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‡ Pathway approaching Peterhead last week with a shot of herring. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner)

The North Sea summer herring fishery is expected to move up through the gears early next month, with more midwater vessels from North East Scotland starting to fish, reportsDavid Linkie. Following the end of the early-season maatjes fishery in June, boats are now fishing MSC-accredited North Sea herring for the fillet market. Good marks of larger herring are now being reported down the east side of Shetland, where a number of Dutch- ‡ Jo Bert LO 243 settles on to the bottom as the sea recedes from the Wash and German-registered freezer trawlers cockle beds, as the first crewmen start hand-raking... have been fishing in recent weeks. The Peterhead midwater trawler The hand-raked Wash cockle fishery and concern has been expressed that Pathway landed two shots of herring opened on 22 June with a TAC of it is the precautionary principle, rather into her home port last week after 3,636t, to the relief of local fishermen, than the actual needs of overwintering fishing to the northeast of Skerries. as it was feared that due to coronavirus birds, that threatens its long-term A number of Fraserburgh boats were restrictions, the necessary survey work future. expected to leave harbour this week could not be undertaken this year. Fishing News spent a day on the for their first trips. Shetland crews are ‡ … before carrying a basket of cockles across But the fishery was already heavily Wash sands to find out more. Turn to expected to remain ashore until later in the sand to a dumpy bag. restricted by environmental protections, page 8 for our in-depth feature. August before targeting roe herring.

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The national fishing federations “In these difficult conditions, it and Fishermen’s Mission have is our collective intention to ensure joined forces to try to ensure that that fishermen – and their families all fishermen and vessel operators – are guided to available sources are aware of all financial help that of support where and when it is is available during the coronavirus fallen through the gaps’. They add needed. crisis and are able to access it easily. that they will not hesitate to seek “If, in order for this to happen, Warning that there are still further government intervention if we need further government tough times ahead even though the this proves necessary. intervention, we will not hesitate crisis has begun to ease, they say The organisations say that to make that case. Our intention that an array of government, private the extreme emergency is slowly with this initiative is to ensure, as and charitable support agencies receding, although there is a risk far as possible, that appropriate exists to support those in the fishing of a second wave as lockdown assistance is available to everyone sector who are facing genuine measures are relaxed. who needs it, and to ensure that difficulties. “Markets are tentatively we return to being the strong, But in a joint statement, the returning, but not in all areas. Some resilient industry we were before NFFO, SFF and Fishermen’s will take a long time to fully recover. this crisis, and that we can be Mission say that navigating these Having survived the last few difficult again.” different agencies to find the right months, the focus is now on how to David Dickens, chief executive kind of support can be ‘daunting’. get through the slow and possibly of the Fishermen’s Mission, said: They say: “There is now an prolonged recovery period. “This has been one of the busiest urgent need for a single point of “This is at a time when financial times in the history of the work of contact to be established so that resilience for businesses and crew the Fishermen’s Mission. We have fishermen can be directed to will be low. With no reserves put worked closely, for many years, the support appropriate to each aside, large parts of the industry are with the NFFO and SFF, and it is “Aye, it’s sad... they applied for a grant from the Fishermen’s individual case. highly vulnerable. The challenges vital that all fishermen understand Mission, but for some reason they didnae qualify.” “The Fishermen’s Mission has of debt management as government that we are here to help with any agreed to operate a ‘one-stop shop’ support schemes end will affect issues that they may be facing. time for many in our industry, and Since the beginning of for all matters relating to welfare many fishermen and their families.” “We have port staff covering indeed continues to be so for some, the Covid-19 restrictions, the and the wellbeing of both active The groups say it is important the whole of the UK coastline, as the recovery from the Covid Fishermen’s Mission has accessed and retired fishermen and their that those who have fallen through and while currently we may all lockdowns slowly takes shape. It grants totalling more than families. the gaps in the support measures be working from home, we are is important that fishermen can £250,000 to assist fishermen and “It is our hope that the are not left behind. still able to provide an extremely readily access the help and advice their families, as well as providing Fishermen’s Mission becomes They say: “We, collectively feel a effective service. We welcome that they need over the weeks and emotional support and arranging the first point of contact for all responsibility to: this initiative and statement as a months ahead, and this initiative for other services to assist where fishermen when they need this declaration of our commitment to will help to do that.” and when necessary. kind of support, and that this • Identify those at risk from the loss continue to support our fishermen information is widely available to of their business and/or personal and their families.” them,” say the organisations. difficulties NFFO chief executive Barrie They say that they and the • Analyse the nature of the Deas said: “We know that the ‘One-stop’ contact numbers government share a commitment difficulties they are now facing Covid-19 virus and subsequent The Fishermen’s Mission’s contacts for information are: to the whole fishing industry, • Develop and provide adequate lockdown has stripped resilience including fishing businesses and solutions that will help fishermen out from many parts of our Freephone: 0800 6341020 individual fishermen, whether they who are struggling through this industry. The very least we can do Landline: 01489 566910 work as owner-operators, as self- unprecedented and challenging is provide an adequate safety-net employed share-fishermen or under time. for those who find themselves in Email: [email protected] employment contracts. difficulty. Having a single contact They acknowledge that “We anticipate that the next few point will, we hope, ease access Via its website: fishermensmission.org.uk by using the ‘Need Help’ governments across the UK months will be tough. There is both to the support systems that are button. quickly delivered significant economic and financial uncertainty, available.” financial support. But, they say, as well as fear and concern about a Elspeth Macdonald, chief The Fishermen’s Mission also has a strong presence on Twitter @ this has been ‘broad-brush’, and second wave, should the pandemic executive of the SFF, said: “This thefishmish and Facebook, where it can receive direct messages. ‘inevitably, some fishermen have return in force. has been an extremely difficult MAIB chief calls on Fishing vessel investigations in 2019 fishermen to wear PFDs 3 February: Capsize and sinking of 4 August: Stranding of the Spanish- Six fishermen lost their lives in work, mainly as a result of He said that many the UK-registered Investor OB 569 off owned UK-registered Coelleira OB 93 2019, the same number as in fatalities and vessel losses. longstanding recommendations Ardnamurchan Point, Scotland on Ve Skerries, a low-lying reef off the 2018, according to the annual He said that while the made to the MCA had finally west coast of Shetland report of the Marine Accident loss of six lives appears low, been actioned, including a 27 March: Fatal man-overboard from Investigation Branch (MAIB). given the small percentage number aimed at reducing the UK-registered Sea Mist BF 918 off 18 August: Flooding and sinking of the Three of the men who were of professional fishermen it the fatality rate in the fishing Macduff UK-registered Ocean Quest FR 375 lost died in the water, and none represents, it is still ‘a very high industry. while 75nm northeast of Fraserburgh. were wearing lifejackets. fatality rate compared to other “Working with the FISG, 29 April: Fatal accident onboard the All crew were rescued safely Captain Andrew Moll, UK industries’. the MCA has now developed UK-registered Artemis FR 809 while chief inspector of marine Captain Moll said that the a Fishing Strategy that berthed alongside in Kilkeel 23 September: Capsize of the accidents, said this was of great Fishing Industry Safety Group addresses a number of MAIB UK-registered Anna-Marie II WK 837 concern, and that based on (FISG) had made great efforts recommendations that targeted 28 June: Fatal injury to a crewman near Brora in notheast Scotland, with recent figures, ‘embedding this to promote the wearing of PFD wear and accidents to onboard the UK-registered Olivia the loss of one life behavioural change could halve personal flotation devices persons,” said Captain Moll. Jean TN 35 off the east coast of the fatality rate in the fishing (PFDs). Also, in November “However, the elements Aberdeen 15 November: Fatality onboard the industry’. 2018, the MCA published of the strategy designed to UK-registered Resurgam PZ 1001 He said that investigating Marine Guidance Note 5881, improve small fishing vessel 24 July: Fatal man-overboard from following the accidental activation of commercial fishing vessel making clear its expectation stability – still a contributory the UK-registered May C SY 213 off an engineroom fire suppression system accidents continues to be a that fishermen wear PFDs factor in many fatal accidents – Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides while alongside at Newlyn significant part of the MAIB’s when working on deck. remain outstanding.” 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Vessel from Shetland confrontation detained by Irish authorities £9.7m support for The German-registered Spanish fishing vessel that was at the centre of a Scottish coastal confrontation off Shetland last month has been detained by Ireland’s Naval Service north of Donegal, reports Lorna Siggins. communities The 29m Pesorsa Dos was detained by Irish navy patrol ship LÉ William Coastal communities areas, which are often Butler Yeats some 250 miles off Malin across Scotland will reliant on tourism. That Head late last week. receive £9.7m of revenue is why we have widened It is understood that the vessel was generated by the Scottish the remit of these funds gill-netting near Rockall, and had 10t Crown Estate’s marine to include direct support, of monkfish onboard. assets, providing vital where necessary, to The vessel was escorted to support for responding to coastal businesses and Killybegs, Co Donegal for alleged the impact of Covid-19. third-sector organisations. infringements of EU fishing The funding, which “We have also worked regulations in Irish waters, and was comes from the second to allocate this year’s handed over to the Garda and the year of devolved funding as swiftly as Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority management of Crown possible, to enable local (SFPA). Estate assets, is up by authorities to help these Last month, the gill-netter, from ‡ The gill-netter was detained by Irish navy patrol ship LÉ WilliamADVERTISEMENT Butler Yeats more than £2m on last PROOF year, organisations through the the Spanish port of La Coruna, was some 250 miles off Malin Head. (Photo: Irish Naval Service) and is more than double economic shock caused by filmed trying to foul the propeller of FOR THE 11THthe funding ARPIL available 19 ISSUEthe pandemic, and direct a Shetland trawler, Alison Kay LK the argument of the UK and German “Many whitefish boats have under the old Coastal resource to where it is most 57, some 30 miles west of Shetland authorities that there was nothing to be reported they have been on theFROM: CommunitiesZOE WHITEHEAD Fund. needed in support of a (Fishing News, 25 June, ‘MCA urged to done about its dangerous activities’. receiving end of attempts to drive It will be allocated to wellbeing economy. act over Shetland gear conflict’). “It is yet another reminder Date: that ...... them out of their traditional fishing the 26 Scottish local “This year’s funding The Maritime and Coastguard local fishermen should not have to wait grounds,” he said, pointing out that authority areas which have is a significant increase Agency (MCA) was urged to until next year for us to have proper the exit of Britain from the Common coastlines, with funding on the revenue which investigate the incident, which Scottish enforcement of basic norms of safetyAMENDMENTS at Fisheries Policy TO at the AD end ofAD this APPROVEDyear based FOR on their PRESS share ofPLEASE the was TICK allocated (4) from the skippers said was the latest in a series sea. We can and should be getting this would ‘significantly’ change the way adjacent sea area. Scottish Crown Estate of such confrontations. sorted now,” he said. fisheries access works in UK waters. The scope of the fund to local authority areas However, the MCA said it had Mr Carmichael had already Signed:However, ...... the Irish authorities have has been broadened this Pleasein the faxfirst oryear email of this back to details below no jurisdiction to investigate, as the contacted the MCA about the Alison said that the detention of the Pesorsa year in response to Covid- funding coming under incident occurred outside the 12-mile Kay incident, and said that the Spanish Dos was with regard to a separate 19, with local authorities devolved management. limit in which it could take action vessel’s action was ‘intended toESSENTIAL issue, REVISIONS and not related ONLY to the • incident CORRECTIONS now TOable THIS to directly PROOF MUST ItBE will RECEIVED greatly help IMMEDIATELY our against foreign-flagged vessels. immobilise’ the Shetland vessel – ‘an off the Shetland coast. support businesses, coastal areas as we It said its maritime investigations action which is extremely dangerous The SFPAAPPROVAL said that a 24-hour MUST BE CONFIRMEDincluding third-sector BY RETURN FAXembark OR EMAIL on a challenging team had written to the German and in contravention of the basicREVISIONS rules detention TO ORIGINAL order for INSTRUCTIONSthe vessel was MAYorganisations, BE OMITTED affectedIF OBSTRUCTING by period THE of PRODUCTIONrecovery from the SCHEDULE maritime administration ‘to raise its of the sea’. granted on 21 July at Carrick-on- the pandemic. pandemic for all parts of concerns’, as it was the responsibility of He told theIF MCA WE that DO the actions NOT RECEIVEShannon district ANY court inCONFIRMATION Co Leitrim. Scottish THIS land reform WILL INDICATEour economy.” THE PROOF IS CORRECT the flag state. of Spanish fishermen had ‘caused a It said it could not comment further secretary Roseanna Crown Estate Scotland The Shetland News quoted the great deal of anger and frustration as the case was before the courts as Cunningham said: manages assets that German federal police department for for trawlermen in my constituency Fishing News was going to press. “Covid-19 has had a stretch the length and maritime security as stating that there and across the north of Scotland in The SFPA said that this is the Irish devastating impact on breadth of Scotland, was ‘no suspicion of an offence under recent years’, due to both ‘aggressive Naval Service’s seventh detention at communities across the including agricultural and German law’. acts such as those outlined, and the sea this year. It is the 26th case of country and particularlyMitsubishi forestry Marine land, Diesel most of theEngines Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair wider use of gill-nets, which can cover alleged breaches of Irish sea-fisheries those people and seabed,221kw just to 3588kw under half of the foreshore and some Carmichael said that the fact that the large areas and thus prevent other regulations that the SFPA has been businesses living and  Irish authorities were able to detain fishermen from working in those involved in bringing before the courts working in our coastal commercial property. the Pesorsa Dos ‘entirely undermines areas’. this year. Mitsubishi Marine Diesel engines Holland Fisheries Mitsubishi Marine221kw to 3588kwDiesel Engines Event goes ahead built to last with221kw ease to of 3588kw maintenance in mind

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UK DISTRIBUTOR FOR MITSUBISHI TURBOCHARGERS & ENGINES EUROPE B.V. SALES & SERVICE SUSIDARY OF MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES JAPAN. WEB: www.diamonddiesels.co.uk 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Welcome ‘one-stop shop’ for aid advice EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ Many fishermen and their families will the Fishermen’s Mission has a long track to increase as the furlough and self- KELSEY.CO.UK welcome the joint initiative by the national record of helping fishermen in financial employed support schemes come to an federations and Fishermen’s Mission to difficulties. Its officers know what is end. There are also a significant number Kelsey Publishing Ltd, simplify the accessing of financial support available and how to access it, and have of fishermen who have still not received The Granary, Editor during the coronavirus outbreak. contacts with the relevant agencies. It will any help at all, and the federations have Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie The government and charities have be a huge relief for anyone in need of help said that they will continue to press the Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] launched a number of support schemes to have one specific number to call, and to government for help for all those who Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 which have gone some way to helping know that specialist and sympathetic help have missed out on the existing support fishermen to stay afloat financially and to and advice will be available on the other schemes. meet the ongoing fixed costs that have to be end. Welcome as the government support met whether a vessel is fishing or not, and The only downside is the danger that the for the industry is in the short term, the whether a household has a viable income support mechanism could be overwhelmed only real solution in the longer term is a or not. by the number of people seeking help. return to normal, both here and on the But the schemes are often complex and It may be thought that the initiative Continent. It is only the reopening of come to an end at different times, and it has come too late, as there are signs of the hotel and restaurant sectors and a is extremely difficult for people to know the crisis easing and markets and fishing resumption of normal holidays that will exactly what is available through direct slowly returning to normal. create the market demand for its fish and Managing editor support, payment ‘holidays’ for regular But as the federations warn, there is seafood that the industry so desperately News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] outgoings, social welfare payments and still a long way to go before we see the needs. email: [email protected] other mechanisms. back of the coronavirus that has wreaked The other factor that will have an And even when a specific support such havoc on fishing and many other impact on the industry’s long-term scheme has been identified as appropriate industries, and on the economy. recovery is Brexit, and whether we leave to a given set of circumstances, the actual Scientists continue to warn of the with or without a deal. There are reports process of applying for help can be a dangers of a second peak as restrictions that the government is now nightmare of endless phone calls, hours are eased and winter approaches, and of working on the assumption that in front of a computer and battling with the possible need for more lockdowns, there will not be a deal, and that bureaucracy. albeit more targeted. we will trade with the EU on Lincolnshire, East Anglia and Navigating a way through this Many fishermen will need help for WTO terms. We must continue Cornwall correspondent Essex correspondent complex process is a specialist job, and some time to come, and demand is likely to hope for a deal. Phil Lockley John Worrall email: email: [email protected] [email protected] 07748 644971 Brussels: ‘setting TACs will be more transparent’ 01326 340372 The European Commission complementing the proposals EU fisheries commissioner sustainability of fish stocks says it will increase on fishing opportunities, Virginijus Sinkevicius and the marine environment, transparency in the annual such as ‘non-papers’, will be made the announcement as well as the economic negotiating process on setting made public when they are during a meeting he sustainability of our coastal TACs and quotas. transmitted to the Council. hosted with a group of communities. Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and Environmental groups have ‘Non-papers’ on fishing green non-governmental “This is why it is Dorset correspondent John Periam complained that the Council opportunities complement organisations, including Pew important that such decisions Art editor email: periam.photojournalist@ of Ministers does not follow the initial Commission Charitable Trusts, Fisheries are taken in a transparent Nick Bond btopenworld.com the scientific advice when proposals by translating new Secretariat, Oceana, Seas at way. 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UK consumers Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. case of further localised shut- businesses. are demanding more of their Scottish seafood and its downs in future.” www.kelsey.co.uk 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 5 New Ocean Challenge Illegal rock oyster harvesting for Macduff skipper threatens future of legal trade A recent article in the Times of dealing in any illegally there are large resources that highlighted that gangs harvested bivalve molluscs, exist quite naturally in the wild. of people were illegally not just oysters, so it is a little Whilst there are self- harvesting rock oysters off the puzzling to know to whom sustaining populations in the coast of Essex and Suffolk these oysters are being sold. wild, Natural England and and then selling them on the Any food business found some NGOs maintain that black market, writes Chris to be handling them could they are non-native species, Leftwich, chairman of the leave themselves open to and would want to see Shellfish Association of Great prosecution and also civil them completely eliminated Britain. action if they manage to make from our waters, and have The inference was that this anyone ill as a consequence of even, on occasion, supplied was organised crime. If it is illegally acquiring them. people with hammers to go the case, the perpetrators The article also talks about around and smash them up. need to be caught and the oysters originating from This is complete nonsense severely punished to the full the Pacific, which of course and makes no logical sense extent of the law. This trade they did, many years ago. whatsoever. In fact, the act ‡ Ocean Challenge berthed at Peterhead shortly after landing her first could have serious public But the rock oysters now of smashing them could also shot to the market since being renamed. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) health consequences and found around our coast were release even more of their severely damage the genuine originally imported from eggs into the environment if Macduff skipper William Runcie main engine of 480kW @ 1,350rpm trade which has fought long France as part of an old MAFF they happened to be spawning and crew started fishing earlier driving a 2,300mm-diameter and hard to build up the initiative in the early 1960s. at the time. this month with their new Ocean propeller through a Reintjes WAF reputation of rock oysters. Originally, our water These rock oysters are here Challenge BF 85, reports David 374 7.09:1 reduction gearbox. A The Gangmasters (Licensing temperatures were too cold to stay, and we should be Linkie. Cummins QSL9 variable-speed Act) 2004 was specifically for them to spawn, and they embracing them, not trying to Built by Macduff Shipyards in engine of 212kW @ 1,800rpm brought in as a result of were exclusively reared from destroy them. When harvested 2013 as Jacqueline Anne FR 243 for drives the vessel’s deck machinery Chinese labourers who hatcheries and then farmed. correctly and legally they are Fraserburgh skippers Adam, Adam hydraulics through a JBJ clutched drowned off Morecombe Bay However, over the years, the a valuable source of nutrients. Jnr and Jonny Tait, the 23m twin-rig splitter box. Electrical power comes whilst illegally harvesting oysters have adapted and They also contribute towards trawler replaces skipper William from two Cummins 6BT5.9DI (M) cockles. The act is designed now spawn quite naturally in biodiversity in our waters and Runcie’s previous 21.3m wooden- engines running 58kW 415/3/50 to stop crime bosses from our waters, and have done help to improve water quality. hulled Ocean Challenge BF 85, Mecc Alte generators. exploiting cheap labour to do so for many years. This was What we need to do is which was bought by the Heather Macduff Shipyards is scheduled their dirty work, and it was occurring even before we ensure that any illegal trade is Fishing Company and renamed to deliver the new 24.5m Jacqueline also intended to protect the started to talk about global stamped out quickly and allow Ocean Rose INS 115 last month Anne FR 243 to Adam Tait and legitimate traders. warming and the rise in the public to enjoy the legally (Fishing News, 2 July, ‘Ocean Rose his sons from its Buckie yard in Anyone in the trade would, sea temperatures around harvested rock oysters and joins INS registry’). October (Fishing News, 16 July, or should, be extremely our coast. This means that all the benefits that they will Ocean Challenge is powered ‘New builds progress at Macduff aware of the potential danger although they are still farmed, confer upon them. by a Mitsubishi S6R2-T2MPTK-3 Shipyards’). Irish offshore wind plan recommends forum with fishing industry Appointment of Chair and 4 Members A new 30-year strategy for Celtic Sea for development. It also require piling or extensive seabed to the Board of Northern Ireland Fishery developing offshore wind around signals that 30GW of renewable foundation. Harbour Authority (NIFHA) the Irish coast says that the energy could be derived from the It also finds that marine The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is seeking to appoint a Chair fishing industry has to be treated Atlantic coast. installation conservation areas and four members to the Board of the Northern Ireland Fishery Harbour Authority (NIFHA). NIFHA is an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by DAERA. It has a statutory responsibility as the ‘primary stakeholder’, The Eirwind report describes could improve fisheries habitats, for the improvement, management and maintenance of the three fishery harbours at Ardglass, Kilkeel reports Lorna Siggins. floating offshore wind technology and acknowledges that further and Portavogie. Further information about the organisation, can be obtained from the NIFHA website at www.nifha.co.uk. The report by Eirwind, an as a ‘game changer’, and the research is required into the Time Commitment and Remuneration: industry-led consortium involving period 2020 to 2030 as a ‘defining impact of wind turbines on sea The total time commitment for the Chair of the NIFHA Board is 18-22 days per annum. The position is remunerated at University College, Cork decade’ for investing in green birds. £6,620 per annum (currently under review). researchers, recommends setting hydrogen and grid reinforcement. It says that ‘technology-specific’ The time commitment for the NIFHA Board Member is 12-16 days per annum. This position is remunerated at £3,995 per annum (currently under review). up a joint forum between the The report recommends master revenue support schemes will be Reasonable travel and subsistence expenses will also be reimbursed along with reasonable costs relating to care of fishing and offshore wind sectors. plans for ports from Rosslare, required to encourage investment, dependants, including childcare. This forum would focus on Co Wexford round to Killybegs, and suggests following the Terms of Appointment: The successful candidates will be appointed for a four year period from issues such as regulations for Co Donegal, to support offshore British Crown Estate model of 1st January 2021. An additional term may be offered, subject to satisfactory performance and attendance. Application Process: A merit based process will be applied alongside the Guaranteed Interview Scheme for applicants fishing vessels working as guard wind and wave development. It reducing seabed leasing charges with a disability. Applicants will be expected to complete an application form demonstrating how they meet the essential boats, shared interests in marine explores how Cork harbour has in return for pre-commercial criteria for appointment. The essential criteria are: Project Management; Financial Planning and Management; Strategic Thinking and Direction; Corporate Governance and Accountability; and Communication and Teamwork. An additional conservation, and best practice potential for a 100MW electrolysis demonstration projects. criterion, Leadership, will be required to be met for the Chair position. in compensation for loss of demonstration plant, where water The report notes that over 97% A sift of applications will be carried out and a panel interview will follow. livelihood. is split into hydrogen and oxygen of Irish energy requirements were The Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has requested to be presented with an unranked (alphabetical) Ireland has more offshore wind using electricity generated by a derived from imported fossil list of candidates deemed suitable for appointment. More information about this competition and about public appointments in general is available from the NIDirect website: resource than energy demand 100MW floating wind project off fuels in 2014, but that onshore www.nidirect.gov.uk/public-appointment-vacancies. and could be exporting bulk the Cork coast. wind farms were providing 29% An application form can also be downloaded from this website. hydrogen, the Eirwind study Eirwind believes that recently of Ireland’s electricity needs by This is a Commissioner for Public Appointments for Northern Ireland (CPA NI) Regulated appointment. The Commissioner’s role is to regulate, monitor, report and advise on the way in which Ministers make appointments to the Boards of regulated suggests. However, it identifies completed legislation on marine 2017 – the second-highest share bodies in Northern Ireland. a number of challenges, and planning and maritime jurisdiction of electricity from wind energy in An application pack and further information is available by contacting Dolores Kelly, Ballykelly House, 111 Ballykelly Road, calls for an Irish government needs to be prioritised by the new Europe. Ballykelly, Limavady BT49 9HP Tel: 028 77 442025 or e-mail [email protected] This material will also be made available on request in other formats such as Braille, large print, audio, etc. All reasonable commitment to specific incentives, Irish parliament. Already, seven ‘legacy’ fixed adjustments will be made to accommodate the needs of applicants/candidates with a disability. marine planning legislation and It identifies challenges, noting offshore wind projects are at an Closing date: Completed applications must be returned to the Department by 4.00pm on Friday 14th August 2020. ‘transparent’ decision-making. that noise from offshore wind advanced stage of development Equality of Opportunity: DAERA is committed to the principle of public The new Irish programme for installations is a ‘known stressor’ in Irish waters, and several appointments based on merit with independent assessment, openness and transparency of process. DAERA is committed to equality of opportunity and government has raised a target for both marine mammals and preliminary moves are being welcomes applications regardless of gender, age, marital status, disability, of 3.5GW energy production from fish. However, it says that some made by floating wind technology religion, ethnic origin, political opinion, sexual orientation or whether or not you have dependants. Since women, young people, people from black offshore wind to 5GW by 2030, of this impact is lessened by companies interested in sites off and ethnic minority backgrounds and people with disabilities are currently and specifies the Irish Sea and floating wind, which does not the Cork and Waterford coasts. under represented on the NIFHA Board, applications from these groups are particularly welcome. 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020 Hampshire fishermen prosecuted for illegal Research shows lobster stocks whelk fishing unaffected by wind farm A major research project off the were a lot of small lobsters,” said normally go out to a consultancy, On 10 July, Sussex Inshore East Yorkshire coast has found Mike Roach. which would have to meet Fisheries and Conservation that a big wind farm off the coast He said the surveys had minimum requirements. But we, Authority (SIFCA) successfully has not had any detrimental been ‘intensive’, with 81 survey in collaboration with Ørsted, prosecuted Alan Bacon from impact on the valuable lobster days, 9,718 pots hauled, 74,000 have gone above and beyond Paulsgrove, Portsmouth for six stocks in the region, reports Tim animals caught (commercial this. We’ve got a good working infringements of the Sussex IFCA Oliver. catch, not by-catch of whelks relationship with Ørsted that’s Shellfish Permit Byelaw, and Sean The research was carried and fish, etc), including 28,000 developed over time, since they Bacon for obstructing fisheries out on the Westermost Rough lobsters, 30,000 edible crabs and were Dong Energy.” officers in their duty, reportsJohn wind farm by scientists from 16,000 swimming crabs. He said that further big wind Periam. the Holderness Fishing Industry “We’ve got data on everything farm developments about 60 Worthing Magistrates Court fined ‡ Some of the illegal untagged Group (HFIG), using the group’s we caught including edible crabs, miles off Hornsea are in the and awarded costs against Alan whelk pots, stowed on the deck of own research vessel RV but the project was targeted at pipeline, which will cover a huge Bacon, the owner of fishing vessel patrol vessel Watchful after being Huntress. lobsters, using mackerel bait. area. Hornsea 1 is working and BJ P 950, totalling £5,000. Skipper found aboard BJ P 950. The Westermost Rough The survey was biased towards Hornsea 2 is under construction, Sean Bacon received a fine and wind farm is five miles from lobster because that was the while two more are almost costs totalling £2,500. fisheries and protecting the the Holderness coast and concern at that time when the certain to get the go-ahead. On 21 and 22 January, the crew marine environment. We hope approximately 15.5 miles north wind farm was about to be built. “If the other projects all get of SIFCA’s patrol boat Watchful, this prosecution will help raise of Spurn Head. It covers 32km2 “We gathered 74,000 animals approved, which looks likely, under the command of skipper awareness of the damage that a and has 35 turbines. in the study, which is an they will have a bigger spatial Charlie Hubbard, observed BJ minority can cause.” Lead scientist Dr Mike Roach incredible amount. It was an footprint than London,” said P 950 off the Sussex coast and This was endorsed by Watchful said that the in-depth research incredibly intensive survey which Mike Roach. decided to board her to do an skipper Charlie Hubbard. “We had been carried out over six totalled three to four months He has written a thesis on his inspection, which is part of their carry out regular patrols at sea, and years, following concerns that every summer for each survey.” work on the interaction between remit. hopefully very little illegal activity the Westermost Rough would He stressed that the research crustaceans and wind farms, for When alongside, Watchful escapes our attention. I have an damage local stocks of lobsters was industry-led. The idea had which he was awarded his PhD. hauled in illegal whelk pots, which excellent team of fishery officers who and other crustaceans due come from the industry and HFIG has also developed were subsequently seized. The are the eyes and ears on Watchful, to it being located on prime was carried out by an industry shellfish research facilities inspection and investigations and we are very much aware of the crustacean habitat. group using its own vessel, with and a hatchery at Bridlington, revealed a number of infringements damage some fishermen can do to The research was carried funding from Ørsted. which has just begun lobster of Shellfish Permit Byelaw maintaining sustainable fishing off out in co-operation with the “This kind of work would restocking operations. conditions, including numbers Sussex. Our other vessel Merlin operators of the wind farm, of pots exceeding the prescribed is also very active, and we often Ørsted Energy, formerly Dong limits, missing escape holes in use them in conjunction with land Energy. the pots to reduce the capture of patrols at some of the Sussex ports “In a nutshell, we found there undersized whelks, untagged pots and harbours. Doing this applies was no negative impact on the and unmarked dahns. relevant EU and UK law and local lobster stock. We thought stocks Speaking on behalf of SIFCA, byelaws, to sustain inshore fisheries would crash, but they haven’t deputy chief fisheries officer and maintain a healthy environment done,” Mike Roach told Fishing Sean Ashworth said: “The whelk for now and for future generations.” News. fishery in Sussex has come under There are limits on the total He said that the work started increasing pressure over recent number of whelk pots that fishermen in 2013, when a survey of the years. Impacts from unsustainable can use, within both three and stocks was carried out before practices will have direct impacts six nautical miles from the Sussex the wind farm was built, with on the recovery of stocks and those coastline. This is part of the Shellfish follow-up surveys in 2015, 2017 responsible fishers who comply with Permit Byelaw introduced in 2016. and 2019. management measures. Sean Ashworth added: “Breaches Catch rates increased over “It brings us no pleasure of the byelaw can contribute to the the six years due to increasing to prosecute people, but we overexploitation of stocks. They numbers of juvenile lobsters, must protect our fisheries from damage the legitimate fishery while landings after the juveniles individuals who disregard these and put those people operating were returned to the sea important rules and regulations. legitimately at a disadvantage. remained steady. We at Sussex IFCA, along with Illegal fishing can hinder recovery “We caught more lobsters last ‡ Dr Mike Roach aboard the HFIG research vessel Huntress at the other regional IFCAs, are totally of populations and ecosystems that year than ever before, but there Westermost Rough wind farm. (Photo: Dr Andy Revill) committed to creating sustainable support fisheries.” New advocacy group aims to improve pelagic fisheries management A new supply chain-led regarding quota allocation. workshop to develop an action agree a mechanism which salmon feed manufacturer or a initiative focused on driving The North Atlantic Pelagic plan to drive the work of the establishes total allowable retailer, to work collectively to improvements to the Advocacy (NAPA) group group over the next 12 to 36 catches aligned to scientific initiate change.” management of the North East was formed by retailers and months. A priority action is advice for these fisheries. In Aoife Martin, independent Atlantic fisheries for mackerel, processors from across the creation of a Fisheries the absence of any quick-win chair of NAPA, said: “There herring and blue whiting has the UK to consider how Improvement Project and a solutions, it is vital that the has been a great deal of work been established. the supply chain could comprehensive engagement supply chain works together over the past six months to The formal creation of the drive improvements in strategy with key decision- to drive improvements and establish NAPA and to develop group is the latest step in a the management of these makers for herring and blue influence change.” and agree the group’s action project that began in 2019 in fisheries. NAPA is seeking to whiting. Krishan Kent of the Sweden plan. We are now ready to response to the suspension achieve a formal agreement Ally Dingwall of Sainsbury’s Seafood Association added: promote the group to potential of the Marine Stewardship on catch limits for North East said: “Some progress has “Although NAPA originated in members across Europe, and Council (MSC) North East Atlantic pelagic fisheries that been made, but there is no the UK, the problems that it I would encourage interested Atlantic mackerel fishery reflects the scientific advice. escaping that delivering long- is seeking to address clearly parties to get in touch to certification. Since its formal creation in term sustainable management affect the wider European discuss how they might get Managing these fisheries early 2020, membership has of these fisheries presents supply chain. NAPA provides involved.” is complicated because it expanded to include European a challenge. Coastal state an opportunity for businesses For more information involves six coastal states and retailers and processors. In governance issues mean that from across Europe, whether contact: aoife.martin@seafish. there are ongoing disputes late March, members held a it has not been possible to they are a herring processor, a co.uk or visit: bit.ly/38gmW6V 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Crew’s backs spared by mechanised pot fishing In a project funded by the EMFF, a local blacksmith in the coastal city of Hundested, Denmark has been put to work to relieve a crew of heavy lifting in their daily fishing for whelk. The project aims to prioritise the crew’s health and wellbeing, so that the fishery remains attractive into the future. Wicki-Alex H410 fishes with pots for whelk, brown crab and lobster alongside gill-netting for sole and cod. Fishing for whelk

‡ Catches are conveyed to the sorting table…

has grown to be a larger part of “With regard to efficiency, ‡ Landing the catch at Hundested the vessel’s annual catch as the we are not fishing faster than harbour. price for roundfish has varied. before, but we are getting a Thomas Jensen, skipper of better product with the washing are injured when the heavy pots Wicki-Alex, hopes to catch around machine, and we can work for ‡ … where the integrated washing are moved around the boat. 200t of whelk this year – a task he much longer. Before, we had machine removes barnacles, algae This reputation is thought to be expects will be easier now. to stop because the crew was and sand. discouraging potential fishermen. “It’s simply not comparable fatigued. Now we can just go on Data from the past two years with before. The mechanisation and on.” table and washing machine are shows a 5% increase in pots has meant that the crew can The design was to a high integrated, and transport the handled after the installation, work the entire day without degree invented by skipper catch away from the fishermen which corresponds to a 7% being exhausted. No one is worn Thomas Jensen and company while cleaning off barnacles, algae increase in earnings per trip. The out. Furthermore, it was also Aquamind, which specialises and sand. payback time for a system like this more dangerous before – now in solutions for fishing boats. Fishing with pots is sustainable is about one year, on pre-corona ‡ The new placement of the winch the pot just lands on the table, It involves line guides and new and can be lucrative, but it is a prices. means that pots do not need to be without bouncing around. It’s placement of the winch, to avoid hard physical job and often the You can watch a video from lifted. (Photos: Mikkel Kehler Villadsen) incomparable! lifting the pots. The sorting crew’s backs, hands and fingers the project at: bit.ly/3hqqiYu Port to Plate helps Welsh industry net new local customers Continental markets may have been signposted to a wealth of but it’s building.” no incentive to go out,” said that Albatross Fisheries is still been disrupted by the Covid-19 information about Welsh seafood, His traditional markets are Berwyn, who has fished out of trading during the pandemic, and pandemic, but with technical and including details of where to buy it, slowly starting to come back, and Saundersfoot for 30 years. “But able to supply Welsh seafood, marketing support from the Port cooking tips and recipes from top he is part of the recently launched Kaylie said, ‘Let’s put something which seems to have increased the to Plate project, as well as help to chefs. Welsh branded claw band scheme on Facebook’.” demand even further.” identify new markets, many Welsh Siân said: “Going forward, (Fishing News, 9 July, ‘Branded “There was a lot of interest from Orders are placed through the fishermen and seafood businesses we will be looking at how we bands for Welsh lobsters’). the public, and in no time I had Albatross Fisheries website and have found new outlets – from box can support the hospitality Lockdown has been a seminal half a tonne of fish on order. Then delivered around Pembrokeshire schemes to nationwide deliveries. sector to work more closely with moment for new Ceredigion people started asking me if I did and Carmarthenshire on Launched in February by Welsh fishermen, and use and fishmongers Jane and Richard other types of wet fish – so now Wednesdays. Menter a Busnes, Port to Plate promote Welsh seafood in their Roche, who have adapted their I’m sourcing UK-caught cod, hake Berwyn said: “Now we’re in the carves out a distinct identity for establishments. We also have fledgling enterprise for a new and salmon as well as monkfish situation as to whether we carry seafood products from Wales some exciting seasonal ideas and world. tails and smoked haddock. It’s stuff on doing this when the original and supports the development recipes to try at home coming up, A career change seven years I’ve not sold before, but people are markets open up again. Ideally, of the Welsh seafood industry and Welsh seafood alternatives for ago saw the couple open The loving it.” I’d like to expand and have a across the supply chain. Funded events such as Christmas!” Fishermen’s Rest café on the The Port to Plate project also container unit on site, to allow us by the EMFF and supported by Conwy fisherman Carl Davies quayside in Cardigan. Last year included Albatross Fisheries on its to be able to meet the demand.” Seafish, the project was developed is using mobile technology to they took the plunge and trained Welsh Seafood Map. Berwyn said: Find out more at: in conjunction with the Welsh reach new customers. When the as fishmongers, buying direct from “This raised further awareness albatrossfisheries.co.uk industry. pandemic hit, Covid-19 restrictions local fishermen and merchants. Since then, much of Port saw previous continental and They opened Catch of the Day, to Plate’s work has been as a local outlets for his lobster and with plans for Easter 2020 as the direct response to Covid-19, crab close. He said: “We were in start of their first full season. It while continuing to promote the the position for about a month was not to be, as both of their industry and encourage consumers or so where we struggled to sell enterprises were put into lockdown. to #BuyLocal using the Welsh anything.” But they have used the time Seafood Map at: bit.ly/30DdSWe Never having sold direct to to adapt their business. A van Siân Davies, Port to Plate the public, he began advertising purchased with a view to future development manager, said: “From locally, posting on the North Wales expansion is now the mode of the start of lockdown, we have Fish Direct Facebook page. delivery direct to the public, consulted with Welsh seafood Now, through his own Twitter who also buy their fish boxes businesses to assess their situation. feed @Goglington and the from the quayside. For more “We’ve also worked on raising industry-wide Port to Plate, Carl information, see: facebook.com/ awareness within the Welsh is creating a faithful following. CatchoftheDayCardigan fishing fleet of what guidelines and He said: “I’ve got about 35 core With the usual market for his procedures they need to follow customers – most of them new – rod and line-caught seabass shut to sell their catch directly to the whom I text the day before we sail down, Berwyn Dennis, who runs consumer. This includes sourcing each week to ask if there are any Albatross Fisheries, consigned of appropriate packaging.” orders. I reckon about 90% of my his boat to his shed – until his Through Port to Plate’s social direct sales to the public currently daughter Kaylie convinced him media handles – @porthirplat and come via text. It’s not big scale, otherwise. @porttoplate – consumers have and I don’t expect it ever will be, “With no market, there was ‡ Jane Roche of Cardigan fishmonger Catch of the Day. 8 WASH COCKLES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020 WASH COCKLES: MAINLY FOR THE BIRDS Environmental protections and coronavirus restrictions have combined to limit what should have been a bumper year for the Wash cockle fishery. John Worrall reports he Wash has a comprehensive collection Tof environmental protections. Let’s start with a list:

• Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the EU Habitats Directive • Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) • Ramsar site no. 395 (one of a worldwide network of wetland sites, particularly those with waterfowl habitat) • Marine Protected Area (MPA) – protected area for birds under the EU Birds Directive.

These form a backdrop against which all activities, including fishing, must operate (unless, of course, they are of ‘overriding public interest’, like wind farms, power cables and aggregate dredging – which do plenty of damage, especially the dredging, but bring money to the Crown Estate). And Brexit or not, EU directives will still be directing after the UK leaves in January, because existing ordinances will be rolled over into UK law, to be reviewed – or not – later. ‡ This year’s Wash cockle fishery opened on 22 June with a TAC of 3,636t.

The common thread within that Eastern IFCA was unable to than the usual 1,200-plus over those protections is birds. The do its usual spring cockle survey. 22. Those 74 sites covered 50% 62,000 hectares of the Wash host On that survey hang the of the beds where the 2018 a lot of them, more particularly in prospects for a fishery each year, year-class cockles had survived to winter when, according to the because Natural England, the be seen in the 2019 survey, and so latest Wetland Bird Survey data, enforcer on the above ordinances, gave a good indication of what 24,000 or so feed there, mainly has to be sure of enough bird overall stocks would look like in on cockles and mussels. And 2020. Combined with since mussels have declined Wash cockles produce a previous years’ data and for reasons not fully trends, EIFCA was able to understood, cockles are the big spatfall every second persuade Natural England thing. A total stock of close that there would indeed be to 18,000t was reckoned to year which yields a enough for the birds, and so be needed this year if the fishing began on 22 June birds’ one-third share (along strong potential fishery with a TAC of 3,636t. with a third each for the two years on – and 2020 One frustration for industry and regeneration) fishermen is that for many was to be adequate for their was due to be a big year years now, Wash cockles sustenance. have produced a big spatfall The numbers – the birds and food if a fishery is to take place. every second year which yields a the food requirement – are In theory, no survey, no fishery. strong potential fishery two years recalculated regularly, but the In the event, EIFCA was later on – there’s no minimum ‡ The Brewster family aboard Ruby Doo for a brew-up while waiting for situation this year has been able to have an abbreviated look, commercial size as such, but a the tide to come back. Wayne, skipper of Ruby Doo (second left), with his complicated by Covid-19, which taking samples from 74 sites 14mm shell width, regarded as son Owen, skipper of Tracey Elaine (left), father Roy and nephew Liam. has meant, among other things, spread across eight beds, rather maturity, is generally achieved in

‡ The Boston boats leave port an hour after high ‡ … and head down The Haven, with the Boston tide… Stump astern… ‡ … and out into the Wash. 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews WASH COCKLES 9 WASH COCKLES: MAINLY FOR THE BIRDS

‡ … they churn around, doing a spot of prop-washing…

‡ … which, in choppy conditions, can damage the smaller boats as ‡ Reaching the Toft sand in a burst of summer sunshine… they settle on.

two years – and 2020 was due to hand-raked, the fishery had long things were no less frantic, even to feed overwintering birds. TAC with Natural England, is to be a big year. And the pattern has been working with engines rather though a hand-raked fishery with They feed by breaking or open beds where previous continued with another big than sails, and ‘prop-washing’ a separate TAC and a daily quota prising shells open, but there is a experience and the latest data spatfall this year, which was was the thing – boats circling of 2t was worked by boats that trade-off in cockle selection. suggest that mass die-off is likely observed three or four weeks tightly as the tide fell before hadn’t invested in – or weren’t big Bigger cockles give greater return – on the basis that if it’s unlikely earlier than usual, perhaps settling on, with the prop blowing enough to carry – dredge gear. per item, but stronger shells can to survive for overwintering birds because of a mild winter. the thin blanket of covering sand But now things have turned full damage beaks. Equally, thieving anyway, the industry might as But big spatfalls themselves to reveal the cockles. circle, because the last dredge gulls are more likely to grab well have some of it. produce a problem. The bivalve A big step-change came in 1986 fishery took place in 2008 and bigger cockles once they are But in this Covid year, there’s common cockle Cerastoderma with the advent of hydraulic hand-raking is the default method opened, so when gulls are around, inevitably a sense of ‘best of a bad edule lives just below the sand or suction dredging, and by 1988, – though prop-washing still saves oystercatchers in particular have job’ about things. The most mud surface and filter-feeds on 32 bigger steel boats were at it, labour. And in fact the circle is been seen to go for smaller obvious die-off candidate beds whatever the tide brings. Its spat, each lifting 3t an hour and now on a different plane, because cockles, which are more quickly which have been opened are on released in late spring/early carrying off 10t – all done at the the first and overriding opened and eaten. the Boston side, which means summer (too late to be picked up top of the tide, with no waiting consideration is that the summer The management strategy each that boats from King’s Lynn have by spring surveys), turn to larvae around for the tide to go out and fishery leaves more than enough year, once EIFCA has agreed the up to two and a half hours that stay in the water column for come back. up to six weeks – long enough to But that eventually put pressure spread widely in the tidal swirl of on stocks, and so in 1990, MAFF the Wash. and the then Eastern Sea The problem is that as the spat Fisheries Joint Committee settles and grows during its first instituted annual surveys and year, it forces mature cockles out began bed closures, and brought of the sand or mud where – more forth the Wash Fishery Order particularly in hot weather on 1992 with more formalised exposed banks – they die in large fishery management. numbers. Food availability for In any case, the dredge fishery overwintering birds is thus had problems with simple depleted, which pushes Natural mechanics. Firstly, the blade England into a precautionary necessarily dug a few centimetres approach, because its brief, first into the sand or mud and scooped and foremost, is to ensure that – up everything indiscriminately, to adapt a saying – the feathered and although undersized cockles classes have no cares; whoever were returned by riddling, many loses, they get their share. hadn’t survived the battering in Cockling in the Wash goes back the suction pipe. a long way. For generations it was Secondly, its efficiency meant hand-raked without regulation by that, with a daily limit then of 8t, men working from small boats or, a TAC could be fished out in two where beds were accessible from or three frantic weeks, and hard the shore, from horse-drawn carts luck on any boat that had a by those who knew the ground breakdown and missed out on the and tides. action. There was still little regulation In the mid-noughties, the daily ‡ As soon as the water’s gone, it’s over the side, hoping that the boat has settled where the prop has by the 1970s although, still boat quota was reduced to 4t, but washed – which Shane Bagley’s Lili-Mae BN 439 has done. 10 WASH COCKLES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020

steaming to reach them. their own side. If there’s bad In early July, Fishing News went weather, they still have to go – socially distanced, of course – because the TAC is being taken to see the fishery, travelling out up. But on exposed ground, with Ken Bagley on Lucy Marie choppy conditions bang the boat BN 80, and back with Wayne on the sand as it’s settling on, and Brewster on Ruby Doo BN 3. over time, that can crack the Those boats were among a couple welds. Bigger boats can tolerate of dozen working the Toft sand that more, but the smaller guy has that day – others were working to make a living too. other sands – each returning to “There are thick beds of mature their respective small marker cockles close to both ports, but buoys showing where they had because EIFCA hasn’t been able been working the day before. to survey those, we’re not going The Toft, coincidentally, was to get those cockles, because they the ground that FN saw on a won’t be there next year. previous trip in 2015 (Fishing “I’m not saying that EIFCA News, 6 August, 2015), and the hasn’t done a good job in actually first impression was that cockles getting a fishery at all, but in the weren’t so thick on the ground as old Eastern Sea Fishery days prior before – although with limited to the IFCA, you’d see fishery other options, boats had been officers on the sands nearly every working that particular sand, as week. Now EIFCA has only so tides allowed, since the fishery much money to do the job, and opened. they don’t survey anywhere near But the main thing is that a as much. Huge amounts of fishery has opened at all, said cockles are being lost.” Steven Williamson of processor His father Roy Brewster, who is and boat owner Lynn Shellfish, also a member of EIFCA, who is one of six industry although he’s stepping down members of the 20-member soon, is old enough to know the Eastern IFCA. pattern. “Normally every second “EIFCA did a good job year is good fishing. This year ‡ Then it’s a question of raking into hand-nets, which are emptied into baskets… persuading Natural England to should have been a big quota, but open without a proper survey due because they haven’t done a full to corona,” he said. “But survey, we haven’t got it – so a lot fishermen are reporting an will die.” abundance of cockles on lots of The cockle situation feeds into beds that we are unable to fish growing uncertainty about the because EIFCA was only able to Wash fishery generally. Mussels open a few due to that lack of a – the traditional winter fishery to survey. We could have had a complement summer cockles – higher TAC, and those cockles, in haven’t been much in commercial all likelihood, will be lost before evidence in recent years, while next season. ‘Mr Corona’ has a lot shrimps, the year-round fall-back, to answer for!” with an autumn peak and a lesser It’s a view echoed by Gary spring peak, are facing ground Taylor, skipper of the Lynn closures as environmental Shellfish boat Wash Princess LN protections tighten. 161. “There are really only three You can then add rising anxiety beds open, plus bits and pieces,” surrounding the expiry, in early ‡ … or direct from hand-nets to bag. A few duck he said. “We’re running out here January 2023, of the 30-year ‡ … which are emptied into standard 1t bags… boards help… already. That isn’t all EIFCA’s Wash Fishery Order (WFO), fault, not being able to do a which fixes the number of boats survey. But they should be able to fishing the Wash through an do more surveying now, surely. entitlement system. Its Consulting with Natural England replacement seems likely to be an is, I think, only a two- or three- as-yet-unspecified permit scheme, week process.” which on the face of it could go Wayne Brewster agrees. “I either way – allowing more boats think now that the lockdown is in, or reducing the numbers being eased, they could do more already there. survey work. Cockles were Stacy Ruck, owner/skipper of already dying before the season the U12 Jo Bert LO 243, is started. If it had opened in early worried about that. “I do believe June, a lot could have been taken, the WFO needs tweaking, but it’s rather than left to die.” worked for 30 years, and so why His boat is one of five in his get rid of it? If it ends, I think family, all of them close to the that will put an end to this job 14m length limit for the Wash, – not straightaway perhaps, but but he thinks that smaller boats within a year or two. And then need particular consideration. there go the lorry drivers, the “They should be allowed to fish factory workers, and all the rest more sheltered ground closer to working off it.”

‡ … and a bit of labour-sharing makes things more sociable. ‡ Small boats under big skies: there is a 14m length limit in the Wash. 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews WASH COCKLES 11

‡ Loading up on Ken Bagley’s Lucy Marie BN 80… ‡ … ahead of the turning of the tide.

He struggles to see a future. There were no rules on the both in time and species. “In the going cockling for three or four with almost all sales going abroad, “Mine’s a smaller boat. Those cockles. But now there are no old days, the resorts wanted months.” the final – and as yet unfathomed bigger boats don’t lose so much mussels – and I used to turn over cockles for the start of the There are two levels of industry – post-Brexit landscape will be a time to bad weather as we do. £70k a year on them.” summer season, and so we started risk here. On one level are the factor. Last season, EIFCA took At his time of life, he’s not fishing earlier. But now we’re processors, two in Lynn and one in On the other level are the something approaching 1,000t off worried for his own future – but pushed back further into summer, Boston, which are the conduit owner/skippers, the family us at the end, because of worries he can’t see one for aspiring lads. with so much pressure on the one through which Wash shellfish businesses that have historically about enough bird food. They “Before long, no one will own a fishery. Every single boat is reaches the end consumer. They formed the core of the Wash wrote saying we had four days fishing boat except the processors. cockling. The boats have got own boats and employ skippers, as industry, drawing in lads who left. But one of those days bigger, better and more well as being supplied by others aspired to eventually be more than was too rough for this boat. efficient, and the Wash is – but the ratcheted shrinking of employees. It is that model which With uncertainty like that, The overriding still the same size it was a catching opportunity is not the is slowly being starved. how can you be sure of consideration is that the hundred years ago. So it can entire story for them, because It was built on breadth of supporting a family?” only take so much pressure. income also flows from processing opportunity, where small boats Ken Bagley agrees. He’s summer fishery leaves “But we also used to go and onward sale. However, that caught whatever was available, chair of the Boston for skate in summer and still needs adequate supply, and finfish as well as shellfish, and Fishermen’s Association, and more than enough to feed sprats and herring in winter has been fishing for 60 years. – but quotas now aren’t “There are cockles as thick as overwintering birds worth the effort. Cockling is gravel on some beds, but we now the main fishery to try can’t fish them, and they’ll die. The private man won’t be able to to get a wage. The diversity has And when we started this year, the afford it. I’ve got two grandsons, totally gone out of the job. weather was so hot that we were but I talked them away from the “All we’re trying to do is get trying to keep the cockles cool in job. One’s in America, and one’s a something a little more concrete the bags with the deck hose – but school teacher here. You can’t get for the lads who are coming then you finish up overweight at a mortgage on this job now.” through. A lot of youngsters the quay and get a summons. His brother Steve Bagley, on would want the job if it wasn’t so “Years ago, all we had was two Sovereign BN 19, agrees, pointing precarious. They need a year’s fishery officers on the mussels. to the narrowing of the fishery, work out of it. It’s no good just

‡ Ken Bagley and crewman Charlie Pagden.

‡ Winching the 1t bags onboard Lucy Marie. ‡ Stacy Ruck on his U12 Jo Bert LO 243. 12 WASH COCKLES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020

‡ A brace of Brewster boats: Seven Sisters BN 445 and Tracey Elaine BN 5. skippers could work whatever the to its mobile gear, as more this year, although it is watching seasons brought. But it has long conservation-designated features two particular areas for ridging since been narrowed to shellfish, – Sabellaria spinulosa et al – are out and die-off, and will open and of the three main components located. them if appropriate – but cockles of that, mussels have all but But at this time of year, it’s all from those would still be within ‡ Good cockles. It’s a shame to let them die. disappeared, and with them the about cockles and the waste of the existing TAC. lays – ground rented, typically in resource. Sure, the late part of the And that points to the in any year, let alone this Covid feathered beast. EIFCA can step lots of up to 10 hectares, through 20th century saw the advent of – necessarily inflexible nature of a situation – would, in most back and say, “Not us, guv, it’s the EIFCA from the Crown Estate, on by some lights – rapacious cockle system governed by a backdrop of circumstances, require another legislation, and we’re spread too which seed mussels were laid and dredging, but the errors of that environmental protections. When Habitats Regulation Assessment thinly anyway,” – both of which grown on, and which, over the way were recognised and phased ridging out starts and the weather to Natural England, and by the are true – while Natural England past few decades, generated out, and today’s 2t daily allowance turns warm, there isn’t much time time that was done, ridged-out strokes its beard and shakes its reasonably controllable revenue has evened opportunity between before cockles start to die, and in cockles would be reduced to dead head for fear of being pecked by streams. bigger and smaller boats. an ideal world, the beds would be shells. NGOs. But the net result is that Meanwhile, the Wash shrimp The problem now is more one of monitored regularly enough for And so the precautionary the fleet is being eased out of the fishery, which ironically has just increasing regulation and thinly the industry to move quickly to principle is allowing thousands of Wash ground like so many mature achieved MSC certification, is resourced regulators. EIFCA has salvage what it could. But any tonnes of cockles to die without cockles infiltrated by spat. facing increasing ground closures said that it can’t do more surveys departure from an agreed TAC – benefit to man or overwintering So it’s not an ideal world, is it? n

‡ A bag of cockles loses water on the way in, so the trick is to allow for that. Too heavy and you need to jettison a few…

‡ … and get down to 1,010kg, which will have drained down to 1t… ‡ … by the time it gets back to the quay. 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews MMO COVID RESPONSE 13 Marine management through Covid-19 and beyond The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has had to adapt its way of working, but communication remains key, reports John Periam

aul Johnson, the MMO’s boardings at sea again, which that. We can only learn from each principal officer for the we had to stop during lockdown. other, and there are some excellent PSouth East, has been with Our vessel Ocean Osprey, people out there who have positive the regional team in Sussex which is contracted to us, will ideas in wanting to make this since 1993, where he started be seen operating around the industry work. Tony Delahunty, as a fishery officer and worked UK again. I do appreciate there who is on the MMO board and his way through the ranks until are frustrations at sea in this once fished out of Selsey, is a real he was made principal officer area at the moment, and we are support – he has local knowledge in 2008. The area he covers is looking at ways of managing and contacts who are happy to from Lymington in Hampshire to the situation. Of course, we are support what we do. Gravesend in Kent, with regional there to assure and protect the “Many fishermen come from offices in Shoreham, Hastings UK fishing industry, and ensure a close-knit fishing community and Portsmouth. sustainable practices at sea are and share things with each other. The regional team have carried out by all working in our However, they are proud and will developed an excellent working waters.” do anything to protect what they relationship with all parties in It is often not easy for those feel is rightly theirs. We can all maintaining a sustainable fishing who work in government learn from each other, and they industry in the South East, but departments, and many criticisms are part of the infrastructure that since the onset of the coronavirus are made about those who work drives this industry on a daily crisis, their working role has within them – fairly or unfairly. basis.” had to be revised to comply What comes across in the South How does Paul Johnson see the with government legislation. East is the respect that Paul future? “I have not seen a decline Paul said: “It has been a really and his MMO officers have in working fishermen locally – challenging period for both the gained within the community. indeed, I have seen some welcome fishing industry and ourselves. He said: “I don’t find any investment. I have seen some The main thrust from the MMO difficulties in meeting face to face weariness and concern at times, has been to maintain a supportive ‡ Paul Johnson, the MMO’s principal officer in the South East, in his with fishermen, although it is but not enough for people to hang relationship with the industry. Shoreham office. something that has not occurred up their nets. Looking through Our offices have been closed, much recently! However, it is a periscope, there is a slightly so we have been working from involving social distancing, but selling direct and via established very much part of my remit, and blurred lens at the end, and we home, and it has been very busy, still providing assurance and markets. if people want to talk to me, will have to see what happens next particularly in meeting the needs support.” The MMO’s officers are now that is what I am happy to do. I year. Many are doing just that, of the Fisheries Response Fund The MMO’s work with establishing a ‘new normal’, and continuing their work (FRF) and direct selling. other organisations continued, with safe working practices with some optimism. “A positive communications including the Inshore Fisheries in place. Paul said: “We are This has been a really “There are reports of network has been set up linking and Conservation Authorities now on restart, and have challenging period for some youngsters looking at all the offices and officers’ (IFCAs) and the NFFO. On been issued with personal what fishing has to offer, to support from our Newcastle the French side of the Channel, protective equipment and both the fishing see if there could be fresh headquarters. This has been the MMO’s counterparts are very comprehensive health opportunities for them in an asset to us, giving us the in regular touch now that the and safety guides. We have industry and the MMO the industry – which is great opportunity to continue as best as markets are opening again. “It been testing it here in the to see. Some fishermen we can. is important to see that prices South East, and have had a very have missed my visits to Rye and out there want to encourage “We quickly introduced a are stable, which they currently good response from all parties. enjoying one of Ronnie Simmons’ this, and offer support to those temporary electronic licensing appear to be, alongside fish being They have been respectful of cappuccinos of late – hopefully who want to have a go. Rules system so fishermen can still transported there. All seems to be social distancing, and have he will restock his cupboard after and regulations are there to have access to licences so their going well,” said Paul. understood what we want to do this is all over! ensure sustainability for future businesses can continue. These “Regarding direct selling by and why we need to do it. It is not “We can help each other and generations, and I hope the MMO licences are temporary, and if we fishermen, the MMO has been the fishermen who cause us issues provide assurance in time of need. is providing the level of assurance eventually get back to normal, seeing more. However, what is of – it is often the public on the Sustainability through regulation that is required for the years to transfers can be made to the the utmost importance is that all quayside who don’t respect the is here, and we have to live with come.” n proper in-house system.” the catches are reported correctly. social distancing.” During the lockdown, direct We must know what is coming Communication with fishermen inspections ceased. As time out of the water, and that it is is central to the MMO’s work. progressed, the team restarted traceable. There is still a strong “I have a lot of interaction what they call observational need for our fish merchants to with the industry,” said Paul. patrols – they were seen, but at be at the hub of fish sales. They “Communication is what it is all this stage there was no direct really do support the industry, about, and I cannot stress this intervention. Paul said: “We were particularly with regard to those enough. I get many phone calls there on an assurance rather very valuable species of fish that asking questions, and I try to than an enforcement basis, using we export, including cuttlefish be available as often as possible, our cars as our offices when on and whelks, which are going to taking account of the working the road. This was a new type take a lot of encouragement to hours of the industry. of involvement which we “At the start of lockdown, had to come to terms with. there was a real nervousness Obviously we had to support We can only learn from in the industry, and many the finance teams, who each other, and there are were not sure how things rolled out the FRF funding were going to go. Top of the supporting fishermen with some excellent people out list then was the closure of their standing costs. Several the markets in France and of our officers working there who have positive Belgium. As that eased and alongside the finance team ideas in wanting to make fishermen found new ways contributed to this. As of working, things started a result, we managed to this industry work to get better for them. Many get many of the finance work single-handed and take packages out in record time. cook at home across the UK. We their worries home with them. “Once this was done, the need those merchants to ensure They have their frustrations, officers returned to their normal that we have the ability to move but seem to be managing the roles of cross-checking catch and sell fish for the industry, and situation quite well – I only speak documentation. At the same time, ensure liquidity in the movement for this area.” we were planning for the restart of fish in the UK industry.” Concerns are still being raised of inspections. We will be on the The MMO is looking to help about large foreign vessels quayside again, but they will be the industry achieve the right working in our waters. Paul ‡ Andy Gillam, a Sussex net-maker who supplies many of the region’s a different type of inspection, balance. There is room for both said: “We are now starting our fishermen, meets Paul Johnson – at an appropriate social distance. 14 COMRADES LK 325 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020

COMRADES:In this occasional series, David Linkie looks back on fishing trips, some of them in fisheries now sadly consigned to history, that he has experienced over the past 30-plus years

he present Shetland fleet is ‘Amethyst II: New design of dominated by modern Fraserburgh prawn twin-rigger Tdemersal and pelagic starts to show her potential’), the trawlers. This is in contrast to the camera bag was put aboard situation 60 years ago, when Comrades lying alongside the seine-netting was the main quay at Hamnavoe on Burra. activity outside the seasonal Although Comrades and herring drift-net fishery. Amethyst II were two completely By 2000, skipper Willie different styles of vessel, Robertson’s Comrades LK 325 reflecting the fact that more than was the last of the former 40 years separated their launches, dual-purpose boats left working they shared a common the seine-net all year round on characteristic as they were built Shetland’s traditional inshore by the same family. grounds. Many of those boats laid For decades, Burra was home to the foundations for the state-of- a strong local fleet of dual- the-art Shetland fleet today. purpose herring drifters/seiners, Less than 24 hours after which after landing their catches stepping ashore at Fraserburgh at Scalloway – or Aberdeen if from Amethyst II after a six-day running the market south – lay in trip (Fishing News, 23 July, at anchor in the voe before the

‡ Comrades passing under Burra light on returning to Hamnavoe after another day seine-netting in the Burra Haaf. wooden quay was built at For decades, Burra was light pierced a grey dawn as Hamnavoe. Years later, the Comrades lifted to the first small islands of Burra and home to a strong local of the long Atlantic swells Trondra were joined to the shortly after leaving the mainland by road bridges, as fleet of dual-purpose Hamnavoe pier at 5am. generations of high Crewmen John Philip dependency on small-boat herring drifters/seiners Hughes and Adrian Brown ferries to Scalloway came to which lay in at anchor on took the opportunity of an end. another hour’s sleep while The flash of the Burra Isle the voe skipper Willie Robertson

‡ Running the dahn for the first shot of the day…

‡ … and taking it back aboard after shooting the ropes and seine-net. ‡ Hauling the wings through the pedestal block. 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews COMRADES LK 325 15 LAST OF THE TRADITIONAL SHETLAND SEINE-NETTERS

‡ The first baskets of fish ready ‡ Shooting away the starboard ropes as the crew start gutting. to be put down into the hold. way of life, helped by weekly thrown over the side, followed reasons, including that skippers expenses which seldom exceeded by 10 coils of 3in Airco rope. were building bigger boats to £1,000. Comrades shot a 180ft clean- fish further offshore for Skipper Willie Robertson ground Duthie seine-net with 6in groundfish. meshes in the wing ends, Comrades usually fished The Burra Haaf grounds supplied by Jackson Trawls such grounds as the Foula of Peterhead, and Hard and Inshore Foula consistently yielded 25-fathom sweeps. from April to July, before Interfaced to MLR Vlasat fish tended to appear in the seasonal shots of mainly 2008 Mk II and Furuno Burra Haaf and St Magnus DGPS receivers, the Racal Bay to the north. When whiting and haddocks to a Decca 3500 plotter showed working inshore, landings large number of Shetland that skipper Willie were made either at Robertson was trying the Hamnavoe or Scalloway boats down the years Holm ground at the south each night. end of the Burra Haaf – a The Burra Haaf grounds had observed that the development shot tight against the southern yielded mainly grade 3/4 of rockhopper trawls, which ground edge that has to be whitings in recent years, along took fish off hard ground, towed north. However, the ebb with a few haddocks of similar together with pair-trawling and tide was still running, so there size. Although the fishery was pair-seining, had combined to was a risk that the tide could not abundant, catches had been reduce the quantities of fish take the codend over the top of ‡ Taking the first fish aboard… just sufficient to ensure the coming inshore. the headline floats. To minimise viability of a fast-disappearing At 6.30am, the dahn was this risk, the wing end of the net

‡ … before skipper Willie Robertson reties the codline for a second lift.

steered the seine-netter to the had consistently yielded seasonal southern end of the Burra Haaf shots of mainly whiting and grounds, nine miles offshore. haddocks to a large number of The Burra Haaf grounds, a Shetland boats down the years. deep, sandy and muddy basin, More than a dozen Burra Isle extend for 10 miles east/west and and Scalloway boats regularly four miles north/south, and vary used to seine-net on a daily basis, from 75 fathoms in the middle to before this fleet declined rapidly 60 fathoms on the edges. They over the years for a number of ‡ Comrades’ skipper and crew gutting in the port ponds. 16 COMRADES LK 325 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020 FOOD FOR THOUGHT elying heavily on smaller grades of whitefish and Rlacking the capability to fish further offshore on harder ground, skipper Willie Robertson expressed concern about the impact that square mesh escape panels would have on the weekly grossings of traditional and low-powered boats such as Comrades. At the same time, however, he acknowledged that positive and immediate action needed ‡ The crew standing by as Comrades comes up to the dahn. to be taken to protect the large incoming year class of young haddock. At a time when requirements to fit square mesh panels were imminent, this was a difficult ‡ Harmony running the port rope in the next seine-net shot to situation for Willie Robertson Comrades. Skipper Leslie Tait reported losing large numbers of and his fellow inshore skippers. marketable whiting after fitting a 90mm square mesh panel. Although there was no quick- fix solution, it highlighted the been able to source and fit a four boxes, and steamed round difficulty of introducing one all- single 4mm x 90mm square to southeast of the Bard, during embracing regulation covering mesh escape panel. which time the crew replaced all vessel types, size and While possibly not meeting the panel with conventional engine power. the strict comparative 100mm diamond mesh for the The possible extent of the programme of a scientist- rest of the week, before fitting problem was demonstrated conducted trial, the results a double five panel for the during this trip. Unable to fit a from two boats seine-netting following week. Comrades, in 90mm square mesh panel due alongside each other on comparison, had 40 boxes of to a lack of suitable netting, grounds that had been rested fish aboard. Willie Robertson was using a over the weekend were As both skippers commented, conventional 100mm diamond interesting. considering that G3 haddock, ‡ Preparing to shoot away the starboard bridles followed by the Duthie mesh. Skipper Leslie Tait had hardly which have a naturally fuller body seine-net. The 74ft seiner Harmony been able to keep a whiting in section, were being meshed LK 63, which was fitted with a Harmony’s net, and reported in the panel, what chance was 400hp Caterpillar engine, had size three haddocks meshed there of keeping a marketable just returned from a refit, during in the panel. After five hauls, G4 whiting, with its thinner body which skipper Leslie Tait had Harmony had put down only shape, in the net?

was towed clear of the codend before steaming away to complete the triangle and pick up the dahn. After towing for 10 minutes to tighten the ropes, during which time some promising marks were seen on the Simrad EC 205 sounder, the Mastra seine winch was put into gear and heaving up started. Hauling with the tide, Comrades was towing at 1,000rpm and 1.3 knots, with the rope jeannie in the starboard aft hole, as there was just a light ‡ Checking that the net is shot clear. easterly breeze. Monitoring the angle of the ropes closely and braking the appropriate reel to keep the warps equal, the net was ‡ Built in 1958, the 52ft Comrades was the last of the traditional closed after three coils were in. style of seine-net boat to fish from Shetland. Skipper Willie Robertson pointed out that there was no comparison between his class of fly-shooter and larger vessels working 15 coils a side, which had the power to pack fish back into the net quicker – let alone trawlers towing their gear at three knots. Ninety minutes after shooting away the dahn, the sweeps were dropped into the pedestal powerblock and the net heaved alongside, to reveal one and a half 15-box lifts; this subsequently proved to be the only splitter of the day. While the crew started to clear the starboard ponds of the first haul, the gear was quickly positioned again for the Vidra ‡ ‡ ‘Away the dahn’ for the second shot. shot. Comrades was soon ‡ Tightening up the gear. 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews COMRADES LK 325 17

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1. Starting to take in the first coil. 5. Passing the sweeps into the 8-9. Drying up the bag. pedestal powerblock. 2. The seine-net winch and rope 10. Starting to take the codend reel arrangement on Comrades. 6. Hauling the traditional grass forward… rope seine-net… 3-4. Skipper Willie Robertson looks 11. … for the first lift of fish from out of a wheelhouse window as the 7. … through the pedestal a splitter. Dan Lenos come to the jeannie. block. 18 COMRADES LK 325 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020 NEW ROLE FOR FAITHFULLY REFURBISHED COMRADES requirements of numerous Rod Campbell bought stripping out all the old electrics skippers at the time. This Comrades in September 2018 and deck equipment, except the popular and successful type of and worked closely with John traditional two-barrel seine-net boat traditionally drift-netted for Watt of Macduff Shipyards Ltd winch forward. The original herring around Shetland during on her refurbishment, thereby large fishroom hatch was the early summer months, maintaining the family’s lifelong restored, and a new skylight before sometimes following the association with the boat. fitted aft on the quarter. New shoals down to East Anglia in From the onset, Rod bulwark planking was also the autumn. By October, the Campbell’s aim was to retain as fitted. The original aft cabin was boats would return to Shetland much of the original structure as remodelled, while an open-plan to work the seine-net for the possible. living area was created in the rest of the year. This practice Main works included totally fishroom. had the added advantage that the grounds were given a rest, and proved the value of an alternative fishery. When drift-netting for herring declined in the mid-1960s ‡ Comrades lying off Hamnavoe to clear the deck after the last shot following the introduction by the of the day, a few months before skipper Willie Robertson stopped Norwegians of purse-netting fishing. around Shetland, skipper Tommy Hutchinson relied on early 60 years of seine- Campbell. seine-netting for the next 25 netting around Shetland That Comrades was refitted years, until he sold Comrades to Ncame to an end in 2017 at Macduff at the start of a Willie Robertson of Hamnavoe, when skipper Willie Robertson new era in her long career was Burra in September 1992. retired and Comrades was sold highly appropriate for a boat Comrades was originally and deregistered. that was built less than one mile fitted with a 114hp Gardner Over the past 12 months, to the west at Banff in 1958 engine, which was replaced Comrades has settled into her by John Watt and Sons for in 1986 with a 250hp model, new role in the Baltic, where skipper Tommy Hutchinson and which on average used around the boat, which was extensively partners of Whalsay. 250 gallons of fuel in a typical refurbished at Macduff before The 52ft Comrades, which week. crossing the North Sea as has a beam of 16ft, is a classic Comrades moved south to part of a 1,000nm passage, is example of the smaller class her place of origin towards the now used for sea angling and of dual-purpose seiner/drifter, end of 2017 when bought by ‡ Comrades anchored in the Baltic after being refurbished and general cruising by owner Rod the design of which suited the Billy Milne of Macduff. restored to pristine condition at Macduff.

towing north again at 1,050rpm, keep the camera lens clear. After although the speed was down to a couple of unsuccessful 0.8 knots, as the tide had turned. attempts, a more viable solution The catch from the first haul was delivered with the help of the yielded 10 baskets of G4 round backing card from a notebook, a whiting, four baskets of G3 polythene loaf bag and a couple gutted whiting, and a few of lengths of twine. haddocks, skate and monks. Willie Robertson steamed east Willie Robertson considered this for a mile before the dahn was to be a slightly above average put away for the third haul, in haul, although the class of fish the Poles shot. While shooting was typical for the Burra Haaf. away the ropes at 7.5 knots, the Comrades had a monthly brakes were kept on the reels to allocation of 300 boxes of whiting avoid them over-running. Using and 600 boxes of haddock. the two-reel system, the ropes The second haul yielded a lift of were over-ended, with the similar fish, although there were amount of rope on the reels two or three more haddocks indicated by the JJ Measuring mixed through the whitings. System. This working practice ‡ Haddock and whiting Heavy rain that settled in was reported to provide around ‡ Releasing fish into the deck traditionally dominated catches in ‡ Selecting fish into baskets during the second haul required 18 months of life from a set of ponds. the Burra Haaf. before gutting. some out-of-the-box thinking to ropes, with a cost in the region of £4,500 to renew. The move east resulted in a slack lift, and so Comrades headed back into the middle of the Burra Haaf for the next haul, which proved to be the last. Willie Robertson decided to head for home shortly after 3pm, while the crew cleared the decks and put the last of 40 boxes down into the fish hold. This was one haul fewer than the usual quota for the day, but the crew were content with what was onboard. The catch was a mixture of rounded and gutted whiting, with three boxes of haddocks and one of codling, skate and monks. The rounded whiting sold for £25 per box the following morning at Scalloway fishmarket, while the gutted whiting made £46. n ‡ Comrades returning to Scalloway… ‡ … to land 40 boxes from four shots. 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 19 Swan: ‘Friendships and teamwork skills forged for life’ In 2021, the Swan Trust will mark 25 years since the historic Shetland sailing Fifie Swan was relaunched as a sail training and charter vessel. In the lead-up to this anniversary, people who have sailed on Swan and worked with the trust over the years will record their memories of the iconic vessel. In the first of these, Andrew Manson, the Swan Trust’s Sail Trainee of the Year 2019, reminisces about his trips on Swan

I have had the opportunity to sail at sea and on land, may have poorer without the vessel. aboard the Swan as a sail trainee sometimes been wet and windy, Undertaking a voyage with on three separate occasions, all it never dampened the mood. the Swan has always given me of which have been worthwhile It was all part of the shared peace of mind and distance and memorable experiences. I experience which helped us from everyday stresses that was still at school when I took to bond as a team, and gave would be impossible to achieve my first trip, aged 15, as part us plenty of stories to relive. otherwise, whilst creating of the crew for the ‘cruise in In 2019, we were absolutely amazing memories and lasting company’ from Greenock to blessed with sunny and warm friendships. Lerwick during the Tall Ships weather for the duration of our If I was to give a piece of Race of 2011. My second trip stay in Fredrikstad. The most advice to anyone else taking was a voyage to Westray, Orkney, memorable experience for me a trip on the Swan, it would and my most recent was from of the Swan would have to be be to really just get stuck in Lerwick to Aalborg and then sailing in glorious conditions into and enjoy it. The more you Fredrikstad, as part of the Tall the picturesque fjords on our way give to the whole experience, Ships Races 2019. to berth in Fredrikstad, having the more you’ll get out of it. On all three voyages I have just spent a significant portion of And don’t worry if you’re shy been part of a varied crew, of time at sea. or inexperienced – you likely different ages, genders and Being presented with the won’t be the only one, and you backgrounds. Before the start of Swan Trust Trainee of the Year definitely won’t feel like that by each trip, most of the trainees award for 2019 was also a huge the end of the trip! did not know each other, and honour. I felt very touched to I hope the trust will continue the varied ages and backgrounds have been recognised for my to provide life-changing means many would not have efforts in this way. sail training experiences for mixed otherwise. Despite this, Having a world-class skipper many years to come – I would getting along and working as a and first mate in Thorben certainly be happy to be writing team and crew came naturally on ‡ Andrew Manson at the helm of Swan… Reinhardt and Maggie Adamson a similar article for its 50th every voyage, and by journey’s really helped myself and others or 75th anniversary. To do end, new friendships and acclimatise to life aboard the this it needs to continue to teamwork skills had been forged Swan, and volunteer crew attract enthusiastic trainees for life. member Scott Sandison, who and volunteers, both young These situations of having I have sailed with before, is and old, and secure funding to work together with others always great fun. Having such to guarantee the preservation who you may or may not know, a wealth of both skill and of this unique and valuable sometimes under pressure, acts experience onboard is a real community resource, for the as effective preparation for asset in terms of getting to grips benefit of Shetland as a whole. I entering the world of work and with sailing and living aboard a certainly hope this is something higher education. Personally, tall ship. the Swan Trust, and Shetland, I often found myself in similar I have to say that the Swan can achieve. circumstances at university, and is an incredible community have the Swan to thank, in part, asset, and that I’d recommend for my successful contributions. a trip aboard to anyone and I undertook a year in industry everyone, regardless of age and during my five-year MSci course, experience. Having a real living, in which I had to move to Cardiff breathing (and sailing!) piece of for a year and become part of Shetland’s history with the last a laboratory team in a city and Fifie is truly phenomenal. environment where I knew ‡ … and receiving the Vevoe Trophy as Sail Trainee of the Year 2019, with The community benefits of no one. My experience from Swan skipper Thorben Reinhardt, award presenter Aubrey Jamieson, Swan the Swan are many, particularly the Swan served as very good mate Maggie Adamson and Swan trustee Tommy Allan. having a link to our heritage preparation for such situations. from the days of herring fishing, Being thrown into a new organised in ports, served to over the world was a definite which is invaluable. I now group of people aboard the Swan create strong bonds between highlight for me. There was volunteer for the Swan Trust, and having to operate as a crew myself and other crew members. a real carnival, friendly and allowing me to learn more about can seem daunting at first, but Portside activities I had the welcoming atmosphere in Tall the operation and maintenance as the trip progresses it becomes pleasure of experiencing included Ships host ports. Just exploring of the boat, as well as the work a truly bonding and formative tugs of war, tree climbing, different cities and cultures for that goes on year-round to experience. Watches spent with crew parades, concerts and, days at a time was both enjoyable keep the trust operational. The different members of the crew, of course, a few good parties! and memorable, and doing it as a experiences the Swan offers passing the hours chatting, at Getting to be part of the Tall part of a Swan crew made it very trainees are many, and hard to the wheel and performing tasks, Ships Race and meet other special. quantify, but suffice to say that ‡ Swan’s crew and 2019 trainees in and the parties and activities boat crews and natives from all While the weather, both I think Shetland would be much Fredrikstad. Shetland Charitable Trust funding boost for Swan

The Swan Trust is among 16 would like to thank the for the 2021 season, and offer First and foremost, the the Swan Trust connects with charitable organisations that charitable trust for this funding. life-changing sail training Swan is a community asset that schools, sail training and youth have collectively received over The Swan Trust offers a range opportunities, especially for our brings people together. Sail organisations, and undertakes £500,000 from the Shetland of volunteering and sailing young people.” training goes far beyond sailing a range of youth sails every Charitable Trust, with the Swan opportunities to our community, The Shetland Charitable instruction, using the experience year. The trust also develops Trust receiving £14,000. The which can increase skills and Trust was set up to benefit the of being at sea to help people the skills of its volunteer funding will be used to ready confidence, contribute to people of Shetland, especially learn about themselves and base, and works with partner Swan to resume sail training in health and wellbeing, and build in the areas of social care and discover hidden strengths and organisations to enhance 2021. friendships and community welfare, arts, culture, sport and talents. community events and funding Swan Trust chairman David links. This funding will enable recreation, the environment, With a particular focus on bids for youth, community and Goodlad said: “The trustees the trust to certify the Swan natural history and heritage. enabling youth sail training, other projects. 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? 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(5) 8 Atmospheric 13 Saboteur boots (11) ground (4) 15 Brav‑ad‑o 17 Abac‑us 20 (R) 21 Shape of eggs before laying All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd ‑ www.puzzler.com Eject 21 Atom See next issue for all puzzle solutions. begins (4) 30/07 Bluefin tuna programme authorisations granted Following a successful trial in The authorised vessels, which bringing their unique expertise to Orange Islay 2019, the tuna CHART (Catch And are located in Cork, Clare, Galway, bear on providing valuable data Release Tagging) pilot programme Sligo and Donegal, will support an for scientific purposes, and the will return to Irish waters for 2020, international scientific programme ‘citizen scientist’ anglers who will lobster caught reports Pauric Gallagher. to increase knowledge of the catch the fish. The fact that 209 The programme will see 22 behaviour and abundance of fish were tagged last year with no authorised skippers catch, tag, bluefin tuna in Irish waters and mortalities is a great achievement A highly coloured measure and release Atlantic across its wider distribution. The by the skippers.” orange lobster bluefin tuna for data collection programme also provides an The Sea-Fisheries Protection was landed to purposes off the Irish coast. ancillary benefit by supporting Authority and Inland Fisheries Islay Crab Exports At present, Ireland does not angling tourism in peripheral Ireland will undertake inspections Ltd last week have a quota for bluefin tuna and coastal communities. and patrols around the coast by local skipper so may not have a commercial Eamon Ryan, the minister with to ensure this remains a strictly Kyle Stevenson, fishery for them, even though responsibility for inland fisheries, controlled programme. Anglers reports David their numbers are increasing said: “The 22 angling vessels wishing to engage in this Linkie. steadily from August to November authorised by my department, programme must only do so on The unusually in Irish waters annually. These increased from 15 last year, a sea-angling vessel specifically coloured lobster fish could potentially choke will contribute substantially authorised to participate in was caught when various commercial fisheries, to essential bluefin tuna data the pilot programme. Anyone Kyle Stevenson so establishing their presence collection as they migrate engaging in fishing for bluefin was hauling creels scientifically is critical. Knowing along the Irish coastline. The tuna on any unauthorised west of Islay on how long they stay to feed in Irish recreational fisheries sector is vessel will be in breach of the Mirage II. waters, and where they go after crucial in the delivery of this Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Several other they leave the Irish coast, is of research programme, and we look Jurisdiction (Bluefin Tuna) orange lobsters immense importance. forward to continuing working with Regulations 2019 (SI No. 265 of have been caught There is a very small by-catch all the state agencies involved. 2019). in the waters quota available to Ireland and “I want to acknowledge the A full list of authorised skippers around Islay in ‡ The distinctive orange lobster landed by other non-quota-holding EU key role of the authorised charter can be found at: fisheriesireland. recent years. Islay skipper Kyle Stevenson last week. member states. skippers and their crews, who are ie/bluefin 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES WELL-SUPPLIED PETERHEAD WHITEFISH MARKETS The first four whitefish sales at Peterhead sold at £1.85-£4.35, lemon sole £1.15- last week included three 6k+-box £7.65, ling £1-£1.05, plaice 40p-£1.60, markets, reports David Linkie. hake 70p-£3.95, megrim 35p-£6.25, All selections of cod secured good coley 60p-£1.45, squid £2.75-£10 and prices from Monday to Thursday morning, line-caught mackerel 50p-£1.80 per kg. although smaller grades of haddock Twenty-four hours later, nine boats, dropped on Wednesday morning. Kathleen Ann, Emulator, Leanne, Ellorah, Twelve boats, Ocean Dawn, Endurance, Boy John, Rosebloom, Courageous, Victory Rose, Our Lass III, Golden Sceptre and Jolanna M, plus four Angelina, Good Hope, Harvest Hope, consignments, put 3,938 boxes ashore Accord, Forever Faithful, Bracoden, for last Tuesday’s market. This tally, the Fruitful Bough and Gracious, together smallest of the first four days of last with six consignments, contributed 6,567 week, included 1,065 boxes of gutted boxes to the first market of last week at and 66 boxes of round haddock, 703 Peterhead. boxes of cod, 534 boxes of whiting (455 Monday’s sale included 1,999 boxes of rounders), 280 boxes of hake, 259 boxes ‡ The Lapwing/Budding Rose and Arcturus/Ardent pair teams landing for the midweek market at Peterhead. gutted and 410 boxes of round haddock, of coley, 193 boxes of monkfish, 123 (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) 934 boxes of cod, 696 boxes of hake, boxes of ling, 118 boxes of squid, 102 640 boxes of whiting (486 rounders), 349 boxes of flatfish and 26 boxes of megrim. 151 boxes of ling and 81 boxes of squid. boxes of squid, 171 boxes of monkfish, 80p-£1, plaice 85p-£3.40, lemon sole boxes of coley, 308 boxes of monkfish, The 6,119 boxes on the market A further 11 boats, Celestial Dawn, 144 boxes of flatfish, 85 boxes of ling, £1-£6.80, coley £1-£1.20, squid £2.30- 199 boxes of flatfish, 125 boxes of squid, floor on Wednesday morning came Phoenix, Helenus, Faithful, Crystal 34 boxes of megrim and 42 boxes of £8.60, hake 55p-£3.50 and line-caught 124 boxes of megrim, 101 boxes of ling from seven boats, Lapwing, Arcturus, River, Karen Ann II, Boy Andrew, mackerel. mackerel £1.25 per kg. and 80 boxes of line-caught mackerel. Budding Rose, Ardent, Jubilee Quest, Davanlin, Aquarius II, Steadfast Hope Last Thursday morning, large/ The 23,295 boxes of whitefish sold At the start of last week at Peterhead, Virtuous and Mia Jane W, together with and Fruitful Vine, together with six medium gutted haddock made £2.65- at Peterhead over the first four days of large cod sold at £3.85-£4.60 per kg, seven consignments from Vision IV, consignments from Atlantic Challenge, £3.25 per kg, selected £2-£4, small last week came from 39 boats and 23 medium £2.90-£4.15, selected £3.10- Norlan, Aalskere, Silver Cloud, Gratitude, Deeside, Northern Eagle, Fisher Boys, 70p-£3.95, chippers 50p-£1.65 and consignments. This tally included 8,041 £3.65 and small £1.80-£2.70. Large/ Just Reward and Chloe Ella. This sale Pathway and Just Reward, contributed metros 35p-90p. Large cod sold at boxes of haddock (654 rounders), 3,205 medium gutted haddock made £2.30- included 2,031 boxes of gutted and 88 6,671 boxes to last Thursday’s market £4.45-£4.95 per kg, sprags £3.15- boxes of cod, 3,069 boxes of whiting £3.55 per kg, selected £2.15-£3.50, small boxes of round haddock, 820 boxes at Peterhead. This sale, the largest of £4.75, medium £3.15-£4.50, selected (2,301 ungutted), 2,444 boxes of hake, £1.75-£2.95, chippers 65p-£1.70, metros of cod, 778 boxes of whiting (611 the four days, included 2,382 boxes of £3.15-£3.85 and small £3.30. Gutted 1,426 boxes of coley, 983 boxes of 35p-£1 and round haddock 55p-65p. rounders), 481 boxes of hake, 474 boxes gutted haddock, 1,117 boxes of whiting whiting were at 50p-£1.50 per kg and monkfish, 651 boxes of flatfish, 542 Gutted whiting were at 50p-£1.95 and of coley, 311 boxes of monkfish, 280 (749 rounders), 987 boxes of hake, 748 round whiting 30p-90p. Monkfish made boxes of squid, 464 boxes of megrim and round whiting 45p-£1.10 per kg. Monkfish boxes of megrim, 206 boxes of flatfish, boxes of cod, 344 boxes of coley, 218 £1.05-£4 per kg, megrim 65p-£5, ling 460 boxes of ling. STRONG START TO THE PRICES FALL BACK AT BRIXHAM The market at Brixham saw a quieter week £2.50 for 4s and £1 for 5s. Ling 1s were after the high prices of two weeks ago, as £2.20, 2s £2 and 3s 80p. Prime lobsters WEEK IN SHETLAND more fish on offer both here and in Europe were £16.40 and large £16. Mackerel was Monday morning’s market of 2,202 boxes from 24 boats was the depressed prices. Total sales for the full £6.20 for 1s, £4.80 for 2s and 70p for 3s. largest of the first four markets last week in Shetland. week were expected to be in the region of Monkfish 1s averaged £11, 2s £11.20, 3s Supplies fell on Tuesday morning with just 647 boxes from 17 £650,000. £10.70, 4s £9.80, 5s £8.10 and 6s £5. Grey boats, but increased again on Wednesday, when 18 boats landed Over the first four markets last week, bass mullet was £3.80 for 1s and £3.50 for 2s. 1,226 boxes. Twenty-three boats put ashore 1,420 boxes for fetched £16.50 for 1s, £15.60 for 2s, £13.40 Red mullet sold at £13/kg for 1s, £10.20 Thursday morning’s market, bringing the four-day total to 5,495 for 3s, £9.80 for 4s and £9 for 5s. Blondie for 2s and £3.80 for 3s. Octopus averaged boxes from 82 vessels. Inshore boats were again prominent across wing 1s were £4, 2s £2.60, 3s £2 and 4s £2.40. the four markets, contributing 17,879kg of line-caught mackerel. £1.50/kg. Black bream 1s were £9, 2s £8.20, Plaice 1s averaged £4.30/kg, 2s £3.90, 3s Haddock (29,747kg) led the way over the first four markets 3s £7.60 and 4s £5.50. Size 1 brill averaged £2.90, 4s £2 and 5s £1.40. Pollack 1s were last week in Shetland, followed by whiting (23,305kg, of which £12.20/kg, 2s £8.80, 3s £7.80, 4s £7.50 and £5.20, 2s £4.80, 3s £4.40 and 4s £3.50. 16,815kg were rounders), ling (22,766kg), monkfish (21,153kg), 5s £4.70. Cod 2s were £6.50, 3s £5.40, 4s Sand sole 1s were £9/kg and 2s £6.40. Large cod (20,233kg), mackerel (17,879kg), megrim (17,250kg), saithe £5.90 and 5s £3.90. scallops were £7.80 and small £3.90. Dover (17,008kg), hake (8,800kg), plaice (2,696kg), squid (2,265kg) and Conger 1s were £2.50, 2s £2.40 and 3s sole 1s averaged £17.50/kg, 2s £15.90, 3s lemon sole (2,028kg). £1.40. Cuttlefish averaged £5.20 for 1s and £17.80, 4s £16.80, 5s £13.80, 6s £13.30, 7s Top prices over the four markets included cod at £5.05 per kg, £3.50 for 2s. Size 1 dabs were £3.50 and £11.20, 8s £11, 9s £9.40 and 10s £6.40. Size gutted haddock £3.90, hake £4.20, halibut £11.90, lemon sole 2s were 50p. John Dory 1s were £12.50/kg, 1 squid were £14.80 and 2s £13.60. £8.70, ling 90p, mackerel £1.75, megrim £6.80, monkfish £4.10, 2s £11.40, 3s £8.20, 4s £5.70 and 5s 90p. Thorny wings averaged £1.70 for 2s, plaice £2.80, saithe £1.35, squid £8.35, turbot £11.70, gutted ‡ Flourish and Resilient landing into Lerwick Red gurnard 2s made £3.50. Haddock 1s £1.60 for 3s and £1.10 for 4s. Tubs were whiting £3.10 and round whiting 90p per kg. fishmarket.(Photo: Sydney Sinclair) averaged £5.40/kg, 2s £4.30 and 3s £1.50. £3.80/kg for 1s and £2.90 for 2s. Turbot Hake fetched £4 for 1s, £3.80 for 2s and averaged £22.70/kg for 1s, 2s £21.30, 3s 3s, £3.60 for 4s, £3.10 for 5s, £2.70 for £18.30, 4s £15.10, 5s £10.90 and 6s £9. 6s and £2.30 for 7s. Lemon sole averaged Size 1 whiting averaged £3.50/kg, 2s £2, 3s BUSY START TO THE WEEK AT NEWLYN £8.80/kg for 1s, £8.20 for 2s, £5.90 for 3s, £1 and 4s 40p. One beamer, three netters and inshore boats from one beamer, one netter and inshore megrim sole, 0.4t monkfish, 0.5t pollack landed 22.8t for auction last Monday at boats. The majority-volume species were and 0.7t of turbot. Most notable high prices Newlyn. Highest-volume species were 0.2t 0.8t of Dover sole, 0.2t haddock, 1.7t MSC were N1 red mullet £12.80/kg, N2 Dover sole of brill, 1t Dover sole, 0.3t haddock, 10t MSC hake, 0.5t mackerel, 2.1t megrim sole, 0.9t £16.76/kg and N3 cod £5.20/kg. QUALITY SOLE LANDING AT LOWESTOFT hake, 0.3t John Dory, 0.1t lemon sole, 1.4t monkfish, 1t plaice and 0.3t of witches. For auction on Thursday, one beamer The Lowestoft fishmarket has been seeing a gradual return to business over the past month, mackerel, 2.8t megrim sole, 1t monkfish, Again, demand and prices were good and inshore boats landed a volume of 9.5t. after a period of closure due to the lockdown. With a lot of buyers for the fish normally supplying 0.1t plaice, 1.2t pollack, 0.5t turbot and 0.4t throughout the sale. Volumes most worthy of mention were 0.6t of the pub and restaurant trade, it may take many weeks for a recovery to pre-Covid levels of of witches. Demand was good throughout A volume of 6.9t was on show for auction Dover sole, 0.1t haddock, 0.1t John Dory, 0.2t demand. the morning, with top prices being N3 bass on Wednesday morning, landed by one netter lemon sole, 1.7t mackerel, 0.3t megrim sole, Over the first four days of last week, 14 boats sold 1.2t of fish through the auction. However, £12.58/kg, N1 brill £13.40/kg and N1 Dover and inshore boats. Partly contributing to the 1.2t monkfish, 0.2t plaice and 1.2t of pollack. the majority of trade seen was in Dover sole, with best prices at £17 per kg. Small numbers of sole £17.40/kg. day’s volume were 0.3t haddock, 2.3t MSC Demand and prices were good throughout bass fetched £12, and lobster saw highs of £16. Trade was also seen in brill, which saw highs of Tuesday’s auction was supplied with 7.7t hake, 0.1t John Dory, 1.5t mackerel, 0.2t the morning. £6, and skate, which achieved £2. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 30 July 2020

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 25 JULY price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 25 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago 25 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago 25 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Catfish £2.41 £2.59 £3.00 £1.83 Turbot (1) 68 £17.37 £21.60 £14.17 Bass (1) 17 £15.56 £14.45 £19.29 Bass (3) 98 £12.79 £8.18 £13.45 Bass (4) 201 £12.03 £11.71 £13.53 Cod (A1) £4.24 £4.79 £4.89 £3.30 Turbot (0) 73 £15.42 £28.33 £16.09 Bass (2) 88 £14.95 £16.60 £18.35 Bass (5) 85 £10.97 £11.84 £12.84 Cod (A2) £4.24 £4.73 £4.32 £3.74 Whiting (1) 91 £1.25 £1.22 £1.04 Bass (3) 455 £11.76 £15.78 £16.85 Blonde Ray (L) 925 £1.16 £1.64 £2.06 Turbot (2) 92 £16.45 £20.95 £12.20 Cod (A3) £4.01 £4.29 £4.16 £3.34 Bass (4) 2,279 £8.80 £10.43 £12.11 Blonde Ray (M) 251 £0.80 £0.99 £1.58 Cod (A4) £3.55 £3.83 £3.96 £2.85 Haddock (4) 117 £0.36 £0.36 £0.39 Bass (5) 1,279 £8.35 £9.71 £11.41 Blonde Ray (S) 45 £0.19 £0.77 £0.92 Cod (A5) £2.39 £2.72 £3.43 £1.97 Pollack (4) 177 £2.86 £3.14 £2.81 Brill (1) 554 £10.95 £12.64 £12.28 Brill (1) 36 £12.61 - £11.77 Haddock (A1) £3.08 £3.64 £4.41 £2.97 Pollack (2) 261 £5.04 £5.48 £4.45 Brill (2) 682 £7.05 £10.12 £8.95 Brill (2) 103 £12.69 £8.42 £11.68 Megrim 272 £2.93 £2.25 £1.34 Haddock (A2) £3.21 £3.74 £4.60 £2.62 Brill (3) 1,184 £6.57 £8.81 £8.62 Brill (3) 74 £10.48 £8.35 £9.60 Cod (0) 318 £6.53 £6.32 £5.23 Brill (4) 18 £8.24 £8.48 £7.57 Haddock (A3) £2.45 £3.30 £3.99 £2.05 Brill (4) 728 £6.60 £8.20 £7.76 Turbot (3) 347 £13.20 £15.98 £10.65 Brill (5) 5 £6.98 £8.20 £6.62 Haddock chippers (A4) £1.28 £1.78 £2.34 £1.36 Brill (5) 42 £4.48 £6.45 £6.21 Witch (1) 391 £6.47 £6.71 £2.58 Claws (9) 86 £4.00 £3.46 £4.03 Haddock metros (A4) £0.68 £1.05 £1.31 £0.92 Cock crabs 222 £5.84 £5.91 £6.37 Lemon sole (1) 456 £8.66 £7.49 £4.40 Cod (3) 52 £5.09 £5.26 £5.40 Hake (A1) £3.04 £3.41 £4.42 £2.86 Turbot (4) 539 £3.93 £6.22 £5.35 Cod (2) 46 £4.30 - £4.60 Cod (4) 71 £4.73 £5.32 £2.22 Hake (A2) £2.53 £3.27 £4.15 £2.51 Monkfish (5) 633 £1.85 £2.17 £2.66 Cod (3) 46 £4.62 £6.24 £4.32 Cod (5) 31 £4.08 - £2.60 Hake (A3) £2.15 £2.49 £2.94 £1.90 Whiting (2) 666 £1.54 £0.97 £1.27 Conger (1) 66 £2.23 £2.25 £2.09 Cuckoo ray (L) 64 £0.50 - £0.96 Cuckoo ray (M) 508 £0.35 £1.14 £1.04 Hake (A4) £1.47 £1.77 £2.69 £1.90 Catfish (1) 706 £5.88 £5.22 £3.36 Conger (2) 22 £2.44 £2.11 £2.08 Cuckoo ray (S) 31 £0.15 £0.52 £0.42 Hake (A5) £0.95 £1.08 £2.18 £1.16 Ling (2) 882 £2.83 £1.71 £1.54 Conger (3) 65 £0.67 £1.64 £0.62 Cuttlefish (L) 2 £1.00 - £2.74 Lemon sole (A1) £5.01 £6.73 £6.22 £5.39 Witch (3) 904 £0.90 £0.98 £0.79 Cuttlefish (1) 11 £4.09 £5.02 £4.25 Dover sole (1) 207 £15.97 £16.45 £19.76 Lemon sole (A2) £3.59 £5.49 £5.01 £5.86 Monkfish (4) 980 £3.90 £3.88 £3.82 Cuttlefish (2) 586 £3.07 £3.66 £2.62 Dover sole (2) 208 £14.74 £14.58 £19.69 Lemon sole (A3) £1.90 £3.06 £2.75 £2.12 Monkfish (1) 1,053 £5.25 £5.18 £3.95 Dogfish 8,606 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Dover sole (3) 522 £15.88 £16.52 £20.13 Ling (A1) £5.95 £0.95 £1.19 £1.02 Ling (1) 1,062 £3.02 £1.94 £1.65 Gurnard (2) 16 £3.13 £3.94 - Dover sole (4) 886 £13.12 £13.57 £14.46 Ling (A2) £0.97 £1.03 £1.31 £1.18 Cod (1) 1,077 £6.78 £6.47 £4.91 Gurnard (4) 5,993 £0.60 £0.61 £0.64 Dover sole (5) 424 £10.72 £11.33 £9.80 Ling (A3) £0.95 £0.97 £1.31 £1.21 Witch (2) 1,220 £4.18 £4.79 £1.70 Haddock (1) 338 £4.92 £5.30 £2.96 Gurnard and latchet (L) 43 £2.82 £4.29 £3.63 Megrim (A1) £3.45 £5.19 £5.97 £3.91 Squid 1,225 £0.91 £1.94 £1.40 Haddock (2) 273 £3.91 £4.43 £2.23 Gurnard and latchet (M) 57 £1.28 £3.67 £2.22 Pollack (3) 1,344 £4.01 £3.97 £3.48 Gurnard and latchet (S) 216 £0.79 £0.84 £0.81 Megrim (A2) £2.11 £3.25 £4.52 £2.58 Haddock (3) 324 £1.14 £3.27 £1.34 Ling (3) 1,349 £1.30 £1.18 £1.31 Haddock (1) 140 £3.62 £2.99 £3.40 Megrim (A3) £1.95 £2.67 £2.70 £2.15 Hake (1) 23 £3.35 - £4.62 Saithe (1) 1,367 £1.94 £2.24 £1.74 Haddock (2) 474 £3.30 £3.14 £3.28 Megrim (A4) £0.47 £0.48 - £0.75 Hake (2) 25 £3.06 £5.70 £5.47 Haddock (3) 1,805 £0.51 £1.05 £1.06 Haddock (3) 107 £2.94 £2.65 £3.04 Megrim (A4) £0.82 £1.53 £2.09 £1.25 Hake (3) 271 £3.42 £5.19 £5.02 Lemon sole (2) 1,859 £4.60 £4.57 £4.02 Haddock (4) 136 £0.68 £0.69 £1.52 Monkfish (A1) £3.69 £3.88 £4.40 £3.58 Haddock (5) 28 £0.67 £0.49 £1.04 Monkfish (2) 2,135 £5.29 £5.28 £4.01 Hake (4) 658 £3.21 £4.87 £4.79 Hake (0) 44 £0.61 £0.76 £0.55 Monkfish (A2) £3.77 £3.95 £4.42 £3.76 Haddock (1) 2,329 £2.77 £3.06 £2.25 Hake (5) 1,739 £2.83 £4.87 £4.38 Hake (1) 179 £3.01 £1.87 £3.76 Monkfish (A3) £3.42 £3.65 £4.29 £3.84 Monkfish (3) 2,601 £4.76 £4.75 £3.91 Hake (6) 2,003 £2.68 £4.57 £3.84 Hake (2) 392 £2.91 £1.70 £4.18 Monkfish (A4) £2.71 £3.20 £4.25 £3.38 Hake (7) 1,140 £1.86 £3.33 £3.09 Saithe (2) 3,090 £1.64 £1.72 £1.36 Hake (3) 1,376 £2.84 £1.76 £4.38 Monkfish (A5) £1.79 £2.05 £3.93 £2.74 Hen crabs 911 £2.05 £1.83 £1.90 Cod (2) 3,482 £5.54 £5.47 £4.62 Hake (4) 2,908 £2.79 £1.71 £4.20 Plaice (A1) £2.88 £3.25 £2.90 £1.80 Cod (5) 4,334 £2.38 £3.13 £2.66 John Dory (1) 196 £12.05 £12.51 £12.61 Hake (5) 5,477 £2.69 £1.80 £3.39 Plaice (A2) £1.77 £1.40 £2.53 £1.55 Plaice (1) 4,773 £3.87 £5.03 £3.50 John Dory (2) 342 £10.42 £11.61 £12.08 Hake (6) 2,702 £1.91 £1.46 £2.45 Plaice (A3) £1.34 £1.38 £1.97 £1.03 Haddock (2) 5,650 £1.63 £2.08 £1.57 John Dory (3) 734 £7.46 £8.66 £10.27 John Dory (1) 35 £11.33 £8.71 £12.60 Plaice (A4) £1.14 £1.31 £1.39 £0.97 Hake (3) 5,877 £1.04 £1.99 £1.57 Lemon sole (1) 295 £7.93 £9.01 £7.91 John Dory (2) 122 £10.77 £7.97 £12.36 Pollack (A1) £2.97 £2.97 £3.53 - Cod (3) 6,951 £4.19 £4.50 £3.71 Lemon sole (2) 339 £7.32 £8.63 £8.40 John Dory (3) 224 £8.69 £7.31 £9.88 John Dory (4) 137 £5.68 £4.66 £7.97 Pollack (A2) £2.89 £2.97 £3.54 £2.46 Lemon sole (3) 7,394 £2.17 £2.17 £2.54 Lemon sole (3) 835 £5.67 £6.32 £7.49 John Dory (5) 67 £4.65 £3.72 £5.82 Pollack (A3) £2.13 £2.15 £3.37 £3.30 Cod (4) 9,618 £3.04 £3.49 £3.18 Lemon sole (4) 1,928 £2.49 £2.41 £2.53 Plaice (2) 12,753 £3.04 £3.88 £3.77 Lemon sole (1) 50 £8.03 £7.76 £8.22 Pollack (A4) £2.65 £2.70 - £3.75 Lemon sole (5) 966 £0.95 £0.92 £0.84 Saithe (4) 16,391 £0.81 £0.92 £0.98 Lemon sole (2) 53 £8.47 £7.32 £8.47 Round Haddock £0.55 £0.62 £0.92 £0.53 Line mackerel (1) 12 £6.50 £6.08 £5.76 Lemon sole (3) 96 £6.67 £5.24 £6.76 Saithe (3) 17,131 £1.12 £1.22 £1.17 Whiting (A2) £1.46 £1.65 £2.29 £1.78 Line mackerel (2) 117 £4.35 £4.82 £4.48 Lemon sole (4) 216 £2.67 £2.78 £2.22 Plaice (3) 17,271 £1.95 £2.18 £2.91 Whiting (A3) £1.20 £1.34 £1.77 £1.29 Line mackerel (3) 329 £0.88 £0.46 £2.75 Lemon sole (5) 54 £0.51 £0.42 £0.51 Hake (0) 21,433 £2.30 £3.64 £3.21 Whiting (A4) £0.78 £0.81 £1.25 £1.07 Lobster 135 £16.40 £16.66 £13.19 Ling (L) 108 £1.19 £1.00 £1.99 Hake (1) 24,369 £2.29 £3.46 £2.92 Ling (M) 2 £1.00 £1.17 £2.37 Whiting (round) £0.64 £0.95 £1.33 £1.12 Monkfish tails (1) 173 £10.40 £11.11 £11.59 Hake (2) 24,996 £2.35 £2.93 £2.45 Ling (S) 97 £0.68 £1.00 £0.93 Monkfish tails (2) 501 £10.45 £11.30 £12.18 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Plaice (4) 33,651 £1.64 £1.71 £2.05 Lobster (M) 4 £10.20 - £10.71 TO 25 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (3) 851 £10.12 £10.67 £10.98 Mackerel (LM) 1,161 £2.30 £4.39 £4.97 ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Catfish 630 £1.80 £2.16 £2.09 TO 23 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (4) 2,100 £9.39 £9.66 £10.24 Mackerel (M) 3,081 £1.30 £3.55 £3.30 Cod (2) 3,941 £4.25 £4.25 £4.35 Monkfish tails (5) 1,141 £8.02 £8.12 £8.89 Mackerel (S) 765 £0.53 £0.26 £0.69 Blue ling (ungutted) 25 £0.87 - £1.44 Cod (3) 2,072 £3.89 £3.97 £3.78 Monkfish tails (6) 540 £5.03 £4.83 £4.60 Megrim (1) 102 £5.27 £3.27 £5.39 Catfish (gutted) 18,336 £0.90 £1.30 £0.62 Cod (4) 627 £3.29 £3.51 £3.00 Octopus 752 £2.46 £2.25 £2.13 Megrim (2) 285 £5.15 £3.24 £5.41 Catfish (ungutted) 185 £0.17 £0.50 £0.30 Megrim (3) 1,199 £3.43 £2.50 £3.67 Cod (5) 691 £2.66 £2.40 £2.60 Plaice (1) 1,881 £3.94 £4.62 £4.47 Cod (large, gutted) 6,382 £2.05 £2.44 £1.72 Megrim (4) 1,087 £2.55 £1.56 £2.64 Cod (6) 581 £2.71 £2.11 £2.66 Plaice (2) 2,084 £3.18 £4.38 £3.23 Cod (large, ungutted) 342,323 £1.67 £2.07 £1.33 Megrim (5) 1,875 £2.08 £1.10 £1.79 Haddock (1) 1,456 £3.02 £3.34 £2.93 Cod (small, gutted) 239 £0.58 - £0.48 Plaice (3) 3,022 £2.61 £3.32 £3.00 Monkfish (1) 164 £9.77 £9.32 £11.96 Haddock (2) 1,628 £3.21 £3.51 £3.19 Cod (small, ungutted) 3,810 £0.73 £0.43 £0.34 Plaice (4) 2,755 £1.97 £2.08 £2.03 Monkfish (2) 441 £9.81 £9.72 £12.14 Haddock (3) 2,023 £2.44 £2.29 £2.56 Greenland halibut (gutted) 3,481 £0.20 £1.25 £1.59 Plaice (5) 5,839 £1.39 £1.46 £1.68 Monkfish (3) 904 £9.98 £10.15 £10.79 Haddock (4) 3,468 £1.20 £1.41 £2.20 Haddock (large, gutted) 50,976 £0.73 £1.55 £1.73 Pollock (2) 218 £4.77 £5.06 £5.07 Monkfish (4) 698 £9.52 £9.43 £10.22 Haddock (5) 6,491 £0.59 £0.65 £1.44 Haddock (large, ungutted) 22,466 £1.46 £2.24 £1.96 Pollock (3) 192 £4.25 £4.03 £4.02 Monkfish (5) 1,005 £6.68 £6.76 £7.43 Octopus (M) 221 £2.01 £2.40 £2.29 Hake (2) 1,123 £2.56 £3.71 £4.04 Haddock (small, ungutted) 821 £0.25 £0.78 £0.51 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 166 £2.95 £4.18 £4.83 Pilchard/Sardines (2) 120 £0.33 - £2.14 Hake (3) 1,690 £1.78 £2.54 £2.95 Halibut (gutted) 493 £2.87 £4.15 £2.87 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 1,070 £1.80 £3.40 £3.35 Plaice (1) 170 £3.78 £4.01 £3.48 Lemon sole (gutted) 1,620 £2.33 £1.85 £2.11 Hake (4) 2,886 £0.87 £1.60 £1.77 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 1,010 £1.35 £3.20 £2.84 Plaice (2) 63 £3.77 £3.82 £2.95 Ling (gutted) 4,168 £0.86 £1.13 £0.62 Halibut (3) 144 £11.35 £11.35 £11.00 Ray wings (small eye, 2) 23 £0.34 £1.37 £0.87 Plaice (3) 93 £3.37 £3.72 £2.80 Ling (ungutted) 1,066 £1.18 £0.94 £0.92 Halibut (4) 153 £8.76 £9.79 £8.38 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 40 £0.61 £2.00 £1.48 Plaice (4) 54 £2.29 £2.49 £1.84 Monkfish (gutted) 135 £3.67 £3.02 £3.06 Lemon sole (2) 151 £6.52 £7.43 £5.90 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 127 £0.95 £2.15 £1.93 Pollack, lythe (2) 118 £3.92 £4.12 £5.10 Plaice (gutted) 22,268 £1.93 £1.90 £1.14 Lemon sole (4) 450 £2.09 £2.05 £3.21 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 465 £0.93 £2.73 £2.02 Pollack, lythe (3) 1,388 £4.61 £3.95 £3.83 Redfish (ungutted) 24,646 £0.95 £0.87 £0.96 Pollack, lythe (4) 1,240 £3.36 £3.13 £2.86 Ling 11,445 £0.67 £0.70 £1.47 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 378 £0.52 £1.55 £1.69 Saithe (gutted) 21,883 £0.29 £0.43 £0.48 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 12 £0.10 £0.20 £0.34 Lythe 967 £3.00 £3.45 £4.00 Red mullet (1) 43 £3.54 £3.98 £3.49 Saithe (ungutted) 22,016 £0.18 £0.31 £0.30 Prawns (M) 16 £2.80 - - Red mullet (2) 18 £3.28 £3.40 £2.97 Mackerel 6,775 £0.44 £1.51 £2.01 Spotted catfish (gutted) 1,539 £0.95 £1.77 £0.48 Red mullet (1) 6 £10.96 £10.80 £11.86 Megrim (2) 4,620 £4.26 £5.15 £5.26 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 965 £0.84 £0.90 £0.29 Red mullet (3) 59 £11.92 £12.73 £11.58 Red mullet (2) 12 £4.50 £6.88 £10.04 Megrim (3) 3,471 £3.03 £4.03 £4.04 Tusk (gutted) 42 £0.53 £0.47 £0.32 Round pouting 5,803 £0.27 £0.29 £0.46 Red mullet (3) 8 £5.85 £6.09 £9.76 Megrim (4) 2,457 £2.03 £2.57 £2.52 Tusk (gutted) 42 £0.53 £0.47 £0.32 Scallop (2) 3,302 £2.06 £2.03 £4.56 Red mullet (4) 4 £6.32 £2.25 £5.37 Monkfish (1) 602 £3.11 £3.24 £3.40 Tusk (ungutted) 1,265 £0.28 £0.14 £0.16 Scallop meat 944 £9.00 £9.00 £11.50 Saithe (1) 51 £1.77 - £1.62 Saithe (2) 202 £1.76 £1.55 £1.81 Monkfish (2) 3,900 £3.55 £3.80 £3.68 Whiting (ungutted) 169 £0.23 £0.11 £0.27 Sole (1) 453 £16.86 £17.51 £19.32 Saithe (3) 29 £1.00 £1.80 £1.65 Monkfish (3) 3,154 £3.51 £3.66 £3.76 Sole (2) 952 £15.34 £16.03 £20.01 SCRABSTER, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Saithe (4) 4 £0.80 £0.88 £1.10 Sole (3) 1,086 £16.72 £18.18 £21.34 Monkfish (4) 785 £3.24 £3.45 £3.72 TO 22 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Scallops 22 £3.55 £2.00 £1.74 Monkfish (5) 374 £2.38 £2.60 £2.98 Sole (4) 1,703 £15.78 £17.41 £19.87 Cod £3.49 £4.63 £3.31 £4.63 Shagreen ray (M) 39 £0.43 £0.90 £1.03 Sole (5) 1,097 £13.39 £14.07 £15.67 Monkfish (6) 197 £1.16 £1.27 £1.99 Hake £1.32 £3.00 £1.13 £2.25 Shagreen ray (S) 57 £0.30 £1.20 £0.45 Sole (6) 1,475 £13.14 £13.56 £14.32 Plaice (2) 341 £2.69 £2.74 £2.49 Lemon sole £2.35 £2.35 £3.25 £4.08 Smoothhound (L) 172 £0.31 £0.76 £0.38 Smoothhound (M) 60 £0.80 £0.50 £0.30 Plaice (3) 329 £1.86 £2.21 £2.24 Ling £0.49 £0.56 £1.25 £1.66 Squid (1) 5 £14.73 - £10.77 Smoothhound (S) 116 £0.29 £0.30 £0.28 Plaice (4) 593 £0.80 £0.93 £1.50 Megrims £0.56 £3.13 £2.75 £3.10 Squid (2) 95 £12.80 £14.54 £10.25 Squid (L) 20 £11.16 £10.41 £8.50 Saithe (2) 293 £0.98 £1.22 £1.62 Monkfish £2.92 £3.80 £3.52 £3.66 Squid (mix) 157 £9.35 £11.93 £9.03 Squid (M) 56 £11.62 £10.67 £10.25 Turbot (1) 84 £18.67 £25.43 £18.23 Saithe (3) 1,617 £0.98 £1.05 £1.34 Round whiting £0.49 £0.49 £1.00 £1.20 Squid (S) 0 £8.20 £8.50 £7.93 Saithe (4) 3,936 £0.66 £0.64 £1.01 Turbot £10.00 £10.00 £5.00 £9.09 Turbot (2) 42 £16.08 £23.99 £14.93 Thornback Ray (M) 105 £0.50 £0.78 £1.46 Skate 826 £0.58 £0.66 £0.77 Tusk £0.49 £0.49 - Turbot (3) 63 £13.55 £21.08 £14.93 Turbot (1) 75 £15.80 £8.21 £17.59 Turbot (4) 122 £12.04 £18.60 £12.77 Turbot (2) 72 £15.19 £8.38 £16.75 Skate, roker 110 £0.84 £1.00 £0.85 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Squid 683 £4.09 £4.18 £3.77 TO 25 JULY landed price/kg wk ago ago Turbot (5) 209 £10.14 £12.24 £10.91 Turbot (3) 102 £14.64 £8.39 £16.39 Turbot 43 £11.29 £10.93 £10.72 Turbot (6) 58 £10.55 £10.25 £8.99 Turbot (4) 169 £11.97 £7.32 £14.94 Bass £12.00 £12.00 £15.00 £15.00 Turbot (5) 354 £10.40 £7.63 £13.04 Whiting (2) 707 £2.22 £2.80 £2.11 Whelks 31 £1.59 £1.96 £1.30 Brill £4.00 £6.00 £0.00 £13.00 Turbot (6) 383 £10.34 £9.01 £11.38 Whiting (1) 18 £3.54 £3.57 £2.88 Whiting (3) 1,745 £1.36 £1.50 £1.98 Dover sole £5.50 £17.00 £20.00 £14.88 Whiting (1) 71 £1.76 £1.00 £2.22 Whiting (4) 440 £0.44 £0.59 £0.88 Lobster £11.80 £16.00 £16.00 £20.40 Whiting (2) 64 £2.28 £1.99 £2.22 Whiting (2) 42 £0.97 £1.00 £1.31 Whiting, round 5,406 £0.58 £0.74 £0.98 Skate £1.00 £2.00 £1.70 £2.18 Whiting (3) 128 £0.83 £1.07 £1.72 Whiting (3) 96 £0.42 £0.50 £0.84 30 July 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

UK monthly demersal fish landings and prices, last two years

UK haddock landings into UK ports UK cod landings into UK ports UK monkfish landings into UK ports 4,000 2.00 3,500 4.00 3,000 6.00 1.80 3.50 3,000 2,500 5.00 1.60 3.00 3,000 2,500 1.40 2,000 4.00 2.50 1.20 2,000 2,000 1.00 2.00 1,500 3.00 1,500 0.80 1.50 1,000 2.00 0.60 1,000 1,000 1.00 Landings (t, left scale) 0.40 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 500 500 1.00 0.50 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) 0.20 Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 UK hake landings into UK ports UK sole landings into UK ports UK whiting landings into UK ports 2,000 4.20 250 15.00 1,800 1.80

3.50 1,500 1.50 1,600 200 12.00

2.80 1,200 1.20 1,200 150 9.00 2.10 900 0.90 800 100 6.00 1.40 600 0.60

400 50 3.00 Landings (t, left scale) 0.70 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 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK saithe landings into UK ports UK plaice landings into UK ports UK megrim landings into UK ports 1,600 1.80 1,000 2.50 400 4.00 350 3.50 1.50 800 2.00 1,200 300 3.00 1.20 600 1.50 250 2.50 800 0.90 200 2.00 400 1.00 150 1.50 0.60 400 100 1.00 200 0.50 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 0.30 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 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK 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 Landings (t, left scale) 700 2.10 300 Price per kg (right scale) 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 Landings (t, left scale) 100 0.30 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 UK 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

60 12.00 3.50 300 1.40 200 3.00 1.20 50 10.00 250 150 2.50 1.00 40 8.00 200 2.00 0.80 30 6.00 150 100 1.50 0.60 100 20 4.00 1.00 0.40 50 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 10 2.00 Landings (t, left scale) 50 Price per kg (right scale) 0.50 0.20 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20

UK brill landings into UK ports UK halibut landings into UK ports UK gurnard landings into UK ports 50 10.00 35 10.50 300 1.50 9.00 30 9.00 250 1.25 40 8.00 25 7.50 7.00 200 1.00 30 6.00 20 6.00 5.00 150 0.75 15 4.50 20 4.00 100 0.50 3.00 10 3.00 10 2.00 Landings (t, left scale) 50 0.25 5 Landings (t, left scale) 1.50 Landings (t, left scale) Price per kg (right scale) 1.00 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 May-18 Sep-18 Jan-19 May-19 Sep-19 Jan-20 Source: MMO ADVERTISEMENT PROOF FOR THE 21ST NOVEMBER 19 ISSUE FROM: ZOE WHITEHEAD

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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 this 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 3: The Burra Haaf delivers yet again. Ivan Reid) ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED The new Stonehaven crabber Dalwhinnie A 913 was New Brixham beamer launched in Holland 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)earlier and this James year delivered Johnston the (18), 14.95m in vivier-crabber David Linkie. The Waterdance-owned beamer Margaret of Ladram E After Chris Shearer started to port as Tranquility headed due Chiefs – turned the boat around and went straight back the beginningcontractors of this Luyt month, BV, reports reports 199 broke the Brixham record landing for a single trip last Tranquility’s Mitsubishi S6U south, parallel to the east coast Dalwhinnie, Margaret of Ladram leaves Brixham Bow view of (680kW @ 1050rpm) main engine, of Shetland, retracing the route partnershipNichola with of LadramLHD Ltd. 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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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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NO PORES good hardworking skipper, but he’s managed to pin down a highly co-ordinated and freezing. automatically be entered in the More details can be foundOR on GAPS Rugby World Cup final loss to South Africa. QUALITY OF SERVICE ‡ The skipper and crew of Margaret of Ladram relevant New Boat of the Year pages 8-9. ‡ The winners of the static and mobile gear Shellfish Boats of the Year 2019 category assembled on stage. Awards 2020 now ADJUSTABLE working hard on next week’s landing.” their catches daily via the Carter brothers’ farm shop at NON-MARKING From now until midnight on We design. We manufacture. We excel. HYGIENIC FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT a 1,350mm-diameter propeller through a PRM 4.17:1 of Kilkeel, Dalwhinnie features a number of interesting the fish using a lot of skill and a bit of luck. Results like this celebrating their record catch. STAINLESS smoothly executed operation An initial attempt by category. 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Today, the full range and endless options reports David Linkie. by the harbour tugs and the CONSTRUCTION nominations are invited across REDUCE DIRT TRAPS After landing whitefish Fraserburgh seiner Faithlie, to Fishing News full range and endless options at Lerwick for consignment pull Rosebloom clear of the can only improve for us further. There has been a bit of during 2019 will Treetops hotel, promises to be to Peterhead, Rosebloom soft contoured skerry proved groundedWaterdance on fleetthe submerged – part of the Greendaleunsuccessful. Group of entertainment. grounded on the submerged unsuccessful. 14 categories for the Fishing Soldian Rock when returning automatically be entered in the NO PORES online at teknomek.co.uk Continues on page 2 ‡ Rosebloom is towed into harbour by the Lerwick Port Authority vessels Knab and Kebister. 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Advertising on these pages is free for fishermen selling used boats and equipment. If you are a commercial supplier, please contact TalkMedia Sales on 01732 447008 SEE INSIDE! Scaffie yawl Anne joins historic fleet at Bridlington Anne later became part of now arrived home to the place the World of Boats collection of her build, and will undergo based at Eyemouth. When that an extensive refit before entire collection was auctioned taking her place alongside off in 2017, she was taken to the traditional sailing cobles Hartlepool Marina along with moored in the harbour. three other traditional craft. It Anne will be an important was hoped that a restoration addition to the BSCPS fleet project would get underway and will give members of in Hartlepool to train people the society the opportunity in boatbuilding skills, but that to learn the skill of manning venture sadly did not get off and sailing a different type of the ground. inshore fishing craft, one not Brussels – ‘Setting TACs will be Negotiations took place usually seen on the Yorkshire more transparent’ between the BSCPS and coast. See page 4 Hartlepool Marina last year to Further information about secure Anne for the society, the BSCPS can be obtained but due to the lockdown from: threebrotherscoble@ ‡ The 1977-built scaffie yawl Anne in Eyemouth ahead of her restrictions it was not possible gmail.com or: BSCPS, auction. to get her to Bridlington until Harbour Office, Gummers earlier this month. She has Wharf, Bridlington, YO15 3AN. The easing of the Covid-19 better than ever. restrictions has enabled sailing Another traditional sailing to get underway again in vessel will be joining the Bridlington, with the Bridlington BSCPS fleet in the near future Sailing Coble Preservation with the recent acquisition of Society (BSCPS) fleet of the scaffie yawl Anne from traditional sailing cobles back Hartlepool. A replica of the on the water, whilst crews inshore fishing craft once Crew’s backs spared by maintain social distancing familiar on the northeast coast mechanised pot fishing rules, reports Paul L Arro. of Scotland, she was built in See page 7 Sadly, many events have 1977 by Bridlington boatbuilder had to be cancelled this year, John Clarkson, being the first and the Bridlington Sailing boat he built after he moved Coble Festival, which attracts down from Whitby to continue traditional sailing vessels from his trade. Anne was modelled other parts of the country and on the lines of Gratitude BCK visitors from right along the 252, originally built by George coble coast, was no exception. Innes of Portknockie on the The society is confident that Moray Firth in 1896, and has the festival will return next year an overall length of 25ft with a ‡ Anne in Hartlepool earlier this year. She will undergo an and prove to be bigger and beam of 8ft 6in. extensive refit before going back on the water.

Wash cockles – Mainly for the birds See pages 8-12 Buckie Thistle promoted worldwide by acclaimed American author Buckie Thistle FC widened Pirates, and the American will remain in the club’s their fan base recently with children find out about Buckie trophy room, for the time the support of best-selling Thistle. being at least. American author Stephen Alerted to the unexpected Renowned globally King, reports David Linkie. exposure, Buckie Thistle’s as the author of horror, Loyally supported by a director of football Graeme supernatural fiction, number of local fishermen Tallis, who buys fish on suspense, crime, science and their families, Buckie Peterhead market every fiction and fantasy novels, Thistle FC play in the morning for GT Seafoods, many of which have been Highland League, and have received an immediate adapted into films, television Comrades – Last of the been champions on three reply to the email he sent series and comic books, traditional Shetland seine- occasions in the past 10 years. to Stephen King. This was Stephen King’s books have netters The first that club officials followed by two signed sold more than 350 million See pages 14-18 knew about their new claim copies of If It Bleeds. copies. to fame came when they were Graeme Tallis alerted by fans via Facebook subsequently returned the that Buckie Thistle were compliment by sending the mentioned in Stephen King’s author a club shirt and scarf new book If It Bleeds – a ‡ Stephen King proudly – which he proudly put on. collection of four novellas. wearing his Buckie Thistle FC When auctioned to raise As a fishing-orientated shirt and scarf. funds for the club during the town on the Moray coast, Covid-19 lockdown, one of Buckie is thought to have In one plot, private the signed copies was bought reminded Stephen King of detective Holly Gibney, for £900 by Jamie Watt his home in Maine, where a recurring character in from Leyland, Lancashire, the American horror maestro Stephen King’s books, whose dedication to Buckie Well-supplied Peterhead lives and has based the investigates a bomb at an Thistle is matched only by his whitefish markets maniacal clowns, haunted American middle school with daughter Lucy’s dedication See page 21 cars and other subterranean an exchange programme with to Stephen King – she owns suburban horrors that delight a counterpart in Scotland. everything the American ‡ If It Bleeds has taken his global army of devoted Scottish pupils learn about author has ever written. Buckie Thistle FC to a global SEE INSIDE! readers. baseball and the Pittsburgh The second signed copy audience.