Tecla Highlights Winds of Change Refitted Kendore Drifter Graaf Van Limburg Stirum, to Fish the North Sea Blessed at Brixham Grounds
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Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia KELSEY KELSEY 16 July 202016 Issue 5523 £3.30 media KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk EU PLUNDERS UK EEZ TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Tecla highlights winds of change Refitted Kendore drifter Graaf van Limburg Stirum, to fish the North Sea blessed at Brixham grounds. As fishing patterns changed, she was sold to Denmark to become a freighter, after being renamed Tecla. In the 1980s, Tecla returned to Holland to be authentically and fully refitted as a sail training vessel. Tecla is now owned by a family of four, and is one of the most authentic and beautiful sail training vessels in Europe. Onboard trainees from all over the world learn how to sail a Brixham port officer Helen Lovell blesses the vessel with a gaff rig, and how Kendore on behalf of the Fishermen’s Mission. to navigate near land and in open waters. Brixham skipper Tom Parker has left his days Tecla has circumnavigated aboard bigger vessels and returned to traditional the globe, sailed around Cape lines by purchasing a Cygnus Marine GM32, Tecla 90 miles north of Peterhead, on passage from Den Helder to Reykjavík last Horn, and competed in many Kendore FH 258, reports Phil Lockley. week… (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) Tall Ships races and regattas. Drawing on his extensive experience in beam trawling, stern trawling and scalloping, Tom Parker The appearance of the aims to make small-scale inshore trawling more former Dutch herring drifter profitable by using less fuel to tow economical trawl Tecla under full sail, passing gear. present-day pelagic vessels With 40 years of history in both inshore trawling fishing herring east of and scalloping, the Kendore was one of the earliest Shetland while on passage to GM32s rigged as a trawler and spent a lot of its life Iceland from the Netherlands, fishing from St Mawes in Cornwall. provided a vivid reminder On 2 July, the ‘new’ Kendore was officially blessed of how much things have at Brixham by Mission port officer Helen Lovell. changed in the past 100 Being her first official blessing of a fishing vessel, years, reports David Linkie. Helen Lovell said that the day was ‘extra special’ for The 127ft wooden-hulled her. “With permission of the Fishermen’s Mission Tecla was built in Vlaardingen, leader David Dickens, I was delighted to bless Tom’s in the south of Holland, in new boat. 1915 as the sailing herring … photographed from Lunar Bow, the newest addition to the Scottish pelagic fleet. Continues on page 2 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 16 July 2020 EU vessels landing even more from UK waters Catches up 60% from 2011-2018 – UK up only 17% EU vessels have been increasing at last to address this outrageous or value) was landed by non-UK the amount of fish they catch imbalance. Independent coastal boats. in UK waters at a much faster states cannot be pushed around in • Almost 1.4m tonnes of pelagic rate than the UK’s own boats, this manner.” fish, worth about £760m, were according to a new in-depth Elspeth Macdonald, chief landed from the UK EEZ in 2018. report. executive of the Scottish More than three-quarters of that Analysis of official landings Fishermen’s Federation (SFF), total (or two-thirds by value) was data carried out for the Shetland said: “Dr Napier’s report draws landed by non-UK boats. Fishermen’s Association (SFA) attention to the growing inequity • Just over 150,000t of shellfish shows that between 2011 and of distribution of catching worth almost £390m were landed 2018, vessels from the EU member opportunity between the UK on from the UK EEZ in 2018. Most states landed 60% more fish and the one hand and the EU27 on the of that total – more than 80% – shellfish from the UK exclusive other. was landed by UK boats. economic zone (EEZ), while UK “It is this imbalance that the • About 180,000t of industrial boats landed just 17% more. Scottish industry has campaigned species such as sandeels, worth For pelagic species such as steadfastly to bring to an end about £38m, were landed from mackerel and herring, the increase with the UK leaving the CFP the UK EEZ in 2018. Almost was even more marked, with EU and becoming an independent, all of that (98%) was landed by vessels landing 159% more fish sovereign coastal state with full non-UK boats. from the UK EEZ over the same control over access to our waters.” period compared with just 60% Dr Napier’s figures also show The total quantity of fish and more for UK boats. that around half of the demersal shellfish landed from the UK EEZ Catches in the UK EEZ have or whitefish stocks caught in by UK boats increased by about been increasing as a reflection of the UK EEZ in 2018 – a total of 17% over the eight years from improved stocks across a broad 250,000t worth more than £500m 2011 to 2018, while landings by range of species. – were landed by non-UK vessels. EU27 boats increased by over The analysis, carried out by Dr Meanwhile, 1.4m tonnes of 60% over the same period. UK Ian Napier of the NAFC Marine pelagic fish worth £760m were boats’ landings of pelagic fish Centre UHI, based in Scalloway, landed from the UK EEZ. More from the UK EEZ increased by highlights the huge disparity than three-quarters of this total about 40% from 2011 to 2018, between overseas vessels, which volume – and two-thirds by value while landings by EU27 boats landed more than two-thirds – was landed by non-UK vessels. increased by 159%. of the 2m tonnes of fish worth UK boats landed a total of £1.7bn caught in the UK EEZ in Report summary about 700,000t of fish and 2018, and UK boats. In a summary of the findings, the shellfish, worth about £1bn, in Simon Collins, SFA executive NAFC report says it is estimated 2018. Most of that total (80%) officer, said: “If ever there was a that almost 2m tonnes of fish was caught in the UK EEZ – 15% “I think the cheeky b****r is asking if we’d like a fry... case for the UK escaping the iron and shellfish, worth £1.7bn, were (9% by value) was landed from of our own bloody fish!” grip of the Common Fisheries landed from the UK EEZ in 2018. elsewhere in the EU EEZ. Policy, this is it. More than two-thirds of that total “Not content with the fact that – or more than half by value – was • Pelagic fish accounted for just almost half of UK boats’ landings France. overseas vessels were already landed by non-UK boats. over half of the landings by UK from the EU27 EEZ, and shellfish taking two-thirds of what should boats in 2018, demersal fish about for about one-third. Overall, EU27 boats landed be a national natural resource, • UK boats’ share of the landings one-quarter, and shellfish slightly • Most of UK boats’ landings more than eight times more fish administrators have gunned from the UK EEZ declined by less. By value, the landings were from the EU27 EEZ were from and shellfish from the UK EEZ the system to ensure that EU27 16% from 2015 to 2018. EU27 roughly equally split between the the EEZ of Ireland, followed by in 2018 (860,000t) than UK vessels in particular have taken boats’ share also fell over this three species groups. that of France, although some boats landed from the EU27 EEZ the biggest share of the increase in period, but by only 3%, while the • Pelagic fish accounted for individual demersal species (100,000t). By value, EU27 boats’ catches that have come about due share taken by all non-UK boats almost three-quarters of UK were caught mainly in the EEZs landings were more than six times to stock improvements in recent increased by 8%. boats’ landings from elsewhere in of Denmark, Germany and the greater. years. • Just over 250,000t of demersal the EU27 EEZ, with the balance Netherlands. Some individual Dr Napier’s report, ‘Fish “The UK’s assertion of fish worth more than £500m were roughly equally split between pelagic species, as well as a large Landings from the UK EEZ sovereignty over its own waters at landed from the UK EEZ in 2018. demersal fish and shellfish. By proportion of the shellfish, were 2015-2018’ can be read at: bit. the end of this year will allow us About half of that total (by weight value, demersal fish accounted for caught mainly in the EEZ of ly/2BTnCDn Refitted Kendore blessed at Brixham Continued from page 1 “In a brief speech, I pointed is now exploring the probable want it to’. out the ceaseless work carried returns from small-scale “I had some valuable “Blessing of the Kendore out by Tom to get his boat back inshore trawling. help from engineers and brought back memories. As a to sea as soon as possible. With After purchasing the specialists,” he said. “My child, I vividly remember the the restrictions of the Covid-19 Kendore from South Wales, the previous experience in GRP blessing of my father’s new pandemic, his upward struggle Covid-19 pandemic gathered boatbuilding, at Sutton beam trawler, the Carhelmar. to beat hurdles became pace – so Tom stepped up the Workboats in Newhaven, That blessing was carried out by significant.