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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL GREEN PRESSURE ON SCOTS REPORT First herring landed at Lerwick New quay for fleet finally underway

‡ An artist’s impression of the new fishermen’s quay at Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne, which has been designed by Spitfire Architecture.

Some 30 years after the idea was first mooted, and seven years after local fishermen began working with the New Economics Foundation to put together a funding proposal, work has finally begun on the long-awaited new fishermen’s quay ‡ The Kilkeel pelagic vessel Voyager… at Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne. Just as a long series of setbacks had finally The first herring from the North Sea 50 miles from Lerwick, skippers were been overcome, the Covid-19 lockdown further summer fishery were landed in Shetland making quick-fire trips to land prime- delayed the start of the project. However, last week, reports David Linkie. quality MSC-accredited herring in line two weeks ago, a virtual groundbreaking The Co Down and Fraserburgh with market requirements. ceremony marked the start of the first phase of midwater trawlers Voyager and Herring activity decreased last week construction. Quantus, together with the Swedish at Peterhead, where two local pelagic This will encompass the new quay, a cold vessel Astrid, started the ball rolling by boats are already tied up after taking storage and processing unit, a smokery and a landing herring to the Pelagia Shetland their allocation of herring. ‡ … and the regular visiting Swedish fishmonger’s. Further phases, for which £1.8m in processing factory at Gremista, Shetland midwater trawlers were boat Astrid were the first to land additional funding has just been secured, will see Lerwick. expected to start fishing this week, herring to the Pelagia Shetland the construction of storage and repair space and With the boats fishing between having stayed ashore until the start of processing factory at Lerwick last a visitor centre. Sumburgh Head and Fair Isle, less than the roe herring fishery. week. (Photos: Sydney Sinclair) Turn to page 7 for the full story.

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\\EINSTEIN\marketing\Advertising\Fishing News\Lous\2020\August 2020.doc 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 Greens push for radical changes in Scottish fisheries SFF: Report ‘not realistic and wrong approach’ Leading green groups have made activity ‘causes widespread damage full and verifiable documentation calls for more highly protected to the sea floor’, and that other of catches of target and non-target marine areas in Scottish waters, fishing activities pose a risk of species, deliver robust monitoring, low-impact fishing by 2021, accidental capture to birds, whales and support enforcement and restrictions on heavy mobile gear in and dolphins. “This is partly because compliance, as well as provide inshore waters, cameras on all boats, fishing has not been held to the same assurance to retailers and consumers’ and a reallocation of fishing licences, environmental standards as other • A wholesale review of the fleet. reports Tim Oliver. at-sea industries,” alleges the report. This should include ‘a phased and WWF, RSPB Scotland and the “Effective fisheries management just revocation and reallocation Scottish Wildlife Trust have set out must go beyond fish stock health, of all fishing licences according 11 major interventions that they say and adopt a broader ecosystem to clear social and environmental are necessary for nature’s recovery approach that ends overfishing, criteria, including climate impacts’. in Scotland, including in Scottish minimises damage to non-target This new licensing system must fisheries. species and habitats and leads to place ecosystem health ‘at the core The Scottish Fishermen’s a recovery in the health of marine of all decision-making’ to secure Federation has slammed the report habitats and ecosystems. A paradigm environmental benefits, and benefits as ‘detached from reality’ and the shift in fisheries management is for dependent coastal communities. wrong way to develop public policy, urgently needed to deliver the and said that fishermen have a change required to restore the The report says that the measures it vested interest in sustainability (see marine environment,” says the is calling for will produce economic, below). report. social, food supply and climate In their just-published document, It calls for Scotland to introduce benefits. the NGOs say that some actions ‘world-leading legislation, policy It argues that rebuilding stocks could be prioritised by the Scottish and governance that delivers will enhance productivity and deliver government over the next six ecosystem-based fisheries long-term stability and employment months, and that the package of management, fully integrated with opportunities and higher revenues policies must be delivered within the conservation objectives by 2021’. and profits. Long-term sustainability next five to 10 years. The reports says that measures to will also provide stability to coastal The report calls on all political achieve this should include: communities that benefit from and parties in Scotland to champion depend on fishing, it says. “Can you remember when we used tae go tae sea, catch stuff, nature, and to include the actions it • Fishing in accordance with the The report also argues that reliable calls for in their party manifestos for best available independent scientific supply of locally caught seafood take it hame and land it, and folk were pleased tae see us... ?” the 2021 Scottish elections. advice is essential to helping Scotland to The fisheries section of the report • Delivering spatial management achieve long-term food security, and will help towards mitigating the Transformative Actions for Nature calls for new legislation to achieve of all gear types and the exclusion that healthier marine ecosystems that effects of climate change. in Scotland’ can be read at: bit. sustainable, low-impact fishing by of some gears, including a have a higher capacity to store carbon ‘A Nature Recovery Plan – 11 ly/3hxqcyu the end of 2021. The report claims presumption against heavy bottom- that this is needed because only towed mobile fishing gear in a 54% of stocks are currently being significant part of Scotland’s fished sustainably, and catch limits inshore waters SFF: Report ‘detached from the real world’ are being ‘consistently set above • All fishing vessels in Scottish waters independent scientific advice’. to use remote electronic monitoring Commenting on the NGOs’ report, sustainability.” Fisheries Policy behind at the It also says that some fishing with cameras (REM), to ‘ensure Elspeth Macdonald, chief executive She said that all the research end of this year, we have an of the SFF, said that the report was shows that fishing is a low-carbon ongoing dialogue with Marine ‘completely detached from the real means of healthy protein Scotland and DEFRA about ‘More and stronger MPAs needed’ world’ and contained ‘a series of production, and that the North Sea future fisheries management, and wholly unrealistic suggestions and and North East Atlantic fisheries as a responsible industry we are The green NGOs’ report calls for fisheries, argues the report. unsubstantiated statements’. are among the best-managed in the continuously striving to minimise at least 30% of Scotland’s seas to It calls for an independent She said: “Firstly, the fishing world. our environmental impact. be highly protected, with at least commission to advise on industry in Scotland has a strong “It is not uncommon to find “This co-operation is based 10% fully protected, by 2030. the transformation of MPA vested interest in sustainability, skippers, supported by their on evidence, mutual respect, This mirrors in Scottish waters management in Scottish seas. and has been committed for representative associations, striving continuous dialogue and the recent Benyon Report to This, it says, should also provide many years to managing stocks to build a better knowledge of constructive compromise, seeking DEFRA that recommended highly advice on the condition and in this way. Our industry is made stock status and assessments, to find a balance between a protected marine areas in English ecological coherence of the up of individuals, families and and taking a direct interest in the sustainable and healthy fishing waters, which was slammed by the existing network, and consider businesses who are invested in it science in our region,” she said. sector and the protection of the NFFO (Fishing News, 6 August, new sites. for the long term. They want to “That is because management environment and of the stocks on ‘Industry blasts report proposing “Scottish residents have shown pass these businesses on to future is based on scientific evidence, which our businesses depend. NTZ network’). their support for sustainable use generations in good heart, so not blithe assertion of the type on “This is the right way to develop The legacy of historic impacts and management of our seas fishing responsibly and sustainably display in the report. public policy. The approach set out combined with emerging threats and creation of MPAs,” says is key to long-term business “As the UK leaves the Common in this report is not.” from coastal and offshore the report. “It is now time for development and extraction, as decision-makers to act decisively well as climate change, mean that to deliver effective protection and the marine environment faces management of Scotland’s seas.” intense pressures, says the report. A Scottish government Second Irish marine minister forced to resign MPAs are ‘tried and tested spokesperson said: “We recognise Ireland’s minister for agriculture, health controls, indoor gatherings have made very difficult personal tools for conservation’, it says. The the importance of sustainable food and the marine Dara Calleary have been restricted to 50 people sacrifices in their family lives and in Scottish MPA network currently fisheries and protection of the has resigned after just 30 days in since June. their business to comply with Covid covers 22% of the Scottish marine marine environment. These are office, after his predecessor lasted Dara Calleary had only been regulations,” he added. area, but many sites do not have key themes of our future fisheries only 17 days in the role, reports minister for agriculture, food and The taoiseach will temporarily management plans, and those management proposals, which we Pauric Gallagher. the marine for a month, after assume responsibility for the MPAs with management plans will publish in due course. Dara Calleary stepped down previous minister Barry Cowen agriculture, food and the marine still allow damaging industrial “Our marine protected area amid huge political controversy was sacked from the role after portfolio until the Dáil returns on activity to continue. network already covers more after he attended an Óireachtas just 17 days amid a drink-driving 15 September. Effectively managed MPAs than 22% of our seas. We have Golf Society event in Clifden, Co controversy dating back to 2016. Irish politician Phil Hogan, can promote recovery of critical committed to increasing this to Galway. There were 81 people In a statement following Mr the EU trade commissioner, who habitats that support fish and 30% by 2030, and consulted on present at the event, including Calleary’s resignation, taoiseach was heavily involved in shellfish. As stocks increase within additional proposals to achieve several other political figures. This Micheál Martin said that his negotiations, was also forced to a protected area, the individuals, this. We will consider the need breached government guidelines on attendance at the event was ‘wrong resign last week following Covid eggs and larvae can ‘spill over’ for new targets once new global Covid-19. and an error of judgement on his guideline breaches, including to support thriving commercial frameworks are agreed in 2021.” Under the government’s public part’. “People all over the country attendance at the same event. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 No-deal Brexit looms as clock ticks Fishing remains a major block to agreement on a Brexit deal, and a no-deal exit is looking ever Scots government blasts more likely after the end of the seventh round of talks between the EU and UK concluded on 24 UK ‘hard Brexit ideology’ August in Brussels, reports Tim Oliver. Commenting on the talks, the “The only possible options now With time running out to Scottish government accused the – with little more than four months get a deal before the end of the UK government of ‘recklessness’ to go before the end of the transition transition period, both sides said as the economy faced the effects of – are a low deal or no deal, both of they were pessimistic about the Covid-19. which will cause further substantial, chances of agreement but still External affairs secretary needless damage to the economy. hoped a deal would be possible. Michael Russell said: “It is “I agree with Michel Barnier, EU chief negotiator Michel unforgiveable for the UK who has said this morning that Barnier said that on fisheries, government to be recklessly after two days of talks with the there had been ‘no progress running down the clock and UK government, he thinks these whatsoever’ on the issues that causing maximum economic negotiations are going backwards matter, and UK negotiators uncertainty at a time when jobs more than forwards. I also had ‘shown no willingness to and the economy are already concur when he says he does not make progress on the issues ‡ EUFA chairman Gerard van Balsfoort (right) told Michel Barnier that his being hit hard by the coronavirus understand why we are wasting fundamental to the European negotiating team must take a strong line on maintaining the status quo on pandemic. valuable time.” Union’. access, quotas and markets. (Photo: EUFA) “It defies belief that in the He said there was still no clarity These included ‘a fair and middle of this crisis, the UK on tariffs, customs and ‘a whole sustainable long-term solution possible, and ‘it is still our goal, relationship based on an FTA government is determined to force raft of other issues’. for European fishermen’ and no but it is clear that it will not be [free trade agreement] like those Scotland and the UK out of the “The UK government must start ‘cherry-picking’ of access to the easy to achieve’. the EU has concluded with a Brexit transition period at the to put jobs before its hard Brexit single market. “We have had useful range of other international worst possible time. ideology,” said Michael Russell. “Today, at this stage, an discussions this week, but there partners,” said David Frost. agreement between the United has been little progress. “When the EU accepts Kingdom and the European “The EU is still insisting this reality in all areas of the Union seems unlikely,” said not only that we must accept negotiation, it will be much Michel Barnier. “Too often this continuity with EU state aid and easier to make progress.” Navy may be needed to week, it felt as if we were going fisheries policy, but also that He added that the chief backwards more than forwards.” this must be agreed before any negotiators and their teams But he said that he thought a further substantive work can be would remain in close contact protect UK vessels deal was ‘still possible, despite done in any other area of the before the next round in London The UK government has drawn possible extreme situations the increasingly short time’. “But negotiation, including on legal starting on 7 September, and up plans to deal with a possible created by a combination of to do so, our British partners texts.” they would ‘continue to work national emergency in January circumstances, including a will finally have to be ready to He said that this insistence hard to reach an agreement’. caused by a combination of a no-deal Brexit that could see present us with concrete and made it ‘unnecessarily difficult Michel Barnier said that for no-deal Brexit and a second the flow of HGVs between Dover constructive proposals in the to make progress’ and that ‘time an agreement to enter into force spike in coronavirus. and Calais down 45% for three next round, to be held from 7 is short for both sides’. on 1 January, 2021, a full legal A Cabinet document leaked months, creating long queues to 11 September in London.” “We are seeking a relationship text must be ready ‘by the end to the Sun newspaper setting in Kent and possible food He concluded: “The clock is which ensures we regain of October at the latest’ to allow out the measures includes the shortages. ticking.” sovereign control of our own time for both the Council and possible need for the Navy to Cabinet Office minister UK negotiator David Frost laws, borders and waters, the European parliament to protect the UK fishing fleet from said that the said that agreement was still and centred upon a trading ratify the agreement. illegal fishing in UK waters by government is ‘working flat out to EU vessels, and in conflicts at make sure the UK is ready for the sea between UK and EU fishing changes and huge opportunities vessels. at the end of the year as we EUFA tells Barnier: ‘We must keep status quo’ The Cabinet Office’s EU regain our political and economic Transition Task Force gave independence for the first time in The European Fisheries Alliance needed, with the interests of communities and the value chain ministers and officials a almost 50 years’. (EUFA) has reinforced the EU all member states concerned in linked to fisheries across the EU, Powerpoint presentation marked He said: “Part of this work industry’s demand to maintain mind, and not least the many men and we hope that the European ‘Official Sensitive’, reported the includes routine contingency the status quo on access to and women whose livelihoods Union will continue to take a Sun and other media. planning for various scenarios waters, fishing rights and market depend on it on both sides’. strong position to protect their The wide-ranging document that we do not think will happen access for EU vessels after Brexit, Gerard van Balsfoort stressed future.” sets out a number of scenarios but we must be ready for, come and has urged the EU to take ‘a that the European fisheries He further added that ‘the that could hit all parts of the UK, what may. strong position’ in negotiations. sector ‘will continue to work current system strikes a fragile including shortages of power “This is not a forecast or EUFA’s demands came at a constructively to support but necessary balance between and petrol, as 8,500 trucks could prediction of what will happen, meeting between EUFA chairman Michel Barnier, the European sustainable management of fish be held up at Dover. but rather a stretching scenario. Gerard van Balsfoort and EU Commission and the member stocks, the prosperity of EU and Dubbed a ‘doomsday It reflects a responsible chief negotiator Michel Barnier states in reaching an agreement UK fleets and the thousands of document’ by the Sun, it sets government ensuring we are and his team shortly before the on this basis, maintaining both jobs in our coastal communities’. out major plans to cope with ready for all eventualities.” latest round of talks. existing access to waters, fishing “We should build upon this basis, EUFA, which represents rights and markets’. EUFA as any upset to this balance will nine EU countries with fishing emphasised that this is essential have very real consequences interests, restated the importance to protect the future prosperity for many livelihoods across the of reaching an agreement on the of fleets, fishermen and their continent.” ‘Fishing will be traded off’ wider economic partnership with communities in the EU and the EUFA is a coalition of The Sun also reported that major sticking points in the talks. the UK that maintains existing UK. European fishing fleets directly Brussels has thrown out a UK Former Tory Brexit minister mutual access to waters and Following the meeting, Gerard impacted by Brexit. Members blueprint for a Brexit trade deal David Davis warned that the fishing rights for EU fleets. van Balsfoort thanked Michel currently include national as ‘unrealistic’, and that Michel last three weeks of talks will In a statement after the Barnier for his work over the past organisations from Belgium, Barnier told EU diplomats during be critical, and that the UK will meeting, described as ‘an open three years and his ‘continued Denmark, France, Germany, a briefing that the UK’s ‘clear soon have to be preparing for and frank discussion’, EUFA said openness to engage with the Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, strategy’ will be to ‘trade off’ talks to collapse. He said that that Gerard van Balsfoort and sector’. Spain and Sweden. The alliance fishing access for freedom from Brussels will try to take things to Michel Barnier agreed that ‘a He said: “The next few months accounts for over 18,000 EU ‘level playing field’ rules at the wire, adding: “The last three balanced, sustainable and long- will be defining for the future fishermen and 3,500 vessels, with the last minute. Fisheries and weeks will matter more than the term solution for fisheries was of thousands of fishermen, their an annual turnover of €20.7bn. regulatory alignment are the two first three years.” 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Scots green agenda eyes Holyrood election EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ The call by environmental groups for protected marine areas that mirror the pay out the vast sums that would be needed KELSEY.CO.UK radical changes to the management of proposals in the Benyon Report that made to revoke these opportunities is to live in Scotland’s fisheries is part of a continuing the same recommendations to DEFRA for cloud cuckoo land. Kelsey Publishing Ltd, pattern of pressure being exerted by English waters. The same criticisms apply The greens’ wishlist also displays the The Granary, Editor greens on government. to the Scottish proposals as have been growing antagonism towards bottom Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie Brexit will bring full control of our made of the Benyon Report. They are trawling and mobile gear in general that is Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] waters from January next year, and the extreme and biased against commercial a feature of the environmental movement’s Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 second reading of the fisheries bill that fishing, and especially trawling. stance towards fishing. This again ignores will determine the new management It is disingenuous for the greens to the socio-economic impact that bans or regime was scheduled to start on Tuesday claim that more MPAs and more highly severe reductions of mobile gear effort this week. protected areas are in fishermen’s long- would have on many fishermen and their The bill will give the devolved term interests because there will be communities. administrations a significant increase in more fish and shellfish as a result. The A call for REM cameras to be installed their decision-making powers in fisheries reality is that fishermen displaced from on all boats is equally unrealistic. While management and protection of the marine their normal grounds will have to fish they may be a practical possibility on environment. elsewhere, simply transferring effort from bigger vessels, it is hard to see how In Scotland, an election is due on one area to another with no benefit to cameras could be fitted, let alone Managing editor 6 May next year, and the greens are stocks. The loss of grounds would come monitored, on the many small inshore News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] setting out what they want to see in the in addition to the increasing pressures on boats in the Scottish fleet. email: [email protected] parties’ manifestos. They clearly see the space that fishermen are facing because of The irony of the NGOs’ endless calls for combination of the heavy emphasis in the increasing numbers and size of wind sustainability is that fishermen have a greater the fisheries bill on sustainability and the farms in Scottish waters. interest in fishing sustainably and extra powers it will give to the devolved It is also disingenuous of the greens to maintaining the health of stocks administrations as a golden opportunity to call for a wholesale redistribution of fishing and the marine ecosystem than push their agenda. licences and quotas. Millions of pounds are anyone. Their futures and those of It cannot be a coincidence that they invested in fishing opportunities, and to their families depend on healthy are proposing the introduction of highly believe that the Scottish government will stocks and oceans. 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Exports of US lobsters to the battleground for Republicans and The agreement is the first tariff EU have suffered because of Democrats in the US presidential reduction between the US and deteriorating trade relations and elections that are due in November. EU for more than 20 years. It takes effect retroactively from 1 August and will last for five years. Agreement may drive Irish It still needs to be ratified by EU governments and the European lobster prices even lower parliament. US ambassador Robert Lighthizer Irish fishermen have described considering how depressed and EU trade commissioner Phil the zero tariff agreement as they are already due to Hogan said in a joint statement: “As another blow for their already the impact of Covid-19 on part of improving EU-US relations, ‡ An American lobster among European lobsters – imports threaten struggling industry, where traditional EU markets. this mutually beneficial agreement native stocks as well as prices. prices and demand are at an “American lobsters are will bring positive results to the all-time low, reports Pauric potentially an invasive economies of both the United States Bridlington, said that the local of the zero tariff and a no-deal Gallagher. species, and there have been and the European Union. We intend industry does not see the zero US Brexit might create problems. “If A spokesperson for the multiple instances where they for this package of tariff reductions tariff as a major problem. we have delays at the border due to National Inshore Fishermen’s have been captured in the to mark just the beginning of a He told Fishing News: “It’s not regulatory checks and possibly an Association and its sister wild in EU waters having been process that will lead to additional really doing us any favours, but 8% tariff, then all of a sudden the group the National Inshore released after being imported. agreements that create more free, talking to a couple of the merchants Europeans will be able to buy not Fishermen’s Organisation This poses a real threat to fair, and reciprocal transatlantic in Brid, they don’t see a massive just a 10% cheaper lobster but an told Fishing News: “Our the biosecurity of our native trade.” problem because they’ve already got 18-20% cheaper lobster from North members are describing this lobster stocks, as American Canada and the EU negotiated very strong relationships regarding America – so then maybe that would agreement as another kick in lobsters can potentially carry a zero tariff on lobsters imported markets in Europe. have an effect. the teeth for their industry. The a shell disease that European into the EU as part of a free trade “If the European buyers wanted a “The deal has still got to be Irish EU trade commissioner lobsters have little immunity agreement in 2017. cheap product, they could have gone approved, although I think it will be, Phil Hogan welcomed this to. As tariffs are reduced and Jamie Robertson, chief executive to America or Canada years ago. but we’ll just have to wait and see.” trade deal, which is likely to imported volumes increase, of the Holderness Fishing Industry They don’t seem too worried, but it’s He said that merchants were still depress Irish lobster prices this is likely to become a more Group, which represents fishermen still early days.” selling lobsters to the Continent, further. That’s pretty worrying, common occurrence.” at the ‘lobster capital of Europe’, He said that the combination which gave them a bit of confidence,

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Craemer’s state-of-the-art plastics processing facility in Telford The heavy-duty 610-litre stackable Craemer CB3 pallet box. 6 LETTERS/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 LETTERS Plenty of shrimps, but limited Supertrawlers: the case for the defence markets keep prices low Dear Editor, Eighty-five percent of the MPAs surrounding Brexit negotiations Your article in the 27 August issue, mentioned in the Greenpeace and an arbitrary vessel description ‘Explosion of foreign supertrawlers report are in place to protect of 100m with no rigorous scientific in UK MPAs’, has prompted me seabed habitats. Pelagic midwater examination. (N.B. There are to write to you registering my trawls, which North Atlantic UK-flagged vessels using the exact disappointment at the level of Fishing Company uses, do not same nets as us and fishing in the one-sided journalism that has been come into contact with the seabed, exact same areas; however, because on display. thereby enabling the vessels to we freeze our catch onboard and As the owners of the vessel Frank operate perfectly legally in MPAs, therefore need the extra space Bonefaas, named in your article, within quotas and respecting the onboard, we become the focus of North Atlantic Fishing Company reason for the existence of the Greenpeace’s vitriol.) believe that we must put the record MPA. I’m afraid that your article straight on the narrative that Pelagic trawlers such as the and the ‘Comment’ piece in the Greenpeace is feeding politicians, Frank Bonefaas are operating latest edition of Fishing News the public and the media, none with ‘pingers’ and escape grids have played into the hands of of whom are taking the time to to avoid any possibility of catches Greenpeace, who will shift their examine the facts. of dolphins or porpoises (other battle once they consider this Ninety-two percent of all the species covered by MPAs). In battle won. If Greenpeace realise ‘supertrawler’ activity in UK MPAs December 2019, we offered MMO their stated aim of getting all has been by Russian trawlers inspectors complete unfettered MPAs around the UK designated operating under an agreement access to our vessel and its as ‘no-take zones’, then the between Russia and the Faroes in operations during the herring location of the MPAs, mostly in the Wyville Thomson Ridge, an fishery to show how we fish while harbours and inshore waters, area jointly managed by the EU avoiding by-catches. will have a disastrous effect on and the Faroes and outside the UK We have offered to enter a the inshore fleet, and will result government’s ability to control. dialogue with Greenpeace UK, in all fishing activity relocating Of the statistics that include EU to appoint scientists to examine and concentrating into ever vessels operating in UK MPAs, the fishing pressure and how it is smaller patches of water. If this data includes a vessel(s) fishing in balanced with available stocks. is the result, I hope that you will ‡ 2020 is proving to be a good year for Irish shrimp catches – but a North West Orkney MPA for 11 Thus far Greenpeace have not remember your part in this. bad one in terms of demand and prices. seconds! Vessel(s) fishing in Greater accepted our offer. Instead they Matthew Cox Haig Fras for three minutes! Clearly prefer to stir up public emotions Chief executive officer, North What could have been a for inshore fishermen. Brown these ‘statistics’ are ridiculous. based upon the xenophobia Atlantic Fishing Company Ltd bumper year for shrimp crab catches are poor and fishermen on the northwest prices are on the floor. The coast of Ireland, with very good lobster fishery is the same. Want your say? Email your letters and comments to: numbers coming up in every “We were hoping that the [email protected] Letters may be edited. pot, is turning out to be another impact of the pandemic would dismal season, reports Pauric have passed before we got Gallagher. to August and the start of the Although prices were initially shrimp fishery, but this has not strong in the opening week, happened, and with the current Caution sounded over record lack of demand for shellfish in low prices being paid for brown restaurants across France and crab, lobster and now shrimps, the rest of Europe due to the markets are as good as closed salmon returns to Irish rivers Covid-19 pandemic has meant for fishermen when it comes to that prices are down to a point Irish shellfish.” Leading Irish marine scientist about the returns, and I share in investigating a case where two where some fishermen are The shrimp fishery is well Dr Ken Whelan has expressed that excitement,” Dr Whelan said. fishery officers were allegedly being asked by their buyers to managed – the season starts caution about reports of record “However, we really have to wait held against their will off the Mayo limit the amount of gear they at the beginning of August and returns of wild Atlantic salmon to until the end of the season, when coast. are working in a bid to stave continues until November. On Irish rivers, reports Lorna Siggins. we have information from fish Dr Whelan noted that there were off a complete collapse of the the northwest coast, fishing One good salmon season does counters, to determine what’s an estimated 10m Atlantic salmon limited markets available. The stops once berried shrimps not necessarily suggest a positive happening.” right across the North Atlantic in bulk of Irish shrimp landings start to show up in the catch, trend, said Dr Whelan, research There has been no significant the 1960s and 1970s, and that this are destined for markets on the allowing the females to spawn director of the Atlantic Salmon sustained upturn in returning wild has fallen to an estimated 3m fish Continent, mainly France and for the following seasons. Trust, which is based in Perth in salmon since the commercial or fewer. Spain. Shrimps are a short-lived Scotland. drift-net fishery was banned in Ireland, a major contributor to The shrimp fishery is the third species, with a lifespan of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) Ireland in 2007. wild salmon stocks, has dropped most important shellfish fishery approximately two years. has confirmed reports of very At the time, some inshore from 1m fish to 300,000 or in Irish inshore waters after Growth is rapid, with females high returns in a number of rivers, fishermen refused to surrender possibly fewer, he said. brown crab and lobster. Over increasing their weight by 50% with the best season in years on their licences, arguing for a “So any increase is very the past few years, the fishery between the months of August Mayo’s river Moy. traditional right to maintain the welcome indeed,” he said – but has at best been average, with and September in their second “It’s not just the numbers seasonal fishery. he added that an upturn would many of those involved taking year. Males grow at a slower returning this year, but the size and While netting at sea was have to be sustained over several their gear ashore after the first rate and achieve a smaller good condition of the fish,” said reported to have intercepted seasons before conclusions could few weeks as the shrimps failed overall size. Females begin Alan Maloney, owner of Mount between 50% and 60% of be drawn. to show and catches remained to carry eggs in October and Falcon Hotel in North Mayo. returning stock, some observers He also noted that cool low. November, and by December His hotel has a two-mile private now acknowledge that it may not conditions with pulses of rain were This year, although good the majority are usually berried. stretch of the river Moy, and have been such a major factor in ideal for salmon angling, and this numbers of shrimps are Legislation passed in 2015, to anglers caught 290 fish in July, he stock decline. may have influenced fine catches showing up on the grounds, ensure the long-term viability of said. Francis O’Donnell, IFI’s regional of fish. the limited demand has left the shrimp fishery, introduced “Given that we have fewer director for the western river basin Ocean warming is having an fishermen with few options a closed season during the visitors here, due to the absence district, said that this year appears impact on salmon, and Dr Whelan other than to restrict the weight spawning period, from 15 of European and US visitors to be the best wild salmon season has been participating in an being landed. March until 1 August. during Covid-19, the catch ratio in at least a decade, but cautioned international programme called Irish shrimp fishermen Irish fishermen are also is extremely good,” Mr Maloney that some rivers were not showing Salsea to research their mortality normally catch between 200t protecting their fishery said. particularly good returns. at sea. and 400t annually, and the by voluntarily introducing “We are seeing 5lb grilse, However, he said it was “We will really only know what average price is around €14 per measures such as a minimum compared to an average of 3.5lb ‘unfortunate’ that there had also is happening after scientists from kg. landing size. Small shrimps before, and these fish are in very been a return to illegal use of drift- Norway, Iceland, Scotland and One shrimp fisherman told are graded out of the catch, good shape,” he said. nets at sea off the west coast, Ireland meet in the autumn,” he Fishing News: “This year has allowing the juveniles to grow “There’s a lot of excitement and that Irish police are currently said. been nothing short of a disaster for a second season. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Work finally begins on Eastbourne’s new fishing quay selling direct to the public. “The second and third phases aimed to link this working quay with the local community and businesses, whilst also providing a visitor centre to draw in tourists and customers to show them the town’s fishing heritage and share knowledge about the local seafood industry. A similar scheme has been working at Hastings for many years, and is very popular with visitors when they visit the UK’s largest beach fishing fleet there.” ‡ Building is now underway on phase one of the development: the new quay, The NEF sent a grant funding a cold storage and processing unit, a smokery and a fishmonger’s. application and business case to the European Maritime and Fisheries contractor went into administration to formalise and professionalise Fund on behalf of the Eastbourne in 2019 – this resulted in a review its structure, and develop an inshore fishermen, and a £1.25m of tenders, and the need to update updated business plan to ensure grant was awarded. grant and loan applications, the quay works for all the vessels However, although they had resulting in more delays. and fisheries, and delivers the job successfully applied for funding Then Covid-19 struck, and creation and community benefits and the project looked set to start, within weeks, the pandemic had all that the grants are conditional things were not that simple. In but wiped out markets for seafood, upon. 2018, the landowner Carillion pushing fishermen everywhere to “Part of this is to decide how to went into receivership – the largest the brink. structure decision-making, and to construction bankruptcy in British Graham Doswell said: “This was ensure that the quay can become the history. The land that Carillon a serious blow, and of great concern beating heart of Sovereign Harbour, owned, where the fishermen to all of us involved in this project, closely tied into and supported by moored their vessels, was sold from and fishing in general. It affected local residents and businesses.” under their feet to Premier Marinas, the construction industry also, and A smile is starting to appear on the owner of Sovereign Harbour, meant that the proposed plans were the faces of the region’s fishermen, ‡ Graham Doswell, a third-generation Eastbourne fisherman, was once again put on hold. There are who finally see light at the end instrumental in getting the project off the ground. times when I wondered if it would of the tunnel. An added bonus ever happen.” has been the announcement of a Two weeks ago – some 30 years after They would fish for herring, sprat Chris Williams has been at the further grant from SELEP of £1.8m the idea of a new fishing quay at and mackerel when they appeared helm of the project for seven years, towards phases two and three, to Eastbourne was first proposed – the on their seasonal migration. Their since the Eastbourne fishermen embed the project in the coastal and start of construction was marked by vessels were known as ‘bourners’ formed a Community Interest tourism economy. a virtual groundbreaking ceremony and, along with the fishing fleets Company (CIC) to allow them Chris said: “As with any project on Zoom attended by local MP of Hastings and Brighton, they to buy or lease the land. It was a of this type, you’ve got to be Caroline Ansell and key people who would follow the mackerel down couple of decades earlier that the ready to adapt to any changes on helped to make the project possible, the English Channel to Devon and idea of a fishing quay was first the horizon. What is happening reports John Periam. Cornwall, and even to southern conceived. A promise was made by currently in the economic climate Phase one of the building project, Ireland at times. Other fishing the then landowner to support the makes one think one day at a time. over the next few months, will expeditions would take them north ‡ Chris Williams, senior programme fishermen, but nothing came of that, Then we are leaving the EU, and encompass the quay, a cold storage as far as Scarborough. manager for the New Economics despite the fact that they supported changes will need to happen within and processing unit, a smokery and In 2014, the New Economics Foundation. the construction of the marina from the industry. Perhaps we will be a a fishmonger’s. The announcement Foundation (NEF) began working its inception. lot more prepared for it with our of a further £1.8m in funding means with some of the fishermen in without formal agreement that the Chris said: “I feel we have now new venture, and it could well that the second and third phases Eastbourne, including Graham fishermen could lease or buy the come across the bridge at last, encourage others to look at working – storage and repair space, and a Doswell and Michael Newton-Smith, land. Agreeing a long-term lease and development of the quay has within the fishing industry from visitor centre – can now be built in to shape a proposal for a new fishing then took a year of legal discussions, now started. The CIC now needs Eastbourne.” one expanded project phase. quay, bringing the local community despite the support of Premier Today, there are approximately 45 and stakeholders into the discussion Marinas’ chief executive officer, family-owned fishing boats operating to help the fishing fleet to access Eastbourne Borough Council and out of Eastbourne’s Sovereign grant and loan funding. County Council, as well Harbour. Most are under 10m in NEF senior programme manager as the respective MPs. Can you make hot tea at sea? length and use low-impact gear. In Chris Williams said: “The first During that period of negotiation, TeaMate is the safe way to provide crew and passengers with 2019, fish to the value of over £3m stage of the proposed plan was to the fishermen successfully raised was landed, with whelks being the offer fishermen long-term security more grant funding and loan support hot drinks at sea, straight from the batteries. Keep warm and main fishery. 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‡ An artist’s impression of the new quay, which has been designed by Spitfire Architecture. 8 NEWS Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews 3 September 2020 Continuing the series of personal reflections in the lead-up to the 25th anniversaryof the restored Fifie Swan next year, Heather Gray from Unst, Shetland describes her progress from trainee to chaperone Minister meets Tenby Orkney hatchery to produce native flat fishing community Orkney Shellfish Hatchery has discharge, is being built and will announced plans to produce be installed and commissioned in manage fishing activity across native flat oysters on land, as it the coming months. This will add Welsh waters. completes the first translocation of a further level of biosecurity, and said: “Wales native flat broodstock from will complement the very stringent has an extraordinary wealth of its offsite quarantine area to its incoming seawater treatment seafood species and fisheries hatchery. measures already in place. expertise, and I am thankful for Located on the uninhabited Dr Nik Sachlikidis, managing witnessing first-hand the resilience Orkney island of Lamb Holm, director of the Cadman Capital of the fishing community in Tenby. Orkney Shellfish Hatchery, part Group’s Aquaculture Division, “The fisheries bill will give us of the Cadman Capital Group’s said: “The Orkney Shellfish the powers to protect our precious Aquaculture Division, is a Hatchery facility is first-rate fish stocks while enabling our multispecies shellfish hatchery and, thanks to the efforts of Dr seafood sector to thrive, and as we providing products including oyster Matthew Johnston and the team, establish new relationships with spat, European lobster, microalgae has put us in a strong position the EU and other coastal states, and nutritional solutions for the to successfully culture a range I am confident that there is a aquaculture industry. of species. The operations team thriving future for fishermen and Biosecurity now plays an is busy making the switch from women in this country.” increasingly important role in the construction into production, and Jim Evans said: “As the UK production of shellfish in industry we are working hard to achieve rapidly approaches the end of the best-practice hatcheries. These our first spat production of native transition period, I was pleased measures control the movement oysters. ‡ Fisheries minister Victoria Prentis discusses the differences between to have the opportunity to discuss and spread of harmful biological “The arrival of our first native native and Pacific oysters with Dr Andy Woolmer, director of Aquaculture the key priorities of the catching agents both within the hatchery oyster broodstock is an important Industry Wales… sector in Wales. and between the hatchery and the milestone and has the whole “Welsh fishermen would surrounding environment. group excited. It also opens the Fisheries minister Victoria Prentis established trade body Aquaculture welcome a fisheries bill that Orkney Shellfish Hatchery door to the culture of other target met representatives of the fishing Industry Wales, and heard from provides a thriving and implements strict movement species, such as lobsters, later this and seafood sector during a visit Jim Evans of the Welsh Fishermen’s sustainable future for Welsh protocols within the hatchery and year. Exciting times are ahead in to Tenby on 25 August, ahead of Association, who led a discussion fishing, aquaculture and seafood provides specialist equipment for Orkney.” the second reading of the fisheries on the current challenges facing businesses, which in turn would its team. Additionally, broodstock While the movement and bill this week. the Welsh catching sector, which support coastal communities waste water is treated with a handling of aquatic animals The visit provided an employs about 1,200 people. throughout Wales.” three-step process of micro- can be stressful, the hatchery’s opportunity for wide-ranging The fisheries minister The fisheries bill passed filtration followed by ultraviolet broodstock oysters are feeding discussions on the Welsh fishing reaffirmed her commitment to through the House of Lords in filtration and chlorination/ well and clearing over 80% of industry with key stakeholders supporting all parts of the UK in July, with its second reading in the neutralisation to kill potential their feeds overnight, indicating including Jon Parker, chair of the overcoming the hardships brought House of Commons scheduled for pathogens such as viruses and that they have settled into their Seafish Processing and Importers by the Covid-19 pandemic, and 1 September. bacteria. Together, these measures new system. Panel and of the Seafish Wales in taking full advantage of the integrate successful oyster culture The broodstock oysters will Advisory Committee, and Emma opportunities available to the with the safeguarding of the now be fed a mixed diet of live Wootton, Seafish manager for seafood and fisheries sectors as surrounding waters. algae harvested from the two large Wales. we leave the Common Fisheries A secondary waste water photo-bioreactors at the hatchery, Victoria Prentis met harbour Policy. filtration system, designed to treat providing the nutrition required master Chris Salisbury and local The fisheries bill aims to give all of the hatchery’s waste water for spawning and generating fishermen to discuss safety at Wales and the other devolved for potential pathogens before healthy oyster spat. sea, and was shown some of the administrations greater decision- key species for the local industry, making powers in fisheries, including lobster, crab, whelk, sea and in protecting the marine bass, scallops and oysters. environment. This includes new ‡ … and buys fish from the beach Opening of Colne oyster fishery The minister also met Dr Andy powers for Welsh ministers to hut of local fishmonger Simply Woolmer, director of the newly bring forward regulations to Seafoods. to take place on land this year The ceremonial opening of the granted by Richard I in 1189. Colne oyster fishery will be held on The fishery is officially opened New: dry land rather than at sea this year on the first Friday of September in order to enable social distancing. each year. In non-Covid years, the CRAEMER FISH BOXES The annual ceremony will mayor of , town clerk Craemer UK has not only expanded its fish box range with brand new 50kg nest stack boxes, but be held at Cudmore Grove and town sergeant are carried out also introduced two heavy duty pallet boxes to its Fishing Range of products. Made from high County Park, East Mersea on 4 into the Pyefleet Channel of the impact resistance Food Grade HDPE material. September, within sight of Mersea Colne estuary off Stone, where the old ceremony on an oyster dredger, followed by The CB3 & CB1 come in two different sizes: traditionally took place. a flotilla of boats carrying invited 1200 x 1000mm - 610 Litres capacity. Tradition dictates that the mayor guests. Oaths are sworn, pledging 1200 x 800mm - 470 Litres capacity. of Colchester and other dignitaries devotion to the monarch, after wear full regalia for the event. After which the mayor dredges and the ceremony, guests will be served consumes the first oyster of the with Colchester native oysters. season. The mayor and guests then The proclamation, an ancient proceed to a celebratory oyster tongue-twister, will be read by lunch. Colchester Borough Council chief On the last Friday in October executive Adrian Pritchard to each year, the mayor of Colchester officially declare the fishery open hosts a grand civic Oyster Feast for the season. The mayor and in the Moot Hall, attended by For more details contact Chris on: mayoress, Nick and Elizabeth dignitaries, distinguished guests 07977 144927 Perfect for Cope, will then raise a toast to the and Colchester citizens active in [email protected] Ice storage and Queen. local charities and civic bodies. A transport, as The Colne oyster fishery dates public lottery gives local people the well as fish, nets, back to the Roman era and was chance to attend. and general bulk mentioned in the Domesday The feast has its origins in the handling, both on shore and at sea, Book. The borough of Colchester St Denis Fair, which dates back to obtained rights to the fishery under the 14th century. The modern feast the provisions of its Royal Charter, started in 1845. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BOAT OF THE WEEK 9 Name: Opportune 209 LK LOA: 27.85m SA, 1998 Navia Armon Spain Navia, Built: Type: Twin-rig whitefish trawler Home port: Scalloway 10 BUTLEY OYSTERS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 BUTLEY OYSTERS: FLAVOUR OF A QUIET CREEK Cultivated on the Suffolk coast for centuries, artisanal oysters are once again tickling the tastebuds. John Worrall reports

own on the mid-Suffolk Just above the ferry is an coast, the river Alde, oyster farm, and Butley oyster Dwhich becomes the farming probably goes back as Ore, runs inside Orford Ness, far as the ferry – those monks the longest shingle spit in would surely have been partial. Europe, which deflects the river Either way, Butley oysters were southwards from Aldeburgh for famous in Victorian times. But nearly 10 miles before allowing then, like the ferry, they suffered it to issue at the gloriously a 20th-century hiatus when the unearthly Shingle Street. last operator, Mac Fisheries, Three-quarters of the way abandoned the beds in 1925. down that deflection, just south However, the oysters’ pause of the village of Orford (once a was shorter, because just after major medieval port), the Ore is the Second World War, Richard joined by Butley creek, which Pinney, who’d had enough of snakes inland for three or four London and was looking for a miles to end in a reed bed close change of direction, came upon to the village of the same name. the derelict beds, which were The creek is a backwater attended by an equally derelict in the true sense, approached cottage. Shrugging off warnings by no road except a lane that about oysters being a great way glances the reeds, although a to lose money, he decided to try summertime weekend rowing a revival. boat ferry connects footpaths Historically, oysters on this on its lower reach. The ferry coast had been the native flat possibly started as far back oyster , but it’s a as the ninth century when slow grower, taking four or five monks first arrived at Butley, years to reach maturity, and a although the Augustinian priory, quicker-growing variety, Virginia ‡ Bill Pinney checks a batch of juvenile oysters... ‡ of which only a gatehouse and Blue Point, had been brought ... which will be ready to harvest inside a year. arch remain, wasn’t founded into the Butley mix, which until 1171. The ferry closed just was what Richard found when winter, which killed the lot. And samples,” said Bill, “and after the First World War, but he started. He added some within a few years, the industry they were quite small, and was reopened in 1993, since Portuguese rock oysters, which generally – though not Butley we thought, ‘What do we when walkers and cyclists grew well and sold well to pubs creek – began to suffer a much do with these?’ So we have again been rowed across and restaurants, and within a greater incidence of Bonamia chucked them on the bottom surrounding farmland can drop by a ferryman wearing a land few years, he’d built up a big ostreae, a parasite that kills of the creek and forgot about the salinity in this creek quite worker’s traditional black floppy stock in the creek. Things were the native edulis as it reaches them. Came back a few months dramatically, and gigas can cope hat in the style of a crash-landed looking good. maturity. That talk of losing later and looked, and they’d with that, but natives can’t.” pancake. But then came the 1962-63 money suddenly rang true. grown into lovely oysters, and And then in the 1980s and But cultivation was evolving very quickly. Straightaway we worldwide, and in the late 1960s, were pretty much sold on them. UK government scientists And the government didn’t need brought in some Japanese rock to import any more after that oysters, Crassostrea gigas, first batch. They bred them in which, crucially, were unaffected hatcheries, and that happened by Bonamia. By then, Richard’s all across Europe, and they son Bill, who now runs the show, became the of was working with his dad. choice. “They brought us some “They are quite hardy – they can put up with hot and cold – and they only take a couple of years to grow. And they can ‡ The juvenile oysters need tolerate occasional low salinity. constant monitoring, which Heavy rain and run-off from means rowing out…

‡ When seed oysters arrive from the hatchery, they go into bags with a fine mesh… ‡ As the oysters get bigger, they go into mushroom trays in stacks of five, each with their own polystyrene raft…

‡ … which are put into bread trays and attached to floated ropes in ‡ … which are also attached to ‡ … to check growth and general wellbeing. These larger juveniles the creek. ropes in the creek. look big enough to be put loose on the creek bed. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BUTLEY OYSTERS 11 BUTLEY OYSTERS: FLAVOUR OF A QUIET CREEK

‡ They do the standard 42-hour depuration…

‡ … and then they’re ready to eat. Full disclosure: FN ate that ‡ A couple of minutes fills the dredge with market-sized oysters. ‡ Back at base, just over the creek bank, the oysters get a clean-up. one.

1990s came a further advance importantly, triploids are fat for 15 to 20 days, until they are are in roughly the same place. smoked treatment. with the development of and marketable all year round, ready to settle, and all the time It’s all a question of handling and The business is still family- the triploid oyster, when US whereas in the summer months, you are feeding them very small quality control. run, these days by Bill and researchers devised a way diploids tend to be less savoury algae.” “And then, when we dredge his wife Janet and the next of mechanically manipulating when they are spawning. It is fascinating – but also them, we pick out those of generation, Jodie and George, the oysters’ chromosome Before all that was happening, time-consuming. So these days, market size, and put the rest but has diversified over the structure. Natural oysters, like back in the 1970s Richard and Bill buys juvenile oysters, about back. It’s a continuous rolling years. By the end of the 1960s, most animals, are diploid: each Bill had a go at hatching oysters 10mm long, from disease-free process, but mostly, over the they had a restaurant in Orford, of their cells contains two sets themselves. hatcheries, “Although Bonamia course of a year after their arrival now the Butley Orford Oysterage of chromosomes, one from “We went through the whole doesn’t affect gigas, herpes from the hatchery, they have on Market Hill. They also have each parent – although plants fascinating process,” said Bill. does. We haven’t got either here, grown into a lovely hard oyster two U10s, Jolene LT 1020 and mostly have more. Inserting “Under the microscope, you can and so we make sure we buy with a really good full meat. Southern Cross LT 1032, which an extra chromosome into an see the little eggs, and within 20 from a clean source. “One advantage of not putting work the adjacent part of the oyster cell breeds a triploid, minutes of being fertilised, you “We bring in both triploids them onto the creek bed until southern North Sea, potting, which is usually infertile and, can see them swimming – tiny and diploids to spread the they are part-grown is that they netting and lining – at least as far because it doesn’t waste energy eggs with eyelashes that they maturing rate of each batch. The develop into the right shape – as the pool quota allows, which in spawning and recovering, use to swim with. They then main point of having triploids whereas in the wild, they settle isn’t very far these days. And grows bigger and faster. More become a free-swimming larvae is to have oysters in great at a much earlier stage and there isn’t much sole anyway at condition when the diploids are attach to something and grow the moment, after decimation by in the spawning season.” round it, sometimes into a bad Dutch pulse trawlers. Delivered in late summer, shape that makes them difficult The Pinneys also have a and therefore having the winter to open.” shop next to Orford Quay, a to harden up and acclimatise Landed oysters then go place much visited by holiday- before growth restarts in the through the standard 42-hour makers, which sells everything spring, they are first put into fine shellfish depuration process, that the boats, smokehouse and mesh bags, which are held in sitting in circulating clean, oyster beds produce, along with bread trays attached to floated ultraviolet-treated water to some delectable added-value ropes in the creek – and there purge any possible biological products using some of those they need constant monitoring, contaminants, along with mud raw materials. because the smallest meshes and sand. They are then ready And even Covid-19 hasn’t for the early stages are easily to blanket consumers’ tastebuds stopped the show. While it did blocked by mud. with their salty tang. halt the shop and restaurant Then, as they grow – and Early in his time at Butley, early on, although both are very growth rates vary within batches Richard converted an old much now open and thriving of both diploids and triploids – outbuilding into a smokehouse, again, mail-order oysters – a the oysters are taken out and because he had been catching dozen per iced pack delivered sieved. The larger ones are put a few sea trout downriver by courier (oyster knife supplied into bags with a bigger mesh, and, for want of a better idea, on request) – have become a and the smaller ones stay where smoked a few. The results major number. they are – a process which were good, and he started There’s not much chance of is repeated every few days buying in salmon to smoke, those oyster beds falling derelict early on, but then lengthens to and that continues today, with again for a while. intervals of a month or so. In other varieties of fish and a few Find out more at: ‡ Some oysters get the oak-smoked treatment… the later stages, they are moved oysters also getting the oak- pinneysoforford.co.uk n into mushroom trays in stacks of five (bread trays, mushroom trays – this is nothing if not an artisanal fishery). Each stack is suspended below its own polystyrene raft, attached to floated ropes. And then, when the oysters have reached 15-20g, roughly a fifth of their final weight, they are spread loose on the creek bed. “We take them out on the boat in baskets, which are emptied slowly over the side, with the boat circling so that the propeller wash spreads them. We rotate the parts of the creek where we do that, so that ‡ … further disclosure: FN scoffed one of those, too. oysters of roughly the same size ‡ Bill Pinney at the family’s Butley Orford Oysterage restaurant. 12 SHEKINAH INS 155 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 SQUIDDING IN THE MORAY FIRTH ON SHEKINAH The development of a short summer inshore ‘squeeb’ fishery in the Moray Firth continues to provide an alternative to prawning for a small number of trawlers fishing from Burghead, Buckie and Macduff.David Linkie looks back 11 years to a trip on the 16.9m trawler Shekinah INS 155

elatively new as it was, the Moray Firth non-quota Rsquid fishery provided an opportunity of a kind that was rapidly disappearing, allowing skippers to put fishing skills learned over a lifetime to the test against nature and the elements, rather than operating with their minds constantly occupied by the numerous considerations of balancing quotas, complex by-catch regulations, fishing days and so on. In other words, fishermen were free to do what they first went to sea to do – catch fish in such a way that the financial viability of their vessel and their crew, for a few weeks at least, was in their own hands rather than dominated by EU regulations. On clearing Buckie harbour shortly after 3.30am, Shekinah continued to head west along the Moray Firth, with the Trax plotter indicating nine miles to run to where mate/skipper Kev Munro, standing in for skipper/ owner David Smith, who had stayed ashore to source a new set of trawl doors, had chosen to shoot the gear. ‡ Shekinah was one of around 20 small to medium-sized trawlers that engaged in the alternative Moray Firth squid fishery from August to With the best catches of squid November.

showing a tendency to be depth-related, skippers usually go with a hunch and select a depth contour to follow during a tow. Even when squid are on the bottom, a variation of two to three fathoms can make the difference between a viable haul or a lost one, both in terms of quantity and of quality/size. The previous day, when fishing had been slack inshore – thought to be as a result of squid being up off the bottom – the better results had been taken by those skippers who opted to fish slightly deeper. After lying 20 minutes for the ‡ Making size selections from a clean haul of ‘squeebs’. dawn to strengthen – an important consideration, as shooting too early or late can diminish what can be one of the more productive tows of the day – crewmen Roger and Alan threw the codend of Shekinah’s ‡ The Buckie trawler Blue Sky shooting away her squid hopper trawl, clean net over the stern rail, with the flip-up ropes clearly visible. before the 220ft single-rig net was shot off the starboard drum. Aspire II BH 429 were towing track just north of Hopeman. With the trawl wires chained astern, with some of these boats Two hours after the gear was onto a towing becket running holding into shallower water by shot, the crew were called as the freely through a single block, following the 16-fathom line. hydraulics were clutched in. Shekinah started to tow west at Ninety minutes into the first After lowering the powerblock to 2.5-2.6 knots, with the 3D tow of the day, during which pick up the bag, the codend was display of the Olex plotting time Shekinah had passed dried up and swung round to system indicating the selected Lossiemouth and Covesea starboard, where it was lifted track on a relatively gently lighthouse, two under-10m aboard to hang over the shelving sandy/muddy bottom. Burghead trawlers, Charisma reception hopper. Untying the ‡ The under-10m trawlers Valkyrie and Rebecca towing past each Valkyrie UL 100, Lynn Marie and Isabella, passed to port codline allowed around four ‡ other. BCK 86, Blue Sky SN 59 and towing eastwards on a reciprocal baskets of squid to flow into the 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SHEKINAH INS 155 13 VARIABLE CATCHING PATTERN IN UNPREDICTABLE FISHERY

unning off nine miles successfully fished by Moray slowly, with time in hand Firth seine-netters a generation Rwaiting for dawn, gave time ago, thereby illustrating the for skipper Kev Munro to use the degree to which stocks adjust Olex plotters to indicate those their distribution patterns areas where Shekinah had taken to natural changes in their squid in the previous four weeks environment. of fishing. Starting in 23 fathoms of Initially, hard ground close water at the bottom end of inshore in areas like Spey Bay the tows, deepening towards and off Portknockie Head, less 29 fathoms at the top end, for than three miles either side of several years prior to 2009 the Buckie, had returned the better Beatrice grounds had provided daily grossings by generally a sporadic squid fishery that yielding a higher percentage of had run parallel to the inshore select to medium-sized squid, fishery. For some reason, in which attracted higher bids from 2009 this fishery yielded some of buyers on Fraserburgh market the most consistent catch rates than the more plentiful micro that had been experienced in squid that usually tended to ‡ The dual-screen 2D/3D Olex… recent years, with boats at times dominate catches. averaging 15-20 baskets from At times, boats were towing miles north of Whitehills and two to two and a half tows. As within 0.2 miles of the shore in Macduff, after which fishing with catches from closer inshore, just six fathoms of water. usually starts to tail off by early the size of squid taken could Tight tows associated with November. vary considerably on a daily hard ground can give the smaller At the same time as boats basis, and to a lesser extent from class of trawler an opportunity to were taking up to 30 boxes one haul to the next. fish efficiently alongside bigger of squid on some days from Catches from the Smith Bank boats at times, as it enables them the inshore grounds, a few illustrated that in some ways, to take a smaller net through an bigger trawlers, including the Moray Firth squid fishery area that can cause extensive Transcend, Deeside, Silver comprised two distinct zones: damage to larger trawls. Fern, Scotia, Prospect, Just one between 0.2 and five miles Inevitably, towing in new areas Reward and Staronia II, had of the shore and one further where it is difficult to take a net been fishing successfully some out towards the middle of the through without considerable 27 miles north of Buckie in the Moray Firth. As with most other damage frequently results in vicinity of the Beatrice oilfield characteristics of what continues torn gear and shorter tows, installation, which now includes to be a very unpredictable although on occasion these wind turbines, 25 miles east of fishery, the exact reason for this can bring the hidden benefit of Helmsdale. In working hopper remains as unclear today as it enabling skippers to build up ground on the Smith Bank, the was some 20 years ago when a higher level of knowledge of squid tows located either side of the potential of an embryonic the patches of grounds that are clean bottom proved productive squid fishery in the Moray Firth yielding better catches – even ‡ … enabled a selected depth contour to be followed closely. for trawlers. These grounds were was first realised. if this is not always appreciated initially when a badly torn trawl along the shoreline, before the surfaces. boats located them again some Clearly, dealing with fasteners three miles offshore in 12-18 in such shallow water creates fathoms of water. new challenges for skippers This followed what was more used to trawling in loosely considered to be the considerably deeper water for accepted normal pattern of prawns. a very unpredictable fishery. After the first week of By early October, squid are September 2009, the squid mainly taken further east in the disappeared from the grounds deepwater some five to seven

‡ An accumulation of recent tows shows how squid could continue ‡ Skipper Neil Robertson’s wooden-hulled Transcend hauling her squid hopper trawl east of the to be taken in the same area over a period of time. Beatrice oilfield in the Moray Firth. 14 SHEKINAH INS 155 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020

‡ Lowering the block in readiness…

‡ Shooting away Shekinah’s scraper trawl after lying for first light.

‡ … to pick up the net.

hopper. baskets to five, with indications While better first hauls had that a slightly larger class of been taken earlier in the month, squid had been taken in including one of 22 baskets the shallower water. Having left previous week following a Lossiemouth harbour and northwesterly breeze, so too had steamed further west towards smaller hauls, so it was deemed a Nairn before shooting, skipper reasonable start to the day. Sandy Smith reported that With the gear quickly shot Vigilant had taken four baskets again, Shekinah began to tow of squid. back along the ground on an One advantage of the Moray easterly heading, as skipper Kev Firth squid fishery is that sorting Munro opted to tow in a slightly the catch is considerably easier shallower depth of 16 fathoms. and quicker for the crew than a Reports coming in from other comparable quantity of small boats that had hauled shortly prawns would be. As soon as the ‡ ‡ Drying up the bag… ‡ … before swinging it forward. after Shekinah varied from two towing chains were on, WIDE RANGE OF TRAWLS IN USE hekinah took squid the wings and in the bosom the net, which had an 89ft during the day using a section, to add some weight headline, was rigged on 36ft of Scustomised Pisces 220ft and promote neutral buoyancy 16in-diameter hoppers, either single-rig prawn scraper trawl. to ensure it skimmed the side of 36ft chain extensions As with most trawls used in bottom. A 40mm mesh codend, and flying fishing lines. Flip- the Moray Firth squid fishery, together with an 80mm lifter, up ropes were worked in the regardless of whether they was usually worked when centre section to help the gear were hard-ground hopper or trawling for squeebs. A set of clear boulders and the like, and cleaner-bottom scraper style, size 8 Bison trawl doors were to avoid excessive net damage the net had been customised to released after 10 fathoms of on hard ground. suit individual preferences and splits and 50 fathoms of single Shekinah used 20 fathoms requirements. combination sweeps were shot of 10mm mid-link chain and After the customary rubber off the drum, followed by 75 14mm-diameter wire splits to disc ground gear had been fathoms of 16mm wire. spread the Seaforth Trawls removed from the prawn When working off at the hopper net. Ten fathoms of scraper net, short lengths of Beatrice field, or close inshore, rubber legs were sometimes chain were attached to the Shekinah normally worked a worked next to the doors when footrope along the toe ends four-section box-style hopper towing the hopper trawl in of the net, midway down trawl. The centre section of deeper water. ‡ Hauling Shekinah’s customised 220ft scraper net. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SHEKINAH INS 155 15

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1. Taking the bag aboard 6. Retying the codend… 11. … into the water as it starts Shekinah… to swim clear. 7. … before starting to shoot it 2. … before lowering it… away for the second haul… 12. Sorting a clean haul of squid… 3. … into the catch hopper. 8. … followed by the wings… 13. … into selection baskets… 4. Untying the codline to 9. … as they are shot off the release a clean haul of squid… starboard net drum. 14. … before they are lowered into Shekinah’s refrigerated 5. … for delivery by an elevated 10. Lowering the port side size fishroom. 4 conveyor onto the selection table. 8 Bison trawl door… 16 SHEKINAH INS 155 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 SHORT LIFECYCLE FOR FAST-GROWING SQUID

‡ Four examples of Moray Firth squid – Loligo forbesii.

Squid (Loligo forbesii), the most yields considerable quantities that was matched in 2004, important fished cephalopod of squid each year remains when a marginal increase was in Scottish waters, are soft- unclear, although water recorded. The peak year to bodied molluscs that live temperature, salinity levels, date was 2005, with 1,075t of mainly on the Atlantic shelf, type of bottom, food source, squid and more than half of moving inshore to breed. They current and wave patterns the total annual landings by UK are relatively short-lived; few are thought to be among the vessels into Scotland caught in live longer than 18 months, and factors at play. Analysis of the Moray Firth (squid from the most reproduce in their first spatial patterns in fishery data Rockall grounds, 350 miles out year of life. This means that suggests that squid move from in the Atlantic, accounted for most Loligo forbesii that are the west coast of Scotland into most of the balance). ‡ A torn section of wing, incurred during the second haul, illustrates the caught in the Moray Firth each the North Sea to spawn. In 2006, the annual catch high risk of gear damage inherent in the Moray Firth squid fishery. season are spawned earlier in While squid had been caught dropped to the previous norm the year. commercially in the Moray of around 200t, since when the While creel fishermen at Firth for around 20 years, with amount has steadily built up various locations around the exception of 1998, when again. the UK coastline regularly nearly 300t were landed, the Such marked fluctuations comment on large quantities annual catch rate was around are typical of an annual fishery of squid eggs coming up 150t. In 2002, catches doubled that relies mainly on a catch on their gear, little evidence to almost 350t. This marked composition hatched earlier in is subsequently seen of upward trend was maintained the year. The average size of marketable squid. the following year, when nearly squid caught increases rapidly Exactly why the Moray Firth 800t were landed, a level as the season progresses.

Shekinah’s crew used the where they were boxed and iced. the tow off Covesea lighthouse elevated conveyor to take the The second tow progressed could be yielding better catch first batch of squid from the base uneventfully. While again rates. of the reception hopper across passing some Burghead boats Hauling after two hours at the the trawler’s centreline to the heading west on their second eastern end of the tow resulted almost square port side sorting tow, Shekinah also passed two in around three baskets of clean table. Buckie boats that, midway squid being released into the When fishing on the hopper. Shooting back was inside grounds, four With the best catches of delayed for 10 minutes selections of squid – while a tear just above the micros/bullets, small, squid tending to be depth- guard strip, from near the selected and medium – were middle of the trawl down kept. A fifth selection, related, skippers usually go the wing towards the toe large/rockets, was added end, was quickly laced up. when required, usually with a hunch and select a Given that squid nets are down at the Beatrice. depth contour to follow regularly paralysed – as With the squid free of shown by the fact that sediments, they did not during a tow Shekinah’s crew spent eight require double handling or hours the previous week washing, which can devalue the through the second tow, hauled carrying out repairs after the catch due to the loss of ink. the doors back to the quarters in first haul – the damage was Within 20 minutes, four and a order to spin round and execute acceptable and would not result half 40kg baskets, including two a tight 180° turn to avoid losing in lost fishing time. of micros, one each of small and the preferred depth contour – an As with Shekinah, other boats selected and a half of medium, indication that the skippers fishing nearby were generally ‡ Leo cutting out in preparation for repairing the torn section, while were lowered into the fishroom, thought that the central part of reporting smaller hauls of one to steaming in to Buckie at the end of the day. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SHEKINAH INS 155 17 MIXED SQUID FLEET ome 30 trawlers, of which half were under-10m Svessels, participated in the Moray Firth squid fishery in 2009. The 20m-plus Deeside, Transcend, Moray Endeavour and Prospect were among the bigger boats that usually engaged in the seasonal fishery, along with 12-17m trawlers like Blue Sky, Charisma, Just Reward, Lynn Marie, Shekinah, Silver Fern, Staronia and ‡ Shekinah landing 15 boxes of squid at Buckie… Vigilant. Charisma, Incentive, Isabella, Jenna Maree, Restless Wave, Reward, Valkyrie and Westerly Warrior were among the under-10m trawlers that ‡ Blue Sky towing past Shekinah towards the end of the day. fished alongside their bigger compatriots. While all the above boats were locally owned, the squid fishery continued to attract a few visiting boats. At the time of this trip, these included the Orkney- owned trio Aspire II, Gracious and Maggie J, together with the west coast boats Prosperity, Stronsay Maid and Village Belle and the Anstruther trawler Rebecca. The number of visiting boats increased as the season progressed with the arrival of the Mallaig duo Contest and Gleaner, the Stornoway Kalayna, ‡ … for delivery to Fraserburgh, where the squid was sold on the market and Sparkling Star III and the following morning. Kemarvin from Scrabster. That several of these boats three baskets, which is often the had come to expect. since have been sold, and in case during the day with the Towing in 14 fathoms, a some cases converted for other ‡ The Orkney-owned trawler Aspire II shooting away her squid stronger light levels. However, as quarter of a mile astern of methods of fishing, illustrates the trawl. with any other form of fishing, Stronsay Maid and Village Belle, constantly changing nature of perseverance is a key element in Shekinah passed Blue Sky to the fleet. eking out a viable day’s work, so starboard, as daylight faded Five years after this trip, the Bison doors were soon quickly as rain set in on a David Smith replaced Shekinah spreading again as the trawl was freshening northwesterly wind. with the 18m Benarkle PD 400, shot before Shekinah started to Shortly before 8.30pm, the which became the new Shekinah tow west again, astern of another winch drums were clutched in INS 155. Benarkle was built two Buckie boats, Lynn Marie and for the last time before the by Macduff Shipyards in 2014 Blue Sky. scraper net was quickly hauled for Peterhead skipper Mark While some boats again turned onto the drum. After the bag was Addison. back east before reaching swung forward by the block and The previous Shekinah Hopeman, Shekinah continued to taken aboard, the codline was moved to Lewis after being follow the coastline towards released to allow another four bought by North Tolsta skipper Burghead, while passing the baskets of slightly bigger squid Murdo MacDonald and renamed Orkney-owned Aspire II BH 439, to fall into the hopper. Sharon Rose SY 190. Vigilant INS 55 and the Cromarty With the net hauled out on the Sharon Rose was built ‡ Two contrasting styles of vessel – Sandy Smith’s 62ft ex-ring- under-10m trawler Westerly quarter to enable Leo to start as Ceol Na Mara BF 352 for netter Vigilant and David Wood’s under-10m GRP trawler Westerly Warrior INS 24, which were cutting out the earlier tear in Macduff skipper Albert Watt and Warrior towing for squid north of Hopeman. towing east. preparation for carrying out partners at Buckie in 1979, as After being down for two and a permanent repairs, Alan and one of a succession of forward half hours, the gear was hauled Roger quickly cleared the sorting wheelhouse stern trawlers back again at the end of the third table as Shekinah got underway delivered by Herd & Mackenzie haul. This resulted in another for Buckie harbour eight miles at this time. Subsequently fitted three baskets of squid being into the SSE. with a three-quarter-length lowered into Shekinah’s Shortly before 10pm, the shelterdeck, the 273kW Cat- refrigerated fishroom, after the powerblock crane was used to engined Ceol Na Mara moved trawl had been shot back for swing ashore 15 boxes of squid. to St Margaret’s Hope, Orkney what might be the last haul of These were quickly loaded into a in 1998 after being bought by the day, depending on whether waiting MacKay’s lorry which, skipper Terry Norquoy, who skipper Kev Munro opted for one after all the boats had landed, regularly fished the Minch longer tow or two shorter ones. would take the day’s catches 40 grounds from Lochinver. The generally slack fishing that miles along the coast to Lossiemouth skipper David had characterised the day led to Fraserburgh, in plenty of time Smith bought Ceol Na Mara K several boats, including Aspire for the following morning’s 1003 in 2005, when the twin-rig II, Prosperity, Village Belle and market. trawler was renamed Shekinah. Valkyrie, returning to Buckie Intending to run down to the On leaving Stornoway for earlier than usual. This ‘here Beatrice oilfield the following Peterhead a few years ago, today, gone the next, back soon’ day, Shekinah quickly left the Sharon Rose was returned to her aspect was said to be a typical landing quay to find a quieter original name Ceol Na Mara and ‡ The under-10m Burghead trawler Restless Wave towing off feature of the Moray Firth squid berth for a couple of hours, re-registered PD 352. Lossiemouth. fishery which skippers and crews ready for a 1am start. n 18 INSHORE CORNER Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 INSHORE CORNER with Phil Lockley THE DAYS OF DECCA en minutes ago, wind still use Decca co-ordinates. readings from the When radio-transmitted Decca Thelicopter training station navigation was in use, here in at RNAS Culdrose (in Cornwall, Falmouth Bay we didn’t use three miles from here) stated: the ‘purple lane’ – that was ‘SW, 32mph with gusts of often way out. I think the North 46mph’. My wee boat is (I hope) Cornwall lads used purple/ safely on its mooring. green lanes, not red/green As yet I’ve been unable to lanes as we did (do). complete trials on the geometry Many moons ago, I did a day behind the towing of pollack trip on a 50ft Brixham trawler – I boards for the third in that remember that the skipper’s series of Inshore Corners, but first cup of tea was as strong in the next calm spell on the as varnish. I brought up the forthcoming neap tide I will do subject of Decca, asking if he my best. Meanwhile, here’s remembered the year it ceased. another tale on concepts He replied: “Yes, I do. Why that ceased manufacture, remove something that was production or service – to so good? Fishermen like me the continuing regret of many had their entire history of tows fishermen. based upon Decca.” I know one skipper who rates His regret about losing Decca a paper echosounder against was matched by his near-anger a modern colour sounder, at not being able to get a new giving ‘better marks’ when Gardner engine. The regulatory pelagic trawling. He even had axe of ‘emissions’ severed the Furuno make an equivalent future for that type of engine, a ‡ A Decca MK 21 fitted on Cazadora FY 614 in 1985. Land-based radio-wave navigation was the only choice in paper sounder to sit alongside marine engineer once told me. electronic navigation until the early to mid 1980s, when rumblings of affordable GPS reached the fishing industry. his high-tech Furuno colour For all you youngsters out sounder. there who have never heard although (thankfully) it was a Not that long ago, I remember the word Decca, find a retired rare event, a Decca set could a day when one of our Falmouth skipper in the Mission or any stop working at any time, with Bay gill-netters was a bit wrinkly old eejit like me, and no warning, leaving a skipper concerned to see a Brixham they will describe Decca with with no option but to haul the beam trawler closing in on his warm memories. In truth, Decca gear and go home. Few, if any, gear. navigators were occasionally inshore skippers could afford He got on the VHF and told cantankerous – steam engines a second set as a back-up. I the beamer skipper of his fears, in the history of electronic never had a Decca set on my and the Brixham lad said: navigation – but so many boat – even the biggest boat I “OK, no problem, give me the fishermen loved them. Decca owned was still small (25ft), and position of your westernmost is still available as a computer- the cost of Decca was well out end.” The Falmouth skipper generated option on a few GPS of my pocket. gave him the ‘green’ and ‘red’ sets, but very few are now able No one owned a Decca set; numbers of his western dahn, to deliver Decca numbers. My the latest sets were rented from adding that it was ‘in the H and Furuno GP 30 does, but its LED the firm Decca, later Racal I changeover’. He gave Decca screen-display is breaking up. Decca. The only advantage of co-ordinates, not lat/long. Decca navigators were fairly rental came following a failure Here, many inshore boats accurate, but cumbersome, and – in all likelihood, a Decca engineer would be close by to fix it in the shortest possible time. About 35 years ago, I spent a few days helping out on the Catfish FH 381. This was a remarkable boat – a plywood-built shallow-draught catamaran. It had been designed for overseas beach work, but aft gallows, a small but able trawl winch and two old but still thumping 80hp Lister diesels gave it a place in the upsurge of Falmouth Bay’s trawling fleet. Skipper/owner Geoffrey Tomlinson had acquired a Decca MK 12, a set that was ‘decommissioned’ but still in ‡ The new-build Looe trawler Cazadora became a very successful perfect working order. The later ‡ Cazadora was guided by the Decca MK 21 for quite some years before inshore vessel. MK 21 was big, but together its skipper/owner Chris Newman switched to a GPS plotter. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews INSHORE CORNER 19

‡ After a major refit in 1987, the Newlyn beam trawler Twilight III bridged the approaching end of the land-based radio-wave Decca system with Decca’s latest step into satellite GPS technology. Left, alongside the Sailor SSB radio, is the Decca MK 21 navigator, and in front is ‡ Catfish FH 381 in its days after trawling; also successful as a potter, it was a well-known the display of the Decca 350T track plotter. On the far right is the up-to-the-minute Decca CRT and profitable trawler, guided by its Decca MK 12 navigator. screen-display GPS plotter and a Decca MK 53G GPS set. with its huge power-supply unit, accurately calculated. industry was already using life. and if you think the speed of the MK 12 was massive; you When it was invented, Decca’s Decca navigation to full effect There was an archaic Decca today’s internet is fast, think could actually sit against the parabolic system of radio – bigger boats like those from track plotter, the paper-scribing again. Scientists can now ‘hook’ power-supply unit, keeping your waves was far from proven. the Humber had been given a 350T, but few could afford such a lot more data onto many new legs warm. Few Decca sets ever The idea was conceived by new weapon in their battle with a rental, and the first small ‘seats’ on the satellite electronic became unfixable; indeed, they Bill J O’Brien in the USA in Icelandic cod. trawlers here in Falmouth to ‘transfer’ system – even more were built like steam engines. 1936. The navigator system The 50-year lifespan of Decca have 350T sets fitted were, I phase-recognition methods are The fishing industry benefited was relatively simple to deliver navigation ended in 2000, but believe, Southover Scorpio being developed. from Decca navigation following – three constant radio waves, its ghost rides on in our current and Southover Gemini from St Look at the advanced its success during the final each being the same frequency GPS sets, and many (like me) Mawes. Of course, even before accuracy of today’s pipe-laying stages of the Second World but different in what is called hope that computer-generated switching off its radio-wave vessels and indeed warships – War. The system was based on ‘phase-shift’. Aviation already Decca will be with us for many navigation system, Decca was will fishing go the same way? three radio signals sent out from had a similar but far less years to come. already a top player in satellite That choice could be just around three separate ‘sub-stations’, accurate system called Gee. I didn’t then know enough technology, with several high- the corner. In terms of whether each of which was controlled It wasn’t until relatively late about trawling to realise how end GPS sets and track plotters. the waypoint you are searching by a master station. You can in the Second World War that much of a nuisance losing the Original radio-wave Decca for is exactly where you originally think of the signal from each the Decca navigation system old Decca system was. At that navigation was not as accurate put it, perhaps tomorrow’s GPS sub-station as a stone thrown was brought into use, for more time most skippers were using as GPS, but in the battle will not be much more accurate, into a calm pond – three stones accurate bombing by the Royal GPS track plotters, and had between fish and fishermen, but what you can do with that thrown at the same time. Air Force and to allow the Royal already had their Decca tracks Decca navigation was one of the data may be far greater. If you know the exact position Navy to be able to land troops superimposed on the new and biggest technical creeps that It is inevitable that technology where each stone lands on the with greater precision. Although proper lat/long electronic charts rang worrying bells in the world will race ahead – but in all water, effectively that is the invented in the USA, Decca of the new track plotters. of fisheries science. Man-made likelihood, the regulation of position of each sub-station. navigation was developed and Looking at the chart plotters rope, hydraulic haulers, steel commercial fishing will also If you know the variation in manufactured in the UK. owned by older skippers, the pots and then Decca navigation escalate. But who knows what the ‘strength’ of each of those It was well after the end of tows often run in parabolic brought the demise of huge ‘hits’ the post-Brexit era will bring? waves as the diameter of the the war that Decca navigation lines – tracks written over what of both fish and shellfish. Twenty years from now, fish waves extends out, the exact began to be used by UK inshore were Decca lanes. I still have Inshore trawling, gill-netting prices may have soared even position of where two or three of fishermen. However, by that an official Decca chart with the and even long-line fishing were higher, and fish farming might no those waves cross over can be time the offshore British fishing starting tows for Falmouth and St aided by Decca navigation as longer be necessary, because Mawes’ trawlers boldly marked much as the distant-water boats when (if) we get back control of by me in red! In the early days, were; enormous pressure was the waters around the British those tows were the starting put on the inshore stocks. But Isles, who needs a fish farm? lines where many skippers you can’t turn back the clocks, If properly regulated, both began their day – the zero, six, and you can’t uninvent the biologically and economically, we 12 and 36 (I think). The tows were wheel. have a no-cost fish farm around known as the ‘wacky races’! Wee Outside the UK there were us – a corridor from zero to 200 static-gear boats like mine had similar radio navigation systems miles of the most productive to be well north of the ‘wacky like the French Loran C, which continental shelf in the world. races’, and we had nothing but followed the same fate as Decca This is a fact, not a point of landmarks and/or depth to guide and no longer exists. political debate. I hope that us to ‘stay inside the zero’. I guess that at 68 years of prime minister Boris Johnson If Decca had switched off its age my days of tapping these retains such red lines in what’s transmissions when it became keys are limited, but I wonder left of the Brexit negotiations. unprofitable, the result might what the future South West And if I do get to 88 years of have been catastrophic when it correspondent of Fishing News age, I will hopefully be sitting went into the history books in the will write about the demise of somewhere on the banks of the spring of 2000. I was there at one today’s ‘not so accurate’ GPS? Severn, listening to the steam- ‡ In 1987, the Racal Decca CVP3500 was the bees’ knees in marine station to record the end. Many I’m sure that GPS navigation driven Severn Valley Railway electronics – the Twilight III skipper demonstrates the pen-touch operation sad people waved goodbye to will still exist and remain satellite- chug past, hoping that another of the screen. Tows were saved on ‘floppy discs’, one of the earliest something that had served them based, but satellite technology big barbel falls onto my lump of incarnations of what we now call a memory stick! for the majority of their working will continue to soar ahead, luncheon meat! n 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? THE 2-SPEED CROSSWORD SUDOKU You can choose to do either quick or cryptic clues, the answers are the same. Fill the grid with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column and 3x3 block contains the numbers 1 to 9. 1 23456 CRYPTIC CLUES 78ACROSS 1 Religious doctor sees either BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE 910 half a fake (5,6) 9 Lady curtailed dreary routine (3) 1 8 11 12 10 Carelessly bake, never stay level (5,4) 65 27 1254 13 11 Pained, dad needs treatment! (8) 41569 13 14 15 16 12 Lump of earth fish has left to 7 8169 eat (4) 17 14 Delay armed robbery (4,2) 148 94 81 18 19 20 16 Feeble person with the French nun’s garment (6) 26 38 21954 21 18 Kitty swimming here? (4) 19 Attic window is article seen 2458 538 22 23 during aeroplane trip (8) 22 Gets eager cooking chocolate 8635 59 confectionery (6,3) 91 47 61 3 24 23 Posh navy vessel (3) 24 Very old person, near ancient, incredibly! 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(4,2) 8 176 2 819465723 7 Stock market 8 P-roceedings 20 A dog wandering round 13 V-E-hem-ent 15 U(You)- 24 Hundred years old (11) 21 Air duct (4) neaten 17 Pi-rat-e 20 Alp-ha university finds the cheese (5) All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd - www.puzzler.com 21 L-U-L-L 09 See next issue for all puzzle solutions. 21 Prevented entry of air (4) 03/ Fishing industry celebrated in paint Comrade when The Royal Society of Marine Artists’ essence of a scene at a particular Annual Exhibition opens at Mall moment in time, while others work in new as Edelweiss Galleries in London on 30 September their studio from copious notes and The feature – or you can view it online now. sketches made on location. ‘Single-rig Generations of artists have sought The Royal Society of Marine trawling on inspiration from the sea, and that Artists’ Annual Exhibition takes place Stornoway tradition continues today. The annual from 30 September to 10 October, Comrade’ in exhibition will feature some 400 11am to 5pm (7pm on Thursdays) Fishing News paintings, many of them focusing on at Mall Galleries, The Mall, London last week commercial fishing. SW1. prompted In recognition of the number of Alternatively, you can view the Burra reader artists documenting the fishing exhibition online from 1 September James industry, there is a prize of £500 at: mallgalleries.org.uk Pottinger for a work in any medium depicting to send a commercial fishing, sponsored by ‡ ‘Fish V’ by Leos Suchan. photograph Murray’s Accounting Services, a of the trawler ‡ Edelweiss FR 104 leaving family firm based in Chesham. The society. when new as Fraserburgh shortly after being built winner will be announced online on The common theme of the Edelweiss FR in 1972. 30 September. exhibition is the sea and tidal waters, 104. All works in the exhibition are for but within that remit, members’ work Built by James Noble (Fraserburgh) Ltd in 1972 sale, with prices starting from as little is wide and varied. Subjects range for local skipper John Goodbrand, the trawler as £300. from deep-water shipping to coastal featured immaculately varnished larch planking The Royal Society of Marine Artists scenes, competitive sailing to quiet and a scrumbled wheelhouse. is widely recognised as the focal harbours, and marine wildlife to After fishing from Fraserburgh for 27 years, point for much of Britain’s finest fishermen at work. Some members Edelweiss moved to Stornoway in 1999 to be contemporary marine art, and many specialise in carefully researched renamed Comrade SY 337 by new skipper/owner of the country’s leading marine historical paintings. Some paint en ‡ ‘Banding the lobsters’ by Alistair Butt Iain Murray. artists are elected members of the plein air, attempting to capture the RSMA. 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES COD AND HADDOCK IN HIGH DEMAND AT PETERHEAD In a week of reduced whitefish supplies The following morning, eight boats, included 1,048 boxes of gutted and 36 small £4-£6, chippers £2.50-£3.25, Thirty-nine boats and 17 at Peterhead, some selections of cod and El Shaddai, Searcher, Shekinah, boxes of round haddock, 1,039 boxes metros £1.50-£2.20 and rounders consignments contributed to last haddock secured the best prices of the Shalimar II, Falcon, Castlewood, Attain of cod, 983 boxes of whiting (871 £1.55-£1.65. Large cod sold at £3.45- week’s four-day total of 17,312 boxes on year, respectively peaking at £6.30 and II and Aquarius II, together with eight rounders), 663 boxes of coley, 609 £6.30 per kg, sprags £4.05-£5.20, Peterhead market. This total included £7.50 per kg, reports David Linkie. consignments from Vision IV, Harvest boxes of hake, 334 boxes of ling, 270 medium £3.90-£5, selected £3.55- 4,282 boxes of haddock (501 rounders), Eight boats, Castlewood, Attain II, Dawn, Conquest, Transcend, Chloe Ella, boxes of monkfish, 112 boxes of flatfish, £4.70 and small £3.25-£4.60. Gutted 2,797 boxes of whiting (2,354 ungutted), Harvester, Ocean Harvest, Kathleen Ann, Just Reward, Fisher Boys and Shaulora, 39 boxes of megrim and 12 boxes of whiting sold at £1.55-£3, round whiting 2,376 boxes of cod, 2,012 boxes of Valhalla, Aquarius II and Leanne, plus landed 3,361 boxes. This tally included squid. 95p-£1.80, plaice £1.35-£2.85, lemon coley, 1,327 boxes of hake, 965 boxes of seven consignments from Caledonia 855 boxes of gutted and 212 boxes of Last Thursday morning at Peterhead, sole £1.85-£6.70, coley 60p-£1.15, hake monkfish, 666 boxes of ling, 499 boxes III, Sparkling Star, Transcend, Deeside, round haddock, 630 boxes of whiting large/medium gutted haddock made £1.15-£5.85, monkfish £1.35-£4.50, ling of squid, 498 boxes of flatfish and 275 Chloe Ella, Conquest and Shaulora, (539 rounders), 501 boxes of coley, 282 £3-£4.30 per kg, selected £3.15-£6.50, £1.25-£1.90 and squid £2-£8 per kg. boxes of megrim. started last week off by contributing boxes of cod, 173 boxes of monkfish, 3,144 boxes to the first market. 143 boxes of squid, 97 boxes of flatfish, This sale, the smallest of the first four 44 boxes of hake, 41 boxes of ling and days of last week, included 567 boxes of 38 boxes of megrim. gutted and 223 boxes of round haddock, Eleven boats, Jubilee Quest, Zenith, 411 boxes of whiting (317 rounders), 343 Zephyr, Ellorah, Emulator, Ocean Vision, boxes of squid, 336 boxes of cod, 253 Ocean Bounty, Golden Gain, Summer boxes of coley, 236 boxes of hake, 230 Dawn II, Lapwing and Budding Rose, boxes of monkfish, 152 boxes of megrim, put 5,047 boxes ashore for the midweek 70 boxes of ling and 52 boxes of flatfish. sale. This market included 1,311 boxes of Last Monday morning at Peterhead, gutted and 30 boxes of round haddock, large cod sold at £4.15-£5.35 per kg, 773 boxes of whiting (627 rounders), 719 medium £3.60-£4.20, selected £3.80- boxes of cod, 595 boxes of coley, 438 £4.05 and small £3.05-£4.10. Large/ boxes of hake, 292 boxes of monkfish, medium gutted haddock made £4.40- 237 boxes of flatfish, 221 boxes of ling, £4.60, selected £3.25-£5, small £2.55- 46 boxes of megrim and one box of £3.75, chippers £2.05-£2.20, metros squid. £1.45-£1.80 and round haddock £1.30- Twelve boats, Tranquility, Victoria £1.35. Gutted whiting were at £2-£2.25 May, Guiding Light, Guiding Star, Acorn, and round whiting £1.35- £1.55 per kg. Accord, Golden Sceptre, Shalanna, Monkfish secured £2-£3.60, lemon sole Boy John, Jolanna M, Rosebloom £2.20-£6.10, plaice £1.50-£3.45, ling and Fruitful Bough, along with two £1.40-£1.75, hake £1.15-£4.85, coley consignments, contributed 5,760 boxes 45p-£1.15 and squid £3.80-£10.60 per to last Thursday’s market at Peterhead. ‡ The Gardenstown twin-rig trawlers Zenith BF 106 and Zephyr BF 601 landing for last Wednesday’s market kg. This sale, the largest of the four days, at Peterhead. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) VARIABLE WEEK IN SHETLAND WEATHER SPELLS QUIETER WEEK AT BRIXHAM Last week started fairly strongly in Shetland when 25 sole £9.75, ling £1.50, mackerel £1.60, megrim £7.65, Landings were down at Brixham last week due £1.50. Prime lobsters were £20.50 and large boats landed 1,813 boxes for the auction on Monday monkfish £3.90, plaice £3.55, saithe £1.55, squid £9.95, to poor weather keeping the day-boats tied up £19. Mackerel was £6.80 for 1s and 2s and morning, which was the largest of the first four days. turbot £14.05, gutted whiting £3.65 and round whiting for part of the week and tides working against £4.50 for 3s. Supplies decreased on Tuesday and again on £1.75 per kg. the netters, but the expectation was that the Megrim made £4.50 for 2s and 3s. Monkfish Wednesday morning with 1,098 boxes from 13 boats and netters would be landing into Brixham again at 1s averaged £12.50, 2s £13.50, 3s £12.10, 4s 440 boxes from 17 boats respectively. A further 10 boats the start of this week. Prices for the species £10.70, 5s £9.70 and 6s £6.80. Grey mullet 1s landed 1,784 boxes for Thursday’s market, bringing the that were available were good, and total sales and 2s were £4.50 and 3s £3.50. Red mullet four-day total to 5,135 boxes from 65 boats, which again for the full week were expected to be in the sold at £13.90/kg for 1s, £13.10 for 2s and included a good number of inshore line boats. region of £520,000. £7.50 for 3s. Octopus averaged £2.30. At 32,970kg, cod was again the main species landed Over the first four markets last week, Plaice 1s averaged £6.40/kg, 2s £5.90, over the first four markets last week, followed by whiting bass fetched £18.60 for 1s, £17.20 for 2s, 3s £5.30, 4s £3.50 and 5s £1.50. Pollack 2s (24,036kg, including 17,314kg of rounders), haddock £16.10 for 3s, £13.30 for 4s and £12.90 for were £7.20 and 4s £5.20. Sand sole 1s were (22,460kg, of which 258kg were ungutted), saithe 5s. Blondie wing 1s were £5.40, 2s and 3s £10.60/kg and 2s £6.80. Large scallops were (21,403kg), monkfish (19,136kg), ling (16,077kg), hake £4.30, and 4s £2.50/kg. Size 1 brill averaged £10.20 and small £4.40. Dover sole 1s and (13,993kg), mackerel (11,741kg), megrim (10,947kg), £14.80/kg, 2s £10.60, 3s £9.60, 4s £9.40 2s averaged £19.20/kg, 3s and 4s £19.50, 5s plaice (6,157kg) and lemon sole (2,000kg). and 5s £6.60. £15.80, 6s £14.80, 7s £11.70, 8s £11.20, 9s Top prices included £5.65 per kg for cod, gutted ‡ Angelina (ex Venturous LK 75) landing into Conger 1s and 2s were £2.80 and 3s £1.50. £8.80 and 10s £6.70. Squid 1s were £14 and haddock £4.85, hake £4.80, halibut £12.45, lemon Scalloway fishmarket. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) Cuttlefish averaged £5 for 1s and £2.70 for 2s. 2s £12.50. Size 1 dabs were £4 and 2s £1.20. John Dory Thorny wings averaged £3.80 for 2s and 1s and 2s were £13.60/kg, 3s £10.80 and 4s £2.20 for 4s. Tubs were £5.40/kg for 1s and £9.10. Red gurnard 2s made £4.50 and 4s 60p. £4.90 for 2s. Turbot averaged £24/kg for 1s, PRICES STAY STRONG AT NEWLYN Lemon sole averaged £13.20/kg for 1s, 2s £21.50, 3s £20, 4s £19.20, 5s £14.20 and For auction last Monday at Newlyn, Tuesday’s market was supplied pollack. Continuing the trend, prices £13.80 for 2s, £12.90 for 3s, £3.90 for 4s and 6s £11.30. Size 1 whiting averaged £4/kg, 2s two beamers, one netter and with a volume of 2.4t from the and demand were good throughout 80p for 5s. Ling 1s and 2s were £4 and 3s £3.20, 3s £1.60 and 4s 70p. inshore boats landed 17.3t. Good inshore fleet. Contributing to the the sale. volumes to note were 1t of Dover day’s volume were 0.1t of John For Thursday’s auction, two sole, 0.5t haddock, 2.3t MSC hake, Dory, 0.2t mackerel, 0.3t megrim beamers landed 8.6t. Volumes most 0.1t John Dory, 0.4t lemon sole, sole, 0.3t monkfish and 0.2t of worthy of mention were 1.1t Dover SCARCE SKATE HITS £3.30 AT LOWESTOFT 0.6t mackerel, 4.4t megrim sole, pollack. Again, prices and demand sole, 0.2t haddock, 0.9t lemon sole, Rough conditions for fishing on the east cost, with gusty winds, limited the opportunities for the 19 2.2t monkfish, 0.2t octopus, 0.2t were good throughout the sale. 2.9t megrim sole, 1.9t monkfish, boats that braved the weather to supply the fishmarket. Many returned with poor catches. The total plaice, 1.5t pollack and 1t of turbot. One netter and inshore boats 0.2t octopus, 0.3t plaice and sales over the week were 1.2t, mostly seen at the Wednesday and Thursday auctions. Demand was good throughout the landed 4t for auction on Wednesday. 0.1t of turbot. Demand remained Bass and Dover sole continued to be the main species targeted and landed, with the former seeing morning, with standout prices being Top-volume species were 1t ray, strong, and some good prices were a high price of £12 per kg, and the latter £20, both unchanged on the previous week. Skate saw its N2 turbot £21/kg, N1 MSC hake £5/ 1.6t MSC hake, 0.1t mackerel, 0.2t achieved, notably N1 plaice £4.58/ highest price since January at up to £3.30, with low volumes of good-quality fish pushing prices up. kg and N2 brill £11.34/kg. megrim, 0.1t monkfish and 0.2t of kg and N3 Dover sole £16.39/kg. Elsewhere, lobster saw £16, monkfish £3.50 and turbot £11.20. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 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 27 AUGUST price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 27 AUGUST landed price/kg wk ago ago 27 AUGUST landed price/kg wk ago ago 26 AUGUST landed price/kg wk ago ago Catfish £2.51 £2.67 £3.33 £2.33 Catfish (1) 615 £5.32 £5.16 £4.81 Bass (1) 59 £18.47 £15.36 £18.05 Bass (2) 3 £14.00 £13.50 £15.89 Cod (A1) £4.92 £5.62 £5.20 £4.68 Cod (0) 460 £5.45 £5.18 £5.47 Cod (A2) £4.90 £5.19 £4.70 £4.33 Bass (2) 151 £16.91 £14.07 £17.12 Cod (1) 3,116 £5.98 £5.54 £5.53 Bass (3) 6 £13.00 £13.49 £15.89 Cod (A3) £4.33 £4.62 £4.29 £3.90 Bass (3) 371 £15.96 £13.16 £14.69 Cod (2) 6,342 £5.61 £4.91 £5.00 Bass (4) 7 £13.36 £11.33 £13.82 Cod (A4) £4.18 £4.43 £3.68 £3.24 Bass (4) 721 £13.19 £8.26 £11.58 Cod (A5) £3.17 £3.75 £3.46 £2.75 Cod (3) 8,212 £4.32 £3.83 £3.78 Bass (5) 449 £12.79 £7.93 £11.05 Bass (5) 13 £11.77 £10.12 £12.14 Haddock (A1) £4.03 £4.45 £4.60 £3.68 Cod (4) 4,836 £3.55 £2.80 £3.47 Haddock (A2) £5.35 £6.58 £4.94 £3.63 Cod (5) 3,971 £3.10 £2.76 £3.11 Brill (1) 298 £14.67 £10.72 £13.21 Blonde Ray (L) 4 £3.40 £1.65 £3.43 Haddock (A3) £4.35 £4.97 £3.36 £2.73 Haddock (1) 2,236 £3.03 £2.39 £2.75 Brill (2) 380 £10.48 £7.31 £9.62 Haddock chippers (A4) £2.53 £2.95 £1.92 £1.70 Blonde Ray (M) 5 £3.00 £1.55 £2.40 Haddock (2) 1,662 £1.52 £1.34 £2.12 Brill (3) 809 £9.46 £6.42 £9.17 Haddock metros (A4) £1.70 £1.99 £1.30 £0.83 Brill (2) 2 £13.00 £9.25 £12.09 Hake (A1) £4.77 £5.47 £3.04 £3.36 Haddock (3) 340 £1.09 £0.50 £1.51 Brill (4) 691 £9.13 £6.63 £8.06 Hake (A2) £3.65 £4.19 £3.43 £2.32 Haddock (4) 65 £0.36 £0.00 £0.68 Brill (5) 84 £6.42 £3.26 £5.14 Brill (3) 10 £10.00 £8.00 £9.82 Hake (A3) £2.39 £3.00 £3.38 £1.64 Hake (0) 8,964 £3.92 £2.65 £4.43 Cock crabs 273 £5.64 £5.09 £5.73 Brill (4) 6 £10.60 £8.04 £8.35 Hake (A4) £1.57 £2.00 £2.07 £1.14 Hake (1) 10,922 £3.71 £2.75 £3.58 Conger (1) 67 £2.29 £1.99 £1.43 Hake (A5) £1.17 £1.46 £0.82 £0.52 Hake (2) 17,731 £2.37 £1.77 £2.40 Claws (9) 6 £3.20 £2.66 - Lemon sole (A1) £5.73 £6.50 £6.34 £7.35 Conger (2) 37 £2.70 £1.89 £1.33 Hake (3) 5,199 £1.10 £0.77 £1.55 Lemon sole (A2) £4.48 £5.57 £5.04 £5.63 Conger (3) 45 £0.84 £0.42 £0.54 Cuckoo ray (M) 57 £1.20 £0.45 £1.04 Lemon sole (A3) £2.21 £3.18 £2.29 £2.97 Lemon sole (1) 172 £6.96 £6.30 £6.04 Cuttlefish (1) 11 £5.16 £4.86 £2.98 Cuttlefish (L) 22 £2.49 - £2.94 Ling (A1) £1.44 £1.48 £1.37 £1.04 Lemon sole (2) 622 £4.99 £5.23 £4.81 Ling (A2) £1.74 £1.78 £1.95 £0.99 Lemon sole (3) 1,047 £2.22 £2.18 £2.35 Cuttlefish (2) 5,278 £2.66 £2.18 £2.69 Dover sole (1) 3 £16.00 £15.20 £17.13 Ling (A3) £1.69 £1.92 £1.83 £1.03 Ling (1) 2,460 £2.07 £1.98 £2.32 Dogfish 9,398 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Dover sole (2) 10 £18.26 £14.86 £18.28 Megrim (A1) £5.18 £5.93 £3.80 £2.82 Ling (2) 1,536 £2.77 £1.94 £2.17 Gurnard (2) 6 £4.52 £3.65 £3.76 Megrim (A2) £3.26 £4.67 £3.67 £1.56 Ling (3) 2,147 £1.35 £1.45 £1.89 Dover sole (3) 45 £20.07 £15.45 £18.34 Megrim (A3) £2.17 £3.25 £1.41 £0.85 Gurnard (4) 3,391 £0.60 £0.62 £0.64 Megrim (A4) £0.69 £1.07 £0.65 £0.52 Megrim 369 £3.45 £2.90 £1.17 Haddock (2) 7 £6.14 £2.80 £3.54 Dover sole (4) 76 £14.02 £11.73 £14.61 Megrim (A4) £1.28 £1.88 £0.77 £0.78 Monkfish (1) 1,509 £4.21 £4.37 £4.58 Haddock (3) 8 £3.76 £0.48 £1.40 Dover sole (5) 71 £13.03 £9.48 £10.36 Monkfish (A1) £3.79 £4.07 £3.92 £3.71 Monkfish (2) 2,995 £4.09 £4.51 £4.78 Hen crabs 934 £1.91 £1.86 £2.05 Monkfish (A2) £3.70 £3.96 £3.76 £3.68 Monkfish (3) 2,120 £4.06 £4.11 £4.88 Grey mullet (3) 26 £4.26 £2.60 £4.00 John Dory (1) 90 £13.57 £12.47 £14.48 Monkfish (A3) £3.51 £3.79 £3.44 £3.74 Monkfish (4) 1,208 £3.71 £3.68 £4.90 Monkfish (A4) £2.67 £3.19 £3.11 £3.37 John Dory (2) 236 £13.10 £11.48 £14.04 Gurnard and latchet (L) 15 £6.80 £2.18 £5.05 Monkfish (5) 524 £1.94 £2.02 £2.90 Monkfish (A5) £1.98 £2.33 £2.45 £2.27 John Dory (3) 566 £10.64 £8.69 £10.88 Gurnard and latchet (M) 123 £1.44 £1.00 £2.60 Plaice (A1) £3.02 £3.33 £3.00 £2.86 Plaice (1) 1,309 £4.44 £3.42 £3.39 Lemon sole (1) 51 £12.98 £8.85 £10.34 Plaice (A2) £2.59 £3.08 £2.23 £2.37 Plaice (2) 4,291 £3.45 £3.10 £3.24 Haddock (3) 51 £6.60 £2.53 £4.66 Plaice (A3) £1.57 £1.61 £2.38 £1.61 Plaice (3) 7,910 £2.48 £2.04 £2.56 Lemon sole (2) 92 £13.76 £8.86 £10.61 Haddock (4) 70 £1.36 £0.58 £1.44 Plaice (A4) £1.48 £1.45 £1.70 £1.33 Plaice (4) 24,707 £1.75 £1.73 £2.19 Lemon sole (3) 315 £12.71 £8.00 £10.05 Pollack (A1) £4.61 £4.73 £4.85 £4.39 Pollack (2) 410 £5.51 £4.82 £4.69 Lemon sole (4) 1,037 £3.79 £2.22 £2.41 Hake (4) 6 £5.20 £3.11 £3.89 Pollack (A2) £4.49 £4.55 £4.43 £3.53 Pollack (3) 2,530 £4.70 £4.04 £4.04 Pollack (A3) £4.53 £4.58 £4.16 £3.85 Lemon sole (5) 665 £0.75 £0.55 £0.61 Hake (5) 14 £5.40 £2.67 £3.06 Pollack (4) 421 £3.45 £3.52 £3.44 Pollack (A4) £4.05 £4.13 £3.51 £3.61 Line mackerel (1) 37 £6.73 £5.15 £4.61 Hake (6) 5 £2.00 £1.60 £2.44 Round Haddock £1.46 £1.51 £0.80 £0.52 Saithe (1) 6,325 £1.33 £1.14 £1.40 Line mackerel (2) 123 £6.73 £5.67 £3.71 Whiting (A1) £2.46 £2.86 - £0.98 Saithe (2) 16,340 £1.32 £1.21 £1.44 John Dory (1) 37 £11.98 £11.21 £12.39 Line mackerel (3) 86 £4.30 £1.54 £1.67 Whiting (A2) £2.43 £2.64 £2.25 £1.54 Saithe (3) 27,430 £1.36 £1.11 £1.38 John Dory (2) 7 £12.23 £10.94 £13.58 Whiting (A3) £1.83 £2.19 £1.06 £1.32 Saithe (4) 15,369 £1.02 £0.95 £1.25 Lobster 123 £18.07 £17.27 £14.12 Whiting (A4) £1.80 £1.80 £1.02 £0.72 Squid 1,358 £5.56 £2.94 £3.23 Monkfish tails (1) 125 £12.38 £9.95 £11.09 John Dory (3) 18 £11.02 £8.29 £10.05 Whiting (round) £1.48 £1.75 £1.33 £0.74 Turbot (0) 17 £20.49 £18.52 £19.87 Monkfish tails (2) 505 £13.39 £9.91 £11.53 John Dory (4) 3 £8.00 £6.16 £7.97 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Turbot (1) 97 £15.90 £16.11 £16.69 Monkfish tails (3) 876 £11.96 £9.43 £10.95 TO 27 AUGUST landed price/kg wk ago ago John Dory (5) 1 £2.80 £2.87 £4.31 Turbot (2) 88 £16.06 £15.95 £15.28 Monkfish tails (4) 1,199 £10.55 £8.67 £10.43 Catfish 4,717 £0.22 £1.31 £2.58 Turbot (3) 223 £11.83 £10.72 £11.65 Cod (2) 83,277 £0.46 £1.55 £4.05 Monkfish tails (5) 1,194 £9.57 £7.81 £8.28 Lemon sole (1) 3 £11.00 £6.97 £9.97 Turbot (4) 273 £6.09 £4.80 £5.04 Cod (3) 66,810 £0.56 £1.31 £3.69 Monkfish tails (6) 314 £6.67 £5.39 £4.46 Lemon sole (2) 31 £10.13 £7.46 £10.17 Whiting (2) 30 £1.06 £0.96 £1.25 Cod (4) 19,489 £0.74 £1.46 £2.91 Octopus 482 £2.27 £1.83 £2.08 Witch (1) 164 £3.52 £4.76 £3.54 Lemon sole (3) 24 £11.60 £6.04 £9.09 Cod (5) 9,974 £0.58 £1.32 £2.65 Plaice (1) 969 £6.14 £4.41 £4.96 Cod (6) 2,843 £0.08 £0.64 £2.58 Witch (2) 402 £1.62 £2.74 £2.14 Plaice (2) 1,168 £5.71 £3.64 £3.31 Lemon sole (4) 177 £3.36 £2.30 £2.27 Haddock (1) 16,875 £0.20 £1.05 £3.24 Witch (3) 207 £0.64 £0.80 £0.87 Plaice (3) 1,525 £5.05 £2.98 £3.15 Lemon sole (5) 153 £0.50 £0.50 £0.57 Haddock (2) 22,032 £0.27 £0.93 £3.36 ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Haddock (3) 32,613 £0.21 £0.56 £3.17 TO 27 AUGUST landed price/kg wk ago ago Plaice (4) 1,160 £3.51 £2.30 £2.18 Ling (M) 12 £5.00 £0.61 £2.97 Haddock (4) 67,062 £0.23 £0.48 £2.63 Blue ling (gutted) 1,075 £0.99 £1.21 £0.63 Plaice (5) 3,357 £1.47 £1.41 £1.64 Mackerel (LM) 76 £5.76 £4.41 £2.72 Haddock (5) 62,370 £0.15 £0.35 £1.85 Catfish (gutted) 16,602 £0.92 £1.17 £1.42 Pollock (2) 3 £7.02 £5.11 £5.35 Catfish (ungutted) 1,022 £0.74 £0.74 £0.06 Haddock (round) 1,608 £0.00 £0.04 £1.58 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 116 £5.29 £2.93 £5.15 Mackerel (M) 325 £4.59 £2.21 £1.29 Hake (2) 7,764 £0.83 £1.58 £3.54 Cod (large, gutted) 10,004 £2.40 £1.84 £2.31 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 603 £4.15 £1.61 £4.01 Mackerel (S) 127 £0.63 £0.51 £0.52 Hake (3) 25,869 £0.41 £0.93 £2.88 Cod (large, ungutted) 81,547 £2.16 £1.88 £2.22 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 477 £4.13 £1.59 £3.69 Hake (4) 57,751 £0.27 £0.50 £1.87 Cod (small, gutted) 3,556 £0.73 £0.57 £0.89 Megrim (2) 11 £5.33 £3.89 £5.50 Halibut (3) 1,501 £1.33 £3.72 £10.04 Cod (small, ungutted) 3,898 £0.97 £0.38 £0.70 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 90 £3.15 £1.13 £3.00 Cod cheeks 24 £6.35 £6.47 - Megrim (3) 26 £4.36 £2.91 £4.09 Halibut (4) 1,224 £1.23 £3.09 £9.74 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 463 £3.08 £0.97 £2.96 Greenland halibut (gutted) 646 £2.10 £2.29 £0.05 John Dory 4 £0.00 £0.00 £4.50 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 129 £2.03 £0.88 £2.26 Megrim (4) 47 £5.82 £2.02 £3.42 Haddock (large, gutted) 20,008 £1.23 £1.28 £1.27 Lemon sole (2) 2,954 £0.37 £1.97 £7.02 Haddock (large, ungutted) 53,374 £1.35 £1.33 £2.01 Red mullet (1) 23 £4.43 £2.75 £3.33 Megrim (5) 125 £2.20 £1.26 £2.23 Lemon sole (4) 7,115 £0.22 £0.57 £3.52 Haddock (small, gutted) 948 £0.40 £0.34 - Red mullet (2) 16 £4.30 £2.85 £3.32 Ling 85,864 £0.10 £0.53 £1.90 Monkfish (1) 5 £13.50 £9.33 £11.80 Haddock (small, ungutted) 1,560 £0.31 £0.20 £0.08 Red mullet (3) 5 £13.70 £12.44 £14.11 Lythe 5,278 £0.18 £0.46 £4.10 Halibut (gutted) 992 £2.10 £1.87 £3.64 Monkfish (2) 60 £12.69 £9.71 £11.51 Round pouting 3,327 £0.30 £0.32 £0.45 Mackerel 65,207 £0.10 £0.35 £1.40 Lemon sole (gutted) 3,726 £1.38 £1.61 £3.00 Monkfish (3) 57 £13.69 £9.80 £10.69 Megrim (2) 22,529 £0.71 £2.26 £3.85 Ling (gutted) 5,311 £1.00 £0.79 £0.92 Scallop (2) 5,748 £2.32 £1.56 £5.60 Megrim (3) 16,843 £0.50 £1.51 £3.67 Ling (ungutted) 993 £0.86 £1.01 £1.08 Scallop meat 1,981 £9.43 £9.22 £11.50 Monkfish (4) 134 £10.50 £8.96 £10.30 Megrim (4) 16,341 £0.37 £1.03 £2.66 Megrim (gutted) 1,857 £1.89 £0.75 £1.10 Sole (1) 320 £18.66 £15.63 £18.40 Monkfish (5) 342 £8.53 £6.24 £6.19 Monkfish (1) 3,790 £0.21 £1.17 £3.66 Monkfish (gutted) 956 £2.85 £3.88 £2.79 Sole (2) 729 £18.12 £14.81 £19.45 Monkfish (2) 27,569 £0.18 £1.37 £3.96 Plaice (gutted) 37,311 £1.78 £1.88 £2.00 Octopus (M) 79 £2.00 £1.98 £2.00 Sole (3) 744 £19.00 £16.57 £20.61 Monkfish (3) 32,007 £0.15 £1.33 £4.44 Redfish (ungutted) 34,359 £0.79 £0.94 £1.16 Plaice (1) 4 £6.20 £4.41 £4.07 Monkfish (4) 20,894 £0.15 £1.24 £4.47 Saithe (gutted) 4,310 £0.74 £0.71 £0.49 Sole (4) 1,209 £19.00 £16.13 £19.93 Monkfish (5) 8,002 £0.31 £0.87 £3.43 Saithe (ungutted) 8,888 £0.50 £0.44 £0.42 Sole (5) 853 £15.68 £13.62 £16.17 Plaice (2) 7 £5.74 £3.59 £3.47 Monkfish (6) 2,672 £0.10 £0.48 £2.11 Skate (gutted) 36 £0.10 £0.20 £0.06 Sole (6) 1,019 £14.61 £13.22 £14.71 Spotted catfish (gutted) 2,376 £0.82 £0.78 £1.45 Plaice (4) 2 £3.80 £2.18 £2.06 Plaice (2) 12,221 £0.23 £0.65 £3.20 Squid (1) 7 £14.82 £11.65 £10.09 Plaice (3) 14,513 £0.17 £0.35 £2.52 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 914 £0.59 £0.94 £1.21 Pollack, lythe (2) 8 £6.09 £3.80 £6.34 Squid (2) 200 £11.88 £9.90 £9.29 Plaice (4) 17,067 £0.09 £0.21 £1.55 Tusk (gutted) 2,488 £0.51 £0.41 £0.07 Squid (mix) 234 £10.67 £8.18 £7.75 Red mullet (3) 3 £7.00 £2.00 £9.30 Saithe (2) 13,384 £0.15 £0.41 £1.37 Tusk (gutted) 2,488 £0.51 £0.41 £0.07 Tusk (ungutted) 3,214 £0.27 £0.30 £0.27 Saithe (3) 38,778 £0.19 £0.39 £1.37 Turbot (1) 32 £24.94 £24.36 £22.25 Scallops 36 £3.73 £2.46 £1.68 Whiting (ungutted) 711 £0.42 £0.25 £0.00 Saithe (4) 47,548 £0.13 £0.24 - Turbot (2) 85 £20.59 £21.39 £17.34 Witch (ungutted) 5,594 £1.23 £1.25 £1.22 Squid (M) 10 £10.19 £7.00 £11.22 Skate 6,444 £0.02 £0.14 £0.45 Turbot (3) 104 £19.71 £17.21 £17.34 Turbot (4) 5 £12.00 £14.33 £15.08 Skate, mixed 564 £0.00 £0.12 £0.36 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Price/kg Price/kg Avg, Avg, 4 Turbot (4) 258 £18.50 £14.74 £14.53 TO 27 AUGUST minimum maximum yr ago yr ago Skate, roker 560 £0.20 £0.38 £0.83 Turbot (5) 599 £13.92 £11.23 £11.96 Turbot (5) 5 £15.00 £14.29 £12.97 Squid 4,354 £0.71 £1.36 £5.26 Bass £11.00 £12.00 £17.00 £13.38 Turbot (6) 218 £11.20 £9.31 £9.83 Turbot 1,258 £0.65 £2.37 £12.59 Dover sole £6.00 £20.00 £19.00 £15.25 Turbot (6) 8 £15.40 £11.42 £12.22 Lobster £16.00 £16.00 £15.00 £17.75 Whelks 70 £1.95 £1.61 £1.54 Whiting (2) 15,084 £0.40 £0.98 £2.77 Whiting (1) 203 £1.98 £1.52 £1.94 Whiting (3) 31,887 £0.28 £0.58 £2.38 Monkfish £2.80 £3.50 £0.00 £5.00 Whiting (1) 11 £3.66 £2.69 £2.95 Whiting (4) 70 £0.00 £0.00 £1.20 Skate £1.00 £3.30 £2.50 £1.83 Whiting (2) 22 £3.16 £2.24 £2.22 Whiting (2) 209 £1.24 £0.69 £1.92 Whiting, round 127,543 £0.14 £0.39 £1.12 Turbot £11.20 £11.20 £0.00 £14.20 Whiting (3) 40 £1.50 £1.13 £1.75 Whiting (3) 137 £1.92 £0.29 £0.86 3 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

Provisional landings data for July 2020 and year to date vs 2019

£'000s Monthly landings by UK vessels: 2019 vs 2020 £'000s Cumulative value of landings: 2019 vs 2020 Landings by species group (£'000), 2020 vs 2019 120,000 500,000 25,000 2019 2020 450,000 100,000 2019 2020 400,000 2019 2020 20,000

80,000 350,000 300,000 15,000 60,000 250,000 200,000 10,000 40,000 150,000 100,000 5,000 20,000 50,000

0 0 -00 January February March April May June July* January February March April May June July* Demersal Demersal Pelagic Pelagic Shellfish Shellfish England Scotland England Scotland England Scotland

Tonnes Monthly landings by UK vessels: 2019 vs 2020 Tonnes Cumulative quantity of landings: 2019 vs 2020 Landings by species group (t), 2020 vs 2019 90,000 350,000 9,000

80,000 8,000 300,000 2019 2020 70,000 2019 7,000 250,000 60,000 6,000

50,000 200,000 5,000 4,000 40,000 150,000 30,000 3,000 100,000 2,000 20,000 2019 2020 50,000 1,000 10,000 -00 0 0 Demersal Demersal Pelagic Pelagic Shellfish Shellfish January February March April May June July* January February March April May June July* England Scotland England Scotland England Scotland

Landings by port authority, July 2020 vs July 2019 (tonnes) Landings by port authority, July 2020 vs July 2019 (tonnes) 7,000 6,000

6,000 5,000 2019 2020 5,000 2019 2020 4,000 4,000 3,000 3,000

2,000 2,000

1,000 1,000

-00 -00

Landings by port authority, July 2020 vs July 2019 (£'000) Landings by port authority, July 2020 vs July 2019 (£'000) 7,000 10,000 9,000 6,000 8,000 5,000 2019 2020 7,000 2019 2020

4,000 6,000 5,000 3,000 4,000 2,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 1,000 -00 -00

Fishing effort by port authority, July 2020 vs July 2019 (trips) Fishing effort by port authority, July 2020 vs July 2019 (trips) 3,000 400

350 2,500 2019 2020 300 2019 2020 2,000 250

1,500 200

150 1,000 100 500 50

0 0

Source: MMO. * Note: July data has been provided earlier than usual to give a quick view on impact of CV19. This data is subject to review 24 CLASSIFIEDS/PUBLIC NOTICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 3 September 2020 CLASSIFIEDS INSURANCE PUBLIC NOTICE

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The South West fishing company Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launched The South West fishing companyThe SouthWaterdance West fishingNichola company of Ladram Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launchedWhite Eagle launched BREXIT STOCKS DANGERShas taken delivery of the new 15m steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXIT MELTDOWN BREXITBREXIT STOCKS STOCKS DANGERShas takenDANGERS delivery of the new 15mhas steeltaken vivier- delivery of theberthed new 15m at Brixham. steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXITBREXIT MELTDOWN MELTDOWN TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORTcrabber Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Western Isles TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT TURN TO PAGETURN 2 TOFOR PAGE THE 2FULL FOR REPORT THEcrabber FULL Nichola of LadramREPORT E 1,crabber which arrived Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Westernat Polruan Isles for WesternTURN IslesTO PAGETURN 2 FOR TO PAGETHE FULL 2 FOR REPORT THE FULL REPORT in Brixham from the Luyt yard at Den Oever in in Brixham from the Luyt yard atin Den Brixham Oever from in the Luyt yard at Den Oever in The new 15m automated scalloper White Eagle The new 15m automated scalloperThe White new 15mEagle automated scalloper White Eagle Holland earlier this month. Holland earlier this month. Holland earlier this month. REGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulic hoist into the REGIONAL NEWSREGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulicCY hoist 525 into was the lowered by hydraulic hoist into the SAVESAVE £££ £££s sOFF OFF THE THE SAVE £££s OFF THE Skipper Richard Carroll and his crew of six Skipper Richard Carroll and hisSkipper crew of Richardsix Carroll and his crew of six river Fowey alongside the quay at Polruan, where river Fowey alongside the quay atriver Polruan, Fowey where alongside the quay at Polruan, where wasted no time in getting the new boat to sea wasted no time in getting the newwasted boat noto seatime in getting the new boat to sea Westro and Carvela naming ceremonies Commemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built by C Toms & Son, Westro and CarvelaWestro andnaming Carvela ceremonies naming ceremoniesCommemorations markCommemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built bythe C steel-hulled Toms & Son, vessel was built by C Toms & Son, as soon as the paperwork was all completed, New Taits arrives at Fraserburgh as soon as the paperwork was asall sooncompleted, as the paperwork was all completed, New TaitsNew arrives Taits atarrives Fraserburgh at Fraserburgh reports Phil Lockley. reports Phil Lockley. reports Phil Lockley. to start placing Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab to start placing Nichola of Ladram’sto start 3,000 placing crab Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab the 50th anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port of Kallin on the 50th anniversarythe of 50th the anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port ofSoon Kallin destined on for its home port of Kallin on Skipper James West with his family, pots. Skipper James West with his family, Skipper James West with his family, pots. pots. North Uist, White Eagle is a step aside from North Uist, White Eagle is a stepNorth aside Uist,from White Eagle is a step aside from before Westro’s naming ceremony on Waterdance managing director Nigel Blazeby before Westro’s naming ceremony onbefore Westro’s naming ceremony on Waterdance managing director WaterdanceNigel Blazeby managing director Nigel Blazeby the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers the West Pier at Peterhead. the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedyLonghope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sizedtraditional scallopers deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers said that the company is delighted with the new said that the company is delightedsaid with that the the new company is delighted with the new used in southwest England. used in southwest England. used in southwest England. crabber, which represents a milestone for the crabber, which represents a milestonecrabber, for which the represents a milestone for the Having split winches, with full winch control Having split winches, with full winchHaving control split winches, with full winch control Waterdance fleet, as the company’s first new Waterdance fleet, as the company’sWaterdance first new fleet, as the company’s first new from the aft wheelhouse, was a request from the from the aft wheelhouse, was a requestfrom the from aft wheelhouse,the was a request from the build for some considerable time. build for some considerable time.build for some considerable time. vessel owners and operators, brothers Konrad and vessel owners and operators, brothersvessel Konradowners andand operators, brothers Konrad and “We’re very pleased her, and also with the “We’re very pleased her, and also“We’re with verythe pleased her, and also with the Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing.Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. work done by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram work done by Luyt in building Nicholawork done of Ladram by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram White Eagle is expected to run sea trials from White Eagle is expected to run seaWhite trials Eagle from is expected to run sea trials from to such an innovative design,” he said, adding to such an innovative design,” heto said,such addingan innovative design,” he said, adding Polruan in the next two weeks. Polruan in the next two weeks. Polruan in the next two weeks. that while Waterdance and a number of other that while Waterdance and a numberthat while of other Waterdance and a number of other Further details of White Eagle will be included in Further details of White Eagle willFurther be included details inof White Eagle will be included in Fishing News shortly. Fishing News shortly. 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‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering Fraserburgh harbour for the first time following its delivery trip from ‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering‡ The Fraserburgh 74.8m midwater harbour trawler for the Taitsfirst timeentering following Fraserburgh its delivery harbour trip fromfor the first time following its delivery trip from Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials. Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speedØlensvåg, of 19.5 Norway. knots † on Taits Class recorded endurance a top trials. speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials.

The new 74.8m midwater trawler The new 74.8m midwater trawler The new 74.8m midwater trawler quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing ANNUALANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: PRICES: UK & UKIRELAND & IRELAND £122 £122 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge Taits FR 229 berthed in its home Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge west of Ireland. west of Ireland. west of Ireland. port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting port of Fraserburgh for the first time port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting system, in which five 55in tilting Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple last week, after being handed over last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple displays can be arranged in multiple AS, Taits incorporates a number of AS, Taits incorporates a number of AS, Taits incorporates a number of to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded to the Klondyke Fishing Company to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded configurations through an embedded new features. These include a heat new features. These include a heat new features. These include a heat by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. video wall controller. recovery system, in which hot water recovery system, in which hot water recovery system, in which hot water Norway, reports David Linkie Norway, reports David Linkie Norway, reports David Linkie . from the main and auxiliary engines Featuring an extensive full-length . from the main and auxiliary engines. fromFeaturing the main an and extensive auxiliary full-length engines Featuring an extensive full-length † The new Orkney vivier-crabber After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping † The new Orkney vivier-crabber † The new Orkney vivier-crabber After arriving at Fraserburgh, After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas Carvela is named in spectacular Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas is used to heat all internal areas EUROPEEUROPE £175 £175REST REST OF WORLD OF WORLD £190 £190 skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the pelagic fish both amidships on the throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving style on Teesside. immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. style on Teesside. style on Teesside. immediately started rigging out for immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. starboard side and at the stern. Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion Rolls-Royce Promas propulsion the blue whiting fishery, before Taits the blue whiting fishery, before Taits the blue whiting fishery, before Taits and manoeuvring system; two stern A detailed feature on Taits will be and manoeuvring system; two stern andA manoeuvringdetailed feature system; on Taits two will stern be A detailed feature on Taits will be included in Fishing News soon. included in Fishing News soon. included in Fishing News soon. Two new Scottish fishing vessels, Two new Scottish fishing vessels, Two new Scottish fishing vessels, ‡ The SC McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates ‡ The SC McAllister-designed White‡ Eagle The SCincorporates McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates Westro PD 20 and Carvela K ‡ Waterdance’s new vivier-crabber Nichola Westro PD 20 and Carvela K Westro PD 20 and Carvela K ‡ Waterdance’s new vivier-crabber‡ Waterdance’s Nichola new vivier-crabber Nichola 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enable the scalloper to 751, were named within one 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enablea number the scalloper of features to designed to enable the scalloper to hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorialof Ladram to the eight will Longhope be fishing lifeboat South men West and operate with maximum efficiency in the waters around hour of each other in early spring hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorialof Ladram to the eight will Longhope be fishing‡ lifeboat The memorialSouth menof WestLadram to the and eight will Longhope be fishing lifeboat South men West and operate with maximum efficiency in operatethe waters with around maximum efficiency in the waters around sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. waters, and landing in Brixham, the Outer Hebrides and beyond. sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. waters,in and Kirk landing Hope Mid-Channelcemetery. in Brixham, waters, and landing in Brixham, the Outer Hebrides and beyond. the Outer Hebrides and beyond. reports David Linkie. Salcombe and Newlyn. reports David Linkie. reports David Linkie. Salcombe and Newlyn. Salcombe and Newlyn. The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members of the Longhope lifeboat who The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members of the Longhope lifeboatThe eight who members of the Longhope lifeboat who Westro was christened at lost their lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, Westro was christened at Westro was christened at lost their lives in horrendous weather loston 17 their March, lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, NEVERNEVER MISS MISSAN ISSUE AN ISSUE FREE FREEDELIVERY DELIVERY DIRECT DIRECT TO YOUR TO YOURDOOR DOOR NEVER MISS AN ISSUE Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launching to assist a disabled Libyan Peterhead, shortly before the Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launching to assist a disabled1969, Libyan after launching to assist a disabled Libyan 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentland Firth, were honoured by 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentland Firth, were honouredvessel byin the Pentland Firth, were honoured by lifted into the water and named, commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of lifted into the water and named, lifted into the water and named, commemorations to mark the 50th anniversarycommemorations of to mark the 50th anniversary of 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. 300 miles away on Teesside. 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. the tragedy. James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friends were joined by James and Patricia West’s James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friends were joined by Relatives and friends were joined by six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, including four six-year-old son Ethan broke the six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, includingrepresentatives four of rescue services, including four traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe traditional bottle of champagne traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrancelifeboat in Aith crews, Voe in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. on Westro, built by Macduff on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. and at Kirk Hope cemetery. Shipyards Ltd. See pages 14-17 for further coverage of the Shipyards Ltd. Shipyards Ltd. See pages 14-17 for further coverage ofSee the pages 14-17 for further coverage of the Ronnie and Maureen moving tributes. Ronnie and Maureen Ronnie and Maureen moving tributes. moving tributes. Norquoy’s daughter Erika named Norquoy’s daughter Erika named Norquoy’s daughter Erika named Carvela, built by Parkol Marine Carvela, built by Parkol Marine Carvela, built by Parkol Marine Engineering at Middlesbrough. REGIONAL NEWS Engineering at Middlesbrough. Engineering at Middlesbrough. REGIONAL NEWSREGIONAL NEWS offer codeoffer code Continued on page 13 Continued on page 13 Continued on page 13 yourfishingnews.co.ukyourfishingnews.co.uk 0195901959 543 543 747 747 FNWP101FNWP101 Hotline open:Hotline Mon open:- Fri 8am Mon - 6pm. - Fri 8am - 6pm. Fishermen! Advertise boats, equipment and accessories, for sale FISHERMEN'S FREE ADS! or wanted, absolutely FREE! BOATS FOR SALE CYGNUS 19

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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! New Totnes fishmonger refuses to sell ‘top 5’ “There isn’t a day that goes The frozen food products by when I don’t get asked Aarik makes include soy- and for at least one of the top five yuzu-infused katsu fillets, species of seafood – tuna, inspired by his many years of salmon, cod, haddock and eating Japanese curry in small Work finally begins on prawns – but I am determined, ‘mom and pop’ restaurants Eastbourne’s new fishing quay even as a brand new start-up across Asia, fish’n’chip fish See page 7 business, to educate our fingers, conceived in one of consumers on why it is Aarik’s restaurants in Hong important to eat local,” says Kong, and Brixham lobster new fishmonger Aarik Persaud. mac and cheese. He also has His new Totnes fish shop a salt fridge which is used to Cormacks Seafood is one dry-age larger fish, reducing of the many UK businesses the moisture content and now focusing on the domestic concentrating the flavour. market using locally landed He said: “For me, one of seafood. the most important things that He said: “We exclusively I can do is to show my local sell seasonal, locally caught community the importance of day-boat fish and shellfish, with ‡ Aarik Persaud in the new Cormacks Seafood shop with his supporting their local fishing one exception, ChalkStream dry-ageing fridge. fleet and teaching them about Boat of the week – Opportune LK trout, which is farmed using the abundance of fresh, 209 organic feed in freshwater restaurant in Soho, he was as miso ginger, Korean delicious seasonal seafood that See page 9 ponds. We have been running determined to get back to barbecue, pastrami spice and is landed right here. We are as a seafood product-focused work, and so developed the puttanesca. Having the shop is fortunate enough to be able to business since 2018, and plan for Cormacks. allowing Aarik to develop a far access seafood that is fresh have always only bought from At the shop, Aarik brings more extensive product range. off the boat, so why would I small-scale fishing vessels his culinary experience and The fridge is stocked with a promote anything else?” that use traditional fishing knowledge to transform range of products that have Cormacks Seafood methods. These fishermen the seafood into a range of been given a bit of additional opened on 28 July at Unit are the backbone of coastal ready-to-cook products. flavour, including jerked 11, The Plains Shopping communities, and are “There are some amazing cuttlefish, hake stuffed with Centre, Ticklemore Street, custodians of their small patch parts of a fish which are harissa and couscous, and Totnes. Find out more at: of the sea.” often discarded, such as the trout en papillote. cormacksseafood.co.uk Aarik Persaud has over 20 cheeks, ribs and head. I think years’ experience working as the seafood industry does Butley oysters – Flavour of a a chef. He has led kitchens need a shake-up. We have quiet creek across the world, including in been eating plain battered See pages 10-11 Toronto, Sydney, Bali, Hong white fish for too long. Don’t Kong and London. In Asia, he get me wrong, it is great – but owned a series of butcheries where are the new seafood which operated on a nose-to- products?” tail mantra of using the whole Cormacks Seafood began animal. Furloughed during a few years back by canning lockdown from his executive day-boat mackerel, marinated ‡ Day-boat mackerel marinated in sauces such as Korean BBQ is chef position in a high-end in international sauces, such a Cormacks Seafood speciality.

Squidding in the Moray Firth on Seafish hosts industry webinars Shekinah See pages 12-17 ahead of new consumer brand launch Seafish is preparing to launch a new debut to industry on our webinars, consumer brand on 1 October that ahead of its consumer launch in early will kick-start a 20-year drive to October. We hope to get industry as positively influence people’s attitudes excited about Love Seafood as we are. towards seafood. “As we move toward a ‘new The ‘Love Seafood’ campaign normal’, Love Seafood is an aims to inspire consumers across opportunity for the industry to the UK to connect with seafood, by engage more effectively with the promoting its great taste, variety of nation and inspire the country to choice and convenience. eat and enjoy more seafood. Our On 27 August, Seafish hosted webinars will provide information on Cod and haddock in high online webinars for businesses across vision and strategy, get a first look at the tools that will be available to help demand at Peterhead the seafood industry to introduce the brand’s visual identity, and find seafood businesses make the most See page 21 the new Love Seafood marketing out how they can get involved. of the new brand. There are many initiative. The webinars allowed Greg Smith, head of marketing ways for seafood businesses to get businesses to hear from the Seafish at Seafish, said: “We’re incredibly involved, including the opportunity to SEE INSIDE! marketing team on the initiative’s excited for our new brand to have its become a ‘Seafood Champion’.”