Lynn Princess Shrimping Again After Extensive Rebuild

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31 October 2019 Issue: 5487 fishingnews.co.uk PULSE BAN CHALLENGE TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Lynn Princess shrimping again after extensive rebuild The 16.5m Lynn Princess LN 175 went back to sea recently from The King’s Lynn shrimper King’s Lynn, after being virtually Lynn Princess is back in rebuilt by her owner Lynn Shellfish, action after being virtually reports John Worrall. rebuilt from the keel up. Lynn Princess was initially lifted out of the water alongside the company’s shellfish processing factory at King’s Lynn with a view to replacing the topside plates. An already fairly large refit increased exponentially when the decision was taken to replace all the hull plating down to the keel. As a result, the only original parts left are the keel, engine beds, most of the frames, part of the deck, the shaft tube and the rudder. The decision to rebuild a boat that has proved extremely well-suited to working the usual Wash fisheries of shrimps, mussels and cockles

for nearly 30 years was taken as no new boats engines were installed in the engineroom, together above 14m are allowed to be used under a Wash with a 45kVA JCB generator. entitlement, and therefore Lynn Princess could not A highly automated shrimp handling and have been replaced by something of similar size. processing system, supplied by the Dutch company A modern-style wheelhouse and wraparound De Boer RVS of Makkum, was fitted on the main stern deck casing were fabricated, together with a deck just forward of the wheelhouse. whaleback, new fishing gantry and beams. A detailed feature on Lynn Princess and Wash Brown shrimps being delivered by conveyor from the cooker to the Below deck, new Doosan main and auxiliary shrimp fishing will be included inFishing News soon. fishroom for boxing on Lynn Princess. MMO increases enforcement capabilities The Marine Management Organisation England’s fish stocks after Brexit. suspected illegal fishing. (MMO) has strengthened its control Protecting stocks and the wider Its team will also communicate with and enforcement capabilities to prepare marine environment will support a the fisheries authorities in EU states that for the UK becoming an independent profitable industry for current and are responsible for the activities of their coastal state by deploying more marine future generations of UK fishermen fleets, to ensure that incidents of illegal enforcement officers, regular aerial by ensuring there are thriving fish fishing are minimised and appropriately patrols and more ships at sea, to provide populations. The MMO applies the dealt with. reassurance to the UK fleet and to rules without fear or favour, regardless Principal marine officer Ronan deliver high levels of compliance. of which country a fishing vessel is McLaughlin joined the MMO earlier Teams of experienced enforcement from. this year after a career in the Irish navy personnel have undertaken extensive At the heart of its operations is focused on fisheries protection. He is planning and testing to assess the risks the Fisheries Monitoring Centre in among a group of new operational staff of illegal fishing when the UK leaves Newcastle. This is where decisions recruited to boost the MMO’s control Aerial surveillance of UK waters has been the EU – and to ensure that the MMO about deploying ships, planes and and enforcement capability in readiness stepped up in preparation for the UK becoming an can continue in its mission to protect people will be made in response to for Brexit. Continues on page 6 independent coastal state. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019 Dutch legal challenge to EU pulse ban Dutch fishermen have mounted a legal challenge to the EU ban on electric pulse beam trawling, reports Tim Oliver Dutch agriculture minister Carola ban to be reconsidered’, and that survival of so many inshore Schouten has filed an application electric beaming was ‘a very real fishermen around the southern with the European Court of threat’ to the economic survival North Sea.” Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, of inshore fishermen around the Brexit Party MEP for the East of calling for the ban to be southern North Sea. England June Mummery, who was overturned. He told Fishing News: “It’s not a leading figure in the campaign She said in a letter to the often in fisheries in general and for a pulse ban, said that a reverse Dutch parliament that the EU fisheries science in particular that of the ban could spell the end for Council and European parliament something is absolutely clear-cut many UK inshore fishermen. have breached several parts of and unequivocal. In a video clip filmed in EU law. She claims the ban on “The impacts of electric pulse Ramsgate, she said that many pulse fishing is not based on fishing certainly are, and the recent areas of the seabed off the east the best available science, and CEFAS report underlines these coast had been ruined by this that it harms innovation and dreadful levels of destruction, first ‘barbaric’ fishing method, yet the technological development. observed by inshore fishermen Dutch ‘have the cheek’ to try to The EU parliament voted to in the southeast of England and overturn the ban. She said that ban the method in April. The ban transmitted to Brussels via the Low the attempt showed why Brexit is being phased in, with 42 of the Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) was essential for the UK fishing 84 licences being withdrawn this platform, of which NUTFA is a industry. year and the remainder by July founder member. “Only once we have reclaimed 2021. “Despite the best efforts of our waters from the Brussels “What’s required in Westminster right now is The UK has already banned representatives of the Dutch stranglehold and returned control a bloody great Dutch pulse beamer right through pulse fishing inside its 12-mile electro-fishing fleet and their MEP of our seas to parliament can we the middle of the b*****s!” limit, and is expected to extend to paint black as white, and the be sure to rid UK fisheries of the the ban to its 200-mile EEZ/ efforts of others to effectively horrific pulse fishing method,” said median line waters after Brexit. support the method whilst the MEP. of Britain’s fisheries,” said June drastic reduction in the number of UK industry leaders and resolutely sitting on the fence, “East Anglian and south Mummery. electric trawlers, before their final French green group BLOOM the ban was won on the basis of coast fishers joined with their The attempt to overturn the ban disappearance in June 2021. The slammed the attempt to factual and independent science. colleagues from across Europe was also slammed by the Paris- Dutch will remain unsuccessful.” overturn the ban. Jerry Percy, “There is absolutely no reason to fight pulse fishing. Many had based BLOOM environmental leader of NUTFA, which for the ban to be reconsidered seen first-hand the damage to group, which spearheaded the ● A new report by CEFAS on campaigned strongly for a ban in the light of such obvious and fish stocks, to gastropods, and campaign to ban electric fishing. a study of the impact of pulse on pulse beaming, said there proven damage to the seabed, and to the fish themselves, caused by BLOOM director Sabine Rosset trawling on marine ecosystems was ‘absolutely no reason for the the very real threat to the economic pulse fishing. Many small-scale said: “Despite the ongoing attacks has found that species diversity fishers know that if it is allowed to by the Dutch and their attempts to was 21-57% lower in the area continue, there would be little to no force their way through, we remain studied where electric fishing is Dutch buy-out talks future for local small-scale boats. calm and confident that electric practised, compared to a control The Dutch government is reported to be working with Dutch But with the Dutch challenging fishing will be totally and definitively area with no pulse fishing. It also fishermen and industry bodies to examine the options for a transition the pulse ban, it looks like we banned. found that there were 2.6 times fund to buy out some of the approximately 130 beamers that are going to have to fight all over “They are undoubtedly in panic fewer soles – targeted by pulse concentrate on North Sea sole and plaice as their primary target again!” because we have ruined their beamers – in the pulse fishing species, reported Fiskerforum. She said that supporters of the dreams of electric fishing, but area than in the control area. As well as the ban on pulse fishing, the beamer fleet has been hit ban have right on their side, and independent studies are beginning The study was conducted in by the massive growth in wind farms, which has placed large areas that they would fight this ‘dreadful’ to show up, and they only confirm two comparable areas off the of the North Sea out of reach for fishing. There are also fears for the fishing method, whatever the everything we have said during our south of England, one regularly future after Brexit. outcome of Brexit. campaign. fished by electric trawlers and the A further factor is that the younger generation is less inclined to see “I, for one, will be leading the “As required by the new other not. fishing as a career. There is no clear succession within many fishing fight, doing what is right for the European regulation, we are More details will follow next families, and crews are likewise becoming increasingly hard to find. ecology and the sustainability therefore currently witnessing a week.

Whitby Commercial Fishermen’s Association formed A new representative body, the “Whitby fishermen continue Whitby Commercial Fishermen’s to show high levels of long-term Association, has recently been commitment to the future of the Brexit delayed – again formed by inshore fishermen at industry by reinvesting in it. Whitby, reports David Linkie. “In recent years, NEIFCA Brexit is to be delayed yet again, Industry opinion was hardening opportunities in 2020. “How these The new association, which is has brought in a number of new after MPs forced the government against the withdrawal bill as bad for decisions are made, and the content chaired by Whitby skipper James byelaws with little or no regard to to ask Brussels for an extension the fishing industry. There are fears of these decisions, carry the utmost Cole (Good Intent WY 79), has the immediate impact they have on of today’s (31 October) deadline that it could mean a long transition consequences for the UK fleets in already attracted 22 members, inshore fishermen. to leave the EU, reports Tim period beyond the end of 2020, 2020,” said chief executive Barrie including some fishermen from “Regardless of whether the new Oliver. during which the UK will have no Deas. nearby Staithes. byelaws are good, bad or pointless, EU ambassadors were meeting input into fisheries or other relevant Critical issues on the table are James Cole said: “The primary we should have an opportunity to last Friday as Fishing News went decisions, but when critical trade the advice for a 70% cut in the aim of establishing the association, help shape these before they are to press to decide on whether to agreements will be negotiated. Many North Sea cod TAC; zero catch and therefore our main objective, is implemented. offer an extension of the deadline, in the industry fear that the industry advice/by-catch reduction plans for to get better representation on the “No one is more dependent on but a decision was not expected will be sacrificed for wider trade some key stocks such as Celtic Sea North Eastern Inshore Fisheries and achieving the long-term sustainability until this week. Indications were interests. cod and Irish Sea whiting; the EU Conservation Authority. of local stocks through effective and that the EU will offer a three- NUTFA leader Jerry Percy said requirement to set quotas to achieve “Although our members fish practical management measures month extension until 31 January, that his reading of the withdrawal MSY within one year, and the threat predominantly in waters regulated than fishermen, who are 100% 2020, with the option to leave bill was that it ‘sells us down the of a legal challenge by one or more by the NEIFCA, and therefore are reliant on them for our livelihoods. before then if the withdrawal bill river’. He said: “We stay in the CFP environmental NGOs; and the subject to whatever regulations are “By spending a large part of our gets through parliament. until the end of 2020, and then they landing obligation and the potential implemented, we are currently poorly lives on the grounds, our knowledge With MPs demanding more will do the deals on trade and we’re for chokes. represented on the committee and understanding of the stocks time to debate the bill, Boris screwed. I think a lot of people don’t “Finding a way through this and have no direct fishermen’s they support is without question. Johnson withdrew it and said realise this is just the start of the political and legal quagmire would representative. Having an opportunity to feed that that if the EU does agree to an process.” not be easy or straightforward even “Neighbouring IFCA committees first-hand experience into future extension, he will give more The NFFO said that a Brexit in normal times,” said Barrie Deas. include significant numbers of NEIFCA decision-making processes time – but only if MPs agree to a delay would create ‘an extremely “The jurisdictional issues and fishermen, which gives them more is therefore the priority of the general election on 12 December difficult set of circumstances’ this compressed timeframe between now input into the decision-making Whitby Commercial Fishermen’s to break the parliamentary autumn as negotiations take place and the end of the year only intensify process. Association.” deadlock. with Norway and the EU on fishing these pressures.” 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 £15.4m funding boost for English industry A £15.4m new funding package investing the funding in due course. fairer share of fishing opportunities Group to eliminate all preventable approved before 31 December, for the English fishing and DEFRA said that England’s for the whole of the UK fleet. deaths in the industry by 2027. 2020 will be fully funded, bringing seafood industry has opened for £14.7m share of the MFF, “We are committed to a thriving The MFF fund in England is the total support package available applications. announced last December, fishing and seafood industry, open to applications that: to the UK fisheries sector from It includes £14.7m to drive will encourage the take-up of and this funding will support ● Support innovation in 2016 to 2022 to £320m. innovation and technology, improve innovation and technology, innovation, jobs and safety at sea, technologies to enhance economic DEFRA says that the port infrastructure and support supporting jobs in coastal and help establish new markets growth, increase energy efficiency, government has also already jobs, and £700,000 for lifesaving communities. In addition, £700,000 and opportunities as we leave the reduce environmental impact and committed to put in place new vessel safety measures. from a £2m UK-wide fund EU.” improve fishing safety domestic long-term arrangements The three-year funding comes announced in the 2018 budget NFFO chief executive Barrie ● Improve port infrastructure to support the UK’s fishing industry from the new Maritime Fisheries is ring-fenced for fishing safety Deas said: “I would encourage so more fish can be landed in from 2021, through the creation Fund (MFF), which is designed to improvements onboard English all fishermen to look closely at UK ports, and help the sector of four new schemes comparable ensure that the fishing and seafood vessels and around ports and this new fund to see if it can help take advantage of new export with the EMFF to deliver funding industry continues to have financial harbours. their businesses adjust to the new opportunities after Brexit for each nation. The devolved support once the UK leaves the It said that the three-year circumstances we will be operating ● Boost coastal communities by administrations will each lead on EU. fund builds on the government’s under as the UK emerges as an providing benefits to areas that their own schemes. Of the £37.2m total of the MFF, commitment to secure a fairer independent coastal state.” depend on a profitable industry This new fund is open for £22.5m is shared across the share of fishing opportunities for The £700,000 fund for fishing ● Help the sector adjust to new applications in England until devolved administrations – £16.5m UK fishermen after Brexit. safety projects in England is open arrangements on access and March 2022. Submissions should in Scotland, £2.4m in Wales and Environment secretary for applications until 2021. This fishing opportunities by improving be made through the MMO’s £3.6m in Northern Ireland. The Theresa Villiers said: “We are funding will support commitments capacity and capability to exploit dedicated gov.uk page. devolved administrations will taking back control of our waters made in the government’s Maritime new export opportunities and Funding will be awarded to administer their shares of the fund, and establishing the UK as an Safety Action Plan and important markets privately funded industry projects and will make known how they are independent coastal state, with a work by the Fishing Industry Safety ● Improve safety on fishing vessels with a total cost of less than £2m. or onshore by funding safety The £16.5m that will be available measures that prevent accidents, to Scotland until 2022 under the such as new handrails and ladders overall £37.2m package will be TAC cuts planned for 40 stocks The new MFF fund is in addition administered by Marine Scotland. The EU Commission has being fished at MSY levels by fishermen, who are the to existing European Maritime and It is devising its own scheme to published its TAC proposals for 2020. first ones to implement our Fisheries Fund (EMFF) funding. distribute the money, which it is 2020 for 72 stocks in the NE “As the size of some key conservation measures and The government has already understood will open for industry Atlantic and North Sea. TACs fish stocks is increasing – also the ones to benefit most guaranteed that all EMFF projects bids on 1 April, 2020. are proposed to increase or for instance, haddock in the from increased yields. With remain the same for 32 stocks, Celtic Sea and sole in the such sustained commitment, and to be cut for 40 stocks, Bristol Channel – so has the 2020 will be another year of reports Tim Oliver. profitability of the fishing sector, progress for Europe’s fisheries.” TACs are being set to achieve with an estimated €1.3bn Proposed TAC cuts include maximum sustainable yield gross profit for 2019,” said the 88% for Celtic Sea cod and (MSY) for stocks with a full Commission. 68% for Irish Sea cod. scientific assessment, and at Fisheries commissioner The proposals will be ‘precautionary’ levels for other Karmenu Vella said: “Over discussed and finalised at the stocks, said the Commission. the past years, we have had December council on 16-17 empower your It said that sustainable a steady rise in the number December. TACs for North fishing has made ‘substantial of healthy stocks, and – as a Sea shared stocks – including progress’ in the EU. In 2019, 59 consequence – also a steady cod, where ICES has advised a operation stocks are being fished at MSY rise in the profits of our fishing two-thirds cut – will be agreed Based on more than a century of experience, levels, up from 53 in 2018 and sector. separately, and earlier, between compared to only five in 2009. “This is the result of the EU and Norway, and ratified Scania Engines prepare your business for any The Commission is working responsible management and at the council. type of challenge. with member states to support continuous implementation More details will follow next No matter if you want to increase uptime, fishermen in achieving all stocks efforts, primarily by our week. take advantage of our expert support or face tougher environmental requirements, we have the solution for you. Concerns over N Ireland customs plans A concern surrounding the sidestepped the question, repeating arrangement. [email protected] Brexit withdrawal deal is that the only that: “Fishing communities There would be special checks customs arrangements would give of Scotland have a fantastic for goods entering Northern www.scania.co.uk/engines Northern Ireland’s industry an opportunity, by the end of next Ireland that would be different advantage over the rest of the UK. year, to take back control of their from goods entering the EU from Under the deal, Northern entire coastal waters – all 200 the rest of the UK, so any vessels Ireland would remain in the miles of them – and to manage landing fish into Northern Ireland customs union to prevent the need their fisheries in the interests of would have to pay customs duties, for checks at the Irish border, Scotland, and thereby to drive an but would be able to recover those while the rest of the UK would be even better deal for even better costs. outside the customs union. access to European markets.” “If I was a fisherman outside SNP MP for Argyll and Speaking on the BBC’s Farming of Northern Ireland, I’d be a bit Bute Brendan O’Hara said in a Today programme, Professor unhappy,” said Professor Barnes. Commons debate: “If the prime Richard Barnes of Hull University, “The industry needs access to minister’s great deal is so good who specialises in marine law markets, and post-Brexit it’s going for Northern Ireland’s seafood and has worked as a consultant to cost some of the industry a lot producers because it allows them on the EU parliament fisheries more money, or there’s a potential access to the single market and committee, was asked if the for delays and risks to their catch, customs union, how would he withdrawal agreement would and that’s going to cause problems describe his deal for the shellfish mean that Northern Ireland will for their businesses. producers of my Argyll and Bute have better access to EU markets “The withdrawal agreement constituency, who fish in the same than the rest of the UK, and what in part provides a degree of waters for exactly the same catch this would mean for the fishing certainty for the fishing industry, but do not have access to the industry. but whether or not it provides single market and customs union? He said that there would a certain and economically One has a great deal – what does have to be special measures for beneficial basis going forward – I the other one have?” Northern Ireland because it would think there are some significant But the prime minister remain in a special customs questions about that.” 4 COMMENT/LETTERS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019

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Jersey is not a member of confirm that at least some of that catch Dorset correspondent John Periam ban on tuna fishing, initially reported by NEATC, and it is not clear whether the was taken in Channel Islands/British Art editor email: periam.photojournalist@ the Jersey Evening Post, I think many UK is or not – but if we look up the waters. The fish have averaged from Rob Terry btopenworld.com fishermen may find the full facts NEATC HQ address, we find it is in 45kg to 115kg in weight. email: [email protected] 01243 584718 interesting. Madrid! Consequently, any application Drawing a parallel to mackerel stocks MANAGEMENT The decision to ban all fishing, for membership that might result in and their migratory pattern shift into Chief Operating Officer: Phil Weeden Chief Executive: Steve Wright including recreational, in Jersey was further share-out of the TAC is unlikely Icelandic waters, and where Iceland Managing Director: Kevin McCormick based on two points. 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Email your letters and comments to: [email protected] may be edited. www.kelsey.co.uk 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 5 Scots pelagic group welcomes ICES advice Scotland’s pelagic sector has waiting for the forthcoming year’s welcomed ICES advice for 2020 catch advice from ICES – but when The Peterhead boat Pathway purse- that recommends a big increase the 2020 assessment and advice seining for mackerel in the NE Atlantic mackerel and was recently published, it was great in the North Sea North Sea herring TACs. news for both mackerel and North earlier this month. Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Sea herring, with both stocks being (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) Group (SPSG) chairman Ian Gatt deemed to be in a healthy state. says that it is therefore ‘hugely “With mackerel being in such disappointing’ that the MSC is great shape and being fished maintaining the suspension of its sustainably, it is perplexing that eco-label for mackerel. the current suspension of the MSC The SPSG says that for eco-label remains in place.” mackerel, the ICES assessment He says that the MSC maintains puts the spawning stock biomass at that this is because there is no the very high level of 4.4m tonnes. integrated long-term management This is more than 2.4m tonnes plan that incorporates all countries above the limit reference point, the fishing for NE Atlantic mackerel. trigger level below which fishing is “This matters to us hugely, no longer considered sustainable. because mackerel has undergone The advice also shows that an incredible transformation, from recruitment into the fishery for being of not much interest to the 2016-2018 is at its highest level Scottish fishing fleet prior to the since records began. 1970s, to the current position of Writing in The Scotsman, being Scotland’s highest value and SPSG chairman Ian Gatt says: volume catch,” says Ian Gatt. “For fishermen and processors, “It is a much sought-after with modern state-of-the-art best efforts, they have so far Scottish mackerel and herring it is always a nerve-racking time fish in the global marketplace, processing plants in Shetland and failed to agree to negotiate an fishermen. Our fishermen are the northeast of Scotland now all-encompassing management committed to a sustainable future, handling the majority of the catch. plan. As the biggest player and are involved in a range of “And as such, we have gone in the mackerel fishery, and scientific measures relating to Appeal by Irish prawn fishermen the extra mile in ensuring that having adopted a range of data collection to help improve the fishery is sustainable. In measures to protect the stock our knowledge of mackerel and set to go forward to CJEU particular, Scottish fishermen, and fish sustainably, it is hugely herring stocks. Following a submission at allowed to make up the data and along with fishers from Ireland, disappointing that this has led to “This includes work on a a recent sitting of Ireland’s alter fishermen’s logbooks. This England, Norway, Denmark, the the MSC certificate for mackerel pioneering ‘self-sampling’ scheme, Supreme Court, the court ruled was the critical argument made Netherlands, Germany, France, being suspended, through no fault building up a time-series of that it would liaise with the by the fishermen. Poland, Lithuania and Sweden, of our own. information that can be used in chief justice to fix a preliminary The High Court justice Ms formed a grouping called the “We sincerely hope that the the scientific assessment process hearing for an appeal by the Una Ni Rafferty found in favour Mackerel Industry Sustainability suspension is lifted in the near of stocks, including calculating fishing industry to have its case of the state, but also failed in Alliance (MINSA) to forge a long- future, given the healthy state of biomass and identifying changes heard at the Court of Justice her judgement to align what the term management plan. the stock and our track record of over time. By doing this, and by of the European Union (CJEU), SFPA and the minister had done “This even resulted in MINSA fishing sustainably.” using fishing vessels as research reports Pauric Gallagher. with any of the articles within the accepting, in 2013, a 23% Meanwhile, for North Sea platforms, we can contribute The appeal was lodged on control regulation. reduction in their traditional quota herring, the SPSG is ‘delighted’ to the overall accuracy of stock behalf of two Irish fishermen, The case was further to accommodate the Faroes into that it still retains the MSC assessments by providing who lost their case against the complicated by the fact that Dr a mackerel agreement. Currently, eco-label, with the latest ICES additional input data. minister for agriculture, food and Colm Lordan, a senior scientist MINSA accounts for over 60% advice recommending a 38% “Whatever happens with the the marine and the Sea-Fisheries with the Marine Institute, of mackerel catches in the NE uplift in the total catch for 2020, mackerel MSC suspension, the Protection Authority (SFPA) in supposedly an independent Atlantic. compared with the advice from important thing is that consumers the High Court, on the use of scientific agency, submitted “The problem is that other the previous year. can continue to purchase mackerel a new – and obscure – system an affidavit to the High Court countries have moved into the Ian Gatt said: “All this safe in the knowledge that by the policing authority to supporting the new methodology fishery – Iceland, Greenland underlines the sustainable the stock is healthy and being determine the quantity of prawns deployed by the SFPA, and and Russia – and despite our fishing practices carried out by sustainably fished.” caught by a particular vessel in a saying that the methodology was specific location. The fishermen similar, though not the same, to challenged the methodology that used by ICES – even though used by the SFPA to assess neither methodology has a basis catches of prawns from the in law. Porcupine Bank. The fact that the Marine In the High Court case, Institute supplied such an the fishermen were accused affidavit has left fishermen of under-reporting in their bewildered, frustrated and electronic fishing logs the angry, and this has damaged the amount of prawns actually relationship between the Marine caught in functional unit area Institute and the fishing industry. 16 by the SFPA, who claimed If this methodology were to be that this was a serious problem. accepted by the CJEU, it would After receiving advice from the be applied across all member SFPA that, according to their states in the EU, and it is new method of calculation, that doubtful if other member states section of the Porcupine Bank would allow this to happen. was being overfished, minister The Supreme Court agreed Michael Creed issued a closure with the fishing industry’s order for functional area 16 in position that this appeal is of November 2017, which resulted public importance, and directed in the loss of some 600t of catch that the appellant make further to Irish fishing vessels, estimated submissions within three weeks to be worth in excess of €6m. on the necessity for a referral Even though the Irish fishing to the CJEU. The respondents industry lost the case in the to the appeal then have three High Court, the SFPA and the weeks to respond, after which minister failed to point out where the Supreme Court will hold a in law, and in particular under preliminary hearing regarding its the control regulation, they were referral to the CJEU. 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019 Vistgate Ltd acquires majority interest in W Stevenson and Sons Ltd Vistgate Ltd, a leading UK fish a vibrant and prosperous fishing us in ensuring that Ocean Fish Newlyn Pier and Harbour part of the Cornish fishing processor based in Cornwall, industry in Cornwall. We see this has a platform for continual Commissioners to agree industry, and the investment has acquired a majority interest transaction as achieving a long- development, by offering a a programme of market from Ocean Fish will make an in W Stevenson and Sons Ltd, held ambition of bringing both consistency in volume, range modernisation measures that exciting future for the largest the operator of one of Europe’s families together to deliver this and quality of fish into UK and will facilitate new tonnage and beam trawler fleet in the United largest beam trawl fleets and goal.” worldwide markets. sustainable fish prices for local Kingdom and the prosperity Newlyn market auctioneer. He explained that the “We feel that Ocean Fish fishermen. of Newlyn as a UK fishing The directors of Vistgate, investment represents a represents the best outcome “We will also be taking time community. We look forward which trades as Ocean Fish and significant opportunity to for the local industry in terms to consider the programme of to working with Ocean Fish to supplies large UK and European ensure a long-term supply to of the long-term prosperity of capital investment required in generate a unique organisation, retail and wholesale customers, both Ocean Fish and the wider Newlyn, and we look forward to both existing and new vessels, bringing together two of welcomed the transaction as industry in Newlyn. engaging with all fishermen and to ensure that W Stevenson Cornwall’s proudest catching being a significant step towards He said: “As a board, we stakeholders to implement the & Sons is well-placed to be a and trading companies.” a dynamic improvement of the are very positive about the required changes to this proud success for future generations, Vistgate was supported supply and catch sector. health benefits of eating and historic business. and creates new and exciting throughout the transaction by Leigh Genge, managing seafood as part of a balanced “Our investment clearly employment opportunities for Michelmores LLP and KPMG, director of Ocean Fish, said: diet, and believe that there is underpins the importance young people in the industry.” together with funding from both “The Lakeman and Stevenson clear evidence of increasing of Newlyn as the UK’s prime Peter Aylott, CEO of HSBC and RBS. Stevenson’s families hold very similar views consumer demand for this whitefish port, and we look Stevenson’s, said: “The business was supported by Foot Anstey on the importance of maintaining protein. The acquisition will help forward to working with is a historic and fundamental and FRP Advisory.

KFO welcomes 2020 mackerel quota increase Irish pelagic fishermen “I’m extremely pleased that Dredging and have been given a welcome the coastal states have taken boost, with negotiations on onboard the concerns of the next year’s mackerel catch KFO and others, which I have quay wall providing for a 41% increase expressed regularly in numerous in their quota for 2020. fora, regarding the lack of quality Killybegs Fishermen’s assurance in the ICES assessment construction Organisation (KFO) CEO Seán process, by including a specific O’Donoghue said that last week’s written reference to this in the final coastal states meeting in London document,” said Mr O’Donoghue. at Killybegs resulted in a very satisfactory The KFO CEO said he fully Dredging and quay construction works tripartite agreement between the agreed with the criticism levelled will get underway at Smooth Point in EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands. at Iceland, Russia and Greenland Killybegs harbour later this month, and The Irish quota for 2020 is at the meeting for their decision to will continue until July 2020, reports 78,054t, up from 55,314t in 2019. increase their unilateral quotas for Pauric Gallagher. Seán O’Donoghue said: “Last mackerel for 2019. In the case of Dredge sediments will be disposed year, I was extremely critical of Iceland, it increased from 107,000t of at a permitted dumpsite in Donegal the International Council for the to 140,000t. Since 2014, the three Bay. For safety reasons, mariners are Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and countries have had an average requested to stay clear of these sites its scientific advice. That criticism unilateral TAC of 16.5% – well in for the duration of the works in the was proven 100% accurate, excess of the amount set aside for harbour, and are requested to proceed since an ICES review on 15 May them. with caution in the area of the new pier provided for an overall figure Mr O’Donoghue said it was not and the vicinity of the dumpsite when of 770,358t for 2019 instead acceptable for Iceland, Russia disposal operations are ongoing. Wave of 318,403t, and now a further and Greenland to act in such an wash from vessels should be avoided. increase for 2020 to 922,064t – irresponsible manner and put For further information, contact the a figure which is an incredible the sustainability of the heathy Killybegs harbour master’s office on: increase of almost 190% on the mackerel stock in jeopardy, and +353 (0)74 9731032. The works to be carried out in Killybegs harbour. advice it offered in September that actions must be put in place 2018. to stop this continuing. MMO increases enforcement capabilities Continued from page 1 He said: increase in assets, to enable us to A key asset of the MMO’s “The main thing I do is use risk- do our jobs effectively, whatever enforcement capability is the based intelligence to monitor and situation arises when the UK reintroduction of surveillance task our military and commercial leaves. aircraft, which conduct both vessels to carry out inspections so “Our role is to license, regulate pre-planned patrols and reactive we can check vessels are complying, and plan marine activities in the tasking to enable comprehensive fishing training courses or where we believe fisheries seas around England, making sure monitoring of large areas of sea legislation may have been broken. they are carried out in a sustainable efficiently. This use of aircraft Upcoming courses duration price start dates “We’re working to combat way. A key objective is to ensure increases awareness of activities at MCA Approved Engine Course 5 days £600 11/11/19 illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries regulations are complied sea and helps to deter and detect – part 1 fishing activity in our waters, and with. illegal fishing. MCA HELM Operational 3 days £400 11/11/19 that work will be stepped up after “The rules that UK fishermen Aircraft are able to cover Brexit as the UK becomes an should comply with will change hundreds of miles of coastline in a MCA HELM Management 5 days £650 11/11/19 independent coastal state. very little immediately after Brexit, single patrol, and are equipped with GOC GMDSS Radio 2 weeks £1070* 18/11/19 “We work hand in glove with a except that they will not be able tracking and recording technology range of government departments to fish in EU waters unless an to gather evidence of vessels MCA Approved Engine Course 5 days £850 2/12/19 and agencies, sharing intelligence agreement is made at some stage in suspected of illegal activity. They – part 2 and working together to gather the future. have a direct line of communication MCA ECDIS - IMO Generic 5 days £900 2/12/19 all the information we can to “EU vessels won’t be allowed to to the MMO operations team so 1.27 make sure we can do our jobs as fish in our waters either if there’s that the operations centre can MCA Navigation Command & 2 weeks £1000 9/12/19 efficiently as possible.” no agreement permitting that to respond effectively. Control (Class 1) Ronan McLaughlin will play a happen. The MMO’s enforcement key role in the MMO’s operational “We already have very good approach is to initially inform and MCA Efficient Deckhand 5 days £500 16/12/19 response to any illegal fishing by relations with our counterparts in educate the industry as the first

*Additional exam fee payable EU or UK vessels in England’s EU fisheries authorities, and we step to achieving understanding of, waters as Brexit comes into force. plan to make use of these contacts and compliance with, regulations. Seafish mandatory courses are available. Call for details “We’ve prepared thoroughly for to ensure that EU member states Enforcement action is only taken Brexit and have detailed operational monitor and enforce their fleets when it is clear that rules are being plans in place, along with a big after Brexit.” breached. 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Byelaw plans are unnecessary Dr Doug Beare responds to netting and trawling byelaw proposals by Sussex IFCA. This is an edited and dangerous version of his letter to the authority I am writing to express my (punitive regulations, foreign “Establish nearshore areas and netters? What about other Fishing is strongly cultural. profound objections to the fleets, aquaculture, etc). Few where no netting can occur, ‘migratory’ species? Most Drive the fishers out of netting and trawling byelaws skippers in Selsey are under with an exemption between fish migrate. The real issue for business with punitive byelaws, proposed for Sussex. They 40, and existing barriers 1 November to 28 February sustainable fisheries is those and they won’t ever return to discriminate against the (licences, permits, etc) for commercial vessels fish (sole, plaice, etc) that join the inshore fisheries of the traditions and culture of confound the entry of those below 7m overall length.” migrate further out to sea and ‘Sussex community’. Look at hardworking mariners going few youngsters interested in The ability to work nets inshore get killed by Dutch, Belgian, what changes in access did to about their lawful profession in the fishery – a problem I have during winter is important for etc, over-10m ships – not the the now lost fishing cultures of the inshore waters of Sussex. witnessed first-hand. the economic viability of the miniscule quantity caught by Grimsby, Hull and Fleetwood. They will force artisanal handful of artisanal netting the tiny Sussex fleet. fishermen out into the open Specifics of the boats in Sussex. The proposed “Keep nets off beaches, sea during poor weather, proposed new byelaws ‘window’ of 1 November to 28 “Increase marine wildlife protecting people causing unnecessary ■ Permits February is too short, and will abundance and the and animals from accidents and death. With We already have expensive force small boats and crews productivity of coastal entanglement.” Brexit uncertainty also an licences, allowing us to catch offshore into potentially much waters.” Surely this can be done by issue, why penalise this group, certain quotas/species of fish, more dangerous winter seas. Is there any scientific basis simply imposing regulations whose combined landings of and sell them. Please do not for this claim? I have seen banning the storage of nets fish and shellfish are utterly impose this extra cost and “Prevent netting within published studies where and other gear on the beach irrelevant nationally? bureaucracy. natural harbours. Prohibit trawling actually increases fish itself, rather than by banning The evidence (data?) that netting within any part of abundance – in the North Sea netting at sea? these byelaws, particularly for ■ Proposed gear Sussex tidal rivers and Plaice Box, for example. What netting, might protect certain restrictions – commercial around river-mouths.” is meant by ‘productivity’ – “Reduce the number of lost inshore habitats/ecosystems “Net length must be no more This proposal will also force primary production, secondary or abandoned nets along is scant/non-existent, and than 1,000m for a fixed net and small boats out into the open production, the production the shoreline.” based on total prejudice, in my 500m for a drift net.” Is this sea during winter. Commercial of fish available for human What evidence is there for opinion. each fleet? Can a boat work, fishing effort and landings of consumption? If there is no static netting gear being Fishing effort and for example, three 1,000m finfish from Sussex inshore fishing, that component of washed up on the beach? I landings using static and fleets of net, since it would waters are nationally irrelevant, ‘productivity’ disappears. have never seen the beaches drift nets are irrelevant be impossible for a full-time even in the open sea. Fishing of the Manhood Peninsula in Sussex – ditto inshore netting boat to make a living effort from inside all the “Protect spawning, so clean. And since there is trawling – when seen in the with only 1,000m of net. There harbours, tidal rivers and river- migrating and feeding hardly any netting or trawling, national and international is almost no static-gear fishing mouths of Sussex combined is grounds for juvenile fish this is virtually irrelevant. In the contexts. Landings by effort anyway. vanishingly small. and shellfish.” ‘high-energy’ (tides/storms), inshore under-10m boats are Why ban a handful of With relatively large-mesh relatively shallow environment also negligible, in general, ■ Drift nets small boats from fishing static nets, I cannot see how of the Sussex coast, any lost compared to larger vessels. The proposed byelaw states: in these safe-haven areas juvenile finfish can be affected. gear is very quickly smashed Why impose dangerous and “Fish for and retain Again, where is and rolled up, and will not totally unnecessary new pelagic species the evidence? By ‘ghost fish’, as might be regulations on these relatively only.” Does ‘pelagic’ Why ban a handful of small removing predators seen in other, deeper-water, vulnerable ‘minnows’ of our fish mean mackerel, boats from fishing in these such as bass, netting low-energy areas. fisheries? herring, sardine? might enhance The areas where it is What about mullet or safe-haven areas during winter? nursery areas for proposed to ban all netting bream? Why legislate “ flatfish. Similarly, are enormous. Why 1,500m Context of the Sussex Where are the landings and fisheries against drift-netting trawling in the from the coast for ‘Area 1’ Commercial fisheries in for herring and effort data for these harbours Netherlands has been and 500m for ‘Area 3’? Is Sussex are small, employ mackerel when there shown to increase there any scientific basis for few people and are almost is hardly any drift- and inland waters? food available to small this? The amount of netting/ irrelevant economically. The netting for mackerel flatfish, and hence trawling in Area 1 is utterly fleet at Selsey targets only and herring off Sussex? For during winter? Where are the their growth and abundance. miniscule. Can any negative crab, lobster, whelk and example, the MMO reports the landings and effort data for Gear regulations impose effect caused to ecosystems cuttlefish using traps. Very total value of herring landings these harbours and inland relatively“ large codend and by netting and trawling in the little finfish is landed in Selsey, in four years (2007-2010) in waters? IFCA’s own small net mesh sizes, so most will high-energy zone immediately where there is one full-time rectangle 30E9 at £810. fish surveys in many of these escape anyway. In any case, around Sussex be quantified? netting boat and no trawlers. Very recently, monster places indicate large numbers there is hardly any trawling The ‘areas’ being proposed are The low effort I describe is supertrawlers have been of juvenile bass, for example, effort in Sussex inshore waters. arbitrary, have been selected supported by IFCA’s own seen towing just south of with no evidence of declining As for shellfish, how can the without any scientific basis, maps and reports. Sussex. Such boats can trends. tiny amount of netting and/ and will potentially be very Fishing ‘effort’ calculations catch 100-500t of herring or This is simply a punitive or trawling have a detrimental dangerous, forcing the tiny are based on sightings of mackerel per tow! (The price measure, based on impact on shellfish abundance, numbers of potential fishers fishing boats by the fisheries of herring is £300-£700 per assumptions and prejudice, given the huge number of pots further out in rough seas for no protection vessel Watchful. tonne.) Does Sussex IFCA with no scientific support. and traps dedicated to the environmental gain. But the analysis combines think that £200-worth per year Show me an academic study capture of lobster, crab, prawn or overlays five years of data of herring is important for the that proves that netting in and whelk? Dr Doug Beare is co-ordinator (2013-2017), and even then, sustainable management of Chichester harbour between of the Atlantic Ocean tropical ‘effort’ is miniscule. The these fisheries? IFCA’s own November and April has “Secure sustainable tuna tagging programme being maximum given for static reports mention that drift- caused any measurable inshore fisheries for the carried out by the International nets is 0.275km² – less than netting in Sussex has none of reductions in overall fish Sussex community.” Commission for the one-third of a boat per square the harmful impact (by-catch stocks. These fisheries have been Conservation of Atlantic Tunas kilometre during five years. of turtles and cetaceans) seen ‘sustainable’ for centuries. (ICCAT). He has a background The static netting fishing effort in other areas. “Protect migratory fish Selsey’s potting record is in commercial fishing, and around the Selsey peninsula The proposed byelaw species including sea amazing – management has lived in Selsey for most over five years is almost none. specifies ‘a mesh size of trout.” measures taken in this fishery of his life. He has spent Trawling is even less. 50-70mm’. If there was I have seen one sea trout off may have contributed to this. his entire career in marine The Selsey fishery – substantial drift-netting for Selsey in my 52 years. Is there But the current proposals will science and sustainable probably in common with all herring off Sussex, these are any catch/landings data for endanger shellfishermen’s fisheries management, in a fisheries on the south coast of very small meshes which might these species to indicate the lives, discourage youngsters range of different contexts England – has been gradually lead to by-catch of undersize amount of mortality being from taking part, and drive and locations in the UK and eroding for a range of reasons bass, mullet, etc. caused by Sussex trawlers existing fishers out of business. abroad. 8 FPS SQUADEX Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019 AT SEA WITH THE FISHERY PROTECTION SQUADRON The Fishery Protection Squadron’s Squadex exercise, conducted in the Solent earlier this month, offered a chance to talk to the Royal Navy personnel tasked with safeguarding Britain’s fisheries – and to see behind the scenes.John Periam reports (Photos: Geoff Lee)

he Portsmouth-based Fishery Protection HMS Tyne captain TSquadron (FPS) undertakes Commander Jon an annual squadron exercise Browett and his crew. in the Solent. This year, two of the squadron’s offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) took part, including, for the very first time, a Batch 2 River-class OPV, HMS Medway, which was recently commissioned at Chatham Dockyard. HMS Tyne, a Batch I River- class OPV – the oldest in the fleet – was the other squadron vessel involved. With origins that have been traced back to 1379, the FPS is the oldest operational squadron in the Royal Navy. Those who have served in the squadron are very loyal to it, with many requesting to return after other postings. At a reception held onboard HMS Victory in the evening, Captain Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE, representing the first sea lord, said: “Working in partnership with the government, the squadron provides a year- round presence at sea in all

weathers to protect the UK’s fisheries, enforce our laws and preserve our fishing grounds for future generations.” Commander Simon Pressdee, the current commanding officer of the squadron, told Fishing News: “The exercise has been a great success, demonstrating to our affiliates, supporting government agencies and senior military officers what a capable and effective group of people I have across the ships of my squadron, which together makes for a formidable offshore patrol force, both in the UK and overseas. “Today has provided an opportunity to demonstrate the range of activities that the ships are expected to conduct Captain Ken Houlberg discussing plans for the day with Commander – from fishery protection Jon Browett. duties in support of the Marine Management Organisation Commander Pressdee went on Royal Navy’s longest deployment! (MMO) to supporting maritime to say: “The squadron continues “HMS Forth will be the first counterterrorism, as well as to evolve from our core tasking of her class to deploy and meet maintaining national security in in the UK, and we are looking the first sea lord’s intention to UK waters – a task which HMS forward to deploying HMS Forth increase our forward presence, Mersey is conducting today as shortly on her mission to the which is a new and exciting role she escorts a group of Russian South Atlantic, where she will for these much improved, agile vessels that were passing close support the British forces based and globally deployable ships.” to the south coast.” HMS Mersey in the Falkland Islands, replacing The Squadex exercise came was originally scheduled to take HMS Clyde which has been on at an exciting time for the FPS, HMS Medway about to leave her berth at HMNB Portsmouth. part in the exercise. station for over 12 years – the as the last of the Batch 2 OPVs 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews FPS SQUADEX 9

Warfare officer under training SLt Toby Robson using a Stuart’s distance meter to measure the distance to the ship ahead.

CPO (ET) (ME) Steph Cahill monitoring the ship’s engines Commander Jon Browett and his team on the bridge of HMS Tyne. from the bridge. on order, HMS Spey, was “We will always formally named the week support them, and previously in Scotstoun, when time allows Glasgow. if visiting a port, The squadron’s vessels and will invite those that crews are at sea longer than support them, along any others in the Royal Navy. with fishermen, onboard Currently they do eight months to say our thanks.” out of 12 away from home, and due to their role are working all Communication is key the year round. The day gave Fishing News the The squadron is based at Society. This was endorsed by opportunity to meet several of Portsmouth, and the base Commander Simon Pressdee. the crew members and senior comes under the command of “Fishing is one of the most officers onboard. One area that Commodore Jeremy Bailey. He dangerous occupations, if not is always of particular interest is said: “It is a delight to have the the most dangerous. We see this communications, as this will be squadron based here, and its often when we board vessels. the first point of contact with a commander likewise. Its vessels Working single-handed on a fishing vessel before any Royal are regular visitors to Portsmouth, small deck, often in inclement Navy RIB boarding operations AB (Sea) Edward Jones steering HMS Tyne out of Portsmouth. and we have built up an excellent weather, to catch, at times, such can take place. working relationship. They have a small quantity of fish to make The Royal Navy RIB crews affect that vessel’s safety. administration, including the become part of the Portsmouth a living, must be hard to contend are considered to be some of Harry Perks is one of three investigation of any faults that family.” with. Families need supporting, the best in the world, and in the specialist communicators may occur. The FPS is a strong supporter and that is where both these process of any boarding are onboard, having joined the Navy “Take the Squadex exercise of the Fishermen’s Mission and charities, alongside others, come there to help fishermen, should in 2012. “This is my second that is happening as we speak. the Shipwrecked Mariners’ in to help. they notice any issues that might posting to the squadron – they We were informed a week ago are such a small close-knit of all the vessels taking part, community, which you don’t see and what communications HMS Medway being escorted by a so much on larger vessels. It’s were required, including secure Royal Navy pilot boat through the one happy family, with officers communications. All the channels Solent deepwater channel. included. were set up, and relevant call “In the communications signs between vessels and department, our main job working RIBs. Once checked, this onboard is to make sure the was all handed over to the bridge, running of all communications and we would then be notified of links works well. This includes any problems if they occurred. the satellite links and IT Our communications can be

ET (ME) Matthew Angove checking the oil level in one of the marine diesel engines. 10 FPS SQUADEX Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019

HMS Tyne in the busy corridors of the Solent.

Operations officer Lt Emily Witcher navigating HMS Tyne through the deepwater channel, with the pilot overseeing the operation.

Correspondence officer Lt Joseph Darwell assisting the ship’s departure using the warship electronic chart display information system (WECDIS). and throughout her encrypted to enable voice career has had strong traffic to only be understood by connections to the our units. squadron. “It offers a great “HMS Tyne is based on a learning curve, and this is commercial merchant navy something we see every day design that has been made in our routine activity with new into a warship, so a lot of the joiners. To be back on HMS Tyne onboard equipment we have that we are there to help, not now as the first lieutenant is a real got is similar to that on civilian hinder. privilege. ships. In comparison to other “UK fisheries, as a whole, are “Squadex gives the ships’ naval ships, we have a small still very active, and when at sea, companies opportunities to meet department which is easy to it is surprising how many small each other and work together manage. We of course have links vessels are out there. We cannot with other vessels. It is also to local Coastguard stations and always be seen over the horizon, important to meet fishermen, and the maritime communications but with the communication at times we go to events linked to centre at Fareham, and in the equipment onboard, we can hear fishing communities. event of any incident at sea, we them at great range. Our role is to “I am also a marine are able to support subject to the protect, and there will always be a enforcement boarding officer, commanding officer’s direction. need for us!” and meet fishermen when “In the event of a boarding It was obvious that all the crew working onboard. There have situation from RIB to fishing communicate well with each been big changes in legislation vessel, we will hail them in other, and on a small vessel like regarding safety, and when we advance on VHF to let them know this, that plays an important part, board, we make a concerted LS (Sea) Carl Amas lowering the Pacific 24 RIB from HMS Tyne. of our intentions, and set up a both when on and off duty. effort to make those there aware direct personal link to a selected This was endorsed by Lt of these changes. We are not “Safety onboard our own of what we do in safeguarding UK crew member. In most cases, Rebecca Brown, who has there to cause issues, but to vessels is top of the list, and our fishing grounds, and are always they are happy, and understand been serving for 10 years now, advise them. crews are made aware of this keen to visit local ports to show at all times. I have noticed that the local fishing communities there are now fewer infringements what we do.” The recently being reported, and that most commissioned fishermen are very much onboard Diverse tasking Batch 2 River-class with current legislation. We Captain Ken Houlberg is OPV HMS Medway. work closely with the MMO, and in charge of all the Royal support each other in many ways. Navy’s small ships and diving “We are not there to take away community. Ships under his fishermen’s livelihoods; we are command include all the offshore there to support and guide them, patrol vessels, Hunt-class and what I am seeing is that they mine countermeasure vessels, are respecting this a lot more Sandown mine countermeasure now. It is all about sustainability. vessels, and all the inshore patrol If, for example, a fisherman boats. reports a potential offence to He said: “I am blessed with the MMO direct, the MMO ops four very strong squadron room will direct its teams, and commanders, who do all the if necessary communicate with detailed work for me as the first the Navy ops, and hopefully we point of contact for all those can resolve the situation sooner ships. Commander Pressdee rather than later. Fishermen are has a wealth of Navy experience dedicated to what they do, and associated with diving and this certainly shows when we submariner involvement, and is board from one of our RIBs. currently in charge of the Fishery “A lot of people are unaware of Protection Squadron. We all what the Royal Navy does, and work well together, and I know most only see highlights from the that having such supportive national media. We are keen to commanders takes a lot of demonstrate the positive nature pressure off me. 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews FPS SQUADEX 11

AB (Sea) Iain Barrowman at the helm of a Pacific 24 RIB, with HMS Tyne astern.

AB (Sea) Iain Barrowman and AB (Sea) Kim Hart being winched back onto HMS Tyne.

“I have served 33 years in the Royal Navy, and have loved every minute of it. I cut my teeth in the squadron back in the days when the River-class minesweepers were based up in Rosyth – they had a flat-bottomed hull design and were deepwater minesweepers, but were often tasked to support fishery protection. They did roll around career at sea in a small boat a lot, but they offered a fresh facing the wind and the waves experience as they were able to – lovely people! The things that get into ports I had never been have changed are the regulations, into before – nor since. and the way that we monitor “I then came back into the fishing in our UK waters has squadron in 2003, and was in changed significantly over the command of HMS Chiddingfold, years. and loved it, as a young “There used to be far more commanding officer, deciding manual eyeballing, and now it’s which area to patrol when you left LET (ME) Richard Church and ET (ME) Matthew Wiltshire checking far more electronic, linked to port. In those days we worked the ship’s firefighting systems and ‘jaws of life’, which are used in databases to record events and with DEFRA, and our orders were damage control. through the vessel monitoring such as, ‘Go patrol the North Sea system. The whole of the for us,’ and that was it.” conducting roles in the Royal enjoys is meeting the fishermen. regulatory system is far more Captain Houlberg added: “The Navy that would be done by a “They are grafters. It is a delight automated. I personally think squadron’s role is diverse and rank one or two above elsewhere to be part of their industry, and this is a good thing, and every exciting for its people. Those who in the Navy. The tasking is to see just how hard they work to fisherman who works within the have not been in it can’t seem diverse, and the time at sea is make, at times, a small living. rules will want to know that the to understand what fun we find very hard – we do exactly what it “It is also important to regulations are there to protect in boarding fishing vessels in all says on the tin when it comes to remember that when we board a them and their industry. weathers and going into holds, the Royal Navy and the Fishery vessel, we are there to see that “We now have a clear picture being thrown about all over Protection Squadron. We enjoy the fishing legislation is adhered of the fishing industry, and every the place, whilst we check fish it, and then we go back to our to – we are a leading part of LET (CIS) Harry Perks holding fishing vessel that goes to sea stocks. families.” the maritime community, and the Omega mesh gauge that is in our waters. We understand “People in the squadron are One thing he particularly fishermen are very much part of used for checking fishing nets. where they fish and what they fish it also. We are all seafarers, and for, including those who stretch there is that bond between us. any emergency. The industry is the boundaries of the rules. We We are professionals, and if we possibly the safest it has ever visit most fishing vessels quite see that something is not quite been, but it is the industry that regularly, and we do get to know right, we will advise the skipper. is closest to the elements – one them extremely well. However, if we find that things must never lose respect for the “Our job is to support the are not corrected, we will take the sea and the weather, however sustainment of the industry, and matter up through the we therefore operate normal channels, with under the direction of either the MMO or the There used to be far more the MMO to support the MCA. sustainment of fishing “There are two manual eyeballing, and stocks, making sure that ways I look at the rules are followed. this. Firstly, I am now it’s far more electronic I know the senior responsible for the fishery officer based at safety of our own personnel, and experienced one may be.” Shoreham – he is a super guy, if there is an issue that is unsafe, Fishing News asked Captain and I have the utmost respect we will put that right. Secondly, Houlberg how he felt the industry for him and his MMO regional we do care about the safety of had changed. “The constants team. He, like some others, AB (Sea) Iain Barrowman checking the course of HMS Tyne from the fishermen at sea, and we will are the people, and the type of cares about the industry – as secondary steering position. be the first to go to their aid in people who wish to spend their we do. Communication plays an 12 FPS SQUADEX Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019

HMS Tyne and AB (Sea) Lee Bolton providing force protection on HMS Tyne HMS Medway in as she leaves Portsmouth. formation in the Solent.

The bell on HMS Tyne.

decks, which the board from the MMO to the will increase individual fisherman. This is one the squadron’s of the reasons we are out there to role. The ships support their aims. are a little “The boats that we board have important part. We know how bigger and will a wide range of crews, including we each operate, and it works be faster, with a lot of UK nationals, and some extremely well. an extra mess foreign nationals who come in “There is no doubt that with deck for visiting to work. There are some areas the addition of the new Batch 2 personnel, and around the UK where there is vessels, the squadron is going military capacities still a local sustainable fishing through an exciting time. They that will make them more community committed to carrying have the potential to be deployed versatile. on their traditions. There are across the globe, offering our Commander Jon Browett other areas where tradition is sailors a great opportunity for added: “What is nice is that both less prevalent – getting people the future. They are going to offer Batch 1 and 2 will be working to sea is not easy, especially for roles that are going to fascinate alongside each other. Tyne is a youngsters in the fishing industry. many of our youngsters who very busy vessel, and we are out We have the same in the Royal are the future of the Royal Navy. doing a whole range of tasking. Navy – it is an ongoing task to get These men and women spend We have a perfect platform for new recruits. more time at sea than anyone navigational training, and we “It is the Royal Navy’s role to else, but they enjoy the variety of spend more time than we used make people feel welcome, and their tasking.” to doing national tasking such that is why the squadron makes Captain Houlberg – who also as vessel escorting, which HMS a concerted effort to do just that. goes by the name ‘Captain Fish’ Warfare officer under training SLt Nick Ingledew planning the course Mersey has been tasked with We meet fishermen, visit ports – added: “In my case, I am a back to HMNB Portsmouth. today. when we can, and like today, seafarer, a Viking, and have salt “This is a good time to be have welcomed Fishing News in my veins. My job does still get full maintenance package done and their crews are put through with the squadron, and we see onboard so you can explain in me to sea, and I visit my ships all over the summer. This included their paces with the MMO when fishermen working very hard. more detail what we do to protect over the world.” new RIB boats and davits as well training. We use these seaboats They are out there maximising your readers’ interests. as radars and gyrocompass, more than the majority of the their quota stocks, along with “The UK has an island Supporting sustainability and an update to crew fleet. Getting people on and vessel efficiency. heritage, and the Navy has played Fishing News was onboard accommodation onboard. off fishing vessels safely is “It is a more professional an important part in this. Fishing, HMS Tyne for the duration of the “The RIBs play an important challenging work at times, and industry due to the regulations. likewise, plays a key role in Squadex exercise. Her captain part in our everyday activity. they are good at it.” Most vessels we board, we see keeping many small communities Commander Jon Browett has These are the Pacific 24 RIBs, HMS Tyne has no flight deck. they are doing their level best alive, and today has shown been in post for 14 months. He which are a lot faster and are The only current Batch 1 to have to abide by regulations, and just how the Fishery Protection said: “We have a really tight ship’s able to handle increased sea one is HMS Clyde, which is there is a real appreciation of Squadron is there to support company, and work and live states. These are our front line based in the Falklands. The new the requirements of sustainable and protect our hardworking together in all situations on and when boarding a fishing vessel, Batch 2 vessels will all have flight fishing, and that is right across fishermen.”■ off shore. “Squadex gives us an opportunity to get the ships HMS Tyne returning to and ships’ companies together HMNB Portsmouth. at one time. We had hoped for more today, but HMS Mersey was retasked early this morning and had to depart to the English Channel. However, it was nice to have the latest Batch 2 HMS Medway working alongside us. It is also a rare opportunity to catch up with each other with information sharing. “In planning today, different ships are taking part in different elements. HMS Medway took part in navigational planning right up to the last minute. The weather was not as good as it could have been, so we had to take this into consideration as we left Portsmouth and headed out into the Solent. “HMS Tyne is the oldest OPV in the squadron, and she is in really good order, having had a 31 October2019 Name: Silver Fern CY 197 LOA: 17.99m Built: Herd & Mackenzie Ltd Buckie 1982 Type: Scalloper Home port: Kallin, N Uist Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BOAT OFTHEWEEK 13 14 MACKEREL HAND-LINING Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019 CORNWALL’S MACKEREL HEYDAY The history of hand-line fishing for mackerel around the shores of Cornwall goes back beyond memory – but for a brief period in the late 1970s, the fishery experienced an unprecedented boom. Phil Lockley reports

tarting in the autumn months of 1975, a huge Poetry in motion – true hand-line fishing Snumber of Cornish inshore with the loop method, still commonly boats turned to hand-line fishing used at St Ives and other ports. for mackerel. A few South West trawler skippers also tried bulk fishing for mackerel. Boats like the Silver Harvester – a beam trawler for part of the year and a midwater trawler during the winter – became important players. Silver Harvester, skippered by Mike Hosking, also fished for pilchards (sardines), supplying firms like the Newlyn cannery Shippam’s Ltd, a big employer at that time. It wasn’t just hand-liners that cashed in on the influx of mackerel. In addition, a steady stream of shore workers downed tools, bought a boat and became hand-line fishermen. From a relatively low investment, profits gained from catching mackerel were high. The outlay to purchase a suitable boat in the 1970s cannot compare to buying an equivalent today. Hand-line boats were nothing but a hull and an engine; some had a wheelhouse, almost all had a paper echosounder, but that’s all – and off they went to fish. Large catches were coming ashore, mackerel shoals were getting bigger and running closer to the shores, fuel costs were negligible, and an industrial outlets. Day after day, lorries per day being an achievable revolution in fishing was taking containing hand-line-caught aim, returns were often place. But rather than recording fish were driven from ports outstanding. However, prices a landmark event in the UK like Newlyn, Plymouth, Looe, often plummeted to rock-bottom fishing industry, newspapers Mevagissey, Falmouth, Penryn – no different from today – and and local television reporters and Flushing to the highest- at times, the hand-liners would focused on the conflict between paying buyers they could find. queue up to land to Russian hand-line fishermen and bulk The prices were not klondikers. catchers. exceptional – 80p to £1 per In 1978, £100 was nudging As the inshore mackerel stone was seen by skippers £500 today, so wages were fleet grew, mackerel markets as quite good – and today often excellent. Many of today’s responded; fish caught by hand- such prices sound meagre, investments in the Cornish line was often sold to higher-end but with 200 stone per man fishing fleet originate from

‘Jumbo’ mackerel meant jumbo mackerel during the boom years.

earnings from hand-line-caught At one small port, Flushing mackerel. near Falmouth, a fishermen’s Wages for workers ashore co-operative was formed to also rose. Marine architects like take charge of fish landed at Gary Mitchell and Denis Swire the village quay – a tiny village were sketching boats that, size became a ‘fish town’. Many for size, could safely carry the small ports and harbours greatest quantity of mackerel – became a haven for enterprises boats like the GM32s, such as based on the input of hand-line- the Rockhopper of Percuil (then caught mackerel. skippered by Robbie Curtis), Being versatile remained and the Leviathan (owned by important to the fishermen, iconic Mylor skipper George because sufficient mackerel Vinnicombe). Smaller boats like were only present during five the Cygnus Marine GM26, the autumn/winter months. The Versatility 30, the Treeve DS25 most outlandish versatility came and even Cygnus Marine’s from oystermen at the port of smaller boats like GM19s and Mylor, adjacent to Flushing. GM21s became mackerel hand- Skipper John Laity and his Today’s Cornish small-boat hand-line fishermen fear that the spring/summer run of mackerel has ended. line boats. crewman ditched the winter 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews MACKEREL HAND-LINING 15 tradition of oyster dredging under sail to become mackerel hand-line fishermen. The Zona became a top mackerel boat in the region, but could easily be converted back to oyster dredging by removing its clip-on wheelhouse! Gurdies, outriggers and strippers were fitted as quickly removable items to the Zona. A couple of other oyster boats also became dual- purpose. Quota shares Shoals of mackerel off Cornwall were often massive. A ‘big mark’ for today’s pelagic trawlers from Fraserburgh is dwarfed by those off Falmouth in 1978. Elizabeth Madeline of Flushing, a Versatility 30, was built specially Retired purse-seine skippers will Mackerel hand-liners from Flushing heading in to land. for the mackerel boom, and in the summer would long-line for ling. confirm that – the sight of their crewmen re-lacing tears, after and the ELAC sonars on purse- no use. We spent several days migratory pattern of mackerel continues today as a major too big a haul, was common. seiners and midwater trawlers lacing after poor shots on big is still under debate. Eventually, player in the promotion of hand- Big shoals were not always were not perfect. marks. Purse-seine fishing was quotas on bulk catches of line-caught fish(linecaught. ‘manna from heaven’, because According to hand-line not as easy as it looked. mackerel were imposed – more org.uk). the bigger fish often swam on skippers, big boats from the Scientists of the day claimed due to the markets than science. Due to the hard work of the fringe of a shoal. For hand- North East and Scotland that winter mackerel shoals However, some time before SWHFA leaders like Daphne liners, working the edge of a purposely headed to where the off Cornwall were so large that that, hand-line fishermen had Lawry, David Muirhead MBE (still shoal became a skill that would hand-liners worked and split they could not be overfished. seen the writing on the wall, secretary), Robbie Curtis and separate a good fisherman the shoals. I worked for a few But by 1980, the stock began and the South West Handline more, a ring-fenced hand-line from a newcomer. There were weeks on a small purse-seiner, to dwindle. Whether it was Fishermen’s Association quota was secured. no sonars on hand-line boats, and those large shoals were of overfishing or a change in the (SWHFA) was formed. It David Muirhead explained: Mackerel gear All mackerel traces were the beam of the boat plus the Whatever the case, mackerel based on ‘heavy gear’ of outrigger determined how many were a-plenty, and average- 150lb breaking strain (BS) hooks. The aim was to have as sized fish were much bigger monofilament as the main many hooks as possible. than today. line, with snoods of 100lb BS. Some fishermen bought Getting a string of ‘jumbos’ In trace specification, that ready-made traces, while aboard without a massive combination is known as 100- others made their own. Some tangle was the ultimate skill. On on-150. poor crewmen were ordered to many days, jumbos were found The 40-on-60 traces used make ‘tomorrow’s sets’ while just under the surface – the today, when mackerel are steaming home! trace was already full before the scarce, make 100-on-150 look What colour plastics to last snood hit the water. Even like hawsers – but the stronger, use became a trace-maker’s having a lead weight of 4lb and the better. The mackerel shoals headache; some skippers were over wasn’t sufficient. were so big that no refinement convinced that having more If the trace became of the trace was necessary. colours meant more fish, but tangled, money At the height of the boom, some preferred single colours, was quickly lost – feathers attached to hooks and some were convinced lively jumbos can were rarely used. Although gear that particular colours would ruin a set of gear A standard layout on a single-handed boat. stores like Cosalt at Newlyn put them one step ahead. in seconds. (now Survitec) sold hanks of Every option under the sun No one would ‘Plastics’ – nothing more than a short length feathers, ‘plastics’ were the was tested. Some commercial waste time of the plastic tubing used in electrics – are still norm, and 1in lengths of small- trace-makers kept mixed-colour untangling the used on mackerel hooks. diameter plastic tubing replaced traces as stock, but almost all trace, but cut it feathers. With hand-shaking, traces were made to order. One off and quickly fit different crew small-boat skippers – sets like the number of snoods per Flushing skipper believed that a new one. Having positions, the Kelvin Hughes MS315 were trace was decided by the skill success came only when using greenhorn crew when some with men like gold dust. Bigger sets from of the user, but when a gurdy ‘all red’, but that the bottom fishing on jumbos was a all down one side, Furuno and Koden were like and outrigger were being used, snood must always be white! major drawback. others using a mizzen sail Rolls-Royce gear to my size of If you were working single- to remain head-to-wind and boat (25ft). handed, keeping up with have a man at each corner. Rolls of paper were so vessels with crewmen was Many Falmouth boats drifted expensive that at the end of a almost impossible, because beam-on, with each man roll, many skippers would turn ‘keeping the fish’ – holding the working the starboard side. it upside down and re-run the fish under the paper. However, boat – meant reading the new having one line Some skippers were convinced day’s ‘scribe’ down while one against that of the line was up. that more colours meant more previous day was One of today’s not easy. successful fish, but some preferred single Several single-handers skippers still hangs a short colours, and some were convinced say that a trace for’ard paper sounder with its hook- that particular colours would put gives a better bends cut off. representation This keeps the them one step ahead of pelagic fish mackerel active than a modern A more effective design of The gurdy – the wheel that and ‘keeps the fish’. Finding the best fish was colour sounder ever can. One stripper from the early 2000s holds the line – is either hand- By 1978, it wasn’t unusual also a skill. LED sounders now-retired noted midwater – this was the prototype under operated or driven by hydraulics. to see boats working with four were yet to be invented, and trawlerman, Dave Hurford of trial. This is now the standard This modern heavy-duty gurdy is hands, or even more. Boats paper echosounders had only Brixham, remains adamant on type used in the South West. made from stainless steel. from different areas used just come into the budget of that point. 16 MACKEREL HAND-LINING Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019

Emma Goody was the first Cygnus Marine GM32 ever built, with a hull design drawn as a ‘carrier of fish’.

Silver Harvester was one of the last bulk catchers to leave the fishery.

It wasn’t just bulk catchers that landed to the klondikers – hand-line boats had an outlet there too.

Silver Harvester in the mid to late 1980s, offloading to the remnants of the klondiker fleet in Falmouth.

“SWHFA was founded in 1987, mackerel was not sufficient for and at the time, mackerel was the fleet. subject to quota. The South West “As a result, Liberal MP hand-line fleet did not have its Andrew George – representing own mackerel quota, but was the constituency of West subject to the mackerel quota Cornwall – came to our help. held by the non-sector. Hand- He had spent considerable time line fishermen were seriously on various hand-line boats, concerned and worried that other and was very involved with the vessels such as gill-netters and industry. With his help, further trawlers – vessels that caught a meetings were held at the House limited amount of that non-sector of Commons and in Truro, from quota – might leave the hand-line which SWHFA obtained a quota fishermen having no quota to increase to 1,760t – which is still work against. held by the SWHFA.” “Skipper Robbie Curtis, then chairman of SWHFA, together Consolidation with vice-chairman skipper By 1982, many of the bulk Graham Mills and myself catchers had left, and many (secretary), attended meetings in hand-liners had steered away to Brussels and Truro. Eventually, new fisheries. However, almost A fair fleet of bulk catchers were the SWHFA was granted a quota all mackerel hand-line fishermen also involved in the mackerel of 1,250t. However, it soon had built up enough funds to boom, including a number of became clear that 1,250t of remain in the fishing industry. Scottish boats.

Mackerel hand-line fishermen at Flushing worked through a fishermen’s co-operative to control the landings. 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews MACKEREL HAND-LINING 17 No higher than the rudder holes! Skipper David Muirhead MBE, with little connection to the fixed at the end of the line, and secretary of the SWHFA, fishing industry, after catching a instead of a single spinner, as remembers a day on his 28ft fish on a hook, David Muirhead’s many as 15 feathered hooks open-decked boat Ann Marcell future as a commercial skipper could be used. I can remember when he caught far more fish and boat owner was inevitable; Arthur West, an avid mackerel than was safe. He and his line fishing, potting and netting fisherman, moulding his own crewman Dillon Popplewell became his trades. leads. decided to head slowly and He told Fishing News: “From “Until just a few years ago, carefully home – the depth of my memories, or memories the spring run of mackerel in mackerel on deck had risen written by my late grandfather Falmouth Bay was profitable close to the transom holes for Joe Annear, to catch mackerel and important to those aboard rudder steerage. after the war, as several small many small boats. Places like “That’s what it was like in fishing boats from Falmouth did, Porthkerris and Porthallow were the heyday of 1976. It’s not the fishermen used to troll three prime spots, but now it’s not to say that every day was the to four lines with a single-hook predictable, and the days of the same – far from it – but heavy spinner on the end of each line. spring run may be over. fishing meant heavy fishing,” This was known as plummeting. “The move from summer to The Broadsword of Mylor, one of many boats built near the end of said David Muirhead, who has The skin from the tail of the first winter fishing for mackerel came the mackerel boom that were designed to be dual-purpose. retained his diaries of mackerel mackerel caught was cut off, in the 1970s, when skippers like catches. Scribbled in pencil on and the hook would be passed George Vinnicombe fished for a once-wet notebook are figures through the hard muscle at the mackerel – among other fisheries that today’s South – aboard the West mackerel vessel Swordfish. skippers can only One day I lost count at 150 No one is quite dream of. sure why the In the week mackerel boats that I saw mackerel gathered ending 10 January, off Cornwall 1976, the Ann working in Falmouth Bay. Boats during the winter Marcell landed months, and those 1,200 stone of came from all over the region mackerel may mackerel (7,636kg). have been there The following week, 2,519 stone end of the tail – the spinner then for some time. Few ever fished (16,030kg) was landed; the week fished much better. for mackerel in the winter. after, 3,220 stone (20,490kg) “Many boats used for “But as soon as it became was caught – and the final week mackerel hand-line fishing were known, so many boats flocked of January saw 3,566 stone powered by engines driven by to the area. One day I lost count (22,692kg) landed, to bring the petrol/paraffin. Petrol was used at 150 mackerel boats that I saw January catch to a staggering to start the engine, and when it working in Falmouth Bay. Boats 10,505 stone (66,850kg). was hot, it would be switched came from all over the region, The South West Handline Fishermen’s Association (SWHFA) was An average price would have over to paraffin for the remainder boats from Plymouth, Looe, even formed in 1987 to secure a ring-fenced hand-line mackerel quota. been around 50p/stone, making of the day. I once had a boat of as far as the north coast, from January 1976 a bumper month, 18ft in length called Eden, driven Newquay. Falmouth became the Alongside the success of the changing fast, and the spring somewhere in the region of by such a petrol/paraffin engine, winter home for a considerable recently introduced monofilament run of prime mackerel – a main £5,000 – 43 years ago! made by Kelvin. fleet. netting, UK grants for new boats income for small-boat fishermen Skipper David Muirhead “My grandfather purchased “As far as the development became more available, and with in Cornwall – is over. Mackerel remains an avid hand-line some feathers from Scotland of the gurdy – a wheel to hold a further boost from EU FEOGA are now generally smaller and fisherman, working single- and made ‘flies’ with which to the line – goes, the earliest I saw grants, the boatyards were seem to hug the coasts and handed from his Plymouth catch mackerel – he called them was one made of wood – two booming. The South West fishing harbours during the late autumn Pilot 18ft boat, the Bill Eric. His ‘cuddy flies’ – which were towed crossbar spokes, each with a industry was growing at an and winter months – but even contribution to the governance behind the boat, just as with ‘V’ cut in the outer end. A steel unprecedented speed. Exports that’s not predictable. and well-being of the Cornish plummeting, with the feather guide was used to keep the of whitefish grew at the same While hand-line technology fishing industry has been hooks attached just in front of line in place. People had tried a pace; the mackerel boom had may have reached its peak, considerable. His positions the spinner. I believe plummeting small bicycle wheel, and then, underpinned what became the profits from the catch haven’t. include many chairmanships, is still regularly used in of course, came the Spencer turning point for both fishermen Many fishermen say that the and he remains a member of Mevagissey when the mackerel Carter gurdy, followed by the and merchants. marketing of what remains a Cornwall IFCA and secretary of are scarce. outrigger and stripper. Hand-line For South West fishermen valuable product needs further SWHFA. “The next development I fishing for mackerel was a big on boats of under 8m in length, support, including developing Although born into a family remember is when a lead was business for so many.” hand-line fishing for mackerel markets outside Europe. remains an important option, but Gone are the old days of few would consider that fishery being knee-deep in mackerel, as a main income. However, where the quality of fish was SWHFA and Seafood Cornwall determined by how many times it have successfully promoted was washed down with seawater. other line-caught fish, such Boats must now carry ice and as pollack and bass. It is still insulated bins, and treating fish possible (though demanding) correctly is no longer an aim, but to make a yearly income by is essential. line fishing. Mackerel hand-line Hand-line-caught mackerel fishing in Cornwall is accessible remains in high demand, as to those able to buy a capped shown by first-sale prices fishing licence, since monthly on markets such as Newlyn. quota restrictions do not apply to When mackerel is scarce, the the region’s hand-line mackerel auctioneers push small fish to fishery. over £3/kg and large fetch well Quite where hand-line fishing over £6/kg, and even when large for mackerel is heading now amounts are landed and prices is anyone’s guess. Patterns for smalls drop, larger mackerel of mackerel distribution are still fetch good money. Many of today’s investments in the Cornish fishing fleet originate from earnings from hand-line-caught Ann Marcell, a 28ft carvel-built boat skippered by David Muirhead, was lucky to get home one day, carrying mackerel up to the transom holes. mackerel 18 MACKEREL HAND-LINING Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019

‘The fish were everywhere’ Skipper David Bond, chairman 1975. I was third hand on the “As far as the Looe boats of the SWHFA, says he’s ‘pretty boat, and throughout the year, were concerned, it would be sure’ that the gurdy came from Ma Cherie also fished for other difficult to determine quite Cornwall in the early 1970s. species by hook and line. when the mackerel boom got He said: “By 1975, some “I clearly remember underway. Until the 1970s, fishermen were using a bicycle steaming down to Falmouth people with hand lines just wheel to put the line on, and Bay and rounding the Dodman didn’t fish for mackerel in the that was the first gurdy. It went Point, and each day seeing winter. But as soon as the from there to using wooden literally hundreds of hand-line fishery opened up, everyone spokes rather than a metal boats, a phenomenal amount became involved. But Looe wheel, but when it comes of boats. And, of course, boats like the Ma Cherie, the to who was the first to use the purse-seine boats and Ganesha, the original Ella and feathers on a hook to catch midwater trawlers worked the Tethra were all built as a mackerel, in all likelihood the winters at Falmouth too, mackerel boats – by Curtis & neither the Scots nor the supplying a large number of Pape at Looe – so the potential Cornish can take the glory. Russian, Eastern Bloc and even from the winter catches of I reckon that tying a ‘fly’ to African klondike boats that mackerel was well-known as catch a fish came very early, were moored in Falmouth to far back as then. and probably for freshwater process the catch. “Different places had David Bond in the summer of 1976, aboard the Ma Cherie. fish like trout. Using feathers “Everywhere you looked, different ways of working. We to catch mackerel from Looe hand-line boats were working. would see boats from Newlyn, fish with longlines of 2,000 to trade in the Danvic of Looe would have been popular in We kept our heads down and luggers with four or five hands hooks for conger eel on Friday for a much smaller boat, the the 1950s, and even before kept catching fish until the fish working on one side – whereas and Saturday. Other boats Kingfisher Boats K24 Danleden. that. Line fishing for mackerel moved, then looked around we would work both sides, with didn’t do any other fishing – but But although the winter probably goes back a long way to see that all the other boats me back aft, the boat being there was no let-up on the Ma mackerel boom had ended, before the history of Cornwall. were also moving. We would kept ahead by a mizzen sail. Cherie. it wasn’t long before spring/ “But when it comes to hand- get underway to find more fish, “We all used plastics, not “But eventually, the market summer mackerel around line fishing, and feathers, and once for mackerel became more Cornwall became profitable. who was the first finished and on the difficult, and hand-line boats “But there was I having bought to seriously fish Many days the mackerel were way back to Looe, we were often put on limits a small boat,” said David Bond. with feathers for would make up sets (quotas). It became a worry. I “I saw Looe skipper Ernie mackerel, it was large, real jumbos, and by ready for the next remember joining a busload Curtis buy the Lochin 38 well before my day, using plastics of Looe fishermen going to Swallow, and he was doing very time, and before 11am we had to stop – we were of all colours. The Flushing for an important well on the mackerel, so I had that of skippers fishing was so heavy meeting to set up the SWHFA to get a bigger boat and had like Alan Dingle up to our knees in mackerel, that we would use – of which I am now chairman. the first Mystique built, a Lochin and ‘Moogie’ double strops; we Its aims in the late 1970s were 33. Spring and summer fishing Pengelly. and made our way back didn’t bother about similar to those of today.” for mackerel got better and Mackerel was the diameter of the After several years of better, so I chose to have the a very important species in but hardly any distance and line, it had to be as strong as successful fishing, in 1986 Mystique II built, a South Boats commercial fishing for all small we would find another massive possible. We didn’t do any skipper David Bond and his catamaran. We were coming boats in Cornwall.” wall of fish – the fish were grading of the fish; we just brother bought a scalloper/ home with 500 stone or more On his catamaran Mystique everywhere. raced back to Looe to get trawler, the Danvic of Looe. of mackerel each day, and we II, skipper David Bond still “Hauled by a gurdy but no enough boxes to start getting However, static-gear fishing, could take a lot more weather. It fishes for mackerel, using strippers or outriggers, we the fish ashore. and particularly hand-line was a good investment, a good hydraulically powered gurdy/ worked traces of 25 hooks, just “The catch from Ma Cherie fishing, sparked his decision move – but sadly, from there stripper systems. Indeed, his shaking the fish off by hand. was always over 400 stone per on, hand-line mackerel returns purchase of such a catamaran Working for a skipper like John day, three-handed, and the dwindled. was spurred by hand-line Andrews was an advantage, best haul I remember was 1,100 “Last year, and so far this fishing for mackerel. However, but demanding. Watching him stone (nearly 7t). year, are the first times in 27 given fuel costs relative to clear fish from the line in just “Skipper ‘Moogie’ Pengelly years that I have not put the mackerel abundance, other two shakes looked easy, but it had four hands on the mackerel gear aboard my boat. forms of fishing and charter wasn’t – yet we had to equal Ganesha, and their best day All the mackerel have moved work now dictate his year. him. Many days the mackerel was 1,400 stone. There were a inshore; for the past 10 years, Skipper Bond explained: were large, real jumbos, and by lot of mackerel boats working there has been little or no fish “Working aboard the wooden 11am we had to stop – we were from Looe. On the Ma Cherie, out deep. Also, inshore we carvel vessel Ma Cherie, I up to our knees in mackerel, on Thursday of each week now have a fleet of sardine started hand-line fishing for and made our way back to we would keep back enough ring-netters, and that doesn’t mackerel during the winter of Looe. mackerel as bait, and would help, so what will become of mackerel hand-line fishing in Cornwall is unsure.” Dave Bond eventually settled on a Southern Boats catamaran, Boxing the catch on Mystique Mystique II, which was able to work II – nowadays, insulated bins and harder weather and carry more fish. slush ice are essential to obtain higher prices.

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Amble Fishermen’s Crew Room declared open ‘World’s first’ shellfish traceability tool The official opening of the Fishermen’s Studies carried out by a multi- association with the Marine Institute, Crew Room on Amble quayside took place institutional research team led by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, on Sunday, 22 September as part of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology the European Food Safety Authority Amble Coble Day event. (GMIT), and supported by the and University College Dublin. The ceremony was led by Marine Institute, have resulted in Lead scientist Dr Graham of GMIT superintendent Peter Dade, the Mission the development of the world’s said: “In recent years, consumers area officer covering Amble to Redcar. first scientifically-based shellfish have become more food-conscious, Present were Angela Woodburn, traceability tool. seeking traceability of produce, and commercial manager of Warkworth This unique tool used trace while such tools exist for agriculture, Harbour Commissioners (WHC), WHC elemental fingerprinting of shellfish until now no scientifically-based harbour master Alan Punton, Simon soft tissues and shells to identify system existed to trace both farmed Baxter of North of Tyne FLAG, Stuart the harvest location of blue mussels and wild shellfish produce to their Handyside, skipper of the Amble trawler and scallops with 100% success – source. Fidelity, two of his crew, Angelito and including mussels reared from two “The aquaculture of shellfish such Maty – and Albert, the mascot of the Celebrating the opening of the Amble sites located just 6km apart within as mussels and oysters, and the wild Fishermen’s Mission. Fishermen’s Crew Room, left to right: WHC the one bay. The trace elemental fisheries for scallops, razorfish and Angela Woodburn said: “The harbour master Alan Punton, Simon Baxter fingerprinting approach not only clams is a multi-million-euro industry of North of Tyne FLAG, skipper Stuart commissioners are very grateful to their correctly identified the site of harvest in Ireland, supporting thousands of Handyside, and Albert. (Photo: Angela Woodburn) team and the local fishing community, who of scallops, but was also able to jobs in rural maritime communities have contributed time and ideas to the distinguish between harvesting around our coasts. This research design and build of the new units and Crew The Crew Room was then officially events just six weeks apart, both with aimed to create the world’s first Room. Particular thanks to Simon Baxter, opened by the two crewmen from Fidelity. 100% success. bivalve shellfish scientifically-based who has given great support throughout Facilities in the Fishermen’s Crew Room The research was led by Dr traceability tool for Irish produce, to the FLAG grant application process, and to include an industrial washing machine and Conor Graham of the GMIT Marine promote this ecologically sustainable the Fishermen’s Mission and the Merchant dryer, a shower unit and WC, and a seating and Freshwater Research Centre in food.” Navy Welfare Board (MNWB), whose grant area and table. collaboration with Dr Liam Morrison Dr Graham presented the has kindly paid for the internal fit-out of the The ceremony concluded with a of Earth and Ocean Sciences and details of the project at the Marine Crew Room, which we hope will be well blessing, followed by a toast to the the Ryan Institute at the National Institute’s 11th Shellfish Safety used and of real benefit to fishermen.” success of the new Crew Room. University of Ireland, Galway. The Workshop on 8 October in Athlone, research was also conducted in Co Westmeath. 20 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019 Donegal fishermen receive bravery award for rescuing 18 people – 63 years ago Two Irish fishermen and their save her father after she had been The fishermen were not late father have received national pulled from the Atlantic. notified of the inquest into the bravery awards from the Irish The body of her father, three fatalities, which took place state for rescuing 18 people – in Desmond Mavitty (49), was that same night. 1956, reports Lorna Siggins. found three weeks later on When they got home to James and Michael ‘Mickey Roaninish. He was one of three Rutland Island, which lies Red’ Gallagher, aged 85 and fatalities. between Burtonport and 80 respectively and living in A young boy, Christopher Arranmore, they remember that Burtonport, Co Donegal, have Chambers, was fatally injured in their mother was very worried, as been awarded bronze medals, the propeller of a nearby yacht she had by then heard a report on and their late father Michael was which had tried to help, while the radio of a sinking, and thought given posthumous recognition a friend of the Mavitty family, her husband and sons had been for his role. George Warren (55), was taken lost. Relatives of some of the 18 from the water by the fishermen Jean Mavitty’s son Robert people rescued in August 1956 but in spite of attempts to Morrell, who lives in Enniskillen, only learned recently of the resuscitate him, did not survive. said his late mother often talked Michael ‘Mickey Red’ (left) and James Gallagher, the Donegal identity of the rescuers, and have The fishermen, who had set about the incident, but did not brothers who received bronze medals, along with a posthumous expressed their delight at the out from Rutland Island to fish know who to thank. His mother award to their late father, Michael, at the Irish state bravery awards, belated recognition. for lobsters in their father’s half- had made sure to teach her two for rescuing 18 people after a punt sank and a yacht got into difficulty The late Jean Morrell, née decker Irine, took the 15 rescued children to swim in the sea when off the Donegal coast in August 1956. Mavitty, from Enniskillen, Co people from the sinking punt back they returned on holidays to Fermanagh, was one of those into Portnoo. Portnoo, he said. Mr Morrell and his sister Jenny The Gallaghers were among saved by the Gallagher brothers, They also secured the body “All she remembered at that only learned about the Gallaghers’ 20 recipients of Irish state after the punt in which she was of Christopher Chambers, and time was seeing a boathook – involvement in August of this awards for 12 instances of a passenger sank off Roaninish towed the yacht, with three people none of them had lifejackets when year, after a report in the Irish bravery. The honours were skerries, some 5km off Portnoo, onboard, to safety. they were pulled out,” Mr Morrell Times, and visited them recently awarded at Farmleigh House, Co Donegal on the northwest There were no VHF radios said. at their home in Burtonport. Dublin, on 18 October by Irish coast, on 22 August, 1956. at the time to contact the RNLI “My mum had passed her “Together, we feel sure Comhairle na Míre Gaile Jean Mavitty was aged 15 Arranmore lifeboat, and limited lifesaving awards just a couple of that Mum would be proud to – the Irish Council for the at the time, and had to be communication meant that there months before, and that was what acknowledge her personal heroes,” Recognition of Deeds of restrained by the Gallaghers were no police at the pier when really upset her about losing her they said. “Without those men, we Bravery, which was established from trying to jump in again to they berthed. father,” he said. would not be here.” in 1947. Irish industry targets ‘smart net management’ Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) and Castletownbere. The programme, its retirement. It is also exploring the Irish South and West Fish where fishing vessels voluntarily ways to better analyse marine Producers’ Organisation (ISWFPO) take ashore all marine litter they litter, with its final report due in co-hosted a net management collect during normal fishing July 2020. workshop in Castletownbere, activities, forms part of the wider BIM’s establishment of the West Cork earlier this month. Clean Oceans Initiative. Fishing for Litter programme The aim of the event, attended “The local determination to in 2015 has given Ireland a by a cross-section of the Irish demonstrate their fishing gear head-start. However, the new seafood sector and auxiliary management is outstanding. EU directives and polices on industries, was to track the Other key stakeholders, such plastics will give new impetus to ‘journey’ of fishing gear from its as the harbour management addressing the issue of end-of- entry into the market to its end of and net-makers, are also behind life gear. life. The workshop also looked at the objective, and are keen to “A full trawl gear could have ways to better analyse the sources help communicate and validate up to a 10-year life span, and of the marine litter being brought the responsible approach is an expensive key piece of ashore by the Irish catching fleet. taken by the large majority in equipment. We are keen to work Representatives of the Irish industry discussed ‘smart net A total of 224 Irish fishing Castletownbere,” said Patrick with BIM to identify how best management’ at a recent BIM/ISWFPO workshop in Castletownbere. vessels are now registered to Murphy, CEO of ISWFPO. to monitor and record our gear (Photo: Cathal Noonan) Fishing For Litter (FFL). This The EU Commission is efficiently, and to demonstrate represents one-fifth of the currently developing new ways this objectively,” said ISWFPO EU-funded projects, Blue Circular for end-of-life fishing gear, national fleet, and includes to monitor fishing gear, from chairman Damien Turner. Economy and Circular Seas, also attended the workshop in 49 vessels in the port of being placed on the market to Representatives from two tasked with creating opportunities Castletownbere.

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Two 7k-plus whitefish markets bookended a £3.25, small £1-£3.15, chippers £1-£2.05, productive week at Peterhead, which yielded metros 65p-£1.10 and round haddock 80p- over 31,000 boxes of fish from 92 boats and £1.20. Gutted whiting were at 75p-£2.10 and consignments, reports David Linkie. round whiting 70p-£1.85 per kg. Monkfish Fifteen boats, Emulator, Jolanna M, secured £1.70-£4.75, lemon sole 90p-£5, Good Hope, Moray Endeavour, Jubilee Spirit, megrim £1.50-£6.65, plaice 95p-£2.90, ling Audacious, Westro, Fruitful Vine, Gracious, £1.60-£2.80, hake 90p-£3.90, squid 80p- Ocean Endeavour, Steadfast Hope, Mia Jane £6.55 and coley 80p-£1.75 per kg. W, Endurance, Shekinah and Keila, plus The following morning, eight boats, six consignments from Reliance II, Carina, Opportunus IV, Faithlie, Deeside, Acorn, Amity Conquest, Deeside, Radiance and Flourish, II, Ocean Dawn, Courageous III and Fruitful contributed 7,920 boxes to the first market of Bough, plus 11 consignments from Russa last week at Peterhead. Taign, Sparkling Star, Vision IV, Gemma Jane, Monday’s sale included 2,136 boxes of Flourish, Aranatha, Just Reward, Radiance, gutted and 457 boxes of round haddock, Ranger, Arrow and Caledonia III, landed 1,276 boxes of cod, 1,024 boxes of coley, 753 5,507 boxes. This tally included 1,015 boxes boxes of monkfish, 715 boxes of whiting (554 of gutted and 643 boxes of round haddock, rounders), 296 boxes of megrim, 226 boxes 1,207 boxes of cod, 539 boxes of coley, 458 of flatfish, 210 boxes of squid, 203 boxes of boxes of whiting (358 rounders), 392 boxes hake and 160 boxes of ling. of hake, 296 boxes of flatfish, 238 boxes of Large cod on the first market of last week squid, 190 boxes of megrim, 154 boxes of at Peterhead sold at £3.20-£5.55 per kg, monkfish and 78 boxes of ling. medium £2.90-£4.25, selected £2.25-£3.55 Seven boats, Phoenix, Helenus, Celestial and small £1.15-£2.95. Large/medium gutted Dawn, Guiding Star, Guiding Light, Moray haddock made £2-£2.80, selected £2.45- Endeavour and Tranquility, together with four consignments from Norlan, Flourish, Just Reward and Aranatha, contributed to a 4,573- box sale in the middle of last week. This market, the smallest of the week, included Guiding Light landing into Peterhead fishmarket after a North Sea pair-seining trip with Guiding Star. 1,576 boxes of coley, 907 boxes of hake, 718 boxes of cod, 311 boxes of gutted and 23 Benarkle II, Rosebloom, Opportunus IV, Boy 55p-£1.30, plaice £1.30-£3.05, lemon sole 8,323 boxes of haddock (1,721 rounders), boxes of round haddock, 294 boxes of whiting John, Deeside, Moray Endeavour, Ellorah, £3-£8, coley 85p-£1.65, squid £1-£6.20, 5,154 boxes of cod, 4,569 boxes of coley, (154 rounders), 194 boxes of ling, 180 boxes Shekinah, Shalanna and Orion, together with megrim £1.90-£7, hake £1.30-£4.55 and ling 3,298 boxes of whiting (2,590 ungutted), of monkfish, 102 boxes of squid, 58 boxes of eight consignments from Carina, Sparkling £1.70-£2.20 per kg. 2,305 boxes of hake, 1,767 boxes of flatfish and 46 boxes of megrim. Star, Caledonia III, Chloe Ella, Arrow, Flourish, Fifty-five boats and 37 consignments monkfish, 1,219 boxes of squid, 1,023 boxes Eleven boats, Renown, Golden Gain, Just Reward and Endeavour IV, landed 7,382 contributed to last week’s total of 31,188 of flatfish, 787 boxes of ling and 694 boxes Summer Dawn II, Budding Rose, Lapwing, boxes. This sale included 1,658 boxes of boxes on Peterhead market. This tally included of megrim. Achieve, Endurance, Jolanna M, Karen Ann gutted and 685 boxes of round haddock, II, Leanne and El Shaddai, together with 1,155 boxes of cod, 987 boxes of whiting (212 eight consignments from Radiance, Flourish, rounders), 805 boxes of coley, 479 boxes of SOME STRONG AND SOME Ranger, Deeside, Prosperity, Fisher Boys, monkfish, 327 boxes of squid, 316 boxes of Just Reward and Arrow, landed 5,806 boxes hake, 242 boxes of flatfish, 222 boxes of ling WEAKER PRICES AT LOWESTOFT to last Thursday’s market at Peterhead. This and 115 boxes of megrim. The market at Lowestoft saw fewer herring last week, making up about 1.5t of the total 4t sale included 1,482 boxes of gutted and Last Friday morning at Peterhead, large/ sold at the auction. From the 15 boats that supplied the market, there were good volumes 325 boxes of round haddock, 886 boxes of medium gutted haddock made £3.25-£4.35 seen in bass and skate, and a small volume consigned from North Shields added a little to the whiting (791 rounders), 798 boxes of cod, per kg, selected £2.05-£4.15, small £1.85- variety on offer. The bass, while plentiful, was mostly seen in smaller sizes, and prices ranged from £5.50 625 boxes of coley, 487 boxes of hake, 342 £3.55, chippers 75p-£2.05, metros 50p-£1.25 to £16 per kg. Skate saw highs of £2.60, which was down 40p on the previous week. Herring boxes of squid, 201 boxes each of flatfish and and round haddock 55p-70p. Large cod sold prices were the same as the previous week, with selected seeing up to £1 and the low being monkfish, 133 boxes of ling and 47 boxes of at £4-£4.85 per kg, sprags £3-£5.45, medium 45p. Sole prices were off their highs, but still good, with a maximum price of £20. Turbot megrim. £2.95-£3.90, selected £2.75-£3.40 and small and monkfish prices were weaker than they have been, with highs of £8 and £3 respectively. A good show of halibut in Twenty-four hours later, 14 boats, £2.15-£3.30. Monkfish sold at £1.70-£4.55, Squid saw highs of £5, and lobster was seen for the first time in five weeks, achieving a high Peterhead market. Valhalla, Opportune, Crystal River, Faithful, gutted whiting 85p-£2.40, round whiting of £17.50. QUIETER WEEK IN SHETLAND Nine boats put ashore 1,869 boxes on Monday morning in Shetland to the biggest market of the week. The following two markets were much smaller, with 582 boxes from four boats on Tuesday morning and just 348 boxes from six vessels on Wednesday. Supplies increased again on Thursday and Friday mornings, with 1,383 boxes from six boats and 1,812 boxes from 12 boats respectively. Overall, 34 boats landed 5,994 boxes to Shetland markets last week. Cod led the way again last week with 72,809kg, followed by whiting at 36,030kg (27,194kg of which were rounders). The balance included 30,334kg of haddock (of which 540kg were ungutted fish), 17,868kg of saithe, 14,825kg of hake, 12,086kg of monkfish, 10,635kg of ling, 9,778kg of plaice, 5,175kg of megrim, 4,663kg of lemon sole and 3,946kg of mackerel. The highest price for cod was paid on Monday morning at Laying out boxes of whitefish in Scalloway’s £4.75 per kg, when lemon sole made £8.30, mackerel £2.40, temporary purpose-built market. monkfish £5.05 and squid £5.60 per kg. Halibut and turbot sold for £11.25 and £15.10 per kg on Tuesday morning, whilst per kg. On Friday morning’s market, gutted haddock sold for round haddock made 90p per kg on Thursday’s market, when £3.60 per kg, hake £4.95, plaice £3.35, saithe £1.85 and ling sold for £2.15, megrim £8.35 and round whiting £1.60 gutted whiting £3 per kg. The Burra seiner Avrella landing whitefish into Lerwick fishmarket. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 31 October 2019

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth ICELAND (RSF), THURS Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 4 BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, FRIDAY Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 25 OCTOBER price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago 24 OCTOBER landed price/kg wk ago wks ago 25 OCTOBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 18 OCTOBER landed price/kg wk ago ago

Catfish £4.42 £4.75 £4.49 £4.22 Blue ling (gutted) 73 £2.16 £1.18 £0.43 Bass (1) 67 £17.83 £18.57 £14.10 Last week’s prices as not available at time of printing Cod (A1) £4.40 £5.17 £5.27 £5.10 Bass (2) 179 £16.17 £18.09 £14.01 Bass (2) 8 £14.66 £14.15 £14.16 Cod (A2) £4.31 £5.09 £5.14 £4.99 Catfish (gutted) 946 £3.28 £2.85 £2.38 Bass (3) 430 £13.53 £16.09 £12.69 Bass (3) 39 £14.42 £14.07 £14.16 Cod (A3) £3.58 £4.12 £4.35 £4.41 Cod (large, gutted) 2,879 £2.41 £2.40 £2.77 Cod (A4) £2.92 £3.34 £3.72 £3.34 Bass (4) 876 £8.96 £9.75 £8.11 Bass (4) 213 £11.09 £12.61 £11.55 Cod (A5) £2.73 £3.13 £3.61 £3.12 Cod (large, ungutted) 5,727 £2.61 £2.41 £2.60 Bass (5) 443 £9.33 £9.53 £7.84 Bass (5) 63 £10.43 £12.04 £11.49 Haddock (A1) £3.04 £3.38 £3.95 £2.87 Cod (small, gutted) 3,187 £1.70 £1.64 £1.42 Brill (1) 575 £11.72 £11.82 £9.76 Blonde Ray (L) 53 £2.79 £2.33 £2.22 Haddock (A2) £3.03 £3.60 £4.28 £2.93 Brill (2) 661 £7.52 £7.10 £6.17 Blonde Ray (M) 85 £2.23 £1.78 £2.18 Haddock (A3) £2.46 £3.17 £4.09 £2.52 Cod (small, ungutted) 125 £1.26 £1.46 £1.27 Haddock chippers (A4) £1.58 £2.16 £2.94 £1.94 Brill (3) 1,095 £7.27 £7.07 £5.74 Blonde Ray (S) 3 £1.50 £2.00 £2.01 Haddock metros (A4) £1.04 £1.41 £2.00 £1.58 Cod cheeks 32 £6.37 £7.60 £7.83 Brill (4) 1,255 £4.74 £4.60 £3.85 Brill (2) 42 £10.48 £12.99 £12.00 Hake (A1) £4.10 £4.22 £4.97 £5.24 Greenland halibut (gutted) 7,365 £2.11 £1.75 £2.92 Brill (5) 152 £3.77 £3.12 £3.09 Brill (3) 77 £8.79 £8.76 £7.77 Hake (A2) £3.62 £4.05 £4.35 £4.72 Cock crabs 323 £4.81 £4.79 £4.33 Brill (4) 40 £6.96 £6.68 £6.79 Hake (A3) £2.80 £3.28 £3.80 £4.08 Haddock (large, gutted) 11,247 £2.01 £1.81 £1.70 Cod (1) 9 £2.50 £0.00 £5.65 Brill (5) 6 £6.67 £7.90 £4.77 Hake (A4) £2.03 £2.49 £2.61 £3.57 Haddock (large, ungutted) 4,270 £2.71 £2.04 £1.66 Hake (A5) £1.58 £2.00 £2.12 £3.15 Cod (2) 4 £2.62 £6.79 £4.19 Cod (3) 116 £5.85 £5.90 £4.60 Halibut £7.61 £8.30 £9.97 £12.01 Haddock (small, gutted) 2,917 £1.09 £1.20 £0.98 Cod (3) 47 £4.32 £4.53 £3.78 Cod (4) 42 £4.47 £4.05 £1.38 Conger (1) 562 £1.07 £1.17 £0.54 Lemon sole (A1) £6.98 £8.12 £9.24 £11.67 Haddock (small, ungutted) 130 £0.96 £0.98 £0.79 Cod (5) 40 £2.58 £3.01 £2.69 Lemon sole (A2) £5.41 £6.12 £7.61 £6.58 Conger (2) 151 £0.91 £0.91 £0.50 Cuckoo ray (M) 118 £1.34 £1.47 £1.34 Lemon sole (A3) £2.47 £3.37 £4.06 £4.05 Halibut (gutted) 43 £3.98 £4.36 £3.59 Conger (3) 539 £0.35 £0.25 £0.16 Ling (A1) £1.83 £1.91 £2.07 £2.00 Cuckoo ray (S) 5 £0.80 £1.40 £0.28 Lemon sole (gutted) 13 £4.55 £5.47 £2.62 Cuttlefish (1) 93,719 £2.23 £2.19 £4.24 Ling (A2) £2.07 £2.19 £2.17 £2.60 Cuttlefish (L) 11,608 £2.19 £2.17 £4.29 Ling (A3) £2.17 £2.34 £2.52 £2.80 Ling (gutted) 1,041 £1.91 £1.63 £1.60 Cuttlefish (2) 930 £2.15 £2.18 £2.52 Dover sole (1) 102 £16.83 £20.83 £16.36 Megrim (A1) £4.60 £6.75 £6.84 £6.45 Dogfish 13,357 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Dover sole (2) 195 £17.85 £20.29 £15.62 Megrim (A2) £3.36 £4.56 £5.33 £5.16 Ling (ungutted) 5 £0.08 £1.81 £1.51 Gurnard (2) 12 £2.63 £0.00 £1.69 Dover sole (3) 401 £18.01 £20.97 £15.64 Megrim (A3) £2.32 £3.65 £3.66 £3.16 Megrim (gutted) 336 £2.13 £0.62 £1.58 Gurnard (4) 6,477 £0.62 £0.62 £0.52 Dover sole (4) 483 £14.24 £14.51 £11.66 Megrim (A4) £1.01 £1.64 £1.96 £1.34 Haddock (1) 240 £4.03 £4.68 £3.51 Megrim (A4) £1.73 £2.45 £2.87 £2.66 Monkfish (gutted) 143 £3.97 £3.20 £3.25 Dover sole (5) 223 £10.55 £10.91 £10.31 Haddock (2) 22 £3.73 £3.78 £2.23 Monkfish (A1) £4.12 £4.38 £5.01 £5.06 Plaice (gutted) 16,511 £2.34 £2.38 £2.31 Gurnard and latchet (L) 52 £3.64 £1.96 £3.39 Haddock (3) 33 £1.00 £1.51 #DIV/0! Monkfish (A2) £4.22 £4.54 £5.12 £5.19 Gurnard and latchet (M) 202 £2.20 £1.61 £1.38 Monkfish (A3) £4.19 £4.51 £5.41 £5.02 Redfish (ungutted) 7,742 £1.55 £1.61 £1.68 Hake (1) 24 £4.06 £0.00 £4.14 Gurnard and latchet (S) 540 £0.63 £0.50 £0.57 Monkfish (A4) £4.08 £4.40 £5.02 £4.80 Saithe (gutted) 14,655 £1.29 £1.15 £1.03 Hake (2) 26 £4.61 £5.79 £3.95 Monkfish (A5) £3.22 £3.93 £4.01 £4.16 Hake (3) 302 £4.40 £4.72 £3.86 Haddock (1) 109 £4.97 £5.19 £2.74 Plaice (A2) £2.62 £2.83 £3.50 £3.26 Skate (gutted) 34 £0.27 - £0.23 Hake (4) 628 £4.52 £4.87 £3.54 Haddock (2) 165 £5.48 £5.25 £2.78 Plaice (A3) £2.24 £2.70 £2.89 £2.63 Spotted catfish (gutted) 1,587 £3.05 £2.68 £1.69 Haddock (3) 21 £5.02 £4.87 £2.86 Plaice (A4) £1.69 £1.98 £2.22 £2.25 Hake (5) 1,625 £4.32 £4.93 £3.35 Haddock (4) 6 £1.30 £0.80 £0.98 Pollack (A2) £4.21 £5.25 £4.25 £6.04 Tusk (gutted) 1,566 £0.95 £0.97 £0.80 Hake (6) 1,886 £3.54 £4.23 £3.13 Pollack (A3) £4.34 £5.00 £3.51 £5.20 Hake (7) 197 £3.22 £2.99 £2.59 Haddock (5) 4 £4.82 £1.47 £2.65 Tusk (gutted) 1,566 £0.95 £0.97 £0.80 Pollack (A4) £3.00 - - - Hen crabs 1,832 £2.34 £2.20 £2.62 Hake (0) 2 £1.50 £0.33 £0.70 Round Haddock £0.82 £1.05 £1.61 £0.94 Whiting (gutted) 177 £0.59 - £0.76 John Dory (1) 53 £11.57 £11.59 £12.14 Hake (1) 256 £3.68 £4.10 £3.68 Saithe (A1) £1.39 £1.68 £1.51 £1.73 Hake (2) 725 £3.74 £4.24 £3.64 Saithe (A2) £1.23 £1.46 £1.49 £1.61 Witch (gutted) 27 £0.66 - £1.66 John Dory (2) 95 £10.19 £11.59 £11.81 John Dory (3) 238 £9.64 £9.32 £7.64 Hake (3) 2,312 £3.76 £4.19 £3.63 Saithe (A3) £1.11 £1.40 £1.34 £1.45 Witch (ungutted) 179 £1.41 £1.64 £1.54 Saithe (A4) £0.92 £1.04 £1.14 £1.38 Lemon sole (1) 161 £10.17 £12.08 £10.05 Hake (4) 4,909 £3.24 £4.30 £3.39 Squid fresh £3.40 £6.95 £7.77 £8.73 Lemon sole (2) 130 £10.70 £10.83 £10.34 Hake (5) 6,941 £2.97 £3.26 £3.16 Turbot £11.07 £12.02 £13.87 £15.37 HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m TO 25 OCTOBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Lemon sole (3) 272 £9.98 £9.02 £9.70 Hake (6) 876 £2.74 £2.80 £2.66 Lemon sole (4) 530 £2.73 £2.43 £3.80 Herring (M) 6 £1.60 - £2.07 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Catfish (1) 449 £5.43 £4.98 £5.37 TO 25 OCTOBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Lemon sole (5) 136 £0.64 £0.65 £2.24 Herring (S) 1 £1.60 - - Cod (0) 1,014 £5.09 £5.38 £5.20 Catfish 428 £4.18 £4.27 £3.85 Line mackerel (1) 52 £2.67 £3.73 £2.58 John Dory (1) 39 £13.74 £13.80 £12.86 Cod (2) 17,177 £4.40 £4.47 £3.47 Cod (1) 7,767 £5.28 £5.40 £5.48 Line mackerel (2) 341 £1.45 £1.57 £2.19 John Dory (2) 343 £11.85 £12.87 £11.96 Cod (3) 13,672 £3.74 £3.79 £3.08 Cod (2) 14,271 £5.07 £5.20 £5.19 Line mackerel (3) 678 £0.52 £0.58 £1.05 John Dory (3) 401 £9.47 £10.12 £7.39 Cod (4) 19,693 £2.81 £3.08 £2.64 Lobster 37 £18.91 £18.99 £15.38 John Dory (4) 66 £7.18 £7.39 £4.94 Cod (5) 13,091 £2.57 £2.96 £2.20 Cod (3) 40,229 £3.76 £4.15 £4.75 Monkfish tails (1) 205 £12.98 £12.61 £10.97 John Dory (5) 82 £1.88 £1.94 £3.72 Cod (6) 6,588 £2.68 £2.92 £2.03 Cod (4) 24,173 £3.16 £3.43 £3.15 Monkfish tails (2) 587 £13.41 £13.48 £11.97 Haddock (1) 3,931 £2.83 £3.26 £2.62 Lemon sole (1) 54 £13.40 £12.50 £10.63 Monkfish tails (3) 380 £11.97 £12.69 £11.94 Haddock (2) 6,387 £3.12 £3.37 £2.68 Cod (5) 11,759 £2.32 £2.77 £2.13 Lemon sole (2) 76 £13.19 £12.87 £10.05 Haddock (3) 7,384 £2.23 £2.72 £2.11 Haddock (1) 14,129 £2.22 £2.34 £2.86 Monkfish tails (4) 892 £11.16 £11.77 £10.87 Lemon sole (3) 150 £10.55 £8.53 £10.24 Haddock (4) 7,116 £1.89 £2.18 £1.41 Monkfish tails (5) 3,744 £7.48 £7.43 £8.79 Haddock (2) 14,519 £1.46 £2.09 £2.03 Lemon sole (4) 302 £2.73 £2.43 £3.62 Haddock (5) 4,976 £0.97 £1.35 £0.87 Monkfish tails (6) 622 £4.14 £4.30 £4.47 Lemon sole (5) 104 £0.53 £0.52 £2.17 Haddock (round) 540 £0.66 £1.04 £0.68 Haddock (3) 5,798 £0.99 £1.44 £1.52 Octopus 6,567 £2.19 £2.20 £2.00 Ling (L) 40 £2.30 £2.38 £2.27 Hake (2) 2,537 £4.37 £3.74 £3.97 Haddock (4) 145 £0.35 £0.00 £0.83 Plaice (1) 2,000 £3.54 £4.15 £3.29 Ling (M) 75 £2.00 £3.13 £2.42 Hake (3) 4,595 £2.91 £2.87 £3.39 Plaice (2) 3,345 £2.96 £3.37 £2.70 Hake (4) 7,693 £2.06 £2.35 £2.83 Hake (0) 13,274 £4.58 £4.55 £4.83 Mackerel (LM) 2,879 £1.84 £2.07 £2.13 Plaice (3) 4,741 £2.86 £3.12 £2.59 Halibut (3) 168 £9.42 £10.46 £9.80 Hake (1) 21,397 £3.88 £3.47 £3.97 Mackerel (M) 8,111 £1.51 £1.42 £1.30 Plaice (4) 4,463 £2.28 £2.31 £2.39 Halibut (4) 92 £8.28 £8.19 £7.62 Mackerel (S) 10,253 £0.51 £0.49 £0.47 John Dory 43 £7.03 - £5.26 Hake (2) 51,324 £2.42 £2.54 £3.39 Plaice (5) 6,464 £1.85 £1.84 £2.05 Megrim (1) 42 £6.92 £6.66 £5.86 Lemon sole (2) 951 £7.11 £9.31 £7.43 Hake (3) 18,845 £1.73 £1.85 £2.41 Pollock (2) 178 £5.02 £5.36 £4.15 Lemon sole (4) 1,795 £3.48 £3.71 £3.61 Megrim (2) 228 £5.93 £5.89 £5.32 Lemon sole (1) 173 £7.30 £6.13 £7.52 Pollock (3) 121 £4.30 £3.66 £3.15 Ling 10,635 £1.87 £2.08 £2.14 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 587 £4.45 £5.35 £4.25 Megrim (3) 318 £5.20 £3.79 £4.30 Lythe 2,543 £4.77 £4.50 £4.38 Lemon sole (2) 631 £7.70 £5.87 £6.40 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 1,156 £3.46 £3.99 £3.46 Megrim (4) 398 £4.52 £5.07 £3.54 Mackerel 3,946 £2.12 £2.29 £1.43 Lemon sole (3) 1,297 £2.73 £2.40 £3.99 Megrim (5) 737 £2.76 £2.65 £3.20 Megrim (2) 2,463 £6.62 £7.06 £6.91 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 625 £3.36 £3.79 £3.29 Megrim (3) 1,599 £5.42 £5.41 £5.09 Ling (1) 8,626 £2.05 £2.41 £2.25 Ray wings (small eye, 2) 4 £3.01 £0.00 £2.71 Monkfish (1) 152 £13.48 £12.60 £12.12 Monkfish (2) 239 £13.86 £12.90 £12.08 Megrim (4) 1,113 £3.39 £3.43 £3.35 Ling (2) 7,291 £2.11 £2.31 £2.29 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 20 £2.82 £0.00 £1.77 Monkfish (1) 301 £3.59 £3.92 £4.45 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 341 £3.59 £3.65 £2.62 Monkfish (3) 415 £12.86 £12.57 £12.00 Monkfish (2) 2,940 £4.28 £4.62 £4.78 Ling (3) 10,146 £1.94 £2.05 £2.06 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 815 £3.48 £3.76 £2.58 Monkfish (4) 403 £12.12 £11.19 £10.72 Monkfish (3) 4,275 £4.54 £4.90 £5.14 Megrim 2,536 £3.37 £3.75 £3.20 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 469 £2.81 £3.39 £0.92 Monkfish (5) 1,212 £6.40 £6.00 £7.94 Monkfish (4) 2,793 £4.25 £4.72 £4.92 Monkfish (5) 1,346 £3.29 £3.42 £4.36 Monkfish (1) 5,458 £4.51 £4.52 £5.10 Red mullet (1) 3 £2.99 £3.68 £3.01 Octopus (L) 55 £2.20 £6.80 £4.01 Red mullet (2) 6 £2.43 £2.99 £2.03 Octopus (M) 313 £2.26 £2.13 £2.02 Monkfish (6) 431 £1.78 £2.21 £3.28 Monkfish (2) 15,827 £4.57 £4.99 £5.27 Plaice (2) 2,340 £2.77 £2.83 £2.29 Red mullet (3) 21 £9.78 £7.61 £7.76 Octopus (S) 261 £2.22 £2.10 £1.60 Monkfish (3) 14,403 £4.59 £4.99 £5.18 Plaice (3) 3,699 £2.27 £2.32 £2.06 Round pouting 5,313 £0.44 £0.47 £0.36 Pilchard/Sardines (2) 255 £1.05 £1.39 £0.70 Plaice (4) 3,739 £1.57 £1.64 £1.73 Monkfish (4) 3,808 £4.41 £4.91 £5.07 Scallop (2) 18,033 £1.77 £2.13 £3.78 Plaice (1) 442 £4.07 £3.70 £3.52 Saithe (2) 1,324 £1.59 £1.37 £1.66 Scallop meat 583 £9.50 £0.00 £14.00 Plaice (2) 320 £3.26 £3.04 £2.72 Saithe (3) 3,798 £1.18 £1.05 £1.40 Monkfish (5) 539 £2.86 £3.01 £3.67 Sole (1) 1,106 £16.46 £18.43 £14.77 Saithe (4) 12,746 £0.74 £0.85 £1.00 Plaice (1) 6,348 £3.12 £3.64 £3.37 Plaice (3) 988 £2.97 £2.79 £2.73 Skate 1,550 £1.08 £1.24 £1.04 Sole (2) 2,063 £16.89 £17.54 £12.87 Plaice (4) 1,105 £2.13 £2.04 £2.14 Plaice (2) 10,292 £3.25 £3.87 £3.49 Skate, mixed 362 £0.80 £0.51 £0.58 Sole (3) 1,756 £17.54 £18.45 £14.05 Pollack, lythe (1) 45 £5.63 - £5.17 Skate, roker 455 £1.59 £1.72 £1.10 Plaice (3) 13,868 £2.76 £3.75 £3.27 Sole (4) 2,342 £17.23 £17.51 £11.57 Pollack, lythe (2) 549 £5.46 £5.39 £5.38 Squid 3,083 £3.82 £3.74 £5.33 Plaice (4) 43,180 £2.16 £2.18 £2.96 Sole (5) 1,591 £15.72 £16.09 £10.38 Pollack, lythe (3) 714 £4.52 £3.86 £4.73 Turbot 260 £12.64 £13.49 £12.77 Sole (6) 1,895 £13.79 £14.08 £7.90 Whiting (2) 1,963 £2.57 £2.52 £2.95 Pollack (2) 2,434 £4.83 £5.44 £5.91 Pollack, lythe (4) 103 £3.77 £3.02 £2.71 Squid (1) 211 £7.85 £5.95 £6.96 Whiting (3) 6,120 £1.81 £2.07 £2.06 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 266 £0.47 £0.52 £0.35 Pollack (3) 6,940 £4.02 £4.39 £4.94 Squid (2) 2,196 £5.92 £6.11 £5.74 Whiting (4) 753 £1.11 £1.29 £0.48 Red mullet (1) 23 £13.68 £11.32 £13.71 Pollack (4) 900 £3.25 £3.44 £3.86 Squid (mix) 943 £5.37 £6.48 £5.38 Whiting, round 27,194 £1.12 £1.54 £1.13 Red mullet (2) 5 £7.40 £11.56 £12.68 Turbot (1) 207 £21.37 £0.00 £18.80 Saithe (1) 30,041 £1.28 £1.24 £1.55 Red mullet (3) 1 £11.00 £11.00 £9.53 GRIMSBY, THURSDAY Min Max Max, Max, yr Turbot (2) 304 £19.08 £0.00 £14.04 24 OCTOBER price/kg price/kg wk ago ago Saithe (2) 62,689 £1.29 £1.12 £1.53 Red mullet (4) 50 £3.80 £2.99 £7.40 Turbot (3) 316 £16.38 £0.00 £14.04 Saithe (1) 8 £1.50 £3.00 £1.54 Cod (1) £4.00 £4.00 - £3.50 Saithe (3) 154,390 £1.18 £1.01 £1.42 Turbot (4) 666 £12.91 £0.00 £11.49 Saithe (2) 113 £1.74 £1.80 £1.40 Cod (2) £3.60 £3.70 - £3.28 Saithe (4) 108,581 £1.06 £0.93 £1.23 Turbot (5) 941 £9.36 £0.00 £9.48 Cod (3) £3.00 £3.20 £3.00 £3.05 Turbot (6) 183 £7.82 £0.00 £7.64 Scallops 109 £1.28 £2.20 £1.62 Codlings (best) £2.50 £2.50 £3.00 £2.40 Squid 3,095 £4.22 £4.50 £6.87 Whelks 1,267 £1.36 £0.00 £1.28 Sea Breams (2) 1 £13.20 £8.84 £10.15 Haddock (best) £1.90 £2.45 £3.00 £3.00 Turbot (0) 65 £22.53 £15.52 £18.11 Whiting (1) 99 £2.58 £0.00 £1.88 Small-eyed ray (L) 27 £1.80 £4.00 £2.03 Haddock (jumbo) £1.70 £2.30 £2.40 £2.88 Turbot (1) 234 £15.00 £13.78 £14.21 Smoothhound (M) 70 £0.65 £0.54 £0.81 Haddock (large) £1.70 £2.20 £2.30 £2.83 Whiting (2) 288 £2.05 £0.00 £1.55 Smoothhound (S) 38 £0.32 £0.21 £0.35 Haddock (medium) £1.70 £2.30 £2.70 £2.90 Turbot (2) 224 £13.28 £12.52 £14.13 Whiting (3) 366 £1.35 £0.00 £1.11 Squid (L) 66 £8.16 £9.35 £7.57 Haddock (small) £0.50 £1.00 £1.50 £2.33 Turbot (3) 1,685 £8.38 £8.81 £11.35 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Min Max Max, Max, yr Monkfish (best selected) £4.00 £4.00 - - Squid (M) 137 £7.54 £8.56 £8.01 Turbot (4) 2,036 £4.07 £4.10 £6.40 TO 25 OCTOBER price/kg price/kg mnth ago ago

Monkfish (large) £3.50 £3.50 - £3.50 Squid (S) 9 £7.77 £7.00 £7.12 Monkfish (medium) £4.00 £4.00 - £3.50 Whiting (1) 901 £1.52 £0.00 £1.88 Bass £5.50 £16.00 £13.00 £14.00 Turbot (2) 15 £15.67 £17.50 £16.36 Dover sole £6.00 £20.00 £24.00 £17.13 SCRABSTER, WEDS Min Max Max, Max, yr Whiting (2) 3,757 £1.51 £1.64 £1.79 Turbot (4) 23 £15.06 £15.85 £15.38 Herring £0.45 £1.00 £1.00 £2.17 23 OCTOBER price/kg price/kg wk ago ago Whiting (3) 348 £0.81 £1.64 £1.53 Turbot (5) 27 £13.27 £16.36 £13.60 Lobster £10.00 £17.50 £0.00 £16.00 Turbot (6) 40 £14.90 £14.32 £12.25 Brill £6.43 £6.43 £7.18 Witch (1) 1,216 £3.77 £3.39 £4.73 Monkfish £1.50 £3.00 £4.50 £3.75 Monkfish £2.35 £2.35 £4.60 £5.04 Whiting (1) 30 £2.61 £2.65 £2.16 Witch (2) 3,439 £2.62 £2.18 £3.40 Skate £1.00 £2.60 £3.00 £3.08 Plaice £1.13 £1.13 £2.38 Squid £3.00 £5.00 £6.00 £6.00 Whiting (2) 59 £2.06 £2.80 £1.26 Squid £6.67 £6.67 £6.84 Witch (3) 2,293 £1.27 £1.28 £1.69 Turbot £4.50 £8.00 £11.00 £12.00 Whiting (3) 46 £1.02 £1.02 £0.70 31 October 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23 English whitefish and shellfish landings, January to July, last three years

Bass landings and prices, Jan to July Brill landings and prices, Jan to July Gurnard landings and prices, Jan to July 160 £12.00 700 £9.00 500 £1.40 £8.00 450 140 600 £11.50 £1.20 £7.00 400 120 500 350 £1.00 £11.00 £6.00 100 300 400 £5.00 £0.80 80 £10.50 250 300 £4.00 200 £0.60 60 £10.00 £3.00 200 150 £0.40 40 £2.00 100 £9.50 100 £0.20 20 £1.00 50 - £9.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2017Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2017Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019

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Lemon sole landings and prices, Jan to July Monkfish landings and prices, Jan to July Plaice landings and prices, Jan to July 1,200 £6.00 3,500 £3.30 1,200 £3.00

1,000 £5.00 3,000 £3.20 1,000 £2.50 2,500 £3.10 800 £4.00 800 £2.00 2,000 £3.00 600 £3.00 600 £1.50 1,500 £2.90 400 £2.00 400 £1.00 1,000 £2.80 200 £0.50 200 £1.00 500 £2.70

- £0.00 - £2.60 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019

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Turbot landings and prices, Jan to July Skate & rays landings and prices, Jan to July Sole landings and prices, Jan to July 4,500 £14.00 1,400 £12.00 350 £1.80 4,000 £1.60 £12.00 1,200 £10.00 300 3,500 £1.40 £10.00 1,000 250 3,000 £8.00 £1.20 800 2,500 £8.00 200 £1.00 £6.00 2,000 £6.00 600 150 £0.80 1,500 £4.00 £0.60 £4.00 400 100 1,000 £0.40 £2.00 £2.00 200 50 500 £0.20 - £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2017Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale)

Pollack landings and prices, Jan to July Cuttlefish landings and prices, Jan to July Lobster landings and prices, Jan to July 700 £3.50 6,000 £4.50 600 £16.00 £4.00 600 £3.00 £14.00 5,000 500 £3.50 500 £2.50 £12.00 4,000 £3.00 400 £10.00 400 £2.00 £2.50 3,000 300 £8.00 300 £1.50 £2.00 £6.00 2,000 £1.50 200 200 £1.00 £1.00 £4.00 100 £0.50 1,000 100 £0.50 £2.00

- £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2017Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019

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Scallop landings and prices, Jan to July Squid landings and prices, Jan to July Crab landings and prices, Jan to July 4,000 £2.50 450 £9.00 1,600 £3.50

3,500 400 £8.00 1,400 £3.00 £2.00 350 £7.00 1,200 3,000 £2.50 300 £6.00 1,000 2,500 £1.50 250 £5.00 £2.00 2,000 800 200 £4.00 £1.50 1,500 £1.00 600 150 £3.00 £1.00 1,000 400 £0.50 100 £2.00 £0.50 500 50 £1.00 200 - £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2017Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale)

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