless steel chute by ‡ … to Lunar Bow. the raised second boat deck that an intermediate roller, from where extends aft from the front of the it is hauled further aft by a Karmøy slightly wider design giving again utilising Jacinto twine accommodation casing. The large net stacker and a Triplex float greater internal volume geared in the wings, performed well radiused outer top edge of the net stacker, before being stowed in to pumping pelagic fish at the on the previous boat together bin is constructed from stainless the bin ready for the next purse. stern. with blue whiting bags from steel to minimise rubbing. An extensive area for mending Jackson’s is scheduled to Egersund Trål. deliver a 1,200m herring trawl Jackson Trawls also to Lunar Bow in time for the supplied two 2,000m lengths of start of the North Sea summer 38mm-diameter Bridon Starfish herring fishing. To be built trawl wire and 1,300m 32mm- from Jacinto twine and three- diameter Dyform purse wire strand twisted polyrene nylon, to Lunar Bow. A full package this net, which will have 12.8m of 100m Lankoforce-covered and 6.4m meshes around the Dyneema sweeps, made up mouth, will also incorporate in 50m and 100m lengths to an eight-panel tunnel and give maximum flexibility when Dyneema frame ropes. rigging the gear, also came JACKSON TRAWLS During the blue whiting from Jackson Trawls, along Suppliers of the following fishing gear: fishery west of Ireland in March with a 500m Dynex Dux lifeline. Congratulations and April, when fishing out of Lunar Bow is using a set of ● Whitefish Pair, Seine net & Single trawls ‡ The starboard Thyborøn Killybegs, Lunar Bow will tow Thyborøn Type 22 BlueStream to the skipper Type 22 BlueStream 13m² trawl a custom-designed 2,048m 13m² trawl doors to spread the ● Prawn single & double bag trawls door. blue whiting trawl which, midwater trawls. ● Bridon trawl warp & wire bridlesand crew of ● JACKSON● TRAWLS Pelagic trawls Nets trawlVision doors III. the purse seine is arranged Jackson Trawls forward of the net bin at Congratulations shelterdeck level. Ltd are proud to Karmøy also supplied four to the skipper remote-controlled deck cranes haveand crewsupplied of that provide invaluable assistance when handling the midwater nets themVision fishing III. gear.and pumping fish. In addition to the folding netstacker unit Jackson Trawls that includes a 4t roller and a 5t Blackhouse circle, Blackhouse LtdIndustrial are Estateproud to winch on a 13m reach positioned Peterhead, Aberdeenshire AB42 1BN Scotland between the purse bin and the Tel: 01779 478383 Fax: 01779have 474394 supplied trawl deck, a 5t/10m knuckle- Congratulations to skippers Alex and AJ Buchan and the crew arm pump for handling the aft on theirEmail: new [email protected] vessel. Jackson Trawlsthem Ltd are fishing proud to gear. fish pump is mounted on the have supplied them fishing gear. trawl gantry directly over the Blackhouse circle, Blackhouse Industrial Estate port support leg for maximum www.jacksontrawls.co.uk strength. Peterhead, Aberdeenshire AB42 1BN Scotland A 4t/18m gooseneck-style Tel: 01779 478383 Fax: 01779 474394 crane covers general handling Email: [email protected] duties amidships, where a fourth Karmøy crane, rated 4t/13m, is www.jacksontrawls.co.uk also located to handle the purse ‡ A hydraulically operated door and pins are fitted at the transom aft www.jacksontrawls.co.uk net fish pump. of a single set of toe-end weight tracks. 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews LUNAR BOW PD 265 13

‡ Two purse winches and a tail- end winch are mounted forward on the boat deck under the long whaleback. † A Triplex float stacker is mounted on the aft gantry above the purse bin.

the hull and the underside of the decks, which by providing a flush surface rather than numerous ‡ Lunar Bow is the first of a new in-house hull design by Karstensens. frames will make the boat considerably easier to keep clean in years to come. When purse-seining, usually at the start of the autumn fishery in the North Sea, mackerel will be pumped aboard slightly forward of amidships on the starboard side, PETERHEAD IS EUROPE’S PREMIER

‡ The aft trawl console. ‡ A SeaQuest 24in pump is positioned on the port quarter of FISHING PORT the boat deck, aft of a tail-end winch on the upper boat deck, which is continued to the transom while being recessed inboard Wishing LUNAR BOW above the pump. PD 265 every future success situated alongside the fish pump on the boat deck, while the reel from which the fish hose is worked is directly below on the shelterdeck. The fish hose permanently connected to the pump lies in a deep vertical slot in the port side of the transom, allowing the hose to run clear of the stern as the pump is lowered into the water by the dedicated overhead crane. A short clear Perspex section ‡ A pump-through hydraulic hose reel connected to the overhead of pipe (the looking glass) enables stainless steel delivery pipe is mounted on the shelterdeck. the crewman controlling pumping More than £209m operations to constantly monitor Fish pumping of pumping at the stern is that the flow of fish. The large- of fish and shellfish Trawled catches of blue whiting, by eliminating the need to take diameter stainless steel pipe traded over quaysides herring and mackerel will be the bag forward when the vessel extends some 35m forward on in 2019 taken aboard aft on the port side lies broadside on to the weather, the port side on the underside of Lunar Bow using one of two hauling the bag becomes a of the boat deck, before turning 24in fish pumps manufactured continual process, with the added inboard towards the fish/seawater by SeaQuest Systems, thereby bonus of the vessel not having to separator system mounted within continuing the company’s well- change course. While using the the boat deck amidships. established association with the net drum to dry up the brailler, the Further evidence of the high Lunar Fishing Company. 57t tail-end winch mounted to port level of build quality found While the skipper and crew on the upper boat deck is used to throughout Lunar Bow is provided have extensive experience of haul the bag to the quarter, before by the fact that the pipe is fully pumping over the stern, the boat the sock is attached to the pump enclosed along the sidedeck. is the first Lunar Bow to feature located on the main boat deck just This attention to detail is further this arrangement. forward on the trawl gantry. highlighted by the extensive One of the main advantages The hydraulic pipe reel is double-skin plating on the sides of 14 LUNAR BOW PD 265 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020

Fish pumping arrangements Swan Net-Gundry Self-Spreading trawl for when Lunar Killybegs netmaker Swan Net- The bottom panel has a Bow is pursing. Gundry supplied the midwater reinforced section with 6.4m trawl used for Lunar Bow’s mesh. The trawl tunnel consists fishing trials from Skagen, and of eight panels – this option has now being used during the become the new standard with mackerel fishery. many SNG trawls. The added The 1,280m net is one of benefits, compared to the SNG’s very popular Helix traditional four-panel version, Self-Spreading trawls, which are better water flow, more skipper AJ Buchan fished stability and added strength. successfully on the previous The Helix Self-Spreading Lunar Bow. trawl is mounted on the very This trawl is built with 25.6m popular Kraftex frame ropes full meshes in the top and side and finished with a dropper panels, which are also colour- system in the best galvanised coded for easy identification. tested chain.

‡ Two Johnson Controls ammonia-based refrigeration plants delivering 1,345kW each are located forward at main deck level. ‡ A Karm Tristar Giant purse net hauler is mounted on the full- three, the 12 RSW tanks on Lunar length boat deck between the Bow have an internal volume purse gallows and the stainless of 2,572m³. This ensures that steel net chute. optimum levels of catch quality will be delivered each trip, with the directed to the allocated RSW vessel’s skippers and engineers tank by remotely operated vertical having maximum flexibility in ‡ The purse seine is shot over a stainless steel capping rail gate valves. selecting the ratio of fish to underneath the upper boat deck. Twelve stainless steel pipes seawater at all times. are used to deliver fish directly With buyers worldwide with the associated equipment room located within the centre into the selected RSW tank. One requiring ever-higher standards ‡ Safety equipment in the located on the boat deck. deckhouse, which also contains advantage of this modern system of catch quality, the owners have double-skinned port corridor an adjacent sampling room. is that it leaves the tank hatches put a strong emphasis on landing under the boxed-in fish delivery Catch storage On entering the water clear for the engineer to easily a top-quality product by being pipe leading from aft to the When pumping, the flow of separator, fish are directed check the level of fish visually, able to reduce the temperature separator unit amidships. pelagic fish from the separator upwards before sliding either without the need to move the of pelagic fish entering the RSW into the 12 RSW tanks is remotely forward or aft into transverse delivery chute aside. tanks to an optimum storage tanks brought into use. Featuring controlled from a dedicated pump troughs, from where they are Deep coamings positioned temperature of between 0°C and remotely operated valves, Lunar in close proximity to the two 1°C as quickly as possible. Two Bow’s RSW system is served by groupings of RSW tank tops ammonia-based refrigeration two 950m³/hr circulation pumps retain seawater and any floating plants supplied by Johnson and two 300m³/hr condenser waste overspills, rather than them Controls deliver 2.3mKcal/hr of pumps. flowing across the deck. Excess cooling capacity, often enabling Pelagic catches are discharged water is continually drained pelagic catches to be brought to processing factories ashore by through recessed wells and one- down to the desired level in less a twin MMC 4,200-litre vacuum way flaps for return to the sea on than two hours, depending on pumping system. Using four 66kW either side of the vessel the quantity of fish pumped vacuum power packs, the system Arranged in four banks of aboard and the number of RSW has a discharging capacity of up

1 2 Congratulations Lunar Fishing Company Ltd and the crew of LUNAR BOW PD 265. Wishing them every success and safe fishing from the Management and Staff at Swan Net Gundry Ltd

Contact Swan Net-Gundry depots nationwide for information on products and prices available on a comprehensive range of Pelagic Trawls & Bottom Trawls, Safety Equipment & Electronics and Chandlery. Tel: 00353(0)74 9731180 Email: [email protected] www.swannetgundry.com 1: The fish-sampling room on the shelterdeck amidships. 2: Deep coamings surround the RSW tank tops to keep the deck clear of water… 3: … which is drained down into recessed wells. 4: Looking down into one of 12 RSW tanks arranged in four tiers of three. 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews LUNAR BOW PD 265 15

‡ General views of Lunar Bow’s engineroom…

efficiency, making improvements in each to achieve the greatest possible gain. Combustion quality, engine parameters, heat and flow loss prevention, and internal friction were among the ‡ Two MMC 4,200-litre vacuum discharge tanks served by four 66kW compressors are located amidships issues exhaustively explored and ‡ … and engine control room. on the main deck between the middle two tiers of RSW tanks. addressed. The most critical advance A fundamental advantage of to 2 x 150t per hour. Engineroom of new technologies, such as in the Wärtsilä 31 range is an the Wärtsilä 31 is its flexibility. The distribution of pelagic fish Lunar Bow features the new- two-stage turbocharging, a high- engine structure designed The engine can be continuously into the RSW tanks, through tank generation Wärtsilä 31 medium- pressure fuel injection system expressly to accommodate two- operated at 10% load, and can sounding and pump and valve speed engine recognised by and adjustable valve actuation, stage turbocharging. While the reach full load within as little control when pumping, is just one Guinness World Records as being in combination with the next- considerable boost in efficiency as two minutes of the start of the functions performed by a the most efficient four-stroke generation engine control system. associated with two-stage command. monitoring system developed and diesel engine. The 31 range is the result of turbocharging was well-known, no A major contributor to the delivered by Johnson Controls. The second-generation series engineers at Wärtsilä starting existing engines were capable of engine’s increased flexibility is In addition, a similar system of common-rail-driven Wärtsilä 31 from a completely blank slate taking full advantage of the effect. its completely redesigned valve was supplied by Norwegian engines set a new benchmark in to develop a new engine family They simply could not stand up to actuation method. The new design company Marine Control efficiency and overall emissions that would be considerably the loading and strain that results replaced the mechanical, rocker- Systems. This easy-to-use performance. Diesel fuel more efficient than anything that from the step change in firing arm-driven valve mechanism of system monitors all aspects of consumption can be as low as had come before, rather than pressure. To overcome this, the previous models with a hydraulic onboard management, including 165g/kWh, putting it significantly improving an existing design. engineers gave the entire Wärtsilä system. This feature allows very the performance of the main and ahead of any other four-stroke Designing a new engine 31 engine structure a very robust smooth and precise control of auxiliary engines, electrical supply diesel engine currently on the entirely from the bottom up design. valve timing, to ensure that the and distribution, alarms, fuel/oil market. gave the unique opportunity capacities and transfer, ballasting Its exceptional fuel efficiency to examine all of the various and electrical loading. is made possible through the use factors that contribute to engine

Port quarter view of Lunar Bow.

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1: The fish-sampling room on the shelterdeck amidships. 2: Deep coamings surround the RSW tank tops to keep the deck clear of water… 3: … which is drained down into recessed wells. 4: Looking down into one of 12 RSW tanks arranged in four tiers of three. 16 LUNAR BOW PD 265 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 fuel-air ratio in the cylinder is optimised at all times. In this way, the engine can take maximum advantage of the boost provided by two-stage turbocharging, especially on partial loads. Optimised engine parameters and adjustable inlet valve timing, combined with electronic ignition timing, result in fewer unburned hydrocarbons, and therefore vastly improved efficiency and lower emissions, irrespective of the load. An added bonus of the hydraulic valve actuation concept is that there is no need for valve clearance adjustment. Wärtsilä 31 engines also feature a next-generation fully integrated automation system that regulates ‡ The Wärtsilä 10V31 main engine. ‡ Two Caterpillar C32 gensets deliver 940kWe each. valve timing, gas admission, ignition, coolant temperature and various aspects of the turbocharging. All sensors are connected directly to the control ports, without going through connectors or junction boxes – changes that further enhance reliability. The Tier III-compliant 10V31 engine is part of Lunar Bow’s fully integrated Wärtsilä propulsion system, which includes a Wärtsilä SCV 100/2PDC68 two-speed gearbox with reduction ratios of 5.19:1 and 6.25:1 and a 4,200mm- diameter CP propeller system housed in a high-performance fixed nozzle. Adjustments made from the wheelhouse in line with ‡ Eleven electric/hydraulic motors are housed to port of the Rolls- ‡ Alfa Laval fuel and lube oil prevailing conditions effectively Royce Tenfjord steering gear unit in the main pump room aft. separators… give minimum and maximum propeller speeds of around 100 housed in a soundproofed be the same demand for power † … and the LF Ventilation plant and 150rpm. This combination compartment on the port side in on the main engine, allowing it to lie to starboard of the main of centreline machinery enabled the engineroom. A second C32 meet the requirements of both engine. Lunar Bow to record a top speed genset is located at shelterdeck the propulsion and the hydraulic of 17.5 knots on trials. level in the forecastle. systems. diesel/electric propulsion system. A PTO on the gearbox drives a When Lunar Bow is hauling During normal towing, the shaft A dedicated clutch fitted between Marelli shaft generator delivering and shooting fishing gear, the alternator can be disengaged the main engine and gearbox 4,250kVA @ 1,200rpm. gearbox PTO will be clutched from the switchboard, when enables the shaft generator to 105,000 litres. One hundred and Auxiliary electrical power on in, enabling electric power for electrical power is supplied by function as an electric motor to twenty-eight tonnes of seawater Lunar Bow is provided by three the electro-hydraulic motors either of the gensets, through the drive a separate Marelli pony can be carried in the forepeak, Caterpillar gensets delivering a to be supplied from the shaft main switchboard and controlled motor, being fed off the auxiliary with 55t held in a passive anti- combined output of 2,100kWe. alternator. This arrangement by the vessel’s DEIF Delomatic engines. Up to 1,500kW can be roll tank positioned under the A Caterpillar C32 (940kWe @ reflects the fact that when full 4 power management system. A used for this diesel-electrical forecastle deck along with the 1,800rpm) and a C7.1 harbour power is required for the deck bus-bar breaker is also fitted in propulsion drive, which on engine anchor winch. set (200kWe @ 1,800rpm) are machinery, there will normally not the main switchboard, allowing trials gave Lunar Bow a highly Engineers Michael Willox, the aft thruster to be fed off the creditable speed of 12 knots. Alan Lawson, Phil Mclean, Alan shaft alternator, while the forward The full electrical installation Dennison and Liam Taylor monitor thruster and domestic load are on Lunar Bow was carried out by the performance of all the vessel’s supplied by the gensets. Karstensens Shipyard’s subsidiary propulsion and generating The vessel’s electrical company KS Elektro A/S. machinery, catch storage power system is fitted for Two Brunvoll electrically driven systems and the comprehensive sliding frequency (50-60Hz), by tunnel thrusters (1,300kW), in alarm systems from a separate means of frequency converters which skewed bladed propellers soundproofed control room and for 400/440V and a rotating combine optimal thrust with low office, sharing 24-hour watch frequency converter for 230V, noise, assist vessel handling in duties. Situated on the port side allowing the main engine and confined areas and when keeping of the main deck, the control room propeller rpm to be reduced by station to fishing gear. also houses the main electrical 17%. The double bottom tanks can switchboards and the computer Lunar Bow is the latest Scottish carry 586,000 litres of fuel, while monitors for the MCS vessel midwater vessel to feature a the vessel’s freshwater capacity is management system. ■

Lunar Bow returning to Peterhead to land her first shot of mackerel, taken west of Orkney.

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Furuno big bridge system gives fully integrated control Three companies in NE Scotland bridge. supplied the extensive array of During searching, the 55in electronic navigation and fishing displays can be used to their equipment installed on Lunar full advantage, displaying full- Bow. One of these companies screen high-resolution (4K) was Woodsons, thereby sonar images. This layout can maintaining Lunar Fishing’s be changed with one touch to longstanding relationship with show split-screen CCTV with Steven Wood. radar chart overlay and conning Lunar Bow’s wheelhouse information, for steaming or features a Furuno big bridge entering harbour. system, in which five 55in 4K That some 90km of electrical Hatteland floor-mounted screens cabling is installed on Lunar Bow and 18 26in Hatteland fixed highlights the advanced level of screens display all the navigation, technology now commonplace fish-finding and net-monitoring on this class of vessel. data, in different configurations Located two levels above depending on the vessel’s the boat deck, the wheelhouse prevailing mode of operation. provides a commanding 360° Designed by Bruce Hardy, view through the full-height Furuno UK’s sales director, the windows. system is driven by an advanced The Furuno big bridge video wall controller integrated system is located in front of two into a touchscreen command NorSap 2000S skipper’s chairs, and control system. The skipper positioned between wing and can select steaming, searching, island consoles, which together ‡ Five 55in Hatteland display fishing and harbour modes, and form the main navigation position. screens are the focal point of the the bridge will automatically Freestanding wing consoles, Furuno big bridge system. reconfigure to the required layout. for use when Lunar Bow is being Three 24in touchscreen manoeuvred in confined areas, skippers AJ and Alex Buchan command centres are located on are located at the forward corners will also use Kaijo KCS-5221Z the port and starboard consoles, of the wheelhouse. The overhead 360° low-frequency (20kHz) and and aft at the winch controls. screen display above the wing Kaijo KCH-5180 high-frequency From here, the skipper can use consoles can also be configured (164kHz) sonars. a single trackball or touchscreen to the skipper’s preferences. Vertical echo detection is to control all the navigation and The central fishing console performed by a Furuno WASSP fishing equipment on the vessel. aft provides a commanding view FSXL multibeam sounder (80kHz) The touchscreen has soft-touch of midwater trawling activities and a Simrad ES-80 WBT controllers that copy the radar, across the stern, while radar, triple-frequency (38/120/200kHz) ECDIS and sonar keyboards, sonar, trawl monitoring and chart sounder with two processor units allowing them to be mounted out information can be viewed and and two split-beam transducers. of sight, to keep the bridge clean controlled on the upper four 26in There is also a Kaijo KDG- and uncluttered. Hatteland displays. 300 tide machine, enabling the ‡ General view of the wheelhouse. Housed in a dedicated A relaxing day area is arranged movement of pelagic shoals in instrument room directly below to port, forward of a glass- relation to underwater currents to 3200 electronic chart display Bow. Similar to an aeroplane’s the wheelhouse, two racks screened office area. be accurately monitored. and information system (ECDIS), black box, the Furuno VR- contain 10 separate computers, Lunar Bow is equipped with Lunar Bow uses a Simrad supplied by Furuno UK of 7000 VDR collects all relevant while eight bespoke radar, the latest-model low-frequency FS-70 trawl sonar system, with Fraserburgh. Providing fast, data from the engine, steering, sounder and ECDIS processors omni-sonar from Furuno. The data from the profile and down intuitive course-planning and thrusters, alarms, radars, ECDIS, are networked into both the FSV-25S has a narrow vertical sounders producing a vertical navigation monitoring, the ECDIS GPS, AIS, etc, and records it for Furuno control system and the beam, allowing echo detection at picture of the net opening, unit, for which Thomas Gunn of up to four weeks. Furuno video wall display system. very long range, and also using a showing footrope distance from Poseidon Navigation Services, A Furuno BR-500 watch alarm Backed by three independent unique dual-range function where the bottom and fish entering the Buckie, will provide updated system gives peace of mind to redundancy power supplies, the one sonar can effectively become net and moving down the tunnel. electronic charts every month, is the skipper and crew when Lunar video wall controller takes in all two with independent control The advanced level of supported by two type-approved Bow is steaming to and from the the images from the equipment, of range, tilt and gain on each electronic equipment fitted Furuno chart radars – FAR 3210 fishing grounds. and allows everything to be screen. is further highlighted by the BB X-Band and FAR 3230 BB The vessel’s extensive displayed anywhere on the When searching for marks, presence of a Furuno FMD- S-Band. communications system includes Navigation equipment includes a full Sailor GMDSS package. two Furuno TimeZero chart- Jotron EPIRBs and SARTs are plotting systems and an Olex also fitted. 3D seabed mapping plotter. The Furuno TimeZero system of integrated chart plotters, radar and echosounders is a key part of the big bridge system, and can be displayed and controlled from a 55in touchscreen in the centre of the wheelhouse. The 24in control screens next to the skipper’s chairs also act as touchscreen TimeZero plotter systems as a second function. GPS and heading data is provided by two Furuno GP170 type-approved GPS receivers, a Simrad GC80 expanded gyro system, Hemisphere satellite compasses, two Sailor 6570 DGNSS systems and a Simrad Pro AP70 MK II autopilot system. Due to the vessel’s size, a voyage data recorder (VDR) was ‡ The Simrad FS-70 rigged in ‡ Two NorSap chairs mounted on deck tracks are positioned adjacent to the main forward and island consoles. a mandatory installation on Lunar the net pocket ready to go. 18 LUNAR BOW PD 265 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 NINTH LUNAR BOW SPANS FOUR GENERATIONS essels named Lunar Bow have been synonymous was open, and there was no raised purse net bin aft. pursing and midwater pair-trawling, Lunar Bow PD 265 with the Buchan family of Peterhead for 75 years, Powered by a 372kW Caterpillar engine, Lunar was delivered by Simek AS in 1987. Six years later, the Vsince skipper AJ’s great-grandfather bought the Bow’s catches were taken aboard by brailler, before 2,100hp Caterpillar-engined boat, which initially had six former Admiralty steam drifter Lunar Bow PD 245 in being boxed and stored in a single dry hold. After RSW tanks, was lengthened amidships by 19ft to allow 1945. being involved in a successful experiment in 1972, in three more catch-storage tanks to be installed. Built at Aberdeen by John Lewis in 1918, Lunar which 1,350kg of herring was put into an aluminium As the emphasis in the Scottish pelagic sector Bow was sold to the Faroes in 1954 when skipper Alex container together with 500 litres of seawater and 450kg continued to move towards fewer and larger boats, John Buchan took delivery of the 74ft wooden-hulled of ice, before being lifted ashore and transported to generally more orientated towards midwater trawling, herring drifter/whitefish seiner Lunar Bow II PD 425 Billingsgate Market in London, where the fish arrived in skipper Alex Buchan started fishing with the 166ft and from Thomas Summers of Fraserburgh. Lunar Bow excellent condition, Lunar Bow was lengthened by 20ft 4,080hp Wärtsilä-engined Lunar Bow PD 265 in the fished alongside Glenugie PD 347 when skipper Donald in 1974, when three CSW tanks were fitted. autumn of 1996. Anderson pioneered purse-seining in 1966. Three years later, skipper John Buchan took delivery Simek AS delivered Lunar Bow’s 201ft successor of Powered by a 152hp Gardner engine, Lunar Bow II of the 111ft Lunar Bow PD 265, the first of a second the same name in September 2000. was sold to Fraserburgh and renamed Melinka in 1967, generation of fully shelterdecked pelagic boats to be The same yard delivered the 69.3m purser/trawler when she was replaced by Vigilant PD 452. Built by equipped with six RSW tanks and a 1,125hp Caterpillar Lunar Bow PD 265 in December 2009. Powered by a Richard Irvin & Sons of Peterhead, the 86ft Vigilant was D399 main engine. The rapid rate at which pelagic Wärtsilä 12V32 main engine of 6,000kW and a two- the first vessel to be built for the UK purse-seine fleet. fishing was changing at this time can be gauged by the speed Wärtsilä gearbox, this boat, which has 12 RSW In 1970, Sigbjørn Iversen Mek Verksted of Flekkefjord fact that this vessel was lengthened twice within four tanks, was sold to Norway and renamed Endre Dyrøey delivered the 87ft steel-hulled purser/trawler Lunar Bow years of being built. in May 2018 when her successor was in the early stages PD 118. Apart from a short whaleback, the working deck With an overall length of 143ft and intended for of build.

‡ The 74ft herring drifter/whitefish seine-net boat Lunar ‡ The first steel-hulled purser/trawler Lunar Bow PD 118 ‡ The 1987-built Lunar Bow PD 265 after being Bow II PD 425 was built in the Thomas Summers yard at on trials at Flekkefjord in 1970. lengthened by 19ft amidships in 1993. Fraserburgh in 1954.

LUNAR BOW PD 265 DETAILS 57t; 2 x net drums 110t; 2 x purse seine winches 40t; 1 Furuno TimeZero chart plotter systems incorporating Owners: Lunar Fishing Company Ltd, Peterhead x end wire winch 20.7t; 1 x Karm Tristar Giant net hauler DRS4 NXT solid-state radar sensor and DFF1 UHD Designer/boatyard: Karstensens Shipyard, Skagen, 40t; 2 x auxiliary purse winches 16t; intermediate roller; CHIRP echosounder; Olex 3D plotting system; Simrad Denmark 4 x mooring winches 11t; 1 x anchor windlass 14.7t; 1 Pro AP70 MK II autopilot system; Simrad GC80 gyro Class: Det Norske Veritas +1A1 Fishing Vessel; Hull: x netsounder cable winch; 2 x hydraulic hose reels; 2 system; Hemisphere satellite compass; 2 x Sailor 6570 Ice-C x fish hose reels; 1 x 3.2t/13m netstacker crane c/w 4t DGNSS systems; Sailor 6281 AIS; Gill ultrasonic wind Agent: Lunar Fishing Ltd, Peterhead roller and 5t winch; 1 x 4t/18m knuckle-arm foredeck speed and direction system; Furuno BR500 bridge crane; 1 x 5t/10m knuckle-arm aft fish pump crane; 1 watch alarm DIMENSIONS and CAPACITIES x 4t/13m knuckle-arm forward fish pump crane; Triplex Length overall: 80.2m; Length between pp: 70.20m; float stacker Communications Beam: 16m; Depth main deck: 6.50m; Depth Sailor 6350 MF/HF 500W GMDSS RT; Sailor 6110 Mini shelterdeck: 9.20m; Draught: 8m; Tonnage: 3,439t FISH PUMPING/STORAGE C GMDSS system; 2 x Sailor 6222 DSC Class A VHFs; gross; Fuel: 586,000 litres; Freshwater: 105,000 litres; Fish pumping system: 2 x 24in SeaQuest pumps Sailor 6210 VHF; 3 x ENTEL GMDSS handheld VHFs; RSW: 12 tanks – 2,572m³; Forepeak: 128t + 55t in – SeaQuest, Killybegs; RSW cooling plant: 2 x Vingtor telephone exchange/intercom system; Sailor passive anti-roll tank Johnson Controls refrigeration plants each of 1,345kW 6390 Navtex receiver; eSEA 600Ka communication (1,156,000kCal/hr); Vacuum landing system: 2 x system; eSEA 100 TVRO system; Jotron Tron 60 GPS ENGINEROOM MMC c/w 2 x 4,200-litre tanks served by 4 x 66kW EPIRB; 2 x Jotron Tron SART 20 transponders; CCTV Main engine: Wärtsilä 10V31 of 6,100kW @ 750rpm compressors; Vessel management system: Marine camera system c/w 16 cameras driving through a Wärtsilä SCV 100/2PDC68 two-speed Control Services (5.19:1 and 6.25:1 reduction) gearbox to a Wärtsilä FISHING GEAR 4,200mm-diameter four-bladed CP propeller in a fixed ELECTRONICS Warp supplier: Jackson Trawls, Peterhead – 2 x 2,000m nozzle; Speed: 17.5 knots Suppliers: Woodsons, Aberdeen, Scanmar, Peterhead of 38mm-diameter Bridon Starfish trawl wire; 1,300m Shaft generator: Marelli MJRM 710 3,400kW (4,250kVA) and Furuno UK, Fraserburgh x 34mm Bridon Dyform purse wire; Net suppliers: @ 1,200rpm 415/3/50 with sliding (50/60Hz) frequency Jackson Trawls, Peterhead – 1 x 1,300m dual-purpose Auxiliary engines: 2 x Caterpillar C32 of 940kW @ Fish detection mackerel/herring midwater trawl; 2 x 70m eight-panel 1,800rpm driving 1,175kVA Leroy-Somer 415/3/50 Furuno FSV 25S BB long-range low-frequency braillers; 2,048m blue whiting trawl; Swan Net-Gundry, generators; 1 x Caterpillar C7.1 of 200kWe @ 1,800rpm (18/20/22kHz) omni-sonar; Kaijo KCS-3221Z 360° Killybegs – 1 x 1,280m Helix Self-Spreading midwater harbour genset low-frequency (20kHz) and Kaijo KCH-5180 180° high- trawl; Mørenot AS, Norway – purse net 430 fathoms x Sidethrusters: 2 x Brunvoll 1,300kW frequency (164kHz) sonars; Simrad ES-80 WBT triple- 117 fathoms; Midwater trawl doors: Thyborøn Type 22 Fuel/lube oil separators: Alfa Laval PA 615; Main frequency (38/120/200kHz) sounder; Furuno WASSP 13m² engine and hydraulic cooling, bilge, ballast and F3XL multibeam sounder; Kaijo KDG-300 tide machine engine fuel transfer pumps: Bombas Azcue; Bilge (160kHz); Simrad FS-70 trawl sonar; Scanmar ScanBas ACCOMMODATION ejectors: Ellehammer; Air compressors: Sperre 365 catch-/net-monitoring system c/w 4 x SS4 Super 13 x single and 3 x two-berth cabins plus hospital cabin HL2/77 Catch sensors GENERAL DECK MACHINERY Navigation Engine controls: Wärtsilä Pro Touch; Insurance: Supplier: Karmøy Winch AS, Kopervik, Norway – 2 x Furuno FMD3200 BB ECDIS; Furuno FAR 3210-BB Sunderland Marine; Lifesaving appliances: Viking and split trawl winches 90t first-layer pull with capacity for X-Band and FAR 3230 SSD-BB solid-state S-band type- Ikaros; Paint: PPG Sigma; Skipper’s chairs: 3 x NorSap 2,700m 38mm-diameter trawl wire; Karm computer approved radars; Furuno VR7000 voyage data recorder; 1600; Steering: Rolls-Royce Tenfjord SR 662 – 170kNm; autotrawl system; 1 x topline winch 71t; 1 x tailend winch 2 x Furuno GP170 type-approved GPS receivers; 2 x Windows: Van Wingerden; Wipers: Wynn straightline 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BOAT OF THE WEEK 19 Name: Virtuous FR 253 LOA: 24m 2019 Engineering, Whitby Marine Parkol Built: Type: trawler prawn Twin-rig Home port: Fraserburgh 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? 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(6,5) 942751386 ed 12 Till 14 Nailed 16 Spleen Instigator (8) 18 In-FO 19 Demerara 22 UN- 13 13 One moves in favour of 863 518346972 19 Retire (4,4) related 23 Les 24 Horse-r-a-dish 15 Promoter (7) pretentious person (8) 763829154 DOWN: 2 (L)Awful 3 Ab-SE-ntee Corrupt son involved in games 175 324617598 22 Holiday communications (9) 17 Cause agitation (4,2) 15 4 Ranger 5 O-man 6 Edifice curtailed fund (7) 857492613 7 Content-IOUs 8 Hollandaise 23 Fairy-like being (3) 20 Deep sea (5) 17 Cause agitation, removing 64 815 691583427 13 Sp-L-end-i-d 15 Infer-no 17 Men-tor 20 At-las(t) 21 Ales 24 Older relative (11) 21 Look over (4) central piece of footrest (4,2) 20 Main canoe’s overturned (5) All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd - www.puzzler.com 20/02 See next week’s edition for all puzzle solutions. 21 Look over small vessel (4) Flamborough coble disaster Seafish appoints new of 1909 remembered regional manager for Wales A memorial service to commemorate the Flamborough coble disaster of 5 February, Dr Emma Wootton has joined the Seafish 1909 was held in the East Yorkshire village on team as regional manager for Wales. Based the 111th anniversary of the tragedy, reports in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales, she Paul L Arro. will be working alongside Dr Holly Whiteley, Two local cobles were lost and six who is based in North Wales. fishermen drowned within sight of safety Emma Wootton is a highly experienced when the Two Brothers H 919 and Gleaner H marine researcher with a strong track 1001 were overwhelmed by huge seas. record of working with UK inshore fishing The lost men were Melchior Chadwick (37), and aquaculture industries, and has lived George Gibbon (34) and Thomas Leng Major and worked in South Wales for over 25 (18) of the Two Brothers and John Cross (44) years. She is an expert in shellfisheries with and his sons Robert Cross (19) and Richard a detailed knowledge of the seafood supply Major Cross (17) of the Gleaner. chain, and has delivered fisheries-related A monument was erected in Chapel projects in academia as well as the public Street, Flamborough in recognition of the sector. heroism of the crew of the Two Brothers, who The Seafish regional team is made up went to the aid of the men in the Gleaner and of individuals who work locally, to ensure in doing so also lost their lives. engagement in key regions and help with On 5 February this year, wreaths were communication and local co-ordination laid at the monument on behalf of the of activities. This approach recognises Flamborough Fishermen’s Memorial Group the diverse nature of the seafood industry and Flamborough Parish Council, and a short in different areas, and helps to support service of remembrance took place. Folk ‡ Wreaths were laid at the monument seafood businesses all over the UK. singer David Swann performed his song ‘Two to the lost fishermen to mark the 111th Welsh seafood businesses can contact Brothers’, which he wrote about the tragedy. anniversary of the disaster. Emma Wootton at: emma.wootton@ seafish.co.uk ‡ Dr Emma Wootton. 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES SMALLER WHITEFISH MARKETS PREVAIL AT PETERHEAD

Poor weather associated with Storm Ciara £3.75 per kg, selected £2-£3.80, small of flatfish, 37 boxes of squid, 36 boxes of impacted on supply levels on Peterhead 95p-£3.50, chippers £1.25-£2.95, metros megrim and 33 boxes of hake. fishmarket last week, reportsDavid 55p-£1.80 and round haddock 95p-£1.50. Three boats, Guiding Star, Guiding Linkie. Gutted whiting were at 65p-£3 and round Light and Shalanna, contributed 2,437 As Storm Ciara blasted in over the whiting 90p-£1.70 per kg. Monkfish sold boxes to last Thursday’s market at weekend, 17 boats, Ellorah, Jubilee Spirit, at £1.40-£4.15, lemon sole £1.45-£8.15, Peterhead. This sale, the smallest of the Opportunus IV, Sunrise, Falcon, Gracious, ling £1.25-£2.60, plaice 60p-£1.70, hake week, included 900 boxes of coley, 605 Forever Faithful, Havfjord, Good Hope, £1.40-£4.85, squid 50p-£5.15 and coley boxes of hake, 232 boxes of gutted and Fruitful Vine, Golden Sceptre, Westro, £1.15-£2.75 per kg. 105 boxes of round haddock, 196 boxes of Steadfast Hope, Atlantic Challenge, Ocean Twenty-four hours later, five boats, cod, 150 boxes of whiting (80 rounders), Vision, Fruitful Bough and Jubilee Quest, Phoenix, Helenus, Ocean Endeavour, 40 boxes of ling, 31 boxes of flatfish, 19 together with 11 consignments from Loch Harvest Hope and Gemma Jane, plus boxes of squid, eight boxes of megrim and Inchard II, Vision IV, Moray Endeavour, one consignment from Conquest, landed one box of monkfish. Reliance II, Caledonia III, Aquarius, Revival, 3,389 boxes for last Tuesday’s market. The closing sale of last week at Norlan, Endeavour IV, Opportune and This tally included 855 boxes of cod, Peterhead saw 4,604 boxes on the market Sparkling Star, contributed 6,505 boxes 657 boxes of gutted haddock, 610 boxes floor from 11 boats, Celestial Dawn, to the opening market of last week at of coley, 334 boxes of whiting (186 Renown, Arcturus, Ardent, El Shaddai, Peterhead. rounders), 317 boxes of squid, 201 boxes Ocean Endeavour, Tranquility, Favonius, Monday’s sale, the largest of the week, of monkfish, 108 boxes of ling, 57 boxes Ocean Harvest, Harvester and Achieve, included 1,326 boxes of whiting (673 of hake, 44 boxes of megrim and 23 boxes along with one consignment. Friday’s ‡ The pair-seiner Falcon approaching Peterhead in rapidly deteriorating weather before landing for last Monday’s market. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) rounders), 773 boxes of monkfish, 611 of flatfish. sale included 1,086 boxes of gutted boxes of gutted and 116 boxes of round The 4,540 boxes on the market floor and 881 boxes of round haddock, 1,050 and round haddock 70p-£1.85. Large cod The 21,475 boxes of whitefish sold at haddock, 693 boxes of coley, 576 boxes on Wednesday morning came from three boxes of cod, 1,008 boxes of whiting (782 sold at £2.70-£4 per kg, sprags £2.25- Peterhead last week came from 39 boats of squid, 564 boxes of cod, 412 boxes of boats, Boy John, Audacious and Venture rounders), 147 boxes of coley, 77 boxes of £3.80, medium £2.70-£3.90, selected and 17 consignments. This tally included hake, 300 boxes of megrim, 278 boxes of III, together with four consignments from flatfish, 47 boxes of monkfish, 23 boxes of £3.30-£4.65 and small £1.65-£4.50. 5,068 boxes of haddock (1,378 rounders), ling and 199 boxes of flatfish. Crystal River, Faithful, Shalanna and Russa squid, 15 boxes of ling and four boxes each Gutted whiting were at £2.20-£2.65 and 4,103 boxes of cod, 3,229 boxes of whiting At the start of last week at Peterhead, Taign. This market included 1,438 boxes of of hake and megrim. round whiting £1.60-£2 per kg. Monkfish (2,034 ungutted), 2,981 boxes of coley, large cod sold at £2.40-£4.50 per kg, cod, 1,104 boxes of gutted and 276 boxes Last Friday morning, large/medium made £2.55-£4.40 per kg, megrim £2.85- 1,118 boxes of monkfish, 1,111 boxes of medium £2.60-£3.95, selected £2.50- of round haddock, 631 boxes of coley, 411 gutted haddock made £2.90-£3.30 per kg, £4.30, ling £2.50-£2.85, plaice £1-£3.10, hake, 972 boxes of squid, 526 boxes of £3.80 and small £1.30-£4.50. Large/ boxes of whiting (313 rounders), 96 boxes selected £3.20-£3.80, small £1.60-£3.25, lemon sole £2.70-£11, coley £2-£2.35 and ling, 393 boxes of flatfish and 392 boxes medium gutted haddock made £1.45- of monkfish, 85 boxes of ling, 63 boxes chippers 90p-£2.60, metros 80p-£1.65 squid 55p-£8 per kg. of megrim. BUSIER END TO A STORMY TOP PRICES PAID AT END-OF-WEEK BRIXHAM MARKETS The poor weather limited sales on 1s and £1.48 for 2s. Size 1 dabs were Plaice 1s averaged £3.50/kg, 2s Brixham market last week, with £2.50 and 2s were £1.40. John Dory £3.20, 3s £2.60, 4s £2.20 and 5s WEEK IN SHETLAND total sales of only £583,497, but the 1s were £14.80/kg, 2s were £15.20, 3s £1.35. Pollack 1s were £6.20, 2s and combination of limited supplies and the were £13.70 and 4s £8.80. 3s were £3.50 and 4s £3. Sand sole 1s After a quiet start to the week in Shetland first three sales, followed by 11,200kg of upcoming Valentine’s weekend saw Red gurnard 2s were £4.20. Haddock were £10.60/kg and 2s £6.50. Large due to Storm Ciara, Friday’s auction was haddock (96kg of which were ungutted), rocketing prices on the later markets. 1s and 2s averaged £2.50/kg, 3s were scallops were £9.50 and small £5. the largest of the week, when 14 boats 10,024kg of saithe, 8,626kg of cod, There were steady supplies from the £2.30 and 4s were £1.20. Hake fetched Dover sole 1s averaged £13.30/kg, 2s landed some 2,500 boxes from short trips 5,079kg of monkfish, 2,673kg of ling, local beamers in the early part of the £3.60 for 1s, 2s and 3s, £3.70 for 4s £16.80, 3s £18.20, 4s £18, 5s £15.90, as conditions moderated midweek. 2,126kg of hake, 1,661kg of plaice, week, but even they had to tie up by and 5s, £3.20 for 6s and £2.80 for 7s. 6s £12.70, 7s £11, 8s £10.70, 9s £9.70 Five boats landed 603 boxes on 1,159kg of megrim and 641kg of lemon Thursday. Lemon sole averaged £11.20/kg for and 10s £8.50. Large squid were Monday, before a further five boats put sole. Blondie wing 1s were £4.70, 2s 1s, £11.50 for 2s, 3s were £11.40, 4s £12.40 and 2s were £10.50. ashore 863 boxes on Tuesday morning. Over the first three markets of the £4.40, 3s £4.30 and 4s £3/kg. Black £4.50 and 5s £1.30. Ling averaged Thorny wings averaged £3.80 for There was no market again on Wednesday week, cod sold at up to £4.72 per kg, bream 2s were £6.30, 3s £6.40 and 4s £2.50/kg for 1s, £1.90 for 2s, and 3s 1s, 2s and 3s and £2.90 for 4s. Large due to the weather, while six boats landed gutted haddock £3.57, round haddock £5.50. Size 1 brill averaged £13.40/kg, were £1.20. Prime lobsters were £27 tubs were £5.30/kg for 1s, and 2s 497 boxes on Thursday to the smallest £1.85, hake £4.26, halibut £12.74, lemon 2s were £10.30, 3s £10.20, 4s £8.10 and large £25. were £4.60. Turbot averaged £22.70/ market of the four-day week, bringing the sole £11.76, ling £1.88, megrim £7.04, and 5s £6.60. Megrim 1s were £4.80, 2s £5.30, kg for 1s, 2s were £20.90, 3s £19.10, weekly total to around 4,500 boxes from monkfish £3.81, plaice £3.11, saithe Size 1 and 2 cod were £7.60, 3s 3s £4.70 and 4s £2.90. Monkfish 1s 4s £15.40, 5s £13.50 and 6s £10.50. 30 arrivals. £2.34, squid £5.71, turbot £13.28, gutted £5.40, 4s £4.60 and 5s £2.80. Coley averaged £14.10, 2s £14.60, 3s £10.50, Large whiting averaged £2.60/kg, 2s At 26,097kg, including 14,582kg of whiting £2.81 and round whiting £2.06 was £2.30 for 1s and 2s. Conger 4s £9.70, 5s £8 and 6s £5.10. Red mullet £2, 3s £1.50 and 4s 60p. Witches made rounders, whiting led the way over the per kg. averaged £1.50 for 1s, £1.20 for 2s and averaged £11.70/kg for 1s, £9.30 for 2s £4.80 for 1s, £2.80 for 2s and £1 for £1 for 3s. Cuttlefish averaged £2.39 for and £7.30 for 3s. Octopus averaged £2. 3s. HIGH WINDS MEAN LOW SALES AT NEWLYN For auction on Monday at Newlyn, three One part-trip beamer and hand-line There was a small market on Thursday part-trip beamers and one local netter landed boats landed 2.4t for Tuesday’s market. with just 86kg of mackerel from the hand- 17.4t. Highest-volume species were 1.4t of Contributing to the day’s volume were line boats. cuttlefish, 0.5t Dover sole, 0.1t haddock, 5.7t 0.5t of Dover sole, 0.5t megrim sole, 0.6t To end the week, a volume of 121kg of MSC hake, 0.3t lemon sole, 4.1t mackerel, monkfish, 0.2t octopus and 0.1t of cuttlefish. pollack and mackerel was landed from the 1.6t megrim sole and 1t of monkfish. Notable Good prices were achieved for most species hand-line fleet. Large and medium mackerel high prices from the morning were N4 turbot auctioned. achieved £7/kg. £21/kg, N1 lemon sole £11.25/kg and N3 Due to high winds and a spring tide, no The total volume auctioned for the week Dover sole £17.63/kg. fish was landed on Wednesday. was 20t STORMS IMPACT ON LOWESTOFT MARKETS Last week’s supplies were very low at Lowestoft, and Storm Dennis is expected to have a similar impact on the fishing effort this week. Three local boats, with a little extra by way of consignment from North Shields, saw just a third of a tonne sold through the market over the week. Most of this was seen at the Monday auction. With the trawlers unable to target skate and sole, none were seen at the market. Selected herring sold for £2.70 per kg, and sprats for £3. Brown shrimp were seen for the first time since last May, and they sold for £4.50. Turbot saw a high of £15, up £2.50 on the ‡ The twin-rig trawler Copious moves in to land to Lerwick fishmarket previous week, with this being a good-quality 5kg specimen. Monkfish was unchanged on the week with a high of £4.50, and squid was ahead of her sistership Prolific. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) unchanged on the week at £6. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 20 February 2020

Whiting (3) 26,214 £1.96 £1.23 £1.29 Sprats £3.00 £3.00 £0.00 £1.38 PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 14 FEBRUARY price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago Whiting (4) 947 £1.27 - £0.72 14 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Squid £3.50 £6.00 £6.00 £6.67 Whiting, round 34,523 £1.58 £0.93 £0.92 Turbot £7.00 £15.00 £11.50 £12.00 Catfish £2.98 £3.25 £3.84 £5.06 ICELAND (RSF), THURS Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 4 Brill (1) 726 £13.32 £11.16 £10.23 NEWLYN, FRIDAY Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Cod (A1) £3.23 £4.19 £4.40 £5.40 13 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago wks ago Brill (2) 467 £10.27 £8.85 £7.61 14 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Cod (A2) £3.41 £4.14 £4.14 £5.67 Brill (3) 740 £10.21 £8.12 £7.03 Cod (A3) £3.55 £4.01 £3.53 £5.06 Blue ling (gutted) 162 £1.90 £1.36 £1.50 Brill (4) 726 £8.09 £6.66 £6.09 Bass (4) 1 £10.00 £3.71 £9.59 Cod (A4) £3.39 £3.98 £3.34 £4.61 Catfish (gutted) 11,235 £1.33 £1.18 £3.76 Brill (5) 39 £6.52 £5.48 £4.72 Blonde Ray (M) 52 £1.53 £2.02 £1.61 Cod (A5) £3.10 £4.17 £3.63 £4.28 Catfish (ungutted) 2,904 £0.87 £0.91 £2.72 Cock crabs 173 £5.83 £5.37 £5.39 Haddock (A1) £2.77 £3.20 £3.00 £4.50 Brill (2) 32 £12.47 £10.66 £10.33 Cod (large, gutted) 55,811 £2.36 £2.20 £2.40 Cod (1) 31 £7.60 £4.63 £4.14 Haddock (A2) £3.16 £3.54 £3.28 £4.98 Brill (3) 52 £9.79 £8.42 £8.20 Cod (large, ungutted) 103,583 £2.04 £1.89 £2.70 Cod (2) 17 £7.38 £5.00 £3.69 Haddock (A3) £2.80 £3.30 £2.94 £4.76 Brill (4) 20 £7.90 £7.19 £6.54 Cod (small, gutted) 1,038 £1.44 £1.36 £1.77 Cod (3) 36 £5.40 £4.71 £3.35 Haddock chippers (A4) £2.48 £2.92 £2.40 £3.00 Cod (small, ungutted) 1,442 £1.11 £0.84 £1.60 Conger (1) 146 £1.43 £1.30 £0.64 Cod (3) 38 £7.28 £4.25 £4.45 Haddock metros (A4) £1.44 £2.08 £1.57 £1.89 Cod cheeks 7 £7.67 £5.52 £6.70 Conger (2) 103 £1.18 £1.19 £0.71 Cod (4) 24 £2.77 £3.46 £1.56 Hake (A1) £4.54 £4.96 £5.62 £7.55 Dab (gutted) 38 £0.68 - £0.68 Conger (3) 112 £0.93 £0.49 £0.18 Cod (5) 26 £3.02 £2.44 £2.74 Hake (A2) £3.69 £4.48 £4.79 £6.59 Cuckoo ray (M) 221 £1.24 £1.12 £1.17 Hake (A3) £3.09 £3.79 £3.53 £4.92 Greenland halibut (gutted) 25 £1.56 £1.61 £2.88 Cuttlefish (1) 53,546 £2.39 £2.32 £3.23 Hake (A4) £2.53 £2.83 £2.64 £4.21 Haddock (large, gutted) 21,476 £1.69 £1.66 £1.82 Cuttlefish (2) 6,690 £1.48 £1.25 £1.80 Cuckoo ray (S) 17 £0.20 £0.54 £0.36 Hake (A5) £2.01 £2.43 £1.93 £3.32 Haddock (large, ungutted) 30,400 £2.02 £1.79 £2.37 Dogfish 9,840 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Cuttlefish (L) 1,319 £2.27 £2.28 £3.19 Halibut £9.31 £11.74 £11.89 £16.82 Haddock (small, gutted) 601 £0.74 £1.07 £1.32 Gurnard (2) 155 £4.12 £3.96 £1.74 Cuttlefish (S) 216 £1.21 £0.83 £1.59 Lemon sole (A1) £10.58 £10.93 £8.22 £13.76 Haddock (small, ungutted) 334 £0.76 £0.72 £1.30 Gurnard (4) 7,602 £0.60 £0.60 £0.60 Dover sole (1) 116 £13.09 £12.83 £11.27 Haddock (1) 1,657 £2.55 £2.14 £2.96 Lemon sole (A2) £8.34 £8.96 £12.92 £12.60 Halibut (gutted) 52 £4.53 £2.47 £7.49 Dover sole (2) 115 £16.47 £14.62 £12.10 Lemon sole (A3) £4.58 £6.34 £5.63 £7.70 Lemon sole (gutted) 997 £5.89 £5.88 £6.61 Haddock (2) 53 £2.51 £2.01 £1.95 Dover sole (3) 242 £17.22 £14.58 £13.49 Ling (A1) £1.93 £1.98 £1.84 £3.17 Ling (gutted) 3,617 £1.05 £0.99 £1.29 Haddock (3) 43 £2.24 £0.99 £1.00 Dover sole (4) 351 £12.30 £11.24 £11.08 Ling (A2) £2.31 £2.24 £2.13 £3.43 Ling (ungutted) 7,597 £1.07 £1.05 £1.79 Hake (1) 60 £3.53 £3.89 £4.05 Dover sole (5) 189 £9.43 £10.31 £8.97 Ling (A3) £2.40 £2.58 £2.18 £4.61 Megrim (gutted) 1,037 £1.53 - £1.42 Hake (2) 274 £3.53 £3.05 £4.04 Gurnard and latchet (L) 30 £3.70 £1.54 £3.01 Megrim (A1) £4.31 £5.17 £4.20 £9.97 Monkfish (gutted) 537 £3.90 £2.67 £4.09 Hake (3) 727 £3.72 £3.04 £3.94 Megrim (A2) £3.13 £4.08 £3.45 £7.68 Plaice (gutted) 7,480 £2.70 £2.81 £2.60 Hake (4) 1,564 £3.75 £3.41 £3.84 Gurnard and latchet (M) 46 £2.75 £0.83 £1.56 Megrim (A3) £2.40 £3.22 £2.36 £5.28 Redfish (ungutted) 26,172 £1.54 £1.17 £2.97 Hake (5) 3,072 £3.66 £3.25 £3.45 Gurnard and latchet (S) 135 £0.69 £0.42 £0.52 Megrim (A4) £1.41 £1.70 - £3.81 Saithe (gutted) 12,675 £1.16 £1.08 £1.14 Hake (6) 5,046 £3.11 £2.57 £3.04 Haddock (1) 260 £2.70 £3.55 £2.63 Megrim (A4) £2.52 £2.91 £1.72 £4.17 Saithe (ungutted) 5,473 £0.87 £0.51 £0.86 Hake (7) 691 £2.76 £2.39 £2.42 Haddock (2) 601 £2.41 £3.22 £2.59 Monkfish (A1) £3.43 £3.69 £3.52 £5.36 Skate (gutted) 358 £0.41 £0.09 £0.10 Hen crabs 74 £2.44 £2.79 £3.24 Haddock (3) 134 £2.65 £3.10 £2.73 Monkfish (A2) £3.57 £3.83 £3.45 £5.68 Spotted catfish (gutted) 700 £1.99 £1.61 £4.28 John Dory (1) 6 £14.80 £13.67 £12.97 Monkfish (A3) £3.48 £3.95 £3.42 £5.38 Haddock (4) 14 £0.94 £1.44 £1.47 John Dory (2) 7 £15.14 £13.68 £12.57 Monkfish (A4) £3.15 £3.70 £3.33 £5.19 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 141 £1.38 £1.06 - Hake (0) 3 £0.76 £1.26 £0.66 John Dory (3) 57 £13.71 £10.91 £9.29 Monkfish (A5) £1.90 £2.52 £2.38 £4.35 Tusk (gutted) 2,974 £0.84 £0.76 £1.08 Hake (1) 147 £3.38 £5.89 £2.97 Lemon sole (1) 424 £11.11 £10.86 £8.39 Plaice (A2) £3.11 £3.11 - £4.49 Tusk (gutted) 2,974 £0.84 £0.76 £1.08 Hake (2) 346 £3.28 £5.80 £2.93 Tusk (ungutted) 1,087 £0.56 £0.10 £0.64 Lemon sole (2) 404 £11.44 £11.06 £8.69 Plaice (A3) £2.00 £2.27 £3.73 £3.38 Hake (3) 752 £3.14 £5.75 £3.07 Whiting (gutted) 193 £0.66 £0.47 £0.47 Lemon sole (3) 840 £11.31 £10.23 £8.64 Plaice (A4) £1.16 £1.73 £1.81 £2.07 Hake (4) 1,221 £3.50 £5.76 £2.94 Pollack (A1) £2.87 £2.98 - - Whiting (ungutted) 17 £0.13 - £0.76 Lemon sole (4) 2,440 £4.46 £3.34 £4.20 Hake (5) 2,208 £3.02 £5.52 £2.66 Pollack (A2) £3.11 £3.22 £3.44 £4.88 Witch (gutted) 34 £1.13 £1.47 £1.49 Lemon sole (5) 1,627 £1.30 £1.07 £2.52 Hake (6) 303 £2.76 £3.16 £2.40 Pollack (A3) £3.13 £3.25 - £4.00 Witch (ungutted) 286 £1.28 - £0.99 Line mackerel (3) 1 £3.68 £2.57 £1.48 Pollack (A4) £2.88 £3.07 £2.68 £3.75 Lobster 48 £23.99 £20.99 £17.89 John Dory (1) 1 £15.40 £12.00 £11.61 HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m Round Haddock £1.01 £1.40 £1.21 £1.41 TO 14 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (1) 73 £14.03 £12.21 £10.00 John Dory (3) 7 £8.10 £9.03 £6.83 Saithe (A1) £1.99 £2.15 £1.67 £2.13 Monkfish tails (2) 525 £14.53 £12.98 £11.17 John Dory (4) 1 £7.80 £5.31 £4.55

Saithe (A2) £2.23 £2.35 £1.67 £2.14 Monkfish tails (3) 1,062 £10.45 £10.81 £10.87 Catfish (1) 164 £4.80 £4.79 £5.07 John Dory (5) 4 £3.20 £2.14 £2.32 Saithe (A3) £2.13 £2.23 £1.72 £2.13 Monkfish tails (4) 1,172 £9.63 £9.68 £10.11 Cod (0) 1,146 £4.04 £4.01 £3.30 Lemon sole (1) 85 £11.19 £12.23 £7.98 Saithe (A4) £2.02 £2.26 £1.79 £1.94 Monkfish tails (5) 1,684 £7.99 £7.45 £9.45 Cod (1) 4,382 £4.00 £4.19 £3.12 Lemon sole (2) 48 £11.18 £12.49 £8.20 Squid trawled £4.99 £6.00 £5.25 £6.30 Monkfish tails (6) 252 £5.07 £4.53 £3.78 Cod (2) 6,724 £4.57 £4.26 £3.33 Lemon sole (3) 92 £10.93 £10.23 £7.66 Turbot £11.68 £12.99 £10.00 £15.45 Octopus 6,246 £1.99 £1.98 £1.76 Cod (3) 11,717 £4.74 £3.80 £3.94 Lemon sole (4) 128 £3.71 £2.95 £3.89 Whiting (A1) £2.25 £2.66 - £3.70 Plaice (1) 775 £3.47 £2.99 £2.24 Cod (4) 6,550 £4.32 £2.97 £3.15 Lemon sole (5) 44 £0.48 £0.81 £2.28 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Plaice (2) 1,365 £3.17 £2.88 £2.19 Cod (5) 4,025 £3.50 £2.76 £2.49 TO 14 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Plaice (3) 2,033 £2.59 £2.20 £2.12 Ling (M) 44 £1.75 £2.67 £1.74 Haddock (1) 9,893 £2.28 £1.87 £2.32 Plaice (4) 2,393 £2.13 £1.88 £2.09 Ling (S) 13 £1.00 £2.00 £1.90 Haddock (2) 3,769 £1.85 £1.32 £1.73 Catfish 203 £2.98 £2.69 £2.63 Plaice (5) 3,250 £1.33 £1.23 £1.34 Mackerel (LM) 41 £5.48 £2.44 £3.35 Haddock (3) 1,518 £1.44 £0.93 £1.26 Cod (2) 6,058 £4.23 £3.07 £3.31 Pollock (1) 13 £6.19 £3.75 - Mackerel (M) 56 £5.66 £1.52 £1.33 Hake (0) 4,804 £4.69 £4.11 £3.45 Cod (3) 7,355 £4.09 £2.96 £3.07 Pollock (2) 828 £3.49 £3.44 £3.71 Mackerel (S) 4,196 £0.40 £0.34 £0.50 Cod (4) 3,595 £3.79 £2.85 £2.69 Hake (1) 4,055 £3.97 £3.55 £3.12 Pollock (3) 705 £3.36 £2.83 £3.17 Megrim (1) 83 £5.27 £8.12 £5.87 Cod (5) 2,065 £3.40 £2.86 £2.46 Hake (2) 8,160 £3.06 £2.44 £2.92 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 167 £4.61 £3.90 £4.39 Megrim (2) 151 £4.42 £6.28 £5.23 Cod (6) 1,533 £3.33 £2.41 £2.38 Hake (3) 4,349 £1.94 £1.62 £2.09 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 258 £4.37 £3.64 £3.60 Haddock (1) 8,563 £2.52 £2.66 £1.94 Lemon sole (1) 7 £10.28 £11.04 £11.52 Megrim (3) 289 £3.72 £4.97 £4.42 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 172 £4.26 £3.53 £3.49 Haddock (2) 7,035 £2.93 £2.73 £2.12 Lemon sole (2) 58 £8.18 £8.38 £10.45 Megrim (4) 445 £3.21 £4.53 £3.69 Ray wings (small eye, 2) 6 £3.17 - - Haddock (3) 5,992 £2.59 £2.08 £1.85 Lemon sole (3) 38 £5.14 £3.56 £4.88 Megrim (5) 552 £2.35 £3.89 £3.47 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 11 £3.25 £3.12 £3.50 Haddock (4) 4,618 £2.72 £1.25 £1.61 Ling (1) 6,733 £2.07 £1.83 £1.79 Monkfish (1) 4 £15.20 £13.61 £10.49 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 136 £3.86 £3.23 £2.88 Haddock (5) 2,602 £1.92 £1.24 £1.43 Ling (2) 6,129 £2.17 £1.93 £1.82 Monkfish (2) 133 £15.76 £13.92 £10.68 Haddock (round) 296 £1.79 £1.45 £1.16 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 592 £3.78 £3.08 £2.87 Ling (3) 3,328 £1.96 £1.89 £1.70 Monkfish (3) 180 £11.31 £11.65 £9.86 Hake (2) 505 £4.27 £3.80 £4.31 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 913 £2.82 £2.38 £1.06 Megrim 1,838 £2.09 £1.95 £3.46 Monkfish (4) 400 £9.60 £11.07 £9.47 Hake (3) 1,222 £3.05 £3.29 £3.33 Red mullet (3) 5 £11.66 £8.48 £11.50 Monkfish (1) 4,174 £3.51 £3.44 £3.70 Hake (4) 913 £1.98 £2.03 £2.46 Round pouting 9,742 £0.45 £0.44 £0.40 Monkfish (5) 929 £6.74 £6.04 £7.34 Monkfish (2) 10,646 £3.72 £3.55 £3.74 Halibut (3) 291 £12.17 £11.54 £11.97 Scallop (2) 12,647 £2.15 £2.08 £3.76 Octopus (M) 304 £2.03 £2.09 £1.82 Monkfish (3) 9,104 £3.70 £3.46 £3.78 Halibut (4) 75 £9.83 £9.57 £9.89 Scallop meat 322 £11.87 £12.00 £13.08 Plaice (1) 69 £2.59 £3.42 £2.67 Monkfish (4) 1,821 £3.75 £3.64 £3.78 John Dory 8 £6.53 £7.05 £5.75 Sole (1) 646 £13.29 £12.70 £10.87 Plaice (2) 47 £2.60 £3.22 £2.18 Monkfish (5) 219 £2.80 £2.60 £2.67 Lemon sole (2) 438 £10.67 £10.77 £9.17 Sole (2) 997 £16.73 £16.36 £12.02 Plaice (3) 60 £2.48 £2.92 £2.53 Plaice (1) 76 £4.86 £5.00 £4.39 Lemon sole (4) 408 £6.89 £6.75 £5.82 Sole (3) 851 £18.11 £18.08 £14.26 Plaice (4) 28 £2.24 £2.05 £1.63 Ling 6,152 £2.17 £1.65 £1.47 Plaice (2) 93 £6.56 £5.57 £5.30 Sole (4) 1,289 £17.93 £17.56 £11.58 Pollack, lythe (2) 26 £5.27 £3.77 £3.46 Lythe 1,966 £2.64 £2.86 £3.37 Plaice (3) 292 £6.08 £4.16 £4.42 Sole (5) 830 £15.92 £14.40 £9.52 Pollack, lythe (3) 74 £2.74 £3.67 £3.25 Megrim (2) 1,464 £5.55 £3.92 £6.21 Plaice (4) 1,216 £3.09 £2.03 £2.87 Sole (6) 1,057 £12.68 £12.20 £7.25 Pollack, lythe (4) 5 £1.00 £3.51 £2.29 Megrim (3) 904 £4.22 £3.00 £4.45 Pollack (2) 1,624 £4.42 £3.27 £4.18 Squid (1) 33 £12.39 £7.82 £7.07 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 71 £0.39 £0.40 £0.32 Megrim (4) 613 £2.71 £1.97 £3.08 Pollack (3) 5,426 £3.85 £2.90 £3.90 Squid (2) 254 £10.51 £7.95 £7.29 Monkfish (1) 562 £3.20 £2.80 £2.94 Pollack (4) 305 £2.79 £2.20 £3.36 Squid (mix) 136 £9.39 £7.41 £6.59 Red mullet (2) 6 £9.38 £10.21 £7.97 Monkfish (2) 4,135 £3.74 £3.01 £3.32 Saithe (1) 20,823 £2.17 £1.52 £1.61 Turbot (1) 137 £22.63 £19.70 £19.28 Red mullet (3) 12 £9.43 £9.96 £7.51 Monkfish (3) 6,808 £3.90 £3.24 £3.61 Saithe (2) 66,961 £2.19 £1.52 £1.41 Turbot (2) 281 £20.81 £18.54 £16.95 Red mullet (4) 134 £2.41 £0.94 £3.99 Monkfish (4) 3,315 £3.86 £3.20 £3.54 Saithe (3) 107,974 £2.22 £1.63 £1.32 Turbot (3) 262 £19.07 £16.94 £16.95 Saithe (2) 18 £1.80 £1.64 £1.52 Monkfish (5) 1,045 £2.77 £2.20 £2.81 Saithe (4) 23,423 £2.28 £1.64 £1.16 Turbot (4) 515 £15.32 £13.84 £13.81 Scallops 65 £1.53 £1.88 £1.33 Monkfish (6) 651 £1.22 £0.86 £2.04 Squid 670 £2.41 £2.17 £2.62 Turbot (5) 575 £13.42 £11.66 £11.67 Plaice (2) 708 £2.73 £2.52 £2.15 Smoothhound (M) 38 £1.08 £0.83 £1.11 Turbot (0) 12 £10.82 £20.08 £18.84 Turbot (6) 127 £10.41 £9.42 £8.89 Plaice (3) 852 £2.06 £2.04 £1.75 Squid (M) 16 £9.14 £5.93 £7.11 Turbot (1) 43 £14.11 £15.56 £15.53 Plaice (4) 1,235 £0.95 £1.14 £1.12 Whelks 564 £1.34 £1.56 £1.29 Turbot (1) 7 £19.00 £14.87 £17.39 Turbot (2) 24 £14.49 £14.31 £14.22 Whiting (1) 629 £2.60 £1.97 £2.11 Saithe (2) 4,359 £1.96 £1.35 £1.39 Turbot (2) 5 £19.50 £14.57 £16.73 Turbot (3) 29 £14.12 £12.26 £12.79 Whiting (2) 326 £1.97 £1.58 £1.56 Saithe (3) 6,657 £2.00 £1.30 £1.11 Turbot (3) 9 £19.00 £14.29 £18.58 Saithe (4) 12,069 £1.83 £1.38 £0.97 Turbot (4) 27 £8.88 £9.24 £7.05 Whiting (3) 310 £1.43 £1.10 £0.91 Turbot (4) 11 £18.82 £12.64 £15.52 Skate 1,160 £1.46 £0.78 £0.94 Whiting (1) 731 £1.93 £1.23 £1.70 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Min Max Max, Max, yr Turbot (5) 26 £14.91 £12.44 £13.78 Skate, mixed 81 £0.90 £0.46 £0.47 Whiting (2) 3,845 £1.68 £1.12 £1.39 TO 14 FEBRUARY price/kg price/kg mnth ago ago Turbot (6) 11 £14.74 £12.10 £9.57 Skate, roker 330 £1.59 £1.23 £1.28 Whiting (3) 186 £0.91 £0.83 £1.11 Squid 1,616 £3.42 £2.72 £4.42 Witch (1) 269 £5.49 £5.12 £5.01 Brown Shrimp £4.50 £4.50 £0.00 - Whiting (1) 69 £2.24 £2.18 £1.71 Turbot 130 £12.64 £12.91 £12.19 Witch (2) 1,441 £3.86 £3.49 £3.06 Herring £1.00 £2.70 £0.00 £1.55 Whiting (2) 21 £0.92 £1.91 £1.38 Whiting (2) 9,108 £2.61 £1.70 £1.72 Witch (3) 949 £1.69 £1.71 £1.46 Monkfish £1.50 £4.50 £5.00 £4.00 Whiting (3) 6 £0.67 £0.94 £0.59 20 February 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23 UK monthly demersal fish landings and 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UK haddock landings into UK ports UK cod landings into UK ports UK monkfish landings into UK ports 4,000 2.00 3,500 3.50 3,000 6.00 1.80 3,000 3.00 2,500 5.00 1.60 3,000 2,500 2.50 1.40 2,000 4.00 1.20 2,000 2.00 2,000 1.00 1,500 3.00 1,500 1.50 0.80 1,000 2.00 0.60 1,000 1.00 1,000 Landings (t, left scale) 0.40 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 500 0.50 500 1.00 Price per kg (right scale) 0.20 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 UK hake landings into UK ports UK sole landings into UK ports UK whiting landings into UK ports 2,000 3.50 250 15.00 1,800 1.80

1,500 1.50 1,600 2.80 200 12.00

1,200 1.20 1,200 2.10 150 9.00 900 0.90 800 1.40 100 6.00 600 0.60

400 0.70 50 3.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 300 Landings (t, left scale) 0.30 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19

UK saithe landings into UK ports UK plaice landings into UK ports UK megrim landings into UK ports 1,600 1.20 1,000 2.50 400 4.00 350 3.50 800 2.00 1,200 0.90 300 3.00

600 1.50 250 2.50 800 0.60 200 2.00 400 1.00 150 1.50

400 0.30 100 1.00 200 0.50 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 50 0.50 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19

UK ling landings into UK ports UK lemon sole landings into UK ports UK turbot landings into UK ports 800 2.40 350 7.00 100 20.00

700 2.10 300 6.00 80 16.00 600 1.80 250 5.00

500 1.50 60 200 4.00 12.00 400 1.20 150 3.00 40 8.00 300 0.90 100 2.00 200 0.60 20 4.00 Landings (t, left scale) 50 1.00 100 0.30 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 Dec-17 Apr-18 Aug-18 Dec-18 Apr-19 Aug-19 UK bass landings into UK ports UK pollack landings into UK ports UK skate landings into UK ports 70 14.00 250 4.00 350 1.60

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Find us on Twitter Join the nd us on Join in the conversation £3.25 Fishing News group 26 July 2018 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews TRANQUILITY FISHING FEATURE 9 Fishing News group 8 TRANQUILITY FISHING FEATURE Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 26 July 2018 £3.25 28 November 2019 – follow this link Issue: 5491 @YourFishingNews £3.25 1 4 5 December 2019 TRANQUIL FIRST TRIP FOR TRANQUILITY Issue: 5492 fishingnews.co.uk 14 November 2019 http://on.fb.me/fishingnewshttp://on.fb.me/ shingnews Join the THE NEW WHALSAY FLY-SHOOTER TRANQUILITY LK 63 FISHED HER MAIDEN Issue: 5489 Fishing News group TRIP LAST MONTH, IN THE BURRA HAAF ON THE WEST SIDE OF SHETLAND – follow thisthis link There was a tangible buzz of anticipation as the crew gathered in Tranquility’s forward messdeck a few minutes into a Saturday 17 April 2015 £2.99 Visit us online for morning, in preparation for the start of their maiden trip, reports David Linkie £3.25 news, features and http://on.fb.me/fishingnewshttp://on.fb.me/ shingnews Find us on Twitter Tranquility heading in to land at nostalgia Scalloway, with Fitful Head in the 14 November 2019 distance, after a two-day maiden Courageous Courageous approaches Symbister harbour for the first time after trip in the Burra Haaf. Issue: 5489 ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED being bought by a youthful Whalsay partnership (Photo courtesy £3.25 Join in the conversation Ivan Reid) 17 April 2015 £2.99 28 November 2019 TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT U10 E-CATCH ROLL-OUT Issue: 5491 @YourFishingNews at WhalsayTURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT TOUGHER DISCARDS POLICING £3.25 TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT 5 December 2019 Issue: 5492 fishingnews.co.uk 5 1: Taking the end buoys onto the net drum, before clipping in the Courageous approaches Symbister harbour for the first time after port rope. New 14.65m crabber Dalwhinnie arrives at Stonehaven Courageous being bought by a youthful Whalsay partnership (Photo courtesy 2: Hauling the wings of the net onto the starboard drum. A large number of Whalsay residents ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED 3: The Burra Haaf delivers yet again. The new Stonehaven crabber Dalwhinnie A 913 was New Brixham beamer launched in Holland Ivan Reid) braved gales force winds and driving 4: John Johnson prepares to release the codline. given an early opportunity to prove her seakeeping The hull of the new Brixham beam trawler Georgina TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT 5: Another haul of prime-quality whitefish, caught less than 15 Skipper Ian Mathieson berthed sleet toof welcomeLadram BM the 100 latest was addition lifted into the water at Ibis miles from harbour. U10 E-CATCH ROLL-OUT 6: Fishroom man Robbie Jamieson weighing cod released from qualities during the 700-mile delivery passage from at Whalsay Margaret of Ladram sets new Brixham record Dalwhinnie in Stonehaven harbour for to the local fleet, the 26.5m whitefish TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Tranquility’s automated VCU catch-handling system… Kilkeel to Aberdeenshire, reports David Linkie. Shipyard, Burgum on 31 October, before being pushed the first time last week following a trawlerthrough Courageous the Prinses LK 470, Margriet into canal to Den Oever, 7: … before adding it to the vessel’s catch-management system. Skipper Ian Mathieson reported that the vessel TOUGHER DISCARDS POLICING New 14.65m crabber Dalwhinnie arrives at Stonehaven 8: The first box of fish in Tranquility’s fishroom. stormy delivery trip from Kilkeel. Symbister harbour for the first time at 9: The first day’s work nears an end. handled extremely well when crossing the Irish Sea in where the 35.25m vessel will be completed by main TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT The new Stonehaven crabber Dalwhinnie A 913 was the beginningcontractors of this Luyt month, BV, reports reports given an early opportunity to prove her seakeeping 2 … on first trip back after Rugbya SE forceWorld 6-7, before steaming Cup from Kyle of Lochalsh David Linkie Skipper Ian Mathieson berthed . qualities during the 700-mile delivery passage from David Linkie. Dalwhinnie in Stonehaven harbour for The Waterdance -owned beamer Margaret of Ladram E to Cape Wrath in a heavy northerly swell. Of 8.70m beam and a moulded depth of 5.2m, Kilkeel to Aberdeenshire, reports David Linkie. The occasion was given added A largeNew number of Whalsay Brixhamresidents beamer launched in Holland the first time last week following a 6 8 Georgina of Ladram was designed by Luyt BV Skipper Ian Mathieson reported that the vessel Margaret of Ladram leaves Brixham Powered by a Doosan V158TI main engine driving braved gales force winds and driving stormy delivery trip from Kilkeel. 199 broke the Brixham record landing for a single trip last significance by the fact that Courageous The hull of the new Brixham beam trawler Georgina handled extremely well when crossing the Irish Sea in , auctioned on the market fishmarket after landing her record- in collaboration with Marimecs Marine Design & sleet to welcome the latest addition a SE force 6-7, before steaming from Kyle of Lochalsh ith the summer solstice wheelhouse equipment, before month when 7.5t of Dover sole has been bought by four young Whalsay of Ladram BM 100 was lifted into the water at Ibis Margaret of Ladram sets new Brixham record less than two weeks calling Lerwick port control for floor by Brixham Trawler Agents, grossed £125,630. breaking catch. Engineering for Waterdance Ltd. to the Shipyard,local fleet, Burgum the 26.5m on 31 whitefishOctober, before being pushed to Cape Wrath in a heavy northerly swell. Waway, the ‘simmer dim’, clearance to leave harbour, as the fishermen, skipper Ian Shearer (24), Powered by a Doosan V158TI main engine driving for which Shetland is renowned, crew prepared to throw the ropes Margaret of Ladram skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie Georgina of Ladram is the second new fishing trawlerthrough Courageous the Prinses LK 470, Margriet into canal to Den Oever, meant that the sky over Lerwick off. engineer Malcolm Reid (24) Christopher … on first trip back after Rugby World Cup was still grey, rather than jet Ten minutes later, the flash of – whose son Luke plays rugby for England and Exeter vessel to be built for Waterdance by Luyt BV, which Symbisterwhere harbour the 35.25m for the vessel first willtime be at completed by main black. Bressay lighthouse slipped astern Bow view of Irvine (19) and James Johnston (18), in David Linkie. The Waterdance-owned beamer Margaret of Ladram E After Chris Shearer started to port as Tranquility headed due earlier this year delivered the 14.95m vivier-crabber the beginningcontractors of this Luyt month, BV, reports reports Tranquility’s Mitsubishi S6U south, parallel to the east coast Chiefs – turned the boat around and went straight back Dalwhinnie, 199 broke the Brixham record landing for a single trip last Bow view of partnership with LHD Ltd. Margaret of Ladram leaves Brixham (680kW @ 1050rpm) main engine, of Shetland, retracing the route Nichola of Ladram E 1. David LinkieOf 8.70m. beam and a moulded depth of 5.2m, month when 7.5t of Dover sole, auctioned on the market Dalwhinnie, the sound of which was barely driven four hours earlier on the to sea, without even waiting to see what his record catch which is based fishmarket after landing her record- floor by Brixham Trawler Agents, grossed £125,630. which is based discernible in the wheelhouse, way north from Sumburgh airport With anThe average Luyt group age willof just now 21 begin years, installation of TheGeorgina occasion of was Ladram given was added designed by Luyt BV breaking catch. had made. on a Buccaneer on a Buccaneer skipper Stuart Anderson to Lerwick. the newGeorgina partnership of Ladram’s is probably engineroom one of and deck significancein collaboration by the fact with that Marimecs Courageous Marine Design & Margaret of Ladram skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie carried out a quick check of the Fishing News had been unable The record-breaking trip was his first after returning 46 hull, fitted – whose son Luke plays rugby for England and Exeter 46 hull, fitted 3 the youngest on record for this class of has beenEngineering bought by for four Waterdance young Whalsay Ltd. out by G Smyth out by G Smyth Chiefs – turned the boat around and went straight back from watching Luke Cowan-Dickie play for England fishermen,Georgina skipper of Ian Ladram Shearer is the (24), second new fishing to sea, without even waiting to see what his record catch Boats. Boats. vessel. during the recent Rugby World Cup in Japan. engineervessel Malcolm to be builtReid for (24) Waterdance Christopher by Luyt BV, which had made. 7 Skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie said: “I’ve been The four partners have all been The record-breaking trip was his first after returning 9 crew membersAn unusual on localview ofwhitefish Georgina boatsof Ladram passing over a dual carriageway while Irvine (19)earlier and this James year delivered Johnston the (18), 14.95m in vivier-crabber from watching Luke Cowan-Dickie play for England managing my sole quota and my days at sea for the since leavingbeing school,towed to with Den IanOever. Shearer partnershipNichola with of LadramLHD Ltd. E 1. during the recent Rugby World Cup in Japan. past 11 months, just so I could try and break this record. With anThe average Luyt group age ofwill just now 21 begin years, installation of Skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie said: “I’ve been aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on managing my sole quota and my days at sea for the I found this little patch of good fishing just before the Georgina of Ladram’s engineroom and deck Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus the new partnership is probably one of past 11 months, just so I could try and break this record. World Cup started, but I was unable to fish it because the youngest on record for this class of I found this little patch of good fishing just before the ‡ … before starting to run the port rope. and James Johnston on Guardian World Cup started, but I was unable to fish it because of bad weather. I obviously couldn’t miss the chance to vessel. to be in Whalsay the previous as the skippers and crew finished presented a unique opportunity Angell before this boat was renamed The four partners have all been of bad weather. I obviously couldn’t miss the chance to weekend, when Tranquility arrived rigging out their new boat at too good to miss, providing travel watch my son playing in the World Cup, so I was keeping ‡ The 35.25m beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 in the Prinses Margriet canal, en watch my son playing in the World Cup, so I was keeping a 1,350mm-diameter propeller through a PRM 4.17:1 of Kilkeel, Dalwhinnie features a number of interesting home from Denmark, where the Lerwick. arrangements could be made. Courageous. An unusual view of Georgina of Ladram passing over a dual carriageway while seine-netter was built to a new in- A WhatsApp message on The tight timescale meant that my fingers crossed while I was away watching Luke crew members on local whitefish boats my fingers crossed while I was away watching Luke reduction gearbox, Dalwhinnie used just 1,700 litres of ideas in line with the owner’s requirements, including a route to Den Oever for completion by Luyt BV. (Photos: Rienk Nadema) being towed to Den Oever. fuel during the three-day trip. refrigerated 130-box-capacity dry hold. house design by Vestværftet ApS Thursday morning – “We’re going the usual overnight ferry was Continued on Page 5 since leaving school, with Ian Shearer that no one else would find it. After being in Japan for at Hvide Sande (Fishing News, 28 aff shortly after Friday midnight, not an option, but fortunately that no one else would find it. After being in Japan for so long, I ended up spending a small fortune, so I really Based on a Buccaneer 46 hull and built to a high Further details of Dalwhinnie will be included in June), so alternative options were with a 95% chance of landing on Loganair still had seats available so long, I ended up spending a small fortune, so I really aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on needed to land this catch! level of specification and finish by G Smyth Boats Ltd Fishing News soon. ‡ Magnus Polson putting the dahn away… discussed with Stuart Anderson Sunday. There’s a bed for you” – on the last flight of the day from machinery. This will include an ABC Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus needed to land this catch! ‡ The 35.25m beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 in the Prinses Margriet canal, en “Many people don’t realise that this was a sustainable vessel of this size, we are setting a new catch. I have my sole quota, which is based on what can “Many people don’t realise that this was a sustainable a 1,350mm-diameter propeller through a PRM 4.17:1 of Kilkeel, Dalwhinnie features a number of interesting 745kW main engine, a 3,200mm-diameter and James Johnston on Guardian route to Den Oever for completion by Luyt BV. (Photos: Rienk Nadema) propeller and an electrically powered standard. We have worked transparently Angell before this boat was renamed be sustainably caught, given to me in January every year. catch. I have my sole quota, which is based on what can reduction gearbox, Dalwhinnie used just 1,700 litres of ideas in line with the owner’s requirements, including a and together with Waterdance from the It is then down to me to manage my yearly quota how I fuel during the three-day trip. refrigerated 130-box-capacity dry hold. 10-drum winch manufactured by the yard. Courageous. vessel of this size, we are setting a new want throughout the year. Because of 15 years of careful Shetland team effort nd us on be sustainably caught, given to me in January every year. initial concept phase to offer a design that Continued on Page 5 machinery. This will include an ABC management, the sole population off Brixham has been Jacoline Luijt of Luyt BV said: “We are standard. We have worked transparently Join the Based on a Buccaneer 46 hull and built to a high Further details of Dalwhinnie will be included in 745kW main engine, a 3,200mm-diameter increasing year on year. Fishing News group It is then down to me to manage my yearly quota how I meets their expectations.” – follow thisthis linklink very pleased with the collaboration with and together with Waterdance from the assists Rosebloom £3.25 “This record wasn’t just broken by me. It was a team the massive financial investment put in from the vessel’s 14 November 2019 http://on.fb.me/fishingnewshttp://on.fb.me/ shingnews level of specification and finish by G Smyth Boats Ltd Fishing News soon. Issue: 5489 want throughout the year. Because of 15 years of careful Scheduled for completion in 2020, propeller and an electrically powered initial concept phase to offer a design that The Avoch-owned and to sea through the north Waterdance. As with Nichola of Ladram, effort and the result of years of hard work, right from owners at Greendale, to all my crew and shore support 17 April 2015 £2.99 FAL 10-drum winch manufactured by the yard. Peterhead-based 28m pair- entrance at around 1am, management, the sole population off Brixham has been Georgina of Ladram is the first new beam meets their expectations.” staff, as well as the team at Brixham who sold the fish for C Courageous approaches Symbister harbour for the first time after Courageous hie seiner Rosebloom INS 353 shortly after high water. being bought by a youthful Whalsay partnership (Photo courtesy this demonstrates Luyt’s capacity to F Jacoline Luijt of Luyt BV said: “We are Ivan Reid) : ‘Te us to be able to break the record.” increasing year on year. LL trawler of its class to be built for the UK Scheduled for completion in 2020, was successfully refloated and Weather conditions were U10at Whalsay E-CATCH ROLL-OUT the massive financial investment put in from the vessel’s MPs TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT develop tailor-made solutions. We look The 33m beam trawler Margaret of Ladram has been “This record wasn’t just broken by me. It was a team since the Colne Shipping Company Ltd very pleased with the collaboration with Georgina of Ladram is the first new beam towed a short distance into calm with light winds and a owners at Greendale, to all my crew and shore support the jewel of the Greendale fleet since the Exeter-based A largeNew number of Whalsay Brixhamresidents beamer launched in Holland forward to seeing our joint vision come Lerwick by the local harbour moderate sea swell, with the braved gales force winds and driving Waterdance. As with Nichola of Ladram, The hull of the new Brixham beam trawler Georgina sleet toof welcome Ladram BM the 100latest was addition lifted into the water at Ibis effort and the result of years of hard work, right from took delivery of the 42.35m St Anthony LT trawler of its class to be built for the UK company bought her from Belgium in 2012. 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Her new has broken our longstanding Brixham port record for fish at Lerwick for consignment pull Rosebloom clear of the aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on assists Rosebloom ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus and James Johnston on Guardian TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT to Peterhead, Rosebloom soft contoured skerry proved Angell before this boat was renamed ‡ The 35.25m beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 in the Prinses Margriet canal, en landed, with a value of £126,000. Not only is Adam a very Right: Margaret of Ladram skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie... route to Den Oever for completion by Luyt BV. (Photos: Rienk Nadema) CFP’ Courageous. owners carried out an extensive refit, including a new main F Continued on Page 5 The Avoch-owned and to sea through the north o Fishing News machinery. 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(Photo: Sydney Sinclair) Jacoline Luijt of Luyt BV said: “We are meets their expectations.” we w Skipper Ian Mathieson berthed qualities during the 700-mile delivery passage from very pleased with the collaboration with Scheduled for completion in 2020, Dalwhinnie in Stonehaven harbour for Kilkeel to Aberdeenshire, reports David Linkie. Waterdance. As with Nichola of Ladram, Georgina of Ladram is the first new beam the first time last week following a Skipper Ian Mathieson reported that the vessel don’t just happen overnight – this is the result of years of FAL ChieF: ‘TethisLL demonstrates Luyt’sMPs capacity to trawler of its class to be built for the UK been skippered by Adam Cowan-Dickie since 2015. stormy delivery trip from Kilkeel. develop tailor-made solutions. We look since the Colne Shipping Company Ltd seiner Rosebloom INS 353 shortly after high water. handled extremely well when crossing the Irish Sea in forward to seeing our joint vision come took delivery of the 42.35m St Anthony LT Fishermen’s Association Ltd Chairman calls on fishing industry to put pressure on MPsa SE force 6-7, before steaming from Kyle of Lochalsh into service. With the construction of a 1005 in 1999. to Cape Wrath in a heavy northerly swell. investment and hard work from everyone involved in the Carter, who farm at Ladram Bay and Greendale, and Barry Young, managing director of Brixham Trawler Powered by a Doosan V158TI main engine driving we wAnT ouT oF CFP’ Margaret of Ladram was successfully refloated and Weather conditions were HYGIENICAwards 2020 FURNITUREnow AND EQUIPMENT industry. is named after their late mother Margaret Carter. The Fishermen’s Association Ltd Chairman calls on fishing industry to put pressure on MPs Fishing News , said: “It is fantastic news that Bow view of Agents towed a short distance into calm with light winds and a Dalwhinnie, “This is a good sign that things are finally improving, brothers have been involved in the fishing industry which is based on a Buccaneer HYGIENICAwards 2020 FURNITUREnow AND EQUIPMENT Fishing News 46 hull, fitted and hopefully, if we manage to get a positive Brexit, things for over 50 years, starting out in the 1960s with one has broken our longstanding Brixham port record for fish out by G Smyth QUALITY THROUGH MANUFACTURE QUALITY OF SERVICE Right:Lerwick Margaret by the oflocal Ladram harbour skipper Adammoderate Cowan-Dickie... sea swell, with the Boats. openQUALITY for BY nominationsDESIGN can only improve for us further. There has been a bit of 6m beach boat fishing from Ladram Bay. Today, the From now until midnight on category. 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RNLI and rescued skipper call for crews to put safety first RNLI fishing safety manager Frankie Horne However, it was a local fishing boat, Lynn has urged the fishing community to take Marie, which arrived first on the scene. By advantage of the safety training on offer this time, the skipper and a crewman from for crews, and to ensure that their safety Polaris had been in the water for at least equipment is up to date. 15 minutes. His call comes after the skipper of a The skipper of the Lynn Marie feared Fishery Protection Squadron fishing vessel that sank late last year off the worst, as the Polaris had already gone the Isle of Man below the water. stands ready to support the attributed his He stopped his industry See page 3 crew’s rescue There is no doubt that engine to listen to the safety for the crew of training they had the lifejackets saved the Polaris, which undertaken and proved a wise to their lifejackets, our lives. We wouldn’t have decision as he which were fitted heard the two with personal even been afloat to be men in the water locator beacons. shouting. The On the evening recovered had we not crew of the Lynn of 23 November Marie located last year, Polaris been wearing them them with a Top speakers lined up for Scottish suffered a searchlight and Seafood Summit See page 6 catastrophic hull failure off the west coast recovered them from the water. ‡ Gordon Mills, skipper of the Polaris, was of the Isle of Man. The vessel sank so RNLI fishing safety manager Frankie thankfully wearing a PFD when his boat rapidly that the skipper only had time Horne said: “After speaking with Gordon sank in November. to send out a Mayday before the vessel Mills, the skipper of the Polaris, and the became submerged. crew of Lynn Marie on their arrival at Peel, with wave movement whilst attempting to The Coastguard immediately launched it was quite clear that this could have been recover themselves. two RNLI lifeboats, from Port St Mary a very different story had the crew of both “To see fishermen struggling in a and Port Erin, and a rescue helicopter. vessels not acted so professionally. The controlled environment and only lasting crew had attended safety training and a few minutes, or in some cases a few wore lifejackets fitted with personal locator seconds, without the lifejacket makes you beacons, which had increased their think about your own safety. I can tell you chances of survival.” that there is no doubt that the lifejackets Gordon Mills added: “At no time did I saved our lives. We wouldn’t have even feel our lives were in danger due to our been afloat for the crew of fishing vessel training and equipment. We had a policy Lynn Marie to recover us from the water Lunar Bow – new Peterhead of wearing lifejackets on the working deck had we not been wearing them. vessel quickly starts to prove since attending refresher training, where “I would encourage all fishermen to her capabilities on west-of-4° I was shown a film involving fishermen, start wearing their lifejackets while on deck mackerel See pages 8 - 18 wearing their normal working clothes, – you just never know when you might being put through their paces in the RNLI need it.” survival centre environmental pool, both More advice on fishing safety from the ‡ Polaris PL 193. with and without lifejackets, in cold water RNLI can be found at: bit.ly/3bsRhQS Thomas Summers book launch at Fraserburgh A new book recording the history of gaps and uncertainties being filled in, the renowned Fraserburgh boatbuilder notwithstanding a lot of ‘scratchy heid’ Thomas Summers & Co will be launched moments. at the Fraserburgh Heritage Centre on In June 2018, Lindsay Laurenson Saturday, 22 February, reports David of Shetland, the administrator of the Linkie. Facebook page ‘Wooden boats built by Nearly 90 fishing boats, ranging in Thomas Summers & Co, Fraserburgh’, size from 30ft to 97ft, were launched in asked Alexander West to take over the characteristically dramatic manner as administrator, having noticed his Boat of the week – from the Thomas Summers yard on the enthusiasm for ripper yawls. A couple Virtuous FR 253 See page 19 north breakwater at Fraserburgh between of days later, Alexander added Malcolm 1946 and 1962. The wide range of vessels Burge as joint administrator. included herring drifters, seiners, trawlers As their widespread search for and longliners, as well as a succession of details continued, Alexander and traditional Fraserburgh ripper yawls. Malcolm gradually accumulated a Malcolm Burge and Alexander West photograph album of all but one boat used first-hand experience and their built by Thomas Summers & Co. shared interest in Tommy Summers Having gathered as much boats to painstakingly compile a full list information as possible, the next of new builds at the Fraserburgh yard, question was what to do with it, in over a period of several years. While order for it to be retained for posterity. information on the bigger vessels was The answer came in the form of Flamborough coble disaster of generally accessible, the high number of well-known fishing author Mike Smylie, 1909 remembered See page 20 ripper yawls built by Tommy Summers who quickly got on with the task ahead proved considerably more challenging in – the results of which will be revealed some instances. Tenacity and persistent at the book launch on 22 February, SEE INSIDE! use of social media gradually resulted in which starts at 2pm.