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First Herring Landed at Lerwick New Quay for Eastbourne Fleet Finally Underway Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia KELSEY KELSEY 3 September 2020 Issue 5530 £3.30 media KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL GREEN PRESSURE ON SCOTS REPORT First herring landed at Lerwick New quay for Eastbourne 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. Distributors of Marine Electronics with Dealers throughout UK & Ireland mantsbrite Magnum Pro HD Chart Controller DIGITAL ECHO SOUNDERS NEW MDC-2005BB Black Box Radar 4 x Fully Customisable Function Keys 5.6” Colour Display . Black Box Processor, Keyboard & 4kW, 25” Radome Stores 30,000 Marks/Events 600W Output, Dual Frequency . 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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.
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