New Isabelle Ready to Fish Go up at Peterhead Built to the Highest Specification
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Visit us online for news, features and media nostalgia KELSEY KELSEY 17 December17 2020 Issue 5545 £3.30 media 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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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.