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KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk BREXIT THREAT TO EXPORTS TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT First festive lights New Isabelle ready to fish go up at Peterhead built to the highest specification. “Where possible, we have chosen suppliers and/or fitters from the West Country, but having strong family connections with Scotland, we are proud to have a thistle painted on its bow. Our electronic package came from Echomaster Marine Ltd at Macduff, but was installed by Winfield Marine Ltd from Devon, so we have chosen a good spread of talent. “The design came from Ian Paton of SC McAllister & Co Ltd – a style that has a strong following. The Isabelle is much like the La Creolle II. “Although I’m largely retired, I will join the Isabelle on the first couple of trips. All we have to do now is turn it into profit. We are ready to go and fish.” Full details of the Isabelle will appear in ‡ Pathway was the first boat to light up the night sky with Fishing News in the new year. festive lights at Peterhead.

The first Christmas lights put up by boats berthed in Peterhead harbour were switched on last week on the 80m pelagic vessels Pathway and Lunar Bow, reports David Linkie. The number of boats illuminating the night sky with thousands of Christmas lights is expected to increase ‡ Isabelle PW 64. rapidly this week, as whitefish boats complete their last trips of the year and tie up The recently launched 15m vivier-potter Isabelle PW 64 for the festive period. is ready to sail on her maiden trip from her home port of Dressing vessels Padstow, reports Phil Lockley. overall with festive As Fishing News went to press, skipper Andrew Burt, his lights is a well- father Les Burt and the crew were preparing to take their latest established custom at vivier boat to join the growing fleet of offshore shellfish boats Peterhead, and one fishing from Cornwall. that will add some Built at C Toms & Son, Isabelle has attracted considerable welcome cheer at the interest from all over the UK, said owner Les Burt. “Several end of what has been skippers from Scotland have travelled to see a boat that we ‡ Isabelle ran successful sea trials from an unprecedentedly ‡ Lunar Bow in festive-season are proud of. C Toms & Son has made us a superb vessel, one Padstow last week. challenging year. mode.

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\\EINSTEIN\marketing\Advertising\Fishing News\Lous\2020\October 2020.doc 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 Exports delays fears – deal or no deal Paperwork and delays loom from 1 January Fish and seafood exporters will would be approximately 150,000 parts of the world including the Far face hugely increased levels of per year. “The vast majority of these East and countries like South Korea, paperwork, bureaucracy and delays would be for seafood exports, and and they are quite familiar with the at ports from 1 January whether thus fall to local authorities to sign,” paperwork that’s required. there is a Brexit deal or not, reports he said. “They will need a catch certificate Tim Oliver. “This estimate was made in and an export health certificate, but Scottish fisheries minister Fergus advance of the UK government they are experienced in doing that.” Ewing has written to the UK announcement that EHCs would He rejected claims that a government reiterating the financial also be required for POAO no-deal Brexit would be ‘absolutely and administrative burden that the trade between Great Britain and disastrous’ for fishing and fish anticipated increase in demand for Northern Ireland, meaning that processors because of tariffs. export health certificates (EHCs) the 150,000 figure is likely to be He said that on the two main will place on exporters of ‘products an underestimate. Let us be clear exports, farmed salmon and of animal origin’ (POAO) – which – that is an increase from zero to shellfish, tariffs were only about 3% includes fish and seafood. 150,000 for no discernible benefit.” and 8% respectively, and that factors He has again called on the UK DEFRA secretary of state George such as currency exchange rates, government to ask the EU for a Eustice was grilled on The Andrew fuel costs and weather were more derogation from the requirement, Marr Show on BBC1 on the threat important influences on prices than and said that the Scottish to seafood exports from increased tariffs, which had a ‘fairly modest’ government, Food Standards red tape and delays at ports. effect. Scotland (FSS) and Scottish local Andrew Marr said that Brixham But Ian Perkes had told the BBC: authorities are having to deal with fish merchant Ian Perkes had told “We work on 8-10% margins, so the anticipated ‘massive spike the BBC: “If the truck gets delayed when they put on this 20% tariff in demand’ for these essential by a hiccup in the paperwork, or on processed scallops, the price of certificates. there are queues and the truck the fish has to drop by 20% or we This includes developing a risk- doesn’t meet the connecting truck are out of the game. We haven’t got based approach to certification, and at Boulogne, the order will be room in our margins to make room working with logistics companies cancelled and we’ll be left with for these tariffs.” responsible for transporting large thousands of pounds-worth of fish George Eustice said that when “Wonder if that’s rain, or the fragrant aroma volumes of Scottish seafood to the sat in Boulogne.” tariffs had been discussed with of decaying seafood?” EU to provide an EHC service at Andrew Marr told the minister the fishing industry, the industry logistics hubs in central Scotland. that highly perishable products had said the tariffs on the main Fergus Ewing also reiterated needed to cross the borders quickly. export species were ‘manageable’. would apply, and trade between case, there would be no guarantee the Scottish government’s call “A lot of people are really, really He said: “The message from the the UK and the EU would be that EU fleets would have access to for the UK government to offer worried that our fish-processing fishing industry is ‘don’t sell the conducted on less advantageous fish any part of UK waters from 1 compensation and support schemes industry is going to be hammered, catching sector out on behalf of the WTO terms. January. to businesses affected by the new deal or no deal,” he said. processing sector’. No deal would also mean that “In the absence of a fisheries requirement. George Eustice replied: “We’ve NFFO chief executive Barrie the EU would immediately begin agreement for 2021, something like He told the UK government that talked to a lot of the leading fish Deas said that a no-deal outcome negotiations with the UK – and 3,000 EU fishing vessels will have FSS estimated in 2018 that the processors, about 400 companies would have ‘serious adverse with Norway where Norway has no legal access to fish in UK waters, likely demand for EHCs for exports that dominate that export trade. implications’ for both the UK and an interest – for an annual fisheries until there is an agreement,” said of POAO to the EU from Scotland Lots of them already export to other many EU member states. Tariffs agreement for 2021. But in this Barrie Deas. Brexit talks go to the wire NFFO: ‘Ted Heath moment for Boris Johnson’ Hopes of a Brexit trade deal being independence and sovereignty of concluded before 1 January receded the UK.” UK industry leaders again urged would be to deny the UK’s his ministers had made to ensure after a face to face meeting in EU Commission president Ursula the prime minister to stand firm legal status as an independent the UK became a fully fledged Brussels between the EU and UK von der Leyen said: “We had a on UK control over its waters coastal state and render the UK’s coastal state, not one in name leaders last week failed to bridge lively and interesting discussion on and fisheries and not accept a departure from the EU utterly only. the chasm between the two sides, the state of play across the list of bad deal. worthless, so far as fisheries are SFF chief executive Elspeth reports Tim Oliver. outstanding issues. NFFO chief executive Barrie concerned. Macdonald said that the prime But although they failed to “We gained a clear understanding Deas said: “On fish, Boris “Even the right to control minister and Michael Gove had achieve any breakthrough, they of each other’s positions. They Johnson knows that this is his its own waters inside its given ‘a series of undertakings agreed that the two negotiating remain far apart. Ted Heath moment,” and that it own 12-mile limit would be to the industry that the UK will teams should continue talking, and “We agreed that the teams should would be ‘suicidal’ for the prime surrendered.” restore sovereignty over UK set last Sunday (13 December) as a immediately reconvene to try to minister to accept ‘the EU’s He said that a compromise waters and control who gets to new deadline. resolve these essential issues. We conditions of surrender’. is on offer. This is that the UK fish for what, where and when’. An indication of the gulf between will come to a decision by the end He said the gulf between the would agree to ‘reasonable’ levels She said: “That simple the two sides was that the two of the weekend.” two sides on fisheries was ‘huge’ of access for EU fleets to fish in principle, which is the legal norm leaders issued separate statements The two sides were deadlocked and seemed to have widened in UK waters outside the 12-mile for coastal states, is under threat after their meeting. on three issues: fishing rights, recent days. limit, in return for a rebalancing from the EU’s intransigence. The prime minister’s office said: the so-called ‘level playing field’ He said the EU side had of quota shares and recognition “Acceptance of any deal “The leaders had a frank discussion on regulatory alignment, and moved ‘only millimetres’ from its that ‘the UK will act as any other that only delivers pretend about the state of play in the governance – who will enforce any original mandate, which insists coastal state, to maintain control sovereignty will be a wholesale negotiations. They acknowledged deal between the two sides. that the only acceptable terms over who fishes in its waters’. betrayal of the industry that the that the situation remained very Before heading to Brussels, the for a trade agreement would be “The EU’s offer on quota prime minister has promised to difficult, and there were still major prime minister told MPs that a ‘a humiliating surrender’ by the shares has been risible, and the support. differences between the two sides. good Brexit deal was ‘there to be UK on fisheries. EU will only accept terms that “The EU also needs to realise “They agreed that chief done’, but said the terms currently “It would be a huge would neuter the UK’s rights as that trade in fish between them negotiators would continue talks being demanded – including that capitulation,” he said. “Under the an independent coastal state. and the UK is in balance, and over the next few days, and that a ‘the UK should be the only country conditions insisted upon by the Hence the impasse,” said the that their consumers want to firm decision should be taken about in the world not to have sovereign EU, EU fleets would essentially NFFO chief, adding that ‘the eat the fish from our seas. But the future of the talks by Sunday. control over its fishing waters’ – retain the automatic access to stakes are high’. fishing opportunities in each “The prime minister is were unacceptable. fish in UK waters, and hold the The Scottish Fishermen’s other’s waters are far from fair. determined not to leave any “I don’t believe those are terms status quo on quota shares. Federation reminded Boris That is the wrong which has to route to a fair deal untested, but any prime minister of this country “To agree to these conditions Johnson of the pledges he and be put right.” any agreement must respect the should accept,” said Boris Johnson. 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Fisheries Act opens new era for UK fishing The new Fisheries Act heralds changes in the vessels that are “My team is going to start to engage with the industry on build on that. We’ve started major changes to how UK able to fish in UK waters. “They talking to industry in the new that.” that journey, and we’re very fisheries will be managed will have to be licensed, so it year about what we want to She said that DEFRA committed to it,” she said. in the post-Brexit era, depends on what we decide manage – this is really key, one had been ‘out and about She added her thanks to the including opening the door to do. Negotiations are still of the first steps we want to on quaysides’ and seeking industry and its representatives to co-management with the ongoing, but I think things will take – and then we can start industry views for four years, for their help in developing industry, reports Tim Oliver. look different from 1 January,” to move on to the slightly more and various groups had already thinking on the future, and on Fisheries minister Victoria said the minister. challenging how we’re going been set up. the fisheries bill, and in helping Prentis and DEFRA deputy The government would have to manage, and again we need “There’s a lot going on the government to get the act director Anne Freeman to draft the Joint Fisheries to investigate how we’re going already, and we want to through parliament. discussed the Fisheries Act Statement with the devolved in depth, and spelled out how fisheries administrations, it provides a framework on which wouldn’t be ‘a piece which to build a new regime in of cake’, she said, and then Quota allocations ‘complex and controversial’ co-operation with the industry, it would have to put in place on the latest Fathom podcast, management plans for local On the issue of how any extra has got some stability. Existing was ‘an interesting direction to organised by the Cornish FPO. areas. “That will take a quota acquired after Brexit would quota will still be allocated on go in’. Victoria Prentis said that tremendous amount of work, be allocated, Anne Freeman said the basis of FQA units, but we The discussion also the act opens ‘a new chapter’ and that’s when we need the that quota allocation was ‘very are interested in trying new ways highlighted the sustainability in UK fisheries. It gave the industry to step up and join us,” complex and controversial’. of allocating the additional quota objectives, such as protecting the opportunity to go ‘back to said Victoria Prentis. Ideas under discussion include that we will hopefully negotiate. marine environment, reducing square one’, set out objectives Asked by Cornish FPO chief allocating extra quota based on “We want to ensure that the by-catches and addressing and implement the measures Paul Trebilcock whether the the impact more quota would UK economy benefits from extra climate change, that are to achieve them, including plans would be on a regional have on a fishery, or on the fish, and that we’re improving embedded in the Fisheries Act. fisheries management plans, basis or applied to specific benefits it would bring to a employment and that coastal “We are very committed she said. stocks, the minister said: local economy, and DEFRA has communities are benefiting – so to sustainability and good One of its most important “We’ve deliberately left it so been consulting the industry on it’s a work in hand.” environmental outcomes, and so functions will be to give the we can deliver bespoke plans allocation at both the UK level Paul Trebilcock noted that are fishermen – we’ve got to stop government legal powers to in different areas – they won’t and in England. quota allocation will be part of viewing different sides of this manage who fishes in UK all look the same. We need to She said that the amount of bespoke management plans. He argument as opposing, because waters. It will set ground rules, look at each area and see what quota was ‘absolutely key’. The said that quotas must go to areas they’re not,” said Victoria but be more flexible and less works for that area. We need to government was negotiating for where they are needed, that fish Prentis. prescriptive than the CFP, work with the industry, or the a fairer share in the Brexit talks, sustainably and that will benefit “On specific issues, I think enabling quick adaptation to plans won’t work.” she said. from them. “We need to keep we’ll find a lot of agreement – changing circumstances. It will DEFRA deputy director Anne “Next year will be a bit of that as our guiding star,” he said. and I don’t think I’ve got stars in also give the powers to manage Freeman also stressed the a transitional year – we’ll try He said that FQAs were good my eyes! It will be very difficult discards differently. need for co-management with some different ways of allocating for industry stability and for – there will be difficult economic Asked if fishermen would see the industry and other interests. quota,” said Anne Freeman. enabling investment, but they conversations – but stocks have any immediate changes after “We want to get fishermen and “We’ve been very clear that ‘have their weaknesses’, and that to be sustainable, and allowed to 1 January, the minister said interested parties involved right we need to ensure the industry a ‘hybrid’ method of allocation recover where necessary.” that they will ‘probably’ see from the start,” she said. French fishermen: ‘We Irish Skipper want a deal and access’ Expo 2021 to The hard line being taken by seafood industry. be held in June France’s President Macron, notably After the visit, regional fisheries over fisheries, is a major obstacle committee president Olivier Leprêtre Mara Media, the organiser of Irish Skipper to reaching a Brexit free trade said: “Access to British waters is Expo 2021, has decided it is necessary to agreement. the top priority. A no-deal could postpone the event, which was scheduled But French fishermen in Boulogne jeopardise the future of the local for March. It will now take place in the UL say they want a deal, although they fishing industry. It could have negative Sport Arena in Limerick on Friday 4 and also stress the importance of keeping consequences on the economy, and Saturday 5 June, 2021. access to UK waters. the sustainability of the resource too. Hugh Bonner, managing director Macron is facing an election in April “We are also slightly worried about of Mara Media, said: “This move is 2022, and is under pressure from the future of traffic in the straits of unfortunately unavoidable – it has become militant French fishermen not to sign Dover, one of the busiest shipping evident that March 2021 would be too up to any deal that will reduce French areas in the world, and want to avoid ‡ French prime minister Jean Castex early to host your Irish Skipper Expo. We catches in UK waters. at all costs that the traffic becomes (left) and a high-level French government are closely monitoring the world health The French government unmanageable or even dangerous. delegation inspect lobsters during their situation, Irish government regulations and demonstrated its support for the Safety first.” visit to Boulogne. travel restrictions, while also considering French fishing industry early in He welcomed a promise by the the concerns of our exhibitors and visitors.” December when the French prime French prime minister that the French professionals too, whose access to He added: “Here at Mara Media, we minister Jean Castex and four government will support the country’s the European market could be called are committed to delivering a face-to- members of his government, including fishing industry in 2021. into question. face event in 2021, and are working with Annick Girardin, minister of the “We welcome our government’s “We hope that the French will be the new show venue and the appropriate sea, visited top French fishing port support, and we are confident able to continue fishing in British authorities to ensure the health and safety Boulogne to discuss Brexit and the President Macron and the British waters, and that the British will be able of everyone. future of the French seafood industry. government will successfully complete to continue to export their products “We thank you for your understanding The high-powered government these negotiations. We are fully aware under appropriate conditions. and support as we navigate these delegation met representatives from a no-­deal is a possibility, but that is “Fishermen on both sides of the challenging times. In conjunction with BIM a wide range of fishing industry definitely not what we want,” said Channel must continue working and Cavanagh Hooper Dolan, our show interests, including the CRPMEM Olivier Leprêtre. closely together – we all know that in sponsors, we look forward to bringing Hauts-de-France regional fisheries “A no-deal would be a lose-lose the case of a no-deal, it would be hard Irish Skipper Expo 2021 to you on 4 and 5 committee. The debate revolved proposition, as it would not only for both communities to get over such June.” around Brexit and the future of the impact French fishermen, but British a bad decision.” More details will follow as soon as they are available. 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Brexit trade deal on a precipice EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ It is four and a half long years since the affairs. UK authorities. Also, extra paperwork KELSEY.CO.UK UK voted on 23 June, 2016 to leave the The EU is equally determined that and customs requirements at the ports European Union. if the UK wants a free-trade deal with will lead to hugely damaging delays Kelsey Publishing Ltd, Despite this endless period of the EU then its fleets must retain little- to highly perishable fish and seafood The Granary, tortuous negotiations – which included changed access to UK waters and products. Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Maidstone, Editor two general elections and two delays quota shares, and that the UK must The imposition of tariffs in the event Dave Linkie to the final end of the transition period comply with EU trade regulations, both of no-deal exit will also add to the export Kent, ME18 6AL email: [email protected] – we have arrived at a position where, current and future, and submit to the difficulties. with just three weeks to go to our EU policing and enforcing those rules. The threat created by this aspect of departure from the EU at the time of The Union is fearful of a sovereign UK Brexit has tended to be neglected during going to press, we had still not got a setting up a low-tax, low-regulation the withdrawal process, as the high- trade agreement, and a huge gulf still economy that will be a competitor to profile goal of reclaiming our waters and remained between the two sides. the EU and divert investment to the UK stocks has crowded out the trade aspects. After the endless hours of and away from the EU. It also wants to But many small businesses, both negotiations, the respective UK and discourage other member states from catchers and processors, especially in the EU political heads, Boris Johnson and leaving. shellfish sector, rely heavily on exports Ursula von der Leyen, held a face to face We can only hope that a deal can to the EU. It is probably true that a new Managing editor meeting to try to find a way through be snatched at the 11th hour, although trade equilibrium will develop over time, News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] the impasse. The outcome was not prospects look bleak. deal or no deal, but in the meantime, email: [email protected] encouraging, although talks were set to But whether there is a deal or not, it small businesses with little in reserve continue. is clear that the UK’s vital fish exports after being hit by the Covid pandemic The deadlock boils down to a to the EU will face significant disruption will struggle to weather even a short fundamental divergence of ideology – at the ports from 1 January, with severe period of disruption. the UK is determined to be recognised risks to all fishing sector businesses A Brexit trade deal is essential as a sovereign state with complete and jobs, from catchers to processors. to protect exports, businesses control over its fishing grounds out to The massive increase in the numbers and communities that will find it 200 miles, and the ability to strike trade of export health certificates required hard to get through the winter, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and deals with any country it chooses, and because of our new status as a third but hopes are receding as time Cornwall correspondent Essex correspondent make its own laws and manage its own country will create heavy burdens on the runs out for a deal. 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Now, as into English law, to provide ensuring fish stocks are Centre, where decisions about the rules. They are there to the UK prepares to take sole continuity for fishing and harvested and maintained at deploying ships, planes and protect fish stocks in UK waters, responsibility for its seas at seafood businesses. sustainable levels, and the people will be made in response sustain the UK’s fishing industry 11pm on 31 December, the “Essentially, the regulations future of our fishing sector and to suspected illegal fishing. in the long term, and protect our MMO is already supporting the remain the same for fishers industries are supported.” This team communicates rich marine environment. industry for the changes ahead. going out to sea in January,” The MMO has further with the equivalent fisheries “Our approach is to target With a mission to protect said Phil Haslam, the MMO’s strengthened its monitoring, authorities in EU states to surveillance and enforcement and develop our seas, coasts operations director. “What may assurance and enforcement ensure that incidents of illegal capabilities on those fishing and communities for the change, if negotiations are operations to continue to fishing are minimised and activities that offer most risk benefit of generations to come, not complete, is the automatic protect the fish stocks and appropriately dealt with. to sustainable fishing and England’s marine manager is access to EU waters, and vice marine environment around In instances of illegal environmental protection. looking forward to working with versa for non-UK vessels. England’s coast. fishing, the MMO’s trained “We’ve undertaken a fishers to take on the challenge “Our MMO licensing team The marine regulator has and warranted officers at sea, thorough risk assessment of the together. and the Single Issuing Authority, more than 100 marine officers, in planes, ashore and in the risks and potential locations of There have already been which has been established and undertakes frequent aerial regulator’s operations room illegal fishing from 1 January, virtual meetings with fishers and to be responsible for external and sea patrols to provide will gather evidence and, if and developed detailed seafood businesses, liaison with waters licensing, will ensure reassurance to the UK fleet. necessary, prepare cases for operational plans to deliver fishing industry organisations fishers have the correct licences Protecting stocks and the action against vessel owners monitoring, assurance and and online guidance to clarify to continue operating, whatever wider marine environment where there have been breaches enforcement actions. what will change – and what the outcome of the current will support a profitable of the rules. “So we expect fishing vessels won’t. negotiations. industry for current and future Phil Haslam adds: “The of all nations to respect the UK’s Marine officers based at “As we work through the generations of UK fishermen MMO’s compliance and fisheries laws from 1 January, the MMO’s 14 coastal offices changes and opportunities by ensuring there are thriving enforcement strategy focuses and we are well prepared to around the country are also to come as an independent fish populations. The MMO strongly on engagement and ensure that this happens.” n UK distant-waters fishing ‘faces axe’ The operator of the UK’s last Jane Sandell. “This is not fact, sources close to the continued access to ‘pay’ for the distant-waters trawlers has rhetoric – if the government Norwegian government and quantities we fish, for instance, warned that unless the UK does not strike a deal with the fishing industry in Norway of Arctic cod in the NEZ. This strikes a deal with Norway in the Norway and other countries in have suggested to us that this would be a fair, balanced and very near future, they will have the next couple of weeks, it’s is precisely what Norway is logical exchange. In fact, a nowhere to fish in 2021. the end of distant-waters fishing expecting, if we ask for it. balance could be struck in the As the £52m state-of-the-art from Hull. It’s as simple as that.” “Any deal we negotiate with UK’s favour, while retaining the freezer trawler Kirkella docked UK Fisheries said that despite the EU on fisheries should lead valuable Arctic cod resource in Hull on 6 December for the recently signed fisheries to the EU relinquishing those that the UK distant-waters fleet what could be the last time, framework agreement with fishing rights in third-country depends on.” operator UK Fisheries said that ‡ Kirkella docked in Hull on 6 Norway, there is currently no waters which are currently UK Fisheries pointed out that regardless of what happens December, after completing legal basis for the company’s allocated to the UK. Then, whether or not the UK reaches in the EU trade talks, only a trip from North Norway – distant-waters vessels to fish Norway will be able to directly a deal with the EU, the UK immediate government action possibly for the last time. cod in the Norwegian Economic re-offer us the quotas for the government has an ‘open goal’ in can save the last remnants of Zone (NEZ) from the end of Arctic cod that we currently front of it for a mutually beneficial Britain’s distant-waters fleet. distant-waters fishing from the this year, as they have done catch in the NEZ – as it would arrangement with Norway – and Jane Sandell, chief executive UK on 1 January – or perhaps for decades. “It is therefore then be bound to do under similarly with Greenland, Iceland of UK Fisheries, said that ever again. absolutely incumbent upon the international law. and the Faroes. despite all the focus on the “It’s now or never for our UK UK government to secure this “Meanwhile, there will remain “Our negotiators can land EU talks, they were only the distant-waters fleet and the basis,” said the firm. significant Norwegian fishing this deal – they just need the start of a process that would hundreds of families whose “But the door is wide activity in the UK North Sea EEZ. politicians to let them,” said the decide whether there will be any livelihoods depend on it,” said open to such a deal – in We can use Norwegian vessels’ company.

Aberystwyth lifeboat rescues scalloper from rocks Quantus lights up night sky at Fraserburgh The volunteer crew of Aberystwyth launched the station’s Atlantic lifeboat was paged at 7.25pm on 3 85 lifeboat, which was on scene December to assist a fishing vessel almost immediately. The lifeboat aground on rocks. got as close as possible, and was As the RNLI crew made their able to throw a tow line to the way to the boathouse, they rear of Golden Promise. The were surprised to see the 14.2m lifeboat then headed out to sea scalloper Golden Promise FH 401 to hold the vessel and prevent it on the rocks directly outside the being pushed further across the lifeboat station. rocks and onto the beach and sea With bad weather due, Golden defence wall. Promise was making its way into With the help of the rising tide, Aberystwyth harbour. Once past the lifeboat crew were able to the breakwater at the harbour slowly move Golden Promise off entrance, the engine failed and the the rocks and into safer waters, ‡ Festive lights running from the stem to the stern of the 65m ‡ Golden Promise aground at the vessel was quickly pushed onto where the scalloper was able to midwater trawler Quantus PD 379 light up the Fraserburgh entrance to Aberystwyth harbour. the rocks, a notorious local trap. restart its engine and enter the skyline. (Photo: RNLI/Paul McCann) The lifeboat crew quickly harbour under its own steam. 6 NEWS Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews 17 December 2020 55 Fisheries planning North Shields expansion after buy-back A longstanding North Tyneside Andy Dixon was one of Andy Dixon is also hoping to “Being able to make local fishery is back in North East several shareholders who sold create a number of new jobs next decisions was a big part of the hands after a local entrepreneur to Caley Fisheries in 2017, but year as his plans for developing appeal of this acquisition. There bought it from the national he has continued to run the the business are put into action, are very few operations of our operator to which he sold his business since then, and moved its annual turnover grows to type along the English east coast, shareholding three years ago. to buy it back through his own a target of £5m and its export and as similar ones in other parts Andy Dixon has purchased the company, 55 Fisheries, when the activities to continental Europe of the country have diminished, North Shields-based operation opportunity arose. increase. we’ve been able to bring in more of Scottish fishing and offshore The well-known Caley building He said: “Having worked business from elsewhere, a trend business Caley Fisheries, which and the fish-processing facility for the business for the past that we want to see continue. provides vessel management, on the North Shields Fish Quay, 34 years and managed it since “The response we’ve had from ‡ Andy Dixon (front right) with chandlery, fish processing and which cover 800m2 between 1995, it obviously means a lot the businesses working on the fish members of the 55 Fisheries team fish sales services to offshore them, have been purchased as to me personally, and getting quay and the offshore fleet has and Mark Adams (back left) and operators working along the coast part of the deal, while all 18 the chance to take it over was been really positive, and we’ve got Ricky Handa (back right) of Hay & from the Scottish border down to members of the former Caley an opportunity I couldn’t turn an excellent team in place that Kilner Law Firm, who advised on North Yorkshire. team are staying in post. down. knows the industry inside out.” the deal. Manx scallops rehomed PFD funding for Welsh cockle in unique collaboration pickers and shellfish farmers Over £70,000 of funding for safety this scheme for cockle pickers More than half a million queen scallops have equipment has been made available and shellfish farmers is just as been moved from the route of an underwater to cockle fishers and shellfish successful. We don’t want to lose cable following a unique collaboration. farmers in Wales to keep them safer any more lives, and having a PFD The Isle of Man government worked with while working along the coastline, with PLB can make such a big scientists and fishermen to locate, catch following the tragic loss of two difference if you get into trouble.” and rehome 19t of scallops ahead of work cockle fishermen this year. Trevor Jones, chair of the Welsh to link the island with the Havhingsten The Welsh government funding, Fishing Safety Committee (WFSC), Telecommunication Cable. administered by Seafish, will help urged eligible workers to take Dublin-based Celtix Connect, on behalf of commercial intertidal workers in advantage of the scheme. He said: Aqua Comms, has been authorised to land two Wales buy a personal flotation “The scheme is open to active branches of the marine fibre-optic cable at Port device (PFD) with a personal commercial cockle fishers with Erin and Port Grenaugh in the coming months. locator beacon (PLB). They can a current cockle picking licence This will see 75km of marine cable installed claim £360 towards the costs of or permit, and active shellfish in the Manx seabed, and connect the island to each PFD with PLB. aquaculture production businesses. data centres in Ireland, the UK and Denmark, Lesley Griffiths, minister for “Everyone who qualifies should offering improved internet connection with environment, energy and rural take advantage of this offer of tried faster speeds. affairs, said: “I am pleased to and tested lifesaving equipment. The installation has been subject to confirm the Welsh government is One of the primary aims of the government approval processes under the contributing over £70,000 towards WFSC is to achieve and maintain Submarine Cables Act 2003, and a public the heavily discounted provision zero preventable deaths within the consultation that resulted in some applied ‡ The crew of Coral Strand located, caught of personal flotation devices with Welsh seafood industry. Wearing a conditions, including a survey to assess scallop and rehomed 555,000 queen scallops. personal locator beacons for cockle PFD with a PLB while working in stocks and sensitive marine habitats. fishers and intertidal aquaculture the intertidal area is a sure way of This was carried out in August, and During the operation, the Manx fishing workers. helping us to realise this aim.” identified high-density beds of queen scallops vessel Coral Strand caught and relocated “Unlike fishers onboard licensed To qualify, applicants must apply along the Port Erin route in an area that had around 555,000 shellfish. vessels, there is no legal obligation to Seafish for approval before not been fished for many years. Geoffrey Boot MHK, minister for for intertidal gatherers to wear a purchasing their preferred PFD The route passes through the Chickens environment, food and agriculture, said: lifejacket while working. These are with PLB and making a claim. The fishing ground, and includes an area that has “This has been a unique and highly very dangerous jobs, and I strongly application window will be open been closed to protect juvenile queenies at the successful collaboration. It was not feasible to encourage intertidal workers to from 14 December until 15 January. request of the Scallop Management Board. significantly move the route of the cable, so we take advantage of the discounted To apply for funding, download the Although the cable is less than 50mm had to think of an innovative solution that has price to stay as safe as possible.” application form from the Seafish in diameter, a wider area is required for its seen local fishermen work with government. Dr Lynn Gilmore, head of website, and email the completed installation, so it was decided to relocate the “The process has provided useful scientific international trade and UK form to: walesfishingsafety@ scallops to safer grounds. data for fisheries management, and the regions at Seafish, said: “We seafish.co.uk The Isle of Man government and the Manx fishermen’s efforts have saved more than half a helped roll out a similar scheme to Late applications will not be Fish Producers’ Organisation negotiated with million scallops for future harvest of the Manx commercial fishing vessel owners accepted, and funding will not Alcatel Submarine Networks to catch and national dish.” in 2018 using Welsh government be awarded retrospectively or to relocate the scallops along a 7.5km stretch, Work to prepare the seabed has now and Seafarers UK funds and any applicants who have received with the operation being successfully carried started, and the cable is expected to be laid the uptake was high, at around support for purchasing PFDs and out last month. later this year. 90% of the fleet. We really hope PLBs within the past three years. Views needed on biodegradable gear Would commercial fishermen be environmentally friendly gear. two questionnaires to gather the information in the UK, project These results will allow the project prepared to use biodegradable It aims to reach around 300 opinions of fishermen. partner CEFAS will use its teams partners to improve and optimise fishing gear? And if so, under commercial fishermen on both The Technical Questionnaire of fisheries observers to contact the prototype fishing gear at what conditions? As part of the sides of the Channel. will enable the project to build an fishermen direct to conduct each stage of manufacture. The INdIGO research project, led The European-funded INdIGO inventory of the types of plastics telephone interviews, which fishermen will then be invited to by the University of Southern project, which started in late currently being used in the fishing will take about 15 minutes to test the new prototype fishing gear Brittany with both French and 2019, has brought together 10 and aquaculture sectors. The complete. during their daily activities, and English partners, a new survey has French and English academic results will allow the project to Fishermen wishing to take part give essential feedback. been launched to ask these and and industry partners in order to learn more about abandoned, lost in this survey are asked to contact: Fishermen are asked to other questions. develop prototype biodegradable and otherwise discarded fishing [email protected] complete this section of the survey The aim of the survey is fishing gear, and also to improve gear, assess what happens to The Behaviour Questionnaire online at: bit.ly/3oCw9xl to ensure that the needs and the recycling of existing gear at it and improve the recycling of will be used to identify what may To find out more about the expectations of fishermen are the end of its life. end-of-life gear. or may not encourage fishermen INdIGO project, go to: indigo- met in the development of more The project has now launched In order to gather this to adopt biodegradable gear. interregproject.eu 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews ADVERTISMENT 7

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[email protected] 8 LETTERS/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 LETTERS Don’t demonise supertrawlers and flagships Time to take Dear Editor, enough to keep the factory going The more nonsense I read for 24 hours. So for the rest of about flagships owned by Dutch the day, the supertrawlers are families, Dutch ‘supertrawlers’ floating while the crew is busy back control and electric pulse fishing, the with sorting, freezing, packing more I am motivated to explain, and storing. That is why they are before wrong views become at sea for two to three weeks. established. The pelagic tank boats from of quotas I wrote to Fishing News Scotland, Norway, Ireland, several times last year about Faroes and Denmark are doing Dear Editor, electric pulse fishing and its 500-650t (mackerel or herring) I have been involved in the fishing impact. For your information, in one tow – sometimes even industry going back almost 60 the Dutch fleet consists of more than that. So actually they years. I have been retired for a exactly 75 beamers, and 15 are catching more in one tow number of years, but keep in touch. of them are allowed to use than the Dutch. Those amounts Taking back control of our waters the electric gear for another are too much for the Dutch to ‡ Processing herring on a Dutch pelagic freezer trawler. (Photo: is very much in the forefront of six months. So stories about process, as the quality will drop WM den Heijer) the Brexit discussions. The bigger hundreds of beamers are after 150t. This information will problem is the fish quotas. Every complete nonsense. You only hopefully improve your view of Egyptian or West African) need probably land their catches in UK quota fish belongs to a vessel have to check out the Dutch Dutch freezer trawlers. to be recruited – but I don’t think England. That happened in the owner or a company. If there is a fishing fleet almanac. Bringing back a fleet of that is the meaning of ‘bringing early 1960s, when Dutch side- return of EU quotas to the UK, who Not so long ago, Paul Lines fishing boats to Lowestoft back the fishing industry’ along trawlers and trawlers, which gets this fish? The catching side of was criticising the Dutch or Great Yarmouth will not the east coast. were converted into beamers, the existing fleet does not have the supertrawlers. But pelagic stocks only be a challenge for both Given that some people are landed plaice into Grimsby. capacity to take all of this extra fish. are healthy, especially herring towns, but also for the British shouting that they want to have But it is interesting that gill- Quotas over the years have been and mackerel. It is almost a government after Brexit. Like in their own fleet, why is it still netters from Grimsby landed bought and sold for hundreds and matter of using a shovel. In other North Sea member states, possible for Dutch or Belgian their cod for many years thousands within the industry, and general, the by-catch rate in there is hardly any interest in a fishermen to buy or rent plaice at Scheveningen, while big are in the hands of big companies pelagic fishing is also very low. career on a fishing boat, and a quota from fishing companies in processing plants existed in and individuals – and in a lot of The supertrawlers are so huge lack of money to invest in new the UK? During the 1980s and Grimsby and even in Lowestoft. cases, not fishermen. These extra because two-thirds of their or second-hand boats. So the 1990s, this was also the case. But So not only owners of flagships, fish should go to encourage men design is for processing the catch British government would need it seems that when a Dutch or but also British fishing boats, into the industry – but there are and storing the deep-frozen to launch a recovery programme, Belgian fisherman buys it, he will preferred to land in Dutch no young men available to do this. fish. Why are supertrawlers a targeted at entrepreneurs who be condemned by Mr Lines and ports. Beamers from Lowestoft A huge number of the fishermen problem, and super-factories dare to do this and young local others. This is really strange. were landing quite regularly in now employed by the catching side (producing unhealthy and ultra- people who are willing to work The reality of flagships is that Ijmuiden in the 1980s. come from Uganda, the Philippines, processed food) not? at sea. UK companies have created this Not keeping up with the times, Poland, etc – there would be few Due to the enormous size of I fear this would not work. It situation. It makes no sense to in combination with a dwindling opportunities for young men. the shoals, Dutch supertrawlers might help if local schools started tell everybody that the empty supply of fish, makes it almost As recent TV programmes have fish for just 15 to 25 minutes an educational programme about fishing ports along the English impossible to keep an auction shown, lots of crews are non-UK. per day. Like the Scottish, fish and fishing – but it would east coast are the victims of EU and fish processing plants The original quotas that the Norwegian and Danish pelagic need to be backed by guarantees regulations. If processing plants healthy. Their success stands industry got from the government tank boats (which are also from the government. Without in the UK could deal with the and falls on a steady supply of were given free. They now have a getting bigger and bigger), these financial support, it does not volumes, and prices were fair, fish. value that is worth a fortune to the trawlers can catch up to 200t make any sense. And if locals or even better than in Dutch Willem Ment den Heijer, holders. in a few minutes. For the Dutch are not looking to step onboard, fish auctions, English flagships, Scheveningen, Name and address supplied supertrawlers, 150-200t is foreign fishermen (Filipino, owned by Dutch skippers, would The Netherlands

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Scientists at the Marine mobile phone applications are marine.ie/discardless). unwanted catches, as well “Industry input is really Institute are investigating being developed in fisheries The IFISH project will move as how sharing information important to help shape how new technologies could across the world, from the beyond producing static on the location of unwanted this research so that we be used to share real-time USA to Scotland, to help maps of fish distributions catches may potentially help can ensure that we are information and help skippers skippers receive up to date based on historic catch in further avoiding them.” addressing industry needs avoid unwanted catches. information on the location patterns, and look at how Industry involvement in and concerns, and to ensure The IFISH (Irish Fisheries of fish, to assist in avoiding information-sharing among the IFISH project is key to any output from this work is Information Sharing Network juvenile or quota-limited the Irish fleet could help help co-design information- useful and relevant,” Julia Development) project, funded species. The new BATmap provide real-time information sharing tools and ensure Calderwood said. by the Science Foundation app, for example, is being on the location of fish that they are developed to assist The use of any developed Ireland, is encouraging fishers trialed by Scottish fishers to fishers do not want to catch, in avoiding problematic tools will be completely to participate in the project help avoid choke species in such as undersize juveniles. catches, whatever they may voluntary, with skippers and assist in developing a west of Scotland fisheries Marine Institute scientist be locally or within particular only taking part if they feel useful information-sharing – find out more at: info. Julia Calderwood said: fisheries. By working with it would be useful, and all tool for the industry. batmap.co.uk “At this early stage of the partners in a number of information shared would be New technology is The IFISH project will build project, we are really keen different fisheries, it will private and only available to increasingly being used on the research conducted to talk to anyone who also be possible to set up skippers using the tool. to help skippers avoid as part of the DiscardLess is willing to share their separate information-sharing For more information unwanted catches, but is yet project, which resulted in the experiences and opinions networks in different fisheries or to participate in the to be used in Irish fisheries. development of a discard on how effective different or regions, rather than taking IFISH project, email: julia. Co-operative schemes and hotspot mapping app (shiny. fishing tactics are at avoiding a broad approach. [email protected] 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 9 Covid-19 impact review shows adaptation to ‘new normal’ Seafish has published the second returned. this review. Adopted by many in a series of reviews analysing Daniel Whittle, managing businesses from across the the impacts of Covid-19 across director of Whitby Seafoods, supply chain, it is the element the UK seafood supply chain, said: “The UK government’s Eat of the industry’s response to focusing on the period from July Out to Help Out scheme helped the pandemic that has been to September. a lot. It resulted in a significant given most attention by the Hazel Curtis, director of increase in foodservice demand mainstream media. corporate relations at Seafish, for scampi over the summer, The review notes that many said: “Having weathered the which helped to clear stocks businesses that regarded direct initial impacts of Covid-19 that had built up during the sales as a ‘lifeline’ to allow them on local and global trade, the first lockdown. The impact of to continue operating during the people operating the UK seafood the high retail demand during challenging lockdown period supply chain learned to live and lockdown, and the high demand have moved out of direct sales work within the ‘new normal’ seen in August, has allowed us again as their former supply of a global pandemic over the to continue buying raw material, chains returned. However, summer. which has meant the prawn some businesses throughout the “In this review, we once again boats could keep fishing.” sector saw long-term potential combined quantitative data To reopen or scale up capacity, for direct sales as part of their from across the sector with processing businesses made offering. This led to investment real-time intelligence from our major adaptations to become in this area and recruitment of stakeholders to describe and ‡ Daniel Whittle, managing director of Whitby Seafoods. Covid-safe workspaces. Paul new staff to maintain their new explain the challenges faced, Treadgold, health and safety (or newly expanded) direct sales and how people adapted their • Demersal and shellfish safety training for fishing crew officer at Flatfish Ltd, said: operations alongside a return to businesses in response. We export value was higher than in was possible in small groups “We have managed the risks of traditional markets. wanted to help our industry previous months, though still • Towards the end of the period, Covid-19 in the factory with a This review is the second in and the wider world make sense well below the same period in restrictions in Europe and the number of control measures. a series on the impacts of the of the impacts experienced 2019 UK increased again, bringing These included social distancing Covid-19 pandemic on the UK from a ‘whole of supply chain’ • Retail sales dropped back on renewed uncertainty. on our production lines and seafood sector. The first report, perspective.” previous months, but remained work areas, additional PPE, released in September, looked The review looks at how above 2019 levels The review includes the first enhanced hygiene protocols, an at the period from January to seafood supply, production, • Transport and logistics publication of final data from internal track and trace system, June. It charted the impacts distribution and markets were systems ran more smoothly Seafish’s 2020 survey of the UK stricter procedures for visitors to of coronavirus on the UK affected by the global pandemic than in the spring, and fish seafood processing sector. It also the factory, and additional staff seafood supply chain, from the during July to September. In auctions adjusted to continued features insights from businesses communications and discussion early impacts on international this period, bookended by price volatility and demand throughout the UK seafood forums to support employees. trade following the first cases restrictions first easing, and then uncertainty supply chain, highlighting the “We have maintained these overseas, through national ramping up again, key impacts • Most processing businesses real impacts experienced by controls at the same level lockdown, retail boom and highlighted in the review were back online by August, individual seafood businesses. since introducing them in hospitality closures, to the easing include: having made adaptations to The report looks at the March, regularly reviewing and of restrictions at the start of the ensure safe working while impacts of the return of improving controls day by day. summer. • Foodservice demand increased meeting ever-changing demand consumers to hospitality, and the Though we have been able to Seafish plans to release its next as restrictions eased in the UK • Some aquaculture businesses impact of the Eat Out to Help adapt successfully, the additional report, focusing on October to and Europe and consumers had struggled with poor demand, Out scheme. The re-emergence equipment, cleaning staff and December, in March 2021. This the opportunity and confidence while others capitalised on direct of foodservice, while short-lived, staff downtime during team will feature data collected as to eat meals out of home again sales to see them through this had knock-on benefits for the talks have come at an additional part of Seafish’s annual survey • The return of foodservice period shellfish processing and catching financial cost to the business.” of the UK fishing fleet. saw exports flow to Europe and • Virtual training courses gained sectors, as coldstores cleared The topic of direct sales to The full review can be read at: imports recover slightly popularity, and some face to face and demand for raw material consumers is also revisited in bit.ly/3qzc2BU Co-management is ‘way ahead’ for inshore sector A new approach to managing lack of ownership of the transparent, with clear steps fishermen to give them a could provide a framework inshore fisheries, driven by resource, poor data for some and sufficient flexibility better view of how science for a co-management model. industry need and based species, and that the industry • A project to map inshore works. Equally, many fishery Michel Kaiser said that the on collaboration between often has little or no input to fisheries, to identify individual managers did not necessarily project was keen to look at the industry, government science, which leads to a lack stocks present in UK inshore understand all the pragmatic co-management in other bodies, science providers and of trust. waters and describe the barriers, and it would take parts of the world. In the UK, managers, is the way ahead The FOIF project will run geographic boundaries of time to build that relationship. Shetland and the Isle of Man for the UK inshore sector, for five to 10 years, and its each. This will also look at It might be possible to run were two possible areas for reports Tim Oliver. overriding theme is that how these stocks are currently pilot projects, but this would scrutiny, to see how their This was the message co-management provides a managed, and will provide also take time. systems worked. spelled out to delegates at framework for future working – a baseline for scientific The need for socio- Communication and a meeting of the Seafish though this will look different knowledge economic research, and perseverance were crucial to Fisheries Management in different parts of the • Other ongoing work for incentives to underpin successful co-management, Innovation Group (FMIG). country. focusing on quota allocation, co-management as well as and it was essential for the Updating the group on Ongoing work streams are: economic links, a vessel fisheries research, was raised. project to continue and for the Future of Our Inshore licensing review and a future Michel Kaiser agreed that people to stay engaged, he Fisheries (FOIF) project, • Co-management in practice control and enforcement management was not just said. Michel Kaiser of Heriot Watt – developing a framework strategy. about the fish, but also who Asked when it was University said that the to help regional adoption of is using the space and who expected the database would project is led by industry. It co-management. Dialogue It was suggested during the has priority, and said that be available to use, Michel is based on the realisation has started with the formation meeting that FOIF’s timeline there was very little socio- Kaiser said they were aiming that the status quo cannot of species-specific groups of five to 10 years was too economic research. The for the end of March 2021 continue, and that Brexit • A protocol for data long to prevent the decline Fisheries Act acknowledges for the first draft, but it was offers a chance to ‘do it collection – developing a in many inshore fisheries. the need for more socio- a continuing project. It was better’. research/data-gathering Michel Kaiser responded that economic information in important to build trust, he He said the issues facing standard for the industry there was a lot to do, and that fisheries management, and said, as fishermen were often the inshore sector are lost • Developing a set of rules it takes time for people to would give a fresh start, he opposed to providing data for opportunities to market/ to provide clarity on how gather and create trust. said. stock assessments because add value to catches, lack decisions are made. The It was noted that Fishing A question was asked they believed it has always of access to quota, patchy aim is to co-create a harvest into the Future had been on co-management, and been used to make decisions or variable management, strategy standard that is running workshops for whether practices elsewhere that act against the sector. 10 VIRTUOUS FR 253 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 VIRTUOUS TWIN-RIG WHITEFISH TRAWLING IN THE HOLES AND ON THE PLATEAUX David Linkie looks back to a whitefish trip on Fraserburgh skipper Sandy West’s twin-rig trawler Virtuous FR 253 in August 2012

kipper Sandy West had taken aboard a good mix of Scod, haddock and whiting, together with a couple of baskets of monkfish, from his closing haul 18 hours earlier. It was therefore not surprising that he set a course back towards the remains of the Pumper platform, some 80 miles east of Orkney, when Virtuous cleared the Peterhead breakwaters after making a brief half-landing of 240 boxes, including 170 of cod, caught in just 30 hours of fishing. ‡ Alexander and Sandy West mending a net. Since the northward ebb tide proved beneficial shortly after leaving Rattray Head off the port quarter, the crew were called less than 10 hours later, by which time Virtuous had steamed almost 100 miles in near-perfect conditions. Fifteen minutes later, Virtuous was towing into the northwest and a strong tide at 2.9 knots, with the Mitsubishi main engine running at an economical 1,120rpm and the Scanmar ScanMate 2 net-monitoring system showing a door opening of 72.5 fathoms in a similar depth of water. With 205 ‡ Virtuous fishroom man Jolito boxing cod. fathoms of wire shot, Virtuous was using a set of Thyborøn Type Boxing the catch in the minimum gradually increasing the depth of 11 trawl doors (66in/540kg), a timescale to ensure optimum water to 90 fathoms. Although 1,000kg roller clump and 60 quality was enhanced by the the Furuno DDF1 Navnet fathoms of sweeps (40 fathoms Geneglace ice machine delivering dual-frequency (50-200kHz) of 28mm-diameter combination a constant supply of freshly made sounder had shown some and 20 fathoms of rubber legs on flake ice that was easy for the isolated marks of fish tight to the 18mm wire) to spread 180ft holdmen to quickly scoop into bottom during the first two tows twin-rig prawn scraper nets ‡ The Crescent Hole delivers. baskets and lightly scatter over on the banks, noticeably more rigged on 6in and 8in discs. the fish. life was now being displayed, Evolved from the previous vessels, had been blanked off, at fishroom tally sheet in the Although the first two tows including the occasional blood- generation of twin-rig prawn the same time as the panels wheelhouse. Slightly had been taken on shoal banks, red echo indicating a greater scrapers, the comparatively themselves had been cut on a bar disappointed by the quantity of Sandy West was keen to take the density of fish. higher-standing nets that to allow cod through. The fish lying in the hopper, Sandy dawn tow in the Crescent Hole, This was confirmed when the Virtuous was towing were the 200mm square mesh panel that West reduced the length of wire for which he was now well nets were hauled towards the same as skippers Sandy West and was required to be positioned shot for the next tow to 175 placed. Shaped as the name transom shortly before 8am at Keith Buchan had used on ahead of the inclined panel was fathoms in an attempt to increase suggests along a north-west axis, the end of a four-hour tow, previous prawn trips. The only left in, while a 126mm SMP, headline height at the expense of the Crescent Hole is six miles during which Virtuous had differences were that – to ensure rather than the statutory 110mm spread, which was reduced by long and half a mile wide. With turned through 180° before full compliance with TR1 mesh escape panel, was two fathoms. Five hours later, a some fairly steeply sloping sides, heading back towards the start regulations – codends measuring positioned as usual 15m ahead of 50% increase in the amount of it reaches depths of 110 fathoms of the tow and an intersection of 127mm (7mm bigger than the the codend. fish transferred to the fishroom in places, compared to 70 pipelines clearly displayed on the specified requirement) had been Brought to an end as darkness justified this decision. fathoms along the outer edges. FishSafe unit, including a new fitted in place of the 80mm TR2 descended, the first haul resulted Cod were placed head to tail Closely watching the Olex 3D pipe installation that another bags, and that the escape vents in 12 boxes, mainly cod, which four to a box, sprags in sixes, and seabed display, skipper Sandy Fraserburgh trawler, Harvest fitted above the inclined panels, were subsequently entered into medium codling at 16 to 18 to West eased the gear down the Moon, was guarding a mile away required to be used by TR2 the first column of the running give a target box weight of 35kg. eastern side of the hole, into the southeast.

‡ The 1,000kg middle roller, manufactured by Premier ‡ Shooting away the twin-rig trawls. Engineering of Scarborough. ‡ Hauling for the first time. 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews VIRTUOUS FR 253 11

Apart from the seiner Acorn INS 237, steaming southeast towards the Claymore Bank on the Thursday afternoon shortly before Virtuous starting fishing, and, eight hours earlier, Moremma PD 135, returning to Peterhead after an oil job, skipper James Third’s Harvest Moon was the only Scottish fishing boat seen in over three days at sea, until Virtuous headed back to Peterhead 72 hours later a few miles ahead of Karen Ann II FR 559, which was also returning home after 21 days of guardship duties. Apart from being a disappointment for ‡ Clear evidence of healthy North Sea cod stocks. someone with a camera usually close at hand, this distinct lack of fishing activity – in areas where 15 years earlier up to 20 boats could easily have been expected to be seen – provided a stark reminder of the extent to which the Scottish fleet had been downsized in recent years. Visibly buoyed by a catch hopper half full of prime whitefish, including good-sized whiting, megrims and monks, skipper Sandy West and the crew quickly reshot the twin-rig trawls before taking another tow more down the centreline of the Crescent Hole into the flood tide. Two hours later, holdman Jolito reported that the fishroom tally had been boosted by 38 boxes, ‡ Starting to empty the catch hopper. which the crew celebrated with a tasty omelette quickly produced by Alexander West. Shortly after skipper Sandy ‡ Taking the port codend aboard. WHITBY-BUILT VIRTUOUS West had completed his daily e-log and sent it to Marine were contaminated. before hauling. Although such Scotland via satellite, the fourth Bringing a further 20 boxes of problems are of course a haul nudged the running total similar-quality fish, the fifth haul common occurrence, this towards 90 boxes – although it also brought a setback when the incident was of considerably could so easily have resulted in starboard net surfaced with the more significance because the 22 boxes having to be second set of similar prawn discarded because of a scraper trawls carried on five-gallon drum of bright Virtuous immediately the split net drums were orange paint thoughtlessly established a reputation without codends, as they thrown over the side, had been left ashore to probably from a standby for being one of the comply with TR1 vessel. Fortunately – with regulations. the contents of the codend fastest and most fuel- Although skipper Sandy already lying in the hopper West was keen for the and therefore at risk – the efficient vessels of her trawls to be shot for the paint container must have class in the Scottish fleet darkening tow, the start of entered the port net near this was delayed for nearly ‡ The 23.3m Virtuous was completed by Parkol Marine the end of the tow, so that when torn-out port shoulder hanging an hour while the codend was Engineering at Whitby in August 2010. it fell unseen into the hopper, into the belly – probably the cut off the torn net and laced Jolito was able to quickly climb result of something heavy being onto an otherwise ready spare ith overall and subsequently maintained in and immediately lift it onto picked up by the flip-up ropes, registered lengths this highly economical the shelterdeck before any fish before being tipped out shortly Wof 23.3m and 22.7m, performance level by typically beam of 7.2m and a draught of using under 9,000 litres for 4.8m, Virtuous was designed six-day trips and just over by Ian Paton of SC McAllister 10,000 litres for seven-day & Co Ltd and built by Parkol trips. Marine Engineering at Whitby Developing 470kW @ in 2010. 1,350rpm, the Mitsubishi On starting to fish from S6R2 MPTK main engine is Fraserburgh at the beginning coupled to a Reintjes WAF 374 of September 2010, Virtuous 7.043:1 reduction gearbox. immediately established a This combination results in the reputation for being one of 2,300mm-diameter propeller the fastest and most fuel- turning at a maximum speed efficient vessels of her class in of 192rpm, and one of around the Scottish fleet, returning a 150rpm when typically towing daily fuel consumption of less at 1,050rpm. than 1,500 litres. Although the When a new Virtuous trawler’s new nets became was nearing completion at heavier after the first few Whitby in August 2019, her trips due to the inevitable predecessor was renamed build-up of mud, by usually Accord BCK 262 after being towing the twin-rig gear at bought by Buckie skipper ‡ Another fishroom delivery on 1,000-1,100rpm, Virtuous Michael Alexander Wilson. ‡ Baskets of cod ready for boxing. its way. 12 VIRTUOUS FR 253 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020

net. Taking the opportunity to steam a few miles into the southwest while the codend was swapped over, he opted to take the next tow in Tommy Rae’s Hole. This decision was justified by the second-best count so far – 24 boxes – being stored and iced by 1am on Saturday morning. The integrated storage/ washing system fitted on Virtuous, which included seven selection compartments (five square inline flanked by two elongated rectangular ones to reduce the unit’s overall length), ‡ A well-filled fishroom selection trough. each of which were served by an integral water supply, enabled ‡ Shooting away the port net groundgear and flip-up ropes. the four crewmen to deliver each haul to the fishroom in the 126mm square mesh panels. beyond 95 fathoms, Sandy West minimum timescale and to The smaller four-mile-long eased Virtuous back towards this maintain catch quality. Johnny Morrice’s Hole was depth, while constantly observing Again opting to keep in skipper Sandy West’s choice for the 2D and 3D display on the shallower water during Olex system. darkness, Virtuous took the Being given the next haul into the The starboard net opportunity to watch and northwest on the plateau surfaced to reveal a listen to Sandy West’s between the holes, where a thinking for nearly five third of a lift a side considerable number of hours since entering Johnny produced 20 boxes of Morrice’s Hole, including superb-quality fish. That big ling – which previously the forward planning and only large whiting were had been conspicuous by the decisions he was sliding through the hopper continually making, hatch onto the gutting table their absence provided a unique insight highlighted the number of into the benefits that seabed mature whiting that were being the lightening tow on Saturday mapping systems offer, as well as ‡ Skipper Sandy West completes his first e-log of the trip. lost by using the 200mm and morning, which he entered by the skill needed by a skipper to towing southeast into the hole realise the potential advantages from the north side of the Brent that 3D displays bring. Having pipe. Towing into the tide, which identified the best route out, VESSEL VERSATILITY AND VIABILITY VITAL provided more favourable Virtuous towed across a conditions in the event of coming relatively gentle incline up onto 012 is remembered as the west coast for two to three West started to evaluate the fast, when the tidal flow can the bank, before the Doosan the year that featured one months, during which time limited options open to him. In sometimes help to take a net out, AD126TI auxiliary engine 2of the leanest and longest they frequently worked in areas a nutshell, these consisted of Virtuous started towing into (209kW @ 1,500rpm) was spring/early summer seasonal seldom, if ever, fished by local possibly enduring an unviable deeper water. After starting at 70 switched on once more to drive shortages of prawns in the west coast trawlers, including six-day prawn trip – which fathoms along the west side of the the main hydraulics. North Sea for over 15 years. the Stanton Bank and Barra would not help the mood of hole, increasing signs of life tight Releasing the codends brought Some of the best prawn Head waters. skipper and crew already to the bottom, as well as higher- refreshing smiles all round, as fishing ever seen occurred in When prawn catches disheartened by the fact that standing feeding, were seen while did the later news that the eighth January and February 2011, dipped following the customary they were unable to access towing into the southwest corner, haul had contributed 31 boxes to when boats were getting seasonal appearance of grounds yielding reasonable where the water depth was 97 a tally that was nearing 200 100st-plus days in Bressay blackwater in the Minch and quantities of prawns – or limiting fathoms. boxes after 36 hours’ fishing. waters, 15 miles northeast of the highest tides of the year, the potential losses by tying With the starboard door Not wanting to overplay his where Virtuous fished this trip. Virtuous was one of several Virtuous up until prawns started continually climbing up the bank, hand in the holes, Sandy West However, within days of the Fraserburgh trawlers to lease to show again on the offshore the port one was positioned kept to the plateaux for the next Tohoku tsunami in March 2011, west coast TR1, days before North Sea grounds. considerably lower, as indicated two hauls, while starting to think prawn catches in the northern catching mainly haddock south After delaying sailing on the by the reduced door to clump about shortening the distance to North Sea plummeted. The of Barra Head for two trips, Sunday night to hear the first spread indicated on the Scanmar Peterhead from the end of the continuing marked scarcity before reverting to prawns (poor) reports from boats the display. When the 100-fathom last haul. created growing concerns again. following morning, plan C – contour was reached, the engine Following a routine ninth haul across the catching and Virtuous was refitting at which had started to take shape speed was eased back by 50rpm for 18 boxes – which also processing sectors, until Fraserburgh when east coast 48 hours earlier, when sufficient to 1,010rpm to ensure that the produced another unwanted welcome signs of improvement trawlers were stopped from North Sea TR1 days for a trip tickler chain would continue to example of discarded commercial showed in late August 2011. fishing prawns west. When were sourced for possible dig into the bottom. With marks waste in the form of a 10m length The need to meet bank skippers Sandy West and Keith leasing, together with the having become less frequent of cut-off handrail, which commitments and keep skilled Buchan returned to sea, they all-important cod quota – was crews against a backdrop of decided to try grounds east of swiftly implemented. near-record fuel costs were just Fraserburgh that usually provide While the crew removed the some of the problems skippers a steady return of prawns from 80mm codends from both sets faced. At the same time, mid-summer onwards. At a of twin-rig prawn discer trawls prawn processors ashore were time when seasonal patterns wound on Virtuous’ net drums, desperate for supplies to ensure appeared to be constantly and replaced two of them that hard-won sales outlets in changing for unknown reasons, with bags (valued at £1,000 Europe and further afield could a totally unviable catch rate of each ready to fish) made from be retained, rather than being just a few baskets of prawns 127mm mesh, before cutting lost to competitors in what is a led the partners to join several the inclined panels on the bar fiercely contested international of their counterparts in fishing to allow the cod through and marketplace. prawns off southeast Scotland, blanking off the associated While guard work offered an from where they landed one and opened vents, Sandy West alternative revenue stream for a half trips into Aberdeen. spent most of the day in various some vessels, this did nothing Hearing all too familiar poor offices around Fraserburgh to help processors, who were reports from boats looking for harbour, checking that all the relieved when a number of prawns out east, while steaming necessary paperwork was in Fraserburgh/Peterhead skippers Virtuous north to Fraserburgh place and verified by Marine took the option of fishing on from Aberdeen, skipper Sandy Scotland, before sailing at 8pm. ‡ Quick preventative action in removing a thoughtlessly discarded five-gallon drum of paint from the hopper averted a potential disaster. 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews VIRTUOUS FR 253 13

‡ Another haul of cod is released into the hopper… ‡ … as the codend empties quickly.

‡ Jolito and Sandy and Alexander West lacing a 127mm codend onto a reserve net.

‡ Taking a bonus codend of ling aboard. ‡ Ting a ring – ling.

‡ Alexander West holds a decent ling.

‡ Taking another haul aboard. ‡ Virtuous towing in the north end of the aptly named Crescent Hole. ‡ Using the Olex 3D display to plot a tow in Johnny Morrice’s Hole.

‡ A satisfied skipper Sandy West shooting away the ‡ Jolito reaches into the reception hopper to slip the codline. ‡ Ling outnumber cod in the hopper. gear for the last time after the bag of ling. 14 VIRTUOUS FR 253 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020

without the ling. This marked imbalance was attributed to good fortune, in that the better-fished net had passed rather too close to a wreck or a patch of hard bottom for comfort, although nothing was shown on the plotters. It is often said that fortune favours the brave, and – alongside the decision to switch over to whitefish for a week – skipper Sandy West’s decision had proved the correct one for several reasons. A fine supper of mince and tatties, followed by toffee ice-cream, helped to replace some of the energy the crew had used in putting another 32 boxes down ‡ A consistent showing of large monks added catch value. into the fishroom. These were followed by a further 25 boxes fortunately was extracted from Quickly clipping the Gilson wire when the gear was hauled for the the belly of the port net by using onto the dog rope resulted in an last time one hour after nightfall, an angle grinder before too much initial estimate of 15 boxes of ling when Virtuous had 96 miles to damage occurred – the being released into the hopper, steam for Peterhead. penultimate tow was taken in 70 along with what had almost After five hours in their bunks, fathoms between the Johnny the crew were called to begin Morrice’s and I&F holes. the work of power-washing This provided an A tally for 287 boxes, Virtuous from stem to stern understandable stir of including 153 of cod, 20 and cutting off the TR1 enthusiasm on the quarter codends in preparation for and in the wheelhouse when of flats, 24 of monks, 36 leaving Peterhead the back the starboard net surfaced o’ Sunday to resume prawn to reveal a considerable of haddock, 22 of whiting fishing again. number of big ling – which and 18 of ling, was passed Shortly before 10am on previously had been Sunday morning, Virtuous conspicuous by their ashore to the market man drew alongside Peterhead absence – still making their fishmarket, when a tally for way down the bag into the become the expected mix of 287 boxes, including 153 of cod, ‡ Boxing ling in the fishroom. codend as the net was dried up. sprags, whiting and monks. 20 of flats, 24 of monks, 36 of Holding more than sufficient haddock, 22 of whiting and 18 of quota for the unexpected haul of ling, caught within the previous ling added to Sandy West’s 78 hours, was passed ashore to satisfaction when he looked at the the market man. NATURE IN PLAY IN hopper while taking the second Catch-wise, the second net aboard, which produced a whitefish half-landing, like the EVOLVING STOCK CYCLES similar mix of whitefish, but first, had been justified, although he degree to which fishing continues to be Tinfluenced by the natural marine environment was clearly illustrated by the fact that Virtuous was catching good- quality mature whitefish on the same grounds that just one and a half years earlier had regularly yielded 20-40st hauls of clean prawns for Fraserburgh twin-rig trawlers. Although some skippers thought that a succession of more severe winters, followed by frequent periods of colder northeasterly winds rather than ‡ A partly digested herring falls out of a cod’s mouth – large warm westerlies, could have quantities of mature cod require consistent supplies of food, which been partly responsible for in turn could threaten the natural balance. ‡ A bag of fish comes alongside in the night. prawns staying buried deep in the mud, they also pointed whitefish present on a wide the large healthy fish seen on out that similar cycles had swathe of infrequently fished this trip, it was obvious that occurred before, particularly ground were feeding on considerable amounts of food in 1996, since when there had prawns whenever they left their were being consumed daily on been a steady year-round burrows. the seabed. prawn fishery between all the This possibility appeared Mother Nature has a places in the North Sea that to be reinforced by some strong track record of self- Fraserburgh twin-rig skippers cods’ stomachs revealing healing – but there was a would expect to visit during the evidence of prawns on gutting, risk that, not being fully year. together with considerable understood by scientists, the For nearly 10 years, the numbers of mature herring, natural restorative properties consistent year-long prawn which several Scottish pelagic in play could be adversely fishery had been experienced boats were fishing further affected as a result of this during a time when cod stocks west off Start Point, at the balance being distorted by went through a perceived dip. same time as some Danish new fisheries regulations Now, when cod were abundant, and Dutch midwater vessels that could ultimately prove concern was expressed that were fishing southeast of to be benefiting cod to the the large numbers of cod Virtuous. Whatever form of considerable detriment of and other species of mature food cod were taking, given other species. ‡ The codends are hauled towards the transom together. 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews VIRTUOUS FR 253 15 the ultimate measure of success, the bottom-line settling, which was totally dependent on market prices, would not be known for another 24 hours, when the catch would be sold by Peter & J Johnstone Ltd for the Fraserburgh-based Westward Fishing Company. Although Virtuous landed to what turned out to be a big market of 5,300 boxes, with haddock comprising half of this total, cod was in fairly short supply. This worked to skipper Sandy West’s advantage, with green securing £2.30-£3.20, ling £2.20-£2.70 and monkfish up to £4 per kg. These prices were sufficient to justify the significant costs incurred in leasing cod – although as always, a fine line existed with regard to financial ‡ Virtuous takes the final haul, as the last of the day disappears below viability. n ‡ The fishroom tally mounts on the second night. the horizon. GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT his long-awaited trip residents who had woken up across the North Sea. on Virtuous came out to find that flash flooding had After a night of torrential Tof the blue at the end left them stranded in upstairs rain at Peterhead, the skies of a busy few days in which rooms. Due to pure good lightened shortly after 10am, weather presented a number of fortune and a reliable diesel with the result that 90 minutes unexpected challenges. engine, I managed to be one later, the sun was shining The first materialised less of the last cars to drive the 10 brightly when Sir Albert than an hour after leaving miles along the A68 between McQuarrie unveiled a plaque the house early on a Sunday Jedburgh and St Boswells, even following the renaming of the morning, making for Peterhead. though the floodwater was well quay he had played a key role Fifteen miles after reaching the over the axles on numerous in making possible 20 years 1,500ft summit of Carter Bar on occasions. earlier. The deepwater driving the England-Scotland border, Later than expected, a skills honed the previous day the drive into Jedburgh, along relieved driver arrived at proved beneficial during the what had rapidly become a Stonehaven to meet and two-mile drive from the Sir severely flooded main road, photograph Mike Park, who Albert Quay to a reception lunch brought the unprecedented had completed his gruelling at the Buchan Braes Hotel in ‡ A rarity caught on the other side of the camera lens, following sight of emergency crews in training programme ahead of his Boddam, due to the main road the launch of John Addison’s book BCK Motorboats Volume 2 at the RIBs attempting to rescue attempt to row single-handed through Stirling village being left Buckie and District Fishing Heritage Centre. badly flooded. Photographing the new a more relaxed opportunity to again by 6am. If you’re down inshore static-gear fast boat get some much-needed photos at the market by 5am, you are Acadia was one task on the of whitefish vessels landing more than welcome to come to-do list for the following at Peterhead. The plan was to away with us for three days,” day, which dawned warm and head back down the road the Fraserburgh skipper Sandy sunny. As if on cue, the sky next day to start writing up a West said, speaking via satellite became threatening literally combination of news stories and phone. Having waited two while boarding the Peterhead features. years for such an opportunity pilot boat from the south However, making the most of since Virtuous was launched at breakwater, and by the time AJ feature opportunities whenever Whitby, the answer was a no- and William Buchan helpfully they might arise is crucially brainer. steamed past 30 seconds later, important. Having already been As a result, the next three the lifejacket was the driest part forwarded an email indicating hours were spent writing and of my clothing – but at least that a really good one was emailing news stories for the the photographs were on the probably about to present itself, following week’s issue of Fishing memory card. there was no surprise when the News, rather than chance any ‡ Mike Park completes his training, two days before attempting to Scheduled to be at mobile rang shortly after 1am. possible satellite broadband row across the North Sea from Stonehaven to Denmark. Stonehaven in one hour’s time “We will be in to land at difficulties over the coming for Mike Park’s departure, there Peterhead for 3am, and sailing days. was no other choice but to drive soaked through. No wonder my appearance drew some curious glances on joining the crowd of well-wishers waiting to give Mike a rousing send-off in a sunny Stonehaven. Wednesday resulted in the unusual occurrence of my being in front of a camera lens rather than behind it, after being invited to help launch John Addison’s latest book, BCK Motorboats Volume 2, at the Buckie and District Fishing Heritage Centre. With the images from an ‡ Driving along the Stirling deepwater edge between Peterhead and extremely productive three days ‡ Acadia in action off Peterhead, as a personal soaking quota was Boddam! in the bag, the evening gave rapidly absorbed. 16 VIOLA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 BRINGING THE VIOLA HOME She lies in isolated decline in South Georgia – but there are multi-million-pound plans to bring Viola, the world’s oldest viable steam trawler, home. Brian W Lavery reports iola lies rusting, her mighty heart stilled, 8,000 miles Vfrom home in the sub- Antarctic island of South Georgia, a place for which the word ‘remote’ barely suffices. The explorer Ernest Shackleton lies buried a stone’s throw from her final berth on Cumberland Bay, where also lie the decaying hulls of two whalers. Here, the albatrosses and petrels outnumber humanity by thousands to one. This place came to the notice of the wider world only three times in a century. In 1916, Shackleton sailed in a small open boat with a tiny crew from Elephant Island across atrocious seas. His party fell upon King Haakon Bay, and ‡ Despite half a century of neglect, Viola is in great shape for her age. Shackleton and two others then crossed glaciers and mountains to many armed encounters with closed and Dias, together with the a whaling station, from where they U-boats, and Allum’s leadership vessels Petrel and Albatros, was returned to rescue their marooned ‡ The Viola in her current resting place in South Georgia. and courage resulted in him being mothballed. men. This real-life Boys’ Own mentioned in dispatches. Viola is Viola/Dias was still there in adventure made worldwide London – from trawling to government. one of only four surviving British 1982 when some Argentine scrap headlines. minesweeping to submarine Viola’s story began in 1906. The vessels that saw action in the metal merchants landed with the In 1922, Shackleton died there hunting, then whaling and taking steamship was built in Beverley, Great War. aim of cutting up the ships. They of a heart attack on his ship Quest, seals, and latterly hosting East Yorkshire, as part of a boxing In peacetime, she was sold to then hoisted their country’s flag having been due to return to the expeditions in the South Atlantic. fleet operated by the Hellyer Norwegian owners and renamed and triggered a war, making Viola Antarctic. Sixty years later, The first was the Kohl-Larsen Steam Fishing Company of Hull. Kapduen, and then within a few arguably the only vessel to have Argentine scrap dealers landed Expedition of 1928-29, which Boxing fleets were an early form of years was converted into a whaler seen action in the Great War and nearby and sparked another took the first cine film on South industrial fishing, named after the and renamed Dias. Her whaling the Falklands. worldwide story – the Falklands Georgia. Others included the boxes in which fish were Distinguished maritime War. British South Georgia Expedition packed. These were Viola’s history reads like the historian Dr Robb Robinson Viola’s history reads like the and those for biological work transferred at sea in open found that luck played a part stories of Herman Melville or Jack carried out by the Falklands rowing boats to fast steam stories of Herman Melville in his telling of Viola’s story. cutters bound for London to In a local radio broadcast, he feed the insatiable monster or Jack London – from spoke of a former Viola of Billingsgate’s fishmarket. skipper whose life was as The railway boom boosted trawling to minesweeping to colourful as it was reach – and trawlermen and submarine hunting, then courageous. George William cutter crews continued to Tharratt – whose birth name risk their lives so the whaling and taking seals was the grandiose-sounding Lancashire mill girl or the Green Willows Tharratt – Yorkshire coalminer could have involved voyages to the African commanded Viola from 1912. their fish and chips. coast. In 1927, she was sold to He joined the Royal Naval Hellyer’s Hull boxing fleet Compania Argentina de Pesca Reserve in 1914 aged 48, and joined three others – the Great Sociedad Anonima – known as served on other requisitioned Northern, the Red Cross and the Pesca. The company operated vessels out of Newhaven. In 1919, Gamecock. The latter was from Grytviken, South Georgia he was awarded the Distinguished famously fired upon in 1904 when and used her for taking elephant Service Cross for services to the Russian navy mistook the seals. Pesca sold out to British minesweeping. vessels for Japanese warships. This firm Albion Star in 1960. By But Tharratt was also a bigamist almost sparked a European war 1964-65, the whaling station and a philanderer. In 1893, he had ‡ The steam trawler Viola, pictured in around 1907. long before 1914. Charles Hellyer’s fleet launched in 1906, and he named most vessels after Shakespearean characters. Like her Twelfth Night namesake, Viola landed on a foreign isle – but with a less happy ending. Viola left the Humber in 1914 when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper. She and her crew sailed to war under the command of skipper Charles Allum, a London waiter’s son who had come north seeking adventure. He was not disappointed. Viola was on the maritime front line for four years. She steamed thousands of miles across U-boat and mine-infested seas, more than any dreadnought. She first patrolled off the Shetland islands, and later off England’s ‡ The crew of a boxing trawler, photographed in summer 1910. east coast. She was involved in ‡ The boxing trawler crew at work. 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews VIOLA 17

But a further £2m will be needed to restore her and make her into a museum. It is hoped there will be funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund, given its current £27.4m investment across six years in Hull to mark its revival as Yorkshire’s maritime city. First, there is a Catch 22 to overcome. Robb, who literally wrote the book on the subject, along with Shackleton scholar Ian Hart, said: “In order for Viola to qualify for aid from the lottery people, she would have to be on the historic ships register. “To do that, she would have to be in British waters, which surprisingly does not include ‡ Transferring boxes from a trawler to a steam cutter in the open sea. where she is presently.” Robb is a passionate advocate 97-year-old man that his mum and for Viola, and has done lectures dad were not ever married. He about her nationally and was fine with the news, and internationally. At one, he so pleased that his father’s life as a impressed publisher Richard skipper was to be recognised.” Wynne that he was offered a book Eric told Robb how his mother deal in 2014 for Viola – The Life had told her five children that one and Times of a Hull Steam of them would have to go to an Trawler. While promoting that orphanage, because she could not book, Robb’s eloquence paid off afford to keep them. She selected again. the youngest, two-year-old Violet, Maritime salvage expert Paul but Eric insisted that he went, Escreet, who owns Hessle-based because he was nearly 12 and tug owner and operator SMS could leave after two years and Towage, said: “I saw in the local earn an income to support the paper that there was a talk by family as the new man of the Robb about his campaign to bring house. At 14, Eric got farm work, the Viola home. ‡ 103-year-old Eric Tharratt looks at his father’s photo in the book and four years later joined the “To be honest, I went along to about his former command. company Smith & Nephew, where see if there was a commercial he stayed until retirement. opportunity, but Robb is such a one businessman tell me that if we home should be from Eric ‡ Viola skipper George William Eric said he knew little of his persuasive speaker that I ended up get her home he will give us Tharratt, the son of her former Tharratt. father because he was at sea so offering to help.” £10,000 a year for 10 years. And skipper. Now 103, Eric still lives often and for so long, but on At a later lecture in Leith, recently, I received a cheque for in West Hull and supports the bigamously married Elizabeth occasion he had joined him Robb’s persuasion worked again, £1,000 from a woman whose Viola Trust. He recently signed Ellis, a widow with six sons. And onboard – once on a fishing trip, this time with the then Liberal holiday was cancelled due to calendars created by a local artist just weeks before getting his and again on a ship sent to Ostend Democrat MP Sir Menzies Covid, so she decided to support at a fundraiser. medal, he was cited as to collect coal during the 1926 Campbell. He invited Robb to us.” He said: “She is a big part of our correspondent in a divorce case by General Strike. make a presentation at the House Getting the Viola home will not history, and her coming home will petty officer Frank Bailey. Tharratt Robb’s passion for Viola’s story of Commons. only boost tourism and save an also show the world that my father had been living with Bailey’s wife, joined forces with a businessman’s That was how Alan Johnson got important piece of maritime was more than just a man in a who had a son by him – but the nous and a politician’s persuasive involved. The former Labour history, but also provide jobs and pauper’s grave.” n scandal was seemingly overlooked. powers to spark a mission to bring home secretary and ex-Hull West training. The Viola Trust and In the 1920s, Tharratt returned her home. The Viola Trust has and Hessle MP became the Viola Humberside Engineering Training To donate to the Viola Trust, go to: to Hull. He died in 1928 and was spent tens of thousands of pounds Trust’s patron. He was joined by Association plan to have young violatrawler.net or write to: Paul buried in a pauper’s grave. preparing for the great task ahead. local shipping owner Andrew people develop their skills with Escreet, The Viola Trust, c/o SMS Listening to Robb Robinson’s Surveys it has financed have Marr, ex-University of Hull her restoration. Towage, Ocean House, broadcast in 2014 was Tharratt’s shown that Viola is in great shape vice-chancellor David Drewery, Alan Johnson added: “We have Livingstone Rd, Hessle, HU13 then 97-year-old son, Eric. Later, for her age, and that her steam local maritime lawyer Dominic world-renowned salvage and 0EG. the historian met with Eric, who engines are still intact. She can be Ward, accountant Chris Try and towage experts right here in my told him more about his father – moved home – but at an estimated Vice-Admiral Nick Lambert. former constituency in the heart of Viola – The Life and Times of a but not before Eric had learned cost of £1m. It will be necessary to Alan Johnson said: “Since the the old fishing community, and Hull Steam Trawler by Robb some things too. put her into a giant frame and government of South Georgia and many dedicated people giving Robinson and Ian Hart is available Robb said: “I never imagined onto a heavy lifting ship for the South Sandwich Islands gave us their expertise and support. But from Lodestar Books at: that I would ever have to tell a voyage back. permission in 2017 to bring the we need to land that one big fish lodestarbooks.com/product/viola Viola home, we’ve been focused to get us on our way home. So if on the vital first-stage funding. I there are any maritime Photographs by kind permission am confident we will get the philanthropists out there, please of Lodestar Books, Dr Robb remainder later. come forward.” Robinson, the Tharratt family and “Hull City Council has been The final word on bringing Viola the Viola Trust. successful in securing a lottery grant for its big maritime heritage project. Viola can be its jewel in the crown and occupy one of the three berths being prepared by the project. “One is for the last sidewinder turned museum ship Arctic Corsair, another is for the refurbished Spurn Light Ship, on the marina, and the third berth is Viola’s. There’s a great will to raise the funds, and a lot has been achieved. “Lots of folk, from businesspeople to ordinary ‡ Naval architect Rosalind Blazejcyk and salvage expert John members of the public, have come Simpson, from Solis Marine of Hull, survey Viola to assess the forward.” ‡ Viola lies next to the rusting hulks of Albatros and, further away, feasibility of bringing her home. Paul Escreet added: “I’ve had Petrel. 18 SOUTH COAST REVIEW Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 THE VIEW FROM THE SOUTHEAST At the end of an unusually challenging year, John Periam looks back at the impacts across the south coast industry – and forward to better prospects for 2021

riting 2020’s end of year review has been very Wdifferent due to the coronavirus, which has caused major issues for all those involved in the South East industry. What has shone through is their determination to succeed, and the fact that, regardless of the year’s setbacks, local fishermen do see a future in the industry for those working within the inshore sector. Fishermen are once again starting to sell direct to the public, in some areas doing door to door deliveries following a long day at sea. Peter Dadds, from Mudeford, posts films of himself fishing on his website alongside daily updates on ‡ Lyme Regis fisherman Chris the fish he has caught, so his Wayson prepares line-caught customers can order online. Once bass ready for direct sale. he is ashore, he and his wife prepare and then deliver the the industry has shown it has the orders. “It really has worked well, ability to adjust and develop, and I and I will be planning to improve am hopeful of a bright future for on this during 2021. It is now ‡ At 91, Whitstable whelk fisherman Derrick West is still working. hardworking fishermen.” about the future – not the past,” Robert Clark, the chief fishery said Peter. been since 1963. Watching her Encouraging more youngsters we are ready for further changes in officer for the Association of One person who can tell a few shelling whelks still amazes me.” into fishing is vital, and will be high the future has occupied a large part IFCAs, said: “The hard work and tales of how things have changed Sons are still following fathers on the agenda for 2021. All agree of our time, as well as readying the ingenuity of the industry has let it over the years is Derrick West from into the local industry. Recent that incentives are needed, in the squadron to be on the forefront of adapt in exceptional Whitstable. In 2021 he will be 92, South East articles have featured form of better training provision our maritime security into 2021.” circumstances, and it will do so and he is reckoned to be the oldest the Harvey family at Selsey, the Ball and practical and financial support. Another vital strand of support again to realise the opportunities UK working fisherman. His family family at Rye and the Watt family But going to sea is a precarious this year has been the work of the that new domestic fisheries have long been known for the at Eastbourne, all with sons who occupation, as sadly proven by the Fishermen’s Mission, Seafarers policies will provide. I know all selling of Whitstable oysters and have followed in their fathers’ recent loss of two crew members UK and the Shipwrecked the members of the IFCAs, the whelks, and Derrick started footsteps. Chris Harvey said: “It from the Brixham-based trawler Mariners’ Society, along with local councillors and the working in the harbour in 1943. was not a case of my father pushing Joanna C, which capsized off other charitable trusts, who have fishermen are determined to He said: “I enjoy what I do, and my me and my brother Mike into Newhaven in late November. The pulled out all the stops to help support sustainable inshore son Graham is carrying on the fishing – it was that we wanted to Maritime and Coastguard Agency fishing communities during these fishing. family tradition. My wife Jean is do it. And it was the best move we (MCA) and the RNLI are anxious difficult times. “In 2021, we must work within still working alongside me, and has ever made.” to see further improvements to Despite the year’s challenges, the fishing industry, in all its safety at sea. demand for new inshore fishing forms, to build bridges to Roger Gee, principal consultant vessels remains strong. Both encourage support for our inshore marine surveyor for the MCA, said: Ventnor-based Cheetah Marine fisheries, to ensure that local “It is a case of working with and Ramsgate-based Audacious communities shape the future and fishermen to protect them whilst at Marine have seen an increase in realise the benefits of our new sea, and we at the MCA are taking their order books. Paul Cannon, domestic fishing policy.” on new surveyors for this purpose. director of Audacious, said: “We This was echoed by Leigh-on- In 2021 we will be expanding on have launched our first 10m x Sea fisherman Paul Gilson, who this even more, working alongside 4.5m outboard-version Cougar. said: “The future looks bright – we the RNLI Fishing Safety Team Alongside this we have a new 7m will be clear of the EU’s wasteful under Frankie Horne, Seafish and x 3m purpose-built inboard mould management, and hopefully be the Marine Accident Investigation that we have done some very able to manage our waters in a Branch. For example, there are stringent tests on. Our first vessel more sustainable manner, offering now many new designs of personal from the new mould is due soon, a future to young fishermen and flotation devices which do not and we hope to show it at the bringing back the enjoyment of restrict movement when working Aberdeen Skipper show. Even in catching fish.” n ‡ Safety at sea has been a major theme in 2020, including the launch on deck. It is time for change!” the current times, we must think of the Fishing Industry Safety Group’s Home and Dry campaign. Ed Blake of Ventnor Haven ahead.” Fishery on the Isle of Wight said: This was endorsed by Sean “We are hoping that the MCA will Strevens at Cheetah. He added: work with us to make new boats “Fishermen need to go to sea in safer, especially when it comes to vessels that are safe and well- the stability of fishing vessels. We proven. 2021 will be an interesting would like to see more year, but we intend to produce development of under-deck fuel Cheetahs that will encourage tanks. At times we can have some fishermen back to what they do very inclement weather off the best – fishing!” island.” Paul Johnson, the MMO’s The Royal Navy’s Overseas principal marine officer for the Patrol Squadron, formerly the South East, said: “The fishing Fishery Protection Squadron, industry has shown clear resilience under the command of and agility throughout the year, Commander David Louis RN, has but I for one will not be sad to see ‡ The Royal Navy Overseas Patrol also had a challenging year. He the back of 2020. However, there Squadron, which encompasses said: “Much has changed, but are positive signs ahead, though it fisheries protection, has seen ‡ Demand for new builds has held up despite the challenges in 2020 – fisheries patrol remains at the core is clear that 2021 will probably new vessels added to its fleet in this Audacious Marine Cougar Catamaran is ready for delivery. of our purpose, and ensuring that provide its own hurdles. 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Sussex fisherman calls for CCTV on supertrawlers Irish Stock Book and Sustainability Newhaven-based fisherman Ben damage to fish stocks and the Impact Assessment published Dunwell has shared his concerns seabed. about seeing more dead dolphins Some believe that our appetite Irish minister for agriculture, conclusions from a during the past few months – for fish and warming sea food and the marine Charlie consultation process with something he puts down to the temperatures leave dolphins McConalogue received the stakeholders, a public increasing number of foreign caught in a perfect storm, while 2020 Marine Institute Stock consultation and expert supertrawlers working in the others insist that our waters are Book at the start of December. contributions from the Marine region, reports John Periam. being overfished, and that the One of the principal annual Institute and BIM. It is available This was endorsed by Thea supertrawlers are adding to the publications from the institute, at: bit.ly/39zmGTj Taylor of the Brighton Dolphin problem. this provides scientific advice Project, who said: “The dolphins The owners of these vessels on commercially exploited fish are basically getting caught up in say there is no evidence to stocks of interest to Ireland. the nets of these larger vessels support these claims. Matthew The minister also presented because they are moving faster Cox of the North Atlantic Fishing the Sea Fisheries Sustainability than they are. They then can’t get ‡ Newhaven fisherman Ben Dunwell Company said: “We are working Impact Assessment (SIA) to the surface. Once they are in reports seeing dolphin bodies on a to eliminate any incidence of to the Joint Oireachtas the nets, their immediate reaction more regular basis. (Photo: Geoffrey cetacean by-catch in our fishery. Committee on Agriculture and is to go up. They then panic and Lee) This includes, but is not limited the Marine. This examines try to surface, and sadly, they to, the use of ‘pingers’ on all the implications for Ireland of basically drown.” that they insist are responsible. our vessels active in dolphin- the European Commission’s This summer saw record East Worthing and Shoreham sensitive areas all year round.” proposals for the fixing of sightings of dolphins around the MP Tim Loughton has raised Ben Dunwell said: “If they claim TACs for the coming year, south coast, with dozens spotted local concerns with fisheries they are not killing dolphins, then and the impacts they could and filmed, as well as porpoises minister Victoria Prentis in an they won’t mind having cameras have on the sustainability and seals. This has been effort to get these trawlers onboard their vessels. I think of the fishing sector from a followed by a record number banned. More are being seen they should just install them biological, economic and of dolphin strandings, with than ever before, and fishing themselves and show the world social perspective. ‡ Minister Charlie McConalogue campaigners calling for more communities are also raising – and if it’s sustainable, we are The SIA draws its with the 2020 Stock Book. action to stop the supertrawlers concerns about the potential then on their side.” 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES LIGHTER WHITEFISH MARKETS AT PETERHEAD

Supply levels dropped considerably at megrim £1.35-£7.65, hake 65p-£7.65, Peterhead last week following the year’s ling £1.20-£1.60, coley £1-£1.40 and second-highest five-day total of 31,518 squid £2.45-£4.25 per kg. boxes the previous week, reports David The following morning, nine boats, Linkie. Guiding Light, Guiding Star, Shalanna, Ten boats, Harvester, Ocean Harvest, Endurance, Forever Faithful, Castlewood, Audacious, Lapwing, Budding Rose, Attain II, Jubilee Spirit and Fladda Maid, Virtuous, Gracious, Allegiance, Harvest together with two consignments from Hope and Vision IV, together with two Aalskere and Audacious, landed 3,906 consignments from Atlantic Challenge and boxes. Tuesday’s tally, the smallest of the Aquarius, contributed 6,144 boxes to the four days, included 680 boxes of gutted opening market of last week at Peterhead. and 306 boxes of round haddock, 926 Monday’s sale, the largest of the first boxes of cod, 493 boxes of whiting (321 four days of last week, included 1,338 rounders), 367 boxes of hake, 340 boxes boxes of gutted haddock, 1,134 boxes of of monkfish, 181 boxes of squid, 135 cod, 1,124 boxes of coley, 1,066 boxes boxes of flatfish, 120 boxes of coley, 100 of whiting (656 rounders), 414 boxes boxes of ling and 43 boxes of megrim. of flatfish, 369 boxes of monkfish, 234 Seven boats, Orion, Ocean Endeavour, ‡ Audacious, Orion and Golden Gain V landing at Peterhead earlier this month. boxes of squid, 132 boxes of hake, 83 Tranquility, Shekinah, Celestial Dawn, boxes of ling and 66 boxes of megrim. Shalimar II and Falcon, plus three Sparkling Star, Jubilee Quest, Ocean Last Thursday morning at Peterhead, hake £1-£6.60 and squid 30p-£5 per kg. At the start of last week at Peterhead, consignments from Sparkling Star, Norlan Vision, Renown and Searcher, along large/medium gutted haddock made Thirty-three boats and 11 large cod sold at £3.25-£3.95 per kg, and Keila, landed 4,110 boxes to Peterhead with four consignments from Benarkle £2.45-£3.50 per kg, selected £2.45- consignments contributed to last medium £2.95-£3.45, selected £2.05- market last Wednesday morning. This II, Caspian K, Boy John and Rosebloom, £3.15, small £2.50-£3.25, chippers week’s four-day total of 18,085 boxes £2.85 and small £1.55-£2.55. Large/ sale included 1,179 boxes of gutted and contributed 3,925 boxes to last Thursday’s £1.95-£3.05 and metros £1.45-£2.45. at Peterhead. This tally included 4,115 medium gutted haddock made £2.45- 48 boxes of round haddock, 645 boxes market at Peterhead. This sale included Large cod sold at £3.05-£4.40 per kg, boxes of haddock (354 rounders), 3,548 £3.60, selected £2.40-£2.95, small of coley, 549 boxes of cod, 483 boxes 939 boxes of cod, 564 boxes of gutted sprags £2.90-£4, medium £2.65-£3.45, boxes of cod, 2,401 boxes of whiting £1.15-£2.70, chippers £1.60-£2.35 and of whiting (361 rounders), 460 boxes of haddock, 493 boxes of monkfish, 359 selected £2.30-£3 and small £1.60-£3. (1,501 ungutted), 2,202 boxes of coley, metros £1-£1.80. Gutted whiting were at monkfish, 270 boxes of squid, 125 boxes boxes of whiting (163 rounders), 330 boxes Monkfish sold at £1.05-£5, gutted whiting 1,662 boxes of monkfish, 1,014 boxes of 80p-£1.50 and round whiting 65p-£1 per of ling, 90 boxes of flatfish, 53 boxes of of hake, 329 boxes of squid, 313 boxes 80p-£1.80, round whiting 80p-£1.20, squid, 878 boxes of hake, 747 boxes of kg. Monkfish sold at 90p-£3.90, lemon megrim and 49 boxes of hake. of coley, 262 boxes of ling, 108 boxes of plaice £1-£3.15, lemon sole £1.45- flatfish, 570 boxes of ling and 264 boxes sole £1.75-£12.50, plaice 90p-£4.05, Seven boats, Steadfast Hope, Accord, flatfish and 102 boxes of megrim. £10.30, coley 50p-£1.75, ling £1-£1.70, of megrim. BUSY TUESDAY STEADY SALES MAINTAINED AT BRIXHAM Despite a couple of poor-weather days when the 1s, £11.90 for 2s, £9.80 for 3s, £3.40 for 4s and day-boats were confined to harbour, Brixham 60p for 5s. Ling sold at £1.50 for 1s and 2s and MARKET IN SHETLAND saw another steady week, with total sales for £1 for 3s. Prime and large lobsters both made the full week expected to be in the region of £26. Mackerel was £7.50 for 2s and £1 for 3s. £750,000. Megrim 1s were £5.70, 2s £4.80, 3s £3.50, Over the first four markets last week, bass 4s £2.50 and 5s £1.40. Monkfish 1s averaged fetched £16 for 1s, £15.50 for 2s, £13.70 for 3s, £11.20, 2s £11.80, 3s £10, 4s £9.60, 5s £8.20 £7.50 for 4s and £6.80 for 5s. Blondie wing 1s and 6s £4.80. Grey mullet 1s and 2s were £4. Red were £2.30, 2s £2.90, 3s £3.20 and 4s £2.40/kg. mullet sold at £9.80/kg for 1s, £9.20 for 2s and Bream made £9 for 2s and £5.50 for 3s. Size 1 £5.20 for 3s. Octopus averaged £1.85. brill averaged £10.80/kg, 2s £8.60, 3s £7.90, 4s Plaice 1s averaged £4/kg, 2s £3.50, 3s £3.20, £6.80 and 5s £5.40. 4s £2.40 and 5s £1.60. Pollack 1s and 2s were Cod averaged £7 for 1s and 2s, £6.50 for 3s, £4.80, 3s £4.40 and 4s £3.60. Sand sole 1s were £5.20 for 4s and £3.80 for 5s. Coley made £2.20 £8/kg and 2s £4.60. Large scallops were £7.50 for 1s and £1.80 for 2s. Conger 1s were £1.10, 2s and small £4.80. Dover sole 1s averaged £11.60/ £1 and 3s 30p. Large cuttlefish averaged £1.97 kg, 2s £11.30, 3s £12.20, 4s £11.10, 5s and 6s and small £1.32. Size 1 dabs were £3.50 and £10.40, 7s £9.20, 8s £7.90, 9s £6.30 and 10s 2s 30p. John Dory 1s were £14/kg, 2s £13.30, £4.20. Squid 1s were £8 and 2s £8.50. 3s £11.50 and 4s £8.90. Red gurnard 2s made Thorny wings averaged £2.10 for 2s and 3s £1.20 and 4s 60p. and £1.70 for 4s. Tubs were £1.40/kg for 1s and Haddock 1s were £3.80 and 2s £2.20. Hake £1 for 2s. Turbot 1s averaged £18.20/kg, 2s £17, made £4.50 for 1s and 2s, £4.60 for 3s, £4.75 for 3s £16, 4s £14.90, 5s £12.40 and 6s £10.80. 4s, £5.10 for 5s, £3.60 for 6s, £2.60 for 7s and Size 1 whiting averaged £3/kg, 2s £2, 3s 80p and 80p for 8s. Lemon sole averaged £11.80/kg for 4s 30p. WIND AND FOG RESTRICT ‡ The Fraserburgh pair-seiner Crystal River landing into Lerwick fishmarket last month. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) LANDINGS FOR LOWESTOFT Seven boats put ashore 1,833 day total to 7,019 boxes from 31 saithe, 6,228kg of hake, 4,145kg of boxes for Monday’s electronic vessels. megrim and 2,233kg of lemon sole. Breezy conditions over the past couple of auctions, with no particular dominant species. auction. Tuesday’s market was Over the first four markets of the Top prices included cod at £3.70 weeks have restricted some of the fishing effort Prices for the fish that were available were busier than usual, with 2,884 week, cod led the way at 43,461kg, per kg, gutted haddock £3.10, hake along the east coast supplying the Lowestoft generally strong. boxes from 11 boats. Supplies followed by monkfish at 37,527kg £6.40, halibut £14.55, lemon sole market. Last week also saw fog present an Herring saw a high of £2.50 per kg, decreased on Wednesday morning, and whiting at 30,423kg, including £13.40, ling £1.75, megrim £10.55, additional challenge. Over the week, only unchanged on the previous week. Sole also when eight boats landed 1,382 17,792kg of ungutted fish. The monkfish £3.85, plaice £3.90, 10 boats supplied the market and, with no held on to recent highs of £17, as did skate at boxes, and again on Thursday, balance included 23,506kg of saithe £1.45, squid £4.40, turbot additional consignments, sales were limited £2.50, and bass was 60p higher at £14. Cod when 920 boxes were put ashore gutted haddock, 16,232kg of ling, £14.90, gutted whiting £2.35 and in both volume and variety. Nearly all of the was the only other species on sale over the by five boats. This took the four- 14,591kg of plaice, 12,853kg of round whiting £1 per kg. sales were seen at the Monday and Wednesday week, and highs of £3.50 were seen here. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr SCRABSTER, WEEK TO Min Max Max Avg, yr TO 10 DECEMBER price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 10 DECEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 10 DECEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 8 DECEMBER price/kg price/kg 1m ago ago Catfish £3.81 £3.94 £4.24 £4.40 Bass (1) 42 £15.05 £11.04 £18.36 Catfish (1) 53 £8.32 £6.19 £5.04 Cod £1.94 £3.71 £3.89 £4.23 Cod (A1) £3.19 £3.68 £4.24 £4.84 Bass (2) 58 £14.96 £13.00 £17.54 Cod (A2) £3.14 £3.86 £4.24 £4.53 Bass (3) 189 £13.57 £9.87 £14.49 Cod roe £11.88 £11.88 - Cod (A3) £2.88 £3.34 £3.80 £4.21 Cod (0) 360 £5.43 £3.84 £4.43 Bass (4) 848 £6.98 £5.76 £8.75 Cod (A4) £2.46 £2.71 £2.97 £3.70 Hake £1.25 £1.55 £4.81 Bass (5) 365 £6.64 £6.45 £8.16 Cod (A5) £2.21 £2.64 £2.63 £3.06 Cod (1) 1,335 £6.43 £4.38 £4.71 Brill (1) 623 £10.62 £9.10 £12.86 Haddock (A1) £2.74 £3.61 £3.43 £4.55 Halibut £9.00 £10.00 £12.50 Brill (2) 549 £8.34 £6.40 £8.20 Haddock (A2) £2.44 £2.78 £3.05 £4.17 Cod (2) 4,522 £5.72 £4.25 £4.66 Brill (3) 971 £7.77 £5.85 £7.31 Lemon sole £2.67 £3.50 £5.00 £7.44 Haddock (A3) £2.45 £2.82 £2.38 £3.20 Cod (3) 9,018 £5.19 £3.17 £3.71 Brill (4) 959 £6.56 £4.52 £4.81 Haddock chippers (A4) £2.05 £2.57 £2.11 £1.86 Ling £0.71 £1.37 £2.15 £2.31 Brill (5) 59 £5.11 £2.61 £3.72 Haddock metros (A4) £1.45 £1.76 £1.46 £1.45 Cod (4) 10,566 £4.07 £2.82 £3.30 Cock crabs 358 £4.82 £4.14 £4.69 Hake (A1) £5.11 £5.72 £5.96 £6.11 Megrims £0.83 £5.48 £8.00 £3.91 Cod (1) 41 £6.44 £6.81 £5.61 Hake (A2) £3.88 £4.59 £4.22 £4.89 Cod (5) 4,686 £3.03 £1.96 £2.68 Cod (2) 124 £6.09 £5.55 £5.21 Monkfish £1.06 £3.42 £3.73 £6.11 Hake (A3) £2.84 £3.09 £4.42 £3.28 Cod (3) 106 £5.44 £5.51 £4.84 Hake (A4) £1.25 £1.44 £3.03 £2.32 Plaice £2.92 £2.92 £0.95 £1.72 Haddock (1) 2,238 £2.97 £2.46 £2.38 Conger (1) 239 £1.06 £0.91 £0.97 Hake (A5) £0.88 £1.35 £1.87 £1.64 Conger (2) 55 £0.99 £0.90 £1.00 Lemon sole (A1) £11.66 £12.20 £11.23 £8.88 Roker £0.67 £0.67 £0.50 - Haddock (2) 7,094 £1.69 £1.34 £1.67 Conger (3) 172 £0.22 £0.21 £0.35 Lemon sole (A2) £6.61 £7.97 £9.71 £6.86 Cuttlefish (1) 46,490 £1.97 £1.93 £2.27 Saithe £0.67 £1.13 £0.45 £1.53 Lemon sole (A3) £2.30 £3.40 £5.11 £2.96 Haddock (3) 1,807 £0.89 £0.87 £1.01 Cuttlefish (2) 5,193 £1.30 £1.26 £1.66 Ling (A1) £1.55 £1.63 £1.41 £2.00 Squid £2.00 £2.87 £3.43 £4.93 Dogfish 1,698 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Ling (A2) £1.50 £1.56 £1.50 £2.80 Haddock (4) 70 £0.36 £0.47 £0.34 Ling (A3) £1.48 £1.78 £1.52 £2.91 Gurnard (2) 231 £1.19 £1.45 £2.18 Turbot £6.92 £10.00 £8.57 £14.92 Megrim (A1) £5.63 £7.31 £7.99 £8.62 Gurnard (4) 7,876 £0.61 £0.61 £0.61 Hake (0) 1,353 £8.28 £7.43 £6.29 Whiting £0.62 £1.25 £1.30 £2.34 Megrim (A2) £3.85 £5.51 £6.22 £6.45 Haddock (1) 350 £3.62 £2.64 £2.72 Haddock (2) 122 £2.07 £1.39 £2.23 Megrim (A3) £2.49 £3.18 £4.20 £4.63 Hake (1) 2,143 £4.34 £4.31 £4.94 Haddock (3) 3 £0.55 £0.54 £2.05 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Price/kg Price/kg Avg, Avg, 4 Megrim (A4) £1.36 £2.08 £1.40 £1.65 TO 10 DECEMBER minimum maximum yr ago yr ago Megrim (A4) £1.93 £2.20 £3.10 £2.70 Hake (2) 7,722 £3.21 £2.82 £3.08 Hake (1) 37 £4.13 £4.58 £4.46 Monkfish (A1) £3.71 £4.01 £3.96 £3.79 Hake (2) 113 £4.43 £4.77 £4.48 Bass £7.00 £14.00 £10.00 £12.00 Monkfish (A2) £3.77 £4.06 £4.47 £4.20 Hake (3) 3,241 £1.20 £1.72 £2.37 Hake (3) 345 £4.60 £4.75 £4.48 Monkfish (A3) £3.51 £3.75 £3.90 £4.13 Hake (4) 827 £4.71 £4.90 £4.54 Brill £2.50 £0.00 £11.50 £10.50 Monkfish (A4) £2.81 £3.24 £3.66 £3.67 Lemon sole (1) 389 £10.20 £8.90 £8.16 Hake (5) 1,490 £5.01 £4.68 £4.67 Cod £2.00 £3.50 £4.50 £3.67 Monkfish (A5) £1.67 £1.89 £2.61 £2.93 Hake (6) 4,682 £3.48 £3.90 £4.39 Plaice (A1) £3.32 £4.06 £2.88 £3.75 Lemon sole (2) 1,627 £9.36 £6.57 £7.02 Hake (7) 3,302 £2.42 £3.03 £3.70 Dover sole £3.50 £17.00 £20.00 £19.67 Plaice (A2) £2.00 £2.30 £2.89 £3.13 Hen crabs 1,239 £2.20 £1.70 £2.25 Plaice (A3) £1.95 £1.98 £1.68 £2.21 Lemon sole (3) 1,378 £3.21 £2.78 £3.54 John Dory (1) 22 £13.57 £11.67 £13.83 Skate £0.80 £2.50 £3.00 £2.85 Plaice (A4) £1.24 £1.77 £1.62 £1.35 John Dory (2) 30 £12.90 £11.01 £13.30 Pollack (A1) £3.02 £3.02 £2.76 £4.38 Ling (1) 1,068 £2.50 £2.45 £2.39 John Dory (3) 48 £11.27 £9.78 £11.93 ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 10 DECEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Pollack (A2) £2.76 £3.25 £3.11 £3.85 Lemon sole (1) 251 £11.60 £10.83 £13.00 Ling (2) 549 £2.92 £2.23 £2.41 Pollack (A3) £2.42 £2.42 £2.85 £3.29 Lemon sole (2) 208 £11.76 £11.42 £13.23 Blue ling (gutted) 5,788 £0.95 £1.61 £1.81 Pollack (A4) £2.85 £2.99 £2.42 £3.55 Lemon sole (3) 410 £9.66 £9.80 £12.48 Ling (3) 1,633 £1.68 £1.56 £2.04 Round Haddock £1.11 £1.19 £1.18 £1.07 Lemon sole (4) 774 £3.12 £2.81 £3.35 Blue ling (ungutted) 59 £1.53 - £0.32 Turbot £10.72 £13.02 £10.87 £10.29 Lemon sole (5) 443 £0.56 £0.51 £0.69 Monkfish (1) 1,930 £4.59 £3.63 £5.84 Catfish (gutted) 8,910 £2.89 £2.97 £3.30 Whiting (A2) £1.47 £1.65 £1.76 £2.01 Line mackerel (1) 1 £6.59 - £6.18 Whiting (A3) £1.10 £1.19 £1.49 £1.86 Line mackerel (2) 37 £7.35 £6.35 £5.57 Monkfish (2) 3,388 £4.45 £3.90 £5.70 Catfish (ungutted) 678 £2.28 - £1.97 Whiting (A4) £0.86 £0.92 £1.32 £1.39 Line mackerel (3) 1,361 £0.41 £2.26 £2.32 Cod (large, gutted) 85,812 £1.84 £2.21 £2.31 Whiting (round) £0.85 £0.95 £1.38 £1.32 Monkfish (3) 3,858 £4.23 £4.05 £5.44 Lobster 90 £24.88 £21.06 £25.70 Monkfish tails (1) 147 £11.06 £9.79 £15.45 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Cod (large, ungutted) 141,381 £1.92 £2.49 £2.24 TO 9 DECEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish (4) 2,176 £3.82 £3.99 £5.13 Monkfish tails (2) 474 £11.78 £10.44 £15.76 Catfish 186 £3.42 £3.52 £3.64 Monkfish tails (3) 1,205 £9.87 £9.27 £13.44 Cod (small, gutted) 6,728 £0.79 £1.02 £0.80 Cod (2) 15,245 £3.07 £3.33 £3.34 Monkfish (5) 505 £2.25 £2.75 £3.28 Monkfish tails (4) 1,779 £9.37 £8.92 £11.84 Cod (3) 14,303 £2.83 £3.13 £2.87 Monkfish tails (5) 1,566 £7.99 £7.68 £7.72 Cod (small, ungutted) 6,503 £0.78 - £0.89 Cod (4) 3,980 £2.57 £2.68 £2.44 Plaice (1) 3,320 £2.88 £3.54 £3.56 Monkfish tails (6) 311 £4.41 £3.43 £4.70 Cod cheeks 80 £5.11 £6.21 £5.75 Cod (5) 3,073 £2.29 £2.32 £2.31 Octopus 4,038 £1.83 £1.76 £2.13 Cod (6) 280 £1.86 £2.08 £1.95 Plaice (2) 2,532 £3.48 £3.89 £4.26 Plaice (1) 2,110 £3.84 £3.86 £3.42 Greenland halibut (gutted) 5,277 £2.83 £1.80 £2.31 Haddock (1) 1,841 £2.58 £2.72 £2.46 Plaice (2) 1,613 £3.32 £3.48 £3.00 Plaice (3) 4,139 £3.46 £2.94 £3.73 Haddock (large, gutted) 110,480 £1.16 £1.59 £1.66 Haddock (2) 2,033 £2.55 £2.61 £2.48 Plaice (3) 1,414 £3.04 £2.94 £2.82 Haddock (3) 3,834 £1.87 £1.99 £2.18 Plaice (4) 981 £2.29 £2.18 £2.23 Plaice (4) 6,045 £1.75 £1.73 £2.37 Haddock (large, ungutted) 64,184 £1.43 £1.86 £1.50 Haddock (4) 8,222 £1.49 £1.64 £2.10 Plaice (5) 2,125 £1.54 £1.56 £1.73 Pollock (1) 5 £4.62 £5.75 £5.09 Haddock (small, gutted) 177 £0.61 - - Haddock (5) 7,576 £1.29 £1.05 £1.29 Pollack (2) 592 £4.60 £4.30 £4.83 Hake (2) 512 £5.33 £6.03 £5.35 Pollock (2) 183 £4.74 £4.30 £4.85 Pollock (3) 46 £4.33 £3.38 £4.10 Haddock (small, ungutted) 1,693 £0.57 £1.06 £0.63 Hake (3) 1,465 £4.15 £3.73 £3.86 Pollack (3) 2,681 £4.20 £3.86 £3.97 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 515 £3.24 £2.84 £4.87 Hake (4) 4,251 £2.49 £2.57 £3.39 Halibut (gutted) 695 £2.48 £3.65 £1.50 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 1,078 £2.74 £2.88 £3.75 Halibut (3) 57 £13.89 £13.32 £11.52 Pollack (4) 324 £2.92 £3.12 £3.16 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 370 £3.29 £3.01 £3.62 Halibut (4) 71 £13.07 £12.48 £10.23 Lemon sole (gutted) 1,436 £5.10 £3.55 £2.73 Ray wings (small eye, 2) 4 £1.58 - £2.33 John Dory 7 £4.16 £4.30 £5.16 Saithe (1) 1,994 £2.09 £1.79 £1.91 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 103 £1.76 £1.85 £2.57 Ling (gutted) 6,075 £1.03 £1.20 £1.37 Lemon sole (2) 432 £12.72 £10.99 £9.27 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 558 £2.00 £2.34 £2.97 Lemon sole (4) 909 £4.08 £3.43 £4.02 Saithe (2) 3,227 £2.17 £1.85 £1.71 Ling (ungutted) 5,268 £0.98 - £1.30 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 1,123 £1.94 £1.87 £2.94 Ling 16,232 £1.54 £1.45 £1.67 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 250 £1.67 £1.06 £2.02 Lythe 1,040 £3.45 £3.37 £4.02 Saithe (3) 10,608 £2.01 £1.83 £1.67 Megrim (gutted) 1,506 £1.18 £2.14 £0.00 Red mullet (1) 69 £4.02 £2.72 £2.67 Megrim (2) 1,881 £7.09 £7.00 £6.58 Saithe (4) 17,891 £1.63 £1.68 £1.44 Red mullet (2) 1 £3.47 £2.70 £3.68 Monkfish (gutted) 10,025 £3.08 £4.21 £3.31 Megrim (3) 1,267 £4.69 £5.26 £5.20 Red mullet (3) 15 £9.58 £10.82 £8.65 Megrim (4) 997 £3.26 £3.90 £3.47 Plaice (gutted) 24,013 £2.31 £3.24 £2.77 Squid 2,703 £2.98 £2.06 £3.56 Round pouting 6,510 £0.30 £0.27 £0.42 Monkfish (1) 730 £3.22 £3.35 £4.47 Scallop (2) 15,671 £2.03 £1.89 £2.23 Redfish (ungutted) 41,474 £1.45 £1.45 £1.25 Monkfish (2) 3,458 £3.68 £3.82 £4.84 Turbot (0) 38 £15.06 £15.15 £22.39 Scallop meat 1,634 £13.14 £13.00 £11.74 Monkfish (3) 11,563 £3.34 £3.69 £5.07 Sole (1) 1,297 £11.33 £11.70 £16.69 Saithe (gutted) 36,009 £0.89 £1.02 £0.89 Monkfish (4) 15,516 £3.10 £3.38 £4.42 Turbot (1) 71 £12.26 £12.73 £15.89 Sole (2) 1,711 £11.17 £11.17 £17.36 Monkfish (5) 4,905 £1.91 £2.12 £3.35 Saithe (ungutted) 14,779 £0.73 - £0.72 Sole (3) 1,357 £12.04 £11.90 £18.14 Monkfish (6) 1,355 £0.70 £0.49 £1.47 Turbot (2) 79 £12.04 £12.98 £14.72 Sole (4) 1,686 £10.93 £10.84 £17.69 Skate (gutted) 293 £0.32 £0.53 £0.99 Plaice (2) 4,290 £2.49 £2.32 £2.88 Sole (5) 946 £10.20 £10.48 £14.31 Plaice (3) 4,748 £1.79 £1.87 £2.23 Turbot (3) 477 £8.50 £9.00 £10.09 Sole (6) 978 £10.23 £10.34 £12.43 Spotted catfish (gutted) 4,684 £2.73 £2.40 £2.26 Plaice (4) 5,553 £1.45 £1.53 £1.48 Squid (1) 44 £6.76 £9.17 £7.25 Turbot (4) 620 £4.74 £3.93 £5.65 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 84 £2.40 - £2.06 Saithe (2) 4,701 £1.36 £1.10 £1.57 Squid (2) 242 £8.25 £6.98 £6.47 Saithe (3) 2,723 £1.30 £1.15 £1.23 Whiting (1) 45 £1.47 £0.60 £1.56 Squid (mix) 230 £6.38 £5.86 £5.83 Tusk (gutted) 6,482 £0.47 £0.41 £0.42 Saithe (4) 5,429 £1.27 £0.94 £0.99 Turbot (1) 84 £18.08 £16.12 £23.23 Skate 2,353 £0.48 £0.58 £0.60 Tusk (gutted) 6,482 £0.47 £0.41 £0.42 Whiting (2) 107 £1.20 £0.87 £1.35 Turbot (2) 205 £16.74 £14.19 £18.21 Skate, mixed 35 £0.35 £0.37 £0.37 Turbot (3) 186 £15.86 £14.12 £18.21 Tusk (ungutted) 2,492 £0.23 £0.79 £0.33 Skate, roker 221 £0.65 £0.98 £0.95 Whiting (3) 150 £1.08 £0.75 £0.84 Turbot (4) 343 £14.69 £12.45 £14.91 Squid 9,083 £2.87 £3.06 £4.07 Turbot (5) 713 £12.06 £10.87 £11.24 Whiting (gutted) 10,153 £0.62 £0.63 - Turbot 211 £13.26 £12.12 £14.80 Witch (1) 204 £6.48 £6.08 £4.49 Turbot (6) 208 £10.53 £9.00 £8.31 Whiting (2) 5,376 £1.97 £1.98 £2.37 Whelks 266 £1.35 £1.40 £1.35 Whiting (ungutted) 179 £0.28 - £0.54 Whiting (3) 7,128 £1.24 £1.47 £1.70 Witch (2) 920 £4.30 £4.27 £3.26 Whiting (1) 79 £2.59 £1.98 £2.67 Witch (gutted) 10 £0.77 - £1.05 Whiting (4) 127 £0.43 £1.07 £0.97 Whiting (2) 127 £1.97 £1.62 £1.73 Whiting, round 17,792 £0.68 £0.93 £1.13 Witch (3) 836 £1.40 £1.38 £1.62 Whiting (3) 196 £0.69 £0.80 £1.27 Witch (ungutted) 2,750 £0.95 £1.11 - 17 December 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

UK fish landings and prices, 12 months to September '20 vs 12 months to September '19

UK landings into UK ports (t'000) UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 450 800 3.00 400 700 2.50 350 600 300 2.00 500 250 400 1.50 200 300 150 1.00 200 100 0.50 50 100 0 0 0.00 Demersal Pelagic Shellfish All fish Demersal Pelagic Shellfish All fish Demersal Pelagic Shellfish All fish 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 UK landings into UK ports (t'000) 40 UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 60 3.50 35 50 3.00 30 2.50 25 40 2.00 20 30 15 1.50 20 10 1.00 10 5 0.50 0 0 0.00 Haddock Cod Monkfish Hake Saithe Pollack 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 Haddock Cod Monkfish Hake Saithe Pollack Haddock Cod Monkfish Hake Saithe Pollack 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 UK landings into UK ports (t'000) 3.5 UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 20 14.00 3.0 18 12.00 16 2.5 14 10.00 2.0 12 8.00 10 1.5 8 6.00 1.0 6 4.00 4 0.5 2 2.00 0.0 0 0.00 Sole Lemon sole Turbot Bass Brill Megrim 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 Sole Lemon sole Turbot Bass Brill Megrim Sole Lemon sole Turbot Bass Brill Megrim 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 UK landings into UK ports (t'000) 14 UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 18 2.00 12 16 1.80 14 1.60 10 1.40 12 8 1.20 10 1.00 6 8 0.80

4 6 0.60 4 0.40 2 0.20 2 0.00 0 0 Whiting Plaice Ling Skates & Gurnard Witch Whiting Plaice Ling Skates & rays Gurnard Witch 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 Whiting Plaice Ling Skates & rays Gurnard Witch rays 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 UK landings into UK ports (t'000) UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 100 120 1.40 90 1.20 80 100 70 1.00 80 60 0.80 50 60 40 0.60 40 30 0.40 20 20 0.20 10 0 0 0.00 Mackerel Herring Other pelagic Mackerel Herring Other pelagic Mackerel Herring Other pelagic 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19

UK landings into UK ports (t'000) UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 30 120 16.00 14.00 25 100 12.00 20 80 10.00

8.00 15 60 6.00 10 40 4.00

5 20 2.00 0.00 0 0 Nephrops Crabs Scallops Lobsters Squid Cuttlefish Other Nephrops Crabs Scallops Lobsters Squid Cuttlefish Other Nephrops Crabs Scallops Lobsters Squid Cuttlefish Other shellfish shellfish shellfish 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 12m to Sep-20 12m to Sep-19 Source: MMO 24 CLASSIFIEDS/PUBLIC NOTICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 17 December 2020 XXCLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIEDS/PUBLIC NOTICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews XX Xxxxx 2020 PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE

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With valve spare wear inchcushions, SNG creeks.Roped nav lights, andwhite rubbered light, bearings. Freshly antifouled. Polished. BOATplates, IP spare 15 knife devit arm and box. search light, battery cut off, cabin with plastic bottom and anode.Fitted All ready to use. This was traded in Please call 07859 215579, Victoria light, fish finder, fire ext, VHF radio, with bridle and spinner.Stored inside to us for a Merry Fisher 695. It has Dock. (14.08) aux engine bracket, rod rests etc. The decent electronics, a half canopy. andengine never is beena 50hp in 4the stroke water,£60+vat longshaft Full tonneau cover and is presented engine with power tilt trim and as WANTED each. Ropes,bouys and end weights very well. These are popular day new prop.It was serviced by Clyde also included in price. 14mm back fishers suitable for family use or keen outboards in April with no issues. It £12,750. Orkney Orkadian 20 BOAT WANTED TRAWLER/ £16,000. Liverpool Versatility 31 new anglers. Easy to tow around and ropes,sits on 25 acreels galvanised on a string bunked with 12ftmtrailer Pilothouse powered by a Honda 75 2003,£20 each. £17,750. 350 redfinnreasonable 6000 condition comes £8,000. 8 TON NET DRUM FRESHLY Holland 215 turbo prm 2/1heavy duty launch. Easy to story at home. The SCALLOPER betweenwith winch creels. jockey End wheel ropes and lighting50ftm £300fourstroke ONO. comesEx RNLI with handwinch trailer andwith withsecond trailer hand , powered Wrasse by a Mercruisercreels. no SANDBLASTED AND ZINC SPRAYED. hydraulic winch also capstan usual Yamaha£2,000 4inc Stroke VAT. 8Outboard HP Elec Starthas lowpower Wanted. To lease for 6/12 months board. Boat can be viewed on Loch electrics, toilet , cooker everything 1.7dti with only 140 hours plenty of ofelectrics 12mm inand wheelhouse 20ftm 10mm boat isleaded. based both£1,500. handles Comes working with clutch four years and pump, ago. broken£750 Ono.frames. With Palletised valve spareand ready wear hours£9,000.pack and with Hydraulic runs s/s well. winches. netThere drum, isHoses a spare20 tonand DIMENSIONS:then purchase H10 2.4M years / Wexperience 1.8M . Earn and tested by serious potential you need any test welcome also room to fish , comes with Chartplotter Pleasein Liverpool call 07769 marina 848828, x charter Shetland. boat with Needstop end greasing. and bottom Please end callall serviced07971 toplates, go. sparePlease knife call devit 07990 arm 506846,and box. enginemotor,controls, bracket.very only good used Please condition. 6 times. call Cost07930 Please new Pleaseclass 1 emailticket [email protected], to be worked in SW buyers. Please call 01764 670481 or trade welcome. Please call 07784 and vhf , runs well , any test welcome all papers. Please call 07475 472460, with new heater plugs. Please call Please call 07879 403891, Kirkwall. 421007.£4000 11.38inc VAT, (Solent Engineering). England. Please call 07487 560168. 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Advertising on these pages is free for fishermen selling used boats and equipment. If you are a commercial supplier, please contact TalkMedia Sales on 01732 447008 SEE INSIDE! Human cost of Brexit spelled out in Kilmore Quay video be seriously affected, said engineer Seamus O’Flaherty in the video, entitled Who Owns the Seas? Marine suppliers, school teachers and local politicians were interviewed on the impact of losing up to 50% of grounds, including the Smalls prawn UK distant-waters fishing ‘faces fishery off the southeast Irish coast. axe’ Willie Bates expressed fears that See page 5 Kilmore Quay could become another Lowestoft, with a once-thriving fishing harbour decimated by lack of quotas. “In Lowestoft, all you see is wind farm vessels – not one fishing vessel,” he said. “If I was English, wouldn’t it be great to get all our waters back?” Willie Bates said, speaking on RTÉ Radio’s Countrywide programme last week. “England has every nationality in ‡ Who Owns the Seas? expresses fears that lack of quota in Irish waters could see the EU fishing in their waters, with Kilmore Quay bankrupted by Brexit. probably some of the best waters in the world. Maybe they’re right, maybe Covid impact review shows The human cost of Brexit on an Irish waters under the EU Common we should follow suit, and maybe we adaptation to ‘new normal’ fishing port has been laid out by Fisheries Policy, with mackerel and should leave the EU and take back See page 9 fishermen in the Co Wexford harbour prawns the two main species. our own waters and start dealing with of Kilmore Quay, reports Lorna Seamus Molloy pointed out that England,” he said. Siggins. while Ireland has 10% of total EU Both he and Seamus Molloy said “Brexit is going to affect every waters on paper, rich spawning they feared Irish stocks would be used port and harbour where fishing is the grounds make it far more significant in as a bargaining tool, where EU fleets lifeblood of communities,” said Willie practice. excluded from British waters would Bates, a third-generation fisherman, “After Britain leaves, we will have be allocated extra catch off the Irish as efforts continued to secure a Brexit 15% of EU waters, but we have 30% coast. “Ireland has the resource which deal. of fishable waters, because Spain and the other states lack,” he said. Mr Bates, who has been fishing for Portugal have fished out their inshore Who Owns the Seas? can be viewed 20 years, is a father of three young areas,” Seamus Molloy, a father of four, at: bit.ly/3qDD5fs children. said. Along with fellow skippers including “Kilmore Quay solely depends on Seamus Molloy, from Piercestown, Co the boats – everything in the village Virtuous: Twin-rig trawling in Wexford, he participated in a video revolves around the fishing,” Willie the holes and on the plateaux made by Sean Moroney which was Bates pointed out. “We have three See pages 10-15 posted last month on YouTube. major fish factories, processing fish, Lack of sufficient quotas for Irish employing hundreds of people, and vessels in Irish waters means that any the scallops we catch are sent all over further contraction in opportunities will the world. It goes a long way – it goes put them out of business, Willie Bates much further than the boat – it goes and Seamus Molloy pointed out. back through the families.” Some 34% of annual Irish landings Irish Sea ports like Clogherhead, Co ‡ “Kilmore Quay solely depends on the overall have been caught in British Louth and Howth, Co Dublin will also boats,” says skipper Willie Bates. Shetland herring wanted for scientific study Bringing the Viola home The NAFC Marine Centre ready to spawn in September. unaccounted for. There Centre for the samples to See pages 16-17 UHI is asking Shetland Yet there have also been is a need to gather more be collected or to arrange fishermen for help with a observations in Shetland information to confirm which drop-off, at: herring@uhi. new project to investigate the waters of other herring which population these ‘winter ac.uk or on: 01595 772000. identity of herring found in instead undergo maturation herring’ belong to.” In addition to collecting Shetland waters. in the winter months, to The new project is samples, fishermen are also Fishermen are being asked spawn early in the year. asking all fishermen in being asked to complete to collect samples of herring NAFC fisheries scientist Shetland waters to look out a short questionnaire caught around Shetland Dr Katie Brigden, who is for and retain any herring (available at: bit.ly/2JqShf2) during the winter and spring. leading the project, said: that are caught between to provide information There are several “While we are aware of December 2020 and April on historical observations populations of herring in previous fishing for ‘winter 2021, so that they can be of winter herring around the North East Atlantic. herring’, there is little biologically sampled and Shetland, in order to help Around Shetland, North Sea documented information genetically identified. Any the researchers better The view from the South East autumn-spawning herring available, and the presence herring caught should be understand the spatial and See page 18 are present and support a of these fish is of interest kept on ice or frozen, with temporal distribution of valuable commercial fishery. to science and industry, details recorded of the date these fish. These herring are observed raising the question of a and location of capture. Full details of the to undergo sexual maturation stock distribution which is Fishermen are asked to project are available at: bit. SEE INSIDE! between March and August, potentially unknown and contact the NAFC Marine ly/3n2882u