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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL DISCARDS QUOTA POOLS REPORT REGIONAL NEWS New shellfish duo launched Brixham crewman thanks MCA Two new shellfish vessels were launched within 36 hours of each other last week for owners in SAR team for safe rescue England and Scotland, reports David Linkie. The 14.95m vivier-crabber Nichola of Ladram E 1 was the first boat to enter the water, after being lifted in at Den Oever, Holland, by two cranes. In a different launch mode, the 19.2m scalloper Eternal Light was floated off a slipway at Buckie, near highwater the following day. Turn to page 8 for further details.

‡ Wearing a lifejacket saved Reegan Green’s life in treacherous conditions, after he was washed over the side of Emilia Jayne by a freak wave.

Following the dramatic helicopter rescue of Brixham crewman Reegan Green, a team from the beam trawler Emilia Jayne BM 10 visited the HM Coastguard SAR helicopter base near Newquay in Cornwall to say ‘a big thanks’, reports Phil Lockley. Crewman Reegan Green, skipper Jason Holden and vessel owner Mike Sharp praised the work of the helicopter team who plucked Reegan from the water 25 nautical miles southeast of Salcombe, Devon, during the early hours of Sunday, 10 March, in 70-knot winds. The entire helicopter team of Captain Sharky Finn, Captain Jörg ‘Yogi’ Brunner, winch operator Phil Warrington and winchman Mark ‘Spike’ Hughes welcomed the Brixham fishermen to their operational base at Newquay. continues on page 2 ‡ Two cranes lift the 14.95m vivier-crabber Nichola of Ladram into the water at Den Oever. (Photo: Rienk Nadema) REGIONAL NEWS

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Freephone 0800 121 4765 www.seafarersupport.org 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 Quota pools set up to cut discarding Government-held fish will save fishermen’s quotas Fisheries administrations are setting up reserve quota pools to try to avoid choke species tying up boats as the discards ban comes fully into force, and to encourage compliance with the rules, reports Tim Oliver All catches of quota species must “The 2019 reserve quota policy being made to reduce discards, now be landed and recorded, approach is principally intended particularly through the use of more including undersized fish, and to help alleviate choke risks, and selective gear and catch avoidance all landings now count against to incentivise more sustainable practices. quota, even when the fish cannot fishing. For example, it will A long-term worry is that if be sold for human consumption. encourage the uptake of highly fishermen fish up to their quotas This makes vessels reluctant to selective gears in line with the but then high-grade, fishing land their unwanted fish despite aims of the landing obligation, and mortality rises. This would mean the landing obligation, as it is support the inshore fleet.” that higher fishing mortality would using up valuable quota for no The ‘top-slicing’ of the first 100t, be recorded in the science, with a economic return. and then 10%, of uplift quota to the resulting recommendation of lower Administrations are planning under-10s/non-sector will continue TACs the following year. to set up and hold reserve quota for most species. DEFRA will In Scotland, Marine Scotland “Right Frederico... that’s yir usual ten boxes pools that such catches can be review the scheme annually. has proposed to hold quota pools ‘o select discards at the back door. “ set against, rather than against NFFO chief executive Barrie to incentivise landings of below vessel quotas. The hope is that Deas said there was ‘a lot going minimum size (BMS) fish for some this will encourage fishermen to on’ to try to make the discards key stocks. These include 50t of some confusion as to how best to desired approach to maintain the land their unwanted fish, as they ban workable, find a pathway to cod, 300t of haddock, 350t of go about it. We will issue guidance status quo for the remainder of will not lose money by doing so. compliance, and work out how to saithe, 20t of whiting, 25t of hake to all members once we have some 2019, whether there is a deal or In England, the MMO is deal with chokes. and 50t of plaice. clarity, and it will be interesting to not’. setting up a scheme that will use An industry meeting was held The Scottish Fishermen’s observe how the scheme is utilised He said that whiting would be former so-called ‘uplift’ quota – earlier this month with MMO and Organisation (SFO), Scotland’s throughout the year.” ‘without doubt, tight’ this year, additional quota derived from fish DEFRA officials to discuss the biggest PO, says that most of With regard to quotas and and that this was reflected in the that would have formerly have issues, and a meeting was held in the quota held in the reserve chokes, he said that it was still monthly allocation – but that, on been recorded as discards – as a Newlyn at the end of last week to pool is from ‘windfall banking’ or early in the year, but several a more positive note, monkfish reserve quota pool. discuss the acute choke risk posed compensation arising following the potential choke scenarios were and Nephrops allocations had In a letter to the industry, the by Celtic Sea cod. Irish Sea whiting EU/Norway exchange. already anticipated, ‘given the been increased, and the North MMO says: “The increase (uplift) is another high-risk choke species. Writing in his latest newsletter, sizeable cuts we have experienced, Sea prawn fishery had had a in quota aims to allow sufficient Barrie Deas said: “It’s not SFO chief executive John Anderson coupled with our government’s good start to the year. quota for all landing obligation fish easy – it’s complicated, and it said: “The figures themselves are caught to be landed, including will take time, but at the moment arbitrary – the reality is that no one those previously discarded. This anyway, everyone is pointing in knows how much quota is needed EUFA welcomes MPs’ no-deal vote year, however, the Commission the same direction. It’s important to cover landings of BMS fish for has not provided figures on what that the industry works with the the remainder of 2019, particularly portion of the TACs relate to uplift regulators to make it into something as discussions around changes to quota. workable.” square mesh panel configurations “Instead, DEFRA has There is also pressure from the are ongoing which – I would calculated an equivalent portion EU Commission, and commitments imagine – will have a significant of the English share of the UK were made at the December bearing on the amount of BMS fish TAC, based on 2018 discard rates, Council to develop discard actually being caught. where available. That portion of reduction plans. Barrie Deas said “Of course, for this to work, England’s quota has been termed it was important for the industry BMS fish will need to be accurately ‘reserve quota’. to demonstrate that every effort is recorded, and there appears to be Brixham crewman thanks MCA SAR team for safe rescue ‡ EUFA leaders with EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (third from right). continued from page 1 EU member state fishermen’s any scenario. Hence, it is now time Meeting Reegan for the first time leaders have welcomed the recent to turn to the future and provide after his dramatic rescue off the vote by MPs to rule out a no-deal fishermen with the certainty and Salcombe coast, winchman ‘Spike’ Brexit, and for an extension of predictability their businesses Hughes said: “The sea state was Article 50 to delay Brexit. need. pretty big – about 20ft, with The European Fisheries “We are convinced that a 70-knot winds, so it was quite a Alliance (EUFA) says a hard or mutually beneficial post-Brexit horrific night. It’s the type of night no-deal Brexit would have ‘grave framework for our sector can you don’t want to be going outside consequences for both the EU and be achieved that maintains in. the UK fishing industries, and we joint management of stock, “I saw Reegan looking at me support all efforts to avoid such a and mutually preserves access from the water – I could see the scenario’. to fishing grounds, fisheries whites of his eyes, and he could see Pointing out that EU and UK resources, and markets. the whites of mine, and that was a fisheries have been sharing fishing “In light of this, the European good moment. By then, I was only grounds, fish and markets for Fisheries Alliance warmly a matter of feet away, and within centuries, EUFA chairman Gerard welcomes President Juncker’s about two minutes, the rescue was van Balsfoort said: “Every step statements that the EU and the complete. away from the cliff edge is an team around Michel Barnier stand ‡ Owner Mike Sharp (left) and skipper Jason Holden (second right) important one for the men and ready to discuss our future as soon “It’s really, really good to were among the Emilia Jayne team who met the Newquay-based HM women in the EU and the UK as the decisions have been made see him here today. Having an Coastguard crew who rescued crewman Reegan Green, standing outcome such as this is absolutely alongside winchman Mark ‘Spike’ Hughes. whose livelihoods depend on in London.” fantastic. fisheries. The EUFA chairman added, “I’ve been doing search and lifejacket.” times – a rule that underpinned the “EUFA now stands ready “Michel Barnier has shown an rescue for nearly 20 years, and Emilia Jayne owner Mike Sharp successful rescue of Reegan Green. to contribute to building a new in-depth understanding of the Reegan was the first fisherman I’ve told Fishing News that on his two Mike Sharp added that he relationship with our British deeply intertwined nature of taken out of the water who was vessels, each month the skippers hoped that what he and the team colleagues that is grounded in EU and UK fisheries, and of the conscious and alive. Perhaps most and crew have training on a wide aboard Emilia Jayne have learned reciprocity and understanding, and importance of devising the future importantly, he was also the first range of safety measures, and from that MOB incident would mindful of our centuries of shared bilateral relationship on fisheries in fisherman I have helped rescue that when on deck, crewmen are help to strengthen the call for history. the wider economic context of the from the sea who was wearing a required to wear a lifejacket at all further safety awareness. “Fisheries will be the acid test negotiations. We wish him every of our post-Brexit relationship in success.” 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 BREXIT DELAYED SFF calls on MPs to back public vote Brexit is to be delayed beyond this Although the Commons speaker With Brexit hanging in polling carried out for the SFF He added that coastal state week’s Article 50 deadline of 29 John Bercow said he would not the balance, the Scottish showed that there was support status would allow the UK March, reports Tim Oliver. allow the withdrawal bill to be put Fishermen’s Federation made from all quarters – ‘across party to introduce more coherent Prime minister Theresa May to MPs for a third time without a ‘heartfelt’ appeal last week to and political divides, rural, urban environmental management, formally requested an extension substantial changes, it was thought MPs of all parties to recognise and coastal communities, and enhance food production, and of the Article 50 deadline to 30 that the official extension of the the huge benefits to the industry all parts of the UK’ – for the create more jobs. June, after the speaker of the departure date would constitute from leaving the CFP, as they benefits of Britain becoming “Whatever the outcome of House of Commons prevented her sufficient change for a third vote, decide how to move Brexit an independent coastal state. voting in the immediate future, from asking MPs to vote on her probably on Tuesday this week. forward. “It is an indisputable fact, and it must allow us to plan for life withdrawal deal for a third time. She If the prime minister ends up In a letter to all 650 MPs, SFF perhaps the only Brexit issue beyond Brexit and, at long last, said the short extension would ‘give asking for a much longer extension, chief executive Bertie Armstrong which unites all sides,” he told to grasp the sea of opportunity MPs the time to make a final choice’. of a year or more, to allow fresh told them that ever since the MPs. which now lies tantalisingly just At a dramatic Brussels Council negotiations to take place, it would referendum vote to leave, the “All of us in the fishing over the horizon.” summit last Thursday, that ran late mean the UK would have to take major industry federations industry, on land and at sea, Mr Armstrong concluded, into the night, EU leaders agreed part in elections in May to the had been campaigning for need certainty,” he said. “Our call is for you to reflect the to scrap the 29 March departure European parliament – something ‘the considerable benefits of “Leaving the CFP will enable us desire of the voting public and deadline, and offered a two-tier both sides want to avoid. becoming an independent to elevate the UK onto the world do everything in your power to extension of Article 50. There are fears that a longer coastal state in charge of our stage as a sustainable seafood ensure a better future for the They headed off an immediate extension would spark national own waters’. harvesting and marketing seafood industry across this ‘no deal’ Brexit by offering a delay anger among the 52% of the He highlighted that opinion nation.” maritime nation.” until 22 May if MPs pass the prime population that voted for Brexit, and minister’s withdrawal deal by the that it might ultimately lead to the end of this week. But if parliament UK not leaving the EU at all. rejects it for a third time in a vote this Theresa May slammed MPs on Free health checks for fishermen take off in N Ireland week, there is a new hard deadline Wednesday night last week in a live SeaFit health checks for in Ardglass. We saw around 40 event in Ardglass was the first of 12 April. TV broadcast to the nation from 10 fishermen in Northern Ireland fishermen in just two days, and in a series of major health and At that point, the UK must either Downing Street. got off to a flying start in we would have seen even more wellbeing events organised leave without a deal or indicate a She said they had been unable Ardglass last week. Around if the weather hadn’t been so by SeaFit for the fishing way forward, including asking for a to agree on implementing Brexit, 40 local fishermen took full good! Everyone had a health community in Northern Ireland. long Brexit delay and taking part in and that as a result, we would not advantage of the services on check from Farm Families, and The next one is in Portavogie the EU parliament elections. now leave on time with a deal on 29 offer, from blood pressure and the Cancer Focus skin cancer on Friday, 29 March, followed In a midnight news conference, March. She said the public had ‘had diabetes checks to skin cancer checks and carbon monoxide by Kilkeel on Friday 5 and Mrs May said that the news enough’, and that it was now time and carbon monoxide tests, check for smokers were both Saturday 6 April. underlined the importance of MPs for MPs to decide. plus a taste of physiotherapy. really popular. We now have For further information, backing the Brexit deal. A petition to revoke Article 50, Commenting on the success enough fishermen to start a contact the Fishermen’s The prime minister also said that and for the UK to stay in the EU, of the event, local Fishermen’s local ‘stop smoking’ group, Mission on: 028417 if she fails to get a deal ratified next reached more than 2m signatures Mission superintendent Ingrid which is exactly the outcome 69000/07710 389298 or email: week, then MPs could propose last week, and crashed the Perry said: “We’re absolutely we’re looking for.” [email protected]. what kind of Brexit they could vote government’s petition website delighted with the way it went The two-day health check uk for. several times. Fast-growing seafood body demands greater government support Scotland’s seafood processing Brussels sets out sector is challenging ministers to help to remove a series of blockages that stand in the ‘no-deal’ moves way of its modernisation and Brussels has set out measures ● Quota swapping within UK development. to be put in place if there is a allocated quotas, as well as The Scottish Seafood ‘disorderly’ Brexit, reports Tim quota transfers or exchanges Association, which represents Oliver. between member states and 81 small, medium and large The Commission has set out the UK, would continue to be processors, up from 67 just 18 measures under two possible allowed months ago, has identified a scenarios – one of full reciprocal ● Measures would apply from range of issues that are holding access to EU and UK waters by the the date of the no-deal the sector back. respective fleets, and one where withdrawal until 31 December, During a ‘constructive’ the UK does not agree to reciprocal 2019. meeting this week with Scottish access. minister for public finance and The aim is to ‘guarantee If the UK decides not to allow digital economy Kate Forbes at ‡ Michael and Francis Clark, directors of Nolan Seafoods, Kate Forbes economic sustainability of EU and access to its waters to EU vessels, Nolan Seafoods in Aberdeen, MSP, and Jimmy Buchan, executive officer of the Scottish Seafood UK fishing communities in case of a amendments to the European SSA executive officer Jimmy Association. disorderly withdrawal of the UK’. Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Buchan highlighted: MEPs approved the would allow financial compensation situation and needs of the new-builds or extensions, three Commission’s proposals last week, for temporary cessation of fishing ● The need to extend the sector. to five years on a sliding scale and they are expected to come into activities caused by the closure of Scottish government’s “Ministers have agreed to would be more realistic, given force before the UK withdrawal date UK waters, for a maximum of nine current proposed window support focused management the variations in the availability of 29 March. months. of 12 months for business to help steer the industry of raw materials caused by If the EU and the UK agree on A European parliament rates exemptions towards a profitable future, fluctuating TACs. full reciprocity of access to each spokesperson said that the ● The industry’s belief that through innovation and the “As for classification, these other’s waters after a no-deal measures adopted aim to create a reclassification of premises identification of potential are not industrial buildings, they Brexit, amendments to fishing legal framework to guarantee the from industrial buildings efficiencies. are bespoke food production authorisations for EU vessels fishing sustainability of EU fisheries. to food production units to “For that we are very units, and should be recognised in UK waters, and for UK vessels “About 150,000 EU jobs depend reduce business rates grateful. However, more work as such. It is possible that this fishing in EU waters, foresee: on fisheries, mostly in coastal areas should be explored needs to be done, and quickly, would significantly change where employment opportunities ● The importance of a level to allow our members to the rateable values of the ● Introduction of a ‘light are limited. Member states carry out playing field for large and expand, and prevent greater properties for the better. procedure’ to facilitate access fishing activities worth €585m in UK small companies when it volumes of fish being trucked “And the de minimis rules on for EU vessels. This includes waters,” said the spokesperson. comes to state aid. directly for processing in other state aid need to be relaxed, member states submitting “The overall dependency of eight parts of the UK. because they are restricting the bulk applications to the member states (Belgium, Denmark, Jimmy Buchan said: “We “The presently proposed large businesses in particular, Commission to obtain France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, had a very constructive year-long business rates which have a big impact on authorisation from the UK Sweden and the Netherlands) on meeting with the minister, who exemption is too short – for local economies in terms of to fish in UK waters. A similar UK waters averages 14% of their is genuinely willing to help, and processing businesses to have jobs and procurement of raw simplified obligation will overall landings, ranging from 50% recognises the rather unique the confidence to invest in materials.” apply for UK vessels requesting for the Belgian fleet to around 1% permission to fish in EU waters for Spain.” 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 COMMENT EDITORIAL: [email protected] Discards ban concentrates minds One of the worst aspects of a long-drawn- prospect of having to handle and stow information request. out exit from the EU and CFP, or the two- fish that they know will not make any This kind of investigation will year transition that would follow a Brexit money. increase pressure on the authorities deal, is that British fishermen would be The quota pools are a beginning, but to monitor landings and discards as legally bound to comply with the landing it is clear there is still a long way to go tightly as possible. The suspicion that Editor News correspondent obligation for some considerable time. before measures are in place that can illegal discarding is still taking place on Dave Linkie Tim Oliver The UK government has committed in make the discards ban effective without a significant scale will also be picked email: [email protected] email: [email protected] the fisheries bill to including some form tying up large numbers of vessels through up by the big buyers and retailers. They 01434 607375 of discards ban in the new UK fisheries choke species. are anxious to protect their reputations regime that would eventually replace the More selective gear is widely touted for supplying products from sustainable EU’s scheme. as a way to avoid unwanted catches, and fisheries, and will back away from sources We would hope that this would be a great improvements have been made in where they believe discarding is taking workable scheme formulated in co- this respect, but there is a limit to which place. operation with the industry, but in the gear can be rigged to release unwanted Certification bodies such as the MSC meantime, we would be stuck with the fish without also losing marketable catch. will also be taking a second look at current unworkable EU scheme that Although it is early days, it is already currently certified fisheries if they think Cornwall correspondent Phil Lockley threatens to cause considerable economic becoming evident that very few discards they are not up to standard in terms of email: damage, not just in the UK but to all EU are being landed, and the greens are compliance with the landing obligation. Assistant editor [email protected] fleets. already exerting pressure and highlighting But at least the reality of the full Rachel Graham 01326 340372 It is good to see that moves are being the situation. One group, Our Fish, has implementation of the discards ban, and email: [email protected] made to try to mitigate the worst effects issued a lengthy report claiming that the fact that we may have to live of the ban, through the introduction although the discards ban has applied with it for some considerable of government-held quota pools that to North Sea cod since January 2018, time yet, has concentrated minds, landings of undersized fish can be the UK fleet landed zero undersized cod and serious efforts are now being recorded against, leaving individual from January to 15 November, 2018. made to address the problems quotas to be used for fish that make They made this claim after obtaining inherent in this misbegotten money. But fishermen will still resist the data from the MMO under a freedom of legislation. Lincolnshire, East Anglia and Essex correspondent John Worrall Sub editor email: [email protected] Gaby Bartai 07748 644971 UK minister grilled on 2019 TAC levels email: [email protected] Parliamentarians are demanding answers increase in the number of fish landed the committee asks the minister. as to why TACs set for 2019 are above the rather than caught, as a result of the full The committee also asks the minister levels advised by ICES, and what impact implementation of the landing obligation’. to clarify whether the TACs agreed for this has on sustainable fishing, reports But the committee tells the 2019 ‘will continue to apply in the UK in Tim Oliver. minister that in its recent report on a no-deal scenario’. The House of Lords EU Select ‘implementation and enforcement of the They asked the minister to reply to the Committee has written to UK fisheries EU landing obligation’, it found that ‘the letter within 10 days. 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6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 Inshore netters under attack from angling lobby South coast inshore fishermen dangerous deep-water fishing. to ‘black market’ against bona fide shore netting restrictions currently say that increasing numbers of commercial fishermen Southern( Daily promoted by the EA, and under DEFRA commercial fishermen are waking up UNAVOIDABLE BY-CATCH Echo, 5 December, 2018). review. Extension of ‘net free zones’ to the influence and agenda of the STIPULATION FOR BASS Result: and the idea of ‘refuge areas’ for sea Angling Trust (AT) and Bass Anglers’ Intervention by letter to DEFRA from the • Commercial fishermen fish promoted by the IFCAs, as aligned Sportfishing Society (BASS) in AT following unofficial AT surveillance consultation responses with BASS 2004 plan. lobbying for regulations that adversely and scrutiny of netting boats. Letter is outnumbered by anglers by three Current UK bass management impact small-scale inshore fishermen, viewable at: bit.ly/2UMqLcp to one. Ongoing; final result not yet measures include: especially netters. Online campaign by AT, 2016: ‘Time decided • Provision of bass entitlements The Warsash Inshore Fishermen’s to get rid of the bass nets’. • Evidence (documented by local to hook and line only. Originator: Group says that despite their influence “Some fixed netters have been fishermen, recorded by police) of BASS 2004. Enacted by DEFRA. on policy, the AT and BASS represent illegally targeting bass and landing them an increase in verbal and physical No consultation with commercial only ‘a small fraction of recreational sea as ‘unavoidable’ by-catch. Percentage threats/attacks on inshore netters fishermen on size selectivity of anglers’ – a view expressed in Fishing of daily catch restriction would stop in estuaries and working close nets, and how some net fishing News last week by a commercial them in their tracks. Sea anglers need to the shore, using legal net-fishing may be allowed to continue, or be fisherman and recreational angler (21 to get behind the campaign to Get the methods. Filming of legal netting incorporated into legislation March, ‘UK sea anglers have no desire Nets Out!” David Curtis, Angling Trust, activities and posting on anti- based on selectivity (drift nets). for further marine mismanagement’). 16 November, 2018. netting campaign websites and Totally engineered hook and line But the Warsash group says that Result: DEFRA outlaws targeting of angling lobby forums, with the fishery promoted by the UK DEFRA has nevertheless ‘co-operated, bass by fixed nets. No consideration intent to demonise commercial angling lobby. enabled, fostered and implemented’ the as to the effects on the small-scale fishermen. Never enacted before when other proposals of the AT and BASS at every operator. No consultation or economic Current status: Already fishermen in species (eg cod) were under opportunity. impact study. No compensation. South Western IFCA estuaries unable pressure regarding stock status. “They have limited working to catch estuarine fish by net. Forced knowledge of commercial net fisheries, CAMPAIGN AGAINST out to sea. Total uncompromised TRACK RECORD FOR and yet have lobbied and campaigned INSHORE NETTING endorsement of AT campaign by the BASS CATCHES constantly, without scrutiny, against Originator: AT/BASS/National Cornwall and Devon/Severn IFCAs, Originator: BASS 2004, enacted the interests of small-scale licensed Mullet Club including their ‘ideas’ in the ‘Review of by DEFRA. Many UK fishermen have registered inshore fishermen, especially Aim: Remove net fishing rights of Netting Management Proposals’. entirely lost their ability to catch bass. those using nets,” said a Warsash small-scale vessels operating in the No compensation. Ring-fencing spokesman. inshore zone/estuaries using gill nets BASS MANAGEMENT MEASURES, bass-catching fleet by placing the “They are woefully unqualified for bass. Later extended to other fish 2017 TO PRESENT track record on the hull of the vessel. to have any say in how commercial species like mullet. No suggested Obvious correspondence with ‘Bass Unprecedented in modern fisheries fisheries are run. Now they are compromises from the AT on net length, Anglers’ Sportfishing Plan’ (2004). management. Never enabled before for attempting to push us out of our estuary or permits as alternative management 2017: Status of bass stock advised by other stocks apparently under ‘threat’. by campaigning against nets and tools. Promotes negative image of nets ICES and EU as requiring ‘emergency Widespread condemnation from hitching their agenda to the agenda of to the point of hysteria with the public measures’. Used by AT to promote registered fishermen. the IFCA.” and MPs. Lobbying and briefing of MPs previously suggested management Originator: BASS 2004, enacted by The spokesman said that the AT by the AT/BASS to negatively dispose plans originally conceived by BASS 15 DEFRA. Will result in a decrease of the and BASS are now also in a contract against nets (Hansard parliamentary years earlier – when ICES did not regard fleet size. Fishermen unable to upgrade with the Environment Agency (EA) debates, 11 February, 2016). the stock as being over-exploited. existing vessels to fish more effectively to promote salmonid rod-licensing. Originator: 2004 Bass Management Commercial fishermen’s ideas sidelined for other fish/shellfish by other methods, “This is a significant conflict of vested Plan (Option A – Near Shore Netting or not tabled. without losing their bass-fishing interests, and the public needs to Restrictions: recommendation that BASS’ ‘Bass Management Plan’ capability. No proper consultation, no know how inshore fishermen are being all forms of netting be excluded from (2004) is virtually carbon-copied into compromise on vessel size upgrade by affected,” he said. a defined area around the coast, out EU legislation and DEFRA’s 2018 even a few feet in length, if engine size “This is not imagination or to one mile from shore), p. 39. BASS bass legislation 15 years later, without is slightly higher than existing vessel. paranoia. A growing consortium of report commissioned and endorsed scrutiny. Plan included: UK commercial fishermen are now by DEFRA. Promoted by the AT, the 1. Proposals for ‘re-allocation of CLOSED SEASON awakening to the influence and agendas Salmon and Trout Conservation Society resources’ of bass to recreational Originator: BASS 2004 of the angling lobby.” and the EA. only/game fish status, extension of The Warsash group recently netting restrictions out to one mile, RECREATIONAL BAG LIMITS wrote to former fisheries minister ‘GET THE NETS OUT’ CAMPAIGN bass nursery area reinforcement Originator: BASS 2004 George Eustice, after it claimed that Originator: AT/BASS/National Mullet and extension, closed season, amendments to the new fisheries Club (campaign to shut down netting track record, bag limits (for NUMEROUS WEB POSTINGS bill submitted by the AT, that would within one mile of the shore, based on anglers). Examples of influence by BASS, adversely affect commercial fishing, ‘conservation’). See: bit.ly/2W7yvpM 2. Proposal to licence anglers to now part of AT, exploiting bass were not properly scrutinised (Fishing and: bit.ly/2ulnipO sell bass catches, once fishery is stock situation as an opportunity News, 28 February, ‘Sea angling status Promoted in the Southern IFCA under recreational management for reallocation of the bass fishery fight’). district estuaries, based on alleged control (not yet implemented by to recreational sea angling. Some “The Angling Trust has made no salmonid interaction ‘threat’ with nets DEFRA). examples: official public statement to parliament fishing for other species, supported 3. Commercials would need to “The UK should follow the latest disclosing its long-term agenda by the EA. No evidence supplied, only ‘seek licence from recreational example right now and take the regarding inshore fisheries, yet the assertion and extrapolated evidence angling management’ (not yet commercial interests out of the influence persists,” said the Warsash from scientific reports. No scrutiny implemented by DEFRA). equation. Maximise economic value group. (to date) of the extent of mortality 4. Proposal for parliament to alter from the exploitation of the resource, associated with freshwater rod permit statute fisheries acts to engineer deliver an 80% cut in catches by having Influences, campaigns and for recreational salmonid fishing, a pro-angling hook and line-only zero commercial catch, that just might interventions by the AT/BASS as a comparison against inshore bass fishery under exclusive control save our bass…” BASS DRIFT NET BAN netting salmonid by-catch mortality. of a recreational management “… other species that are of interest Originator: EU. Strenuously lobbied Assumption that netters should be regime (BASS/AT). Currently to RSA, like cod for example, and move for by AT/BASS sacrificed to protect rod fishermen’s sought by AT – see Warsash to bass being a recreational species Result: Small vessels (even those interests. fishermen’s letter to George Eustice only.” carrying just one small bin of net) Website campaign – provision of (2019), seeking clarification of the outlawed from shooting a size-selective pre-written template consultation AT’s amendments to the fisheries LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT PLAN drift net for bass, even in a short responses for anglers and members of bill 2018. DEFRA liaised with AT, which seasonal fishery. Under-7m boats the public on the AT and the Salmon Plans would ultimately include represents only a small fraction of virtually going out of business. No and Seatrout Trust websites, intended provision of salt-water bailiff system to sea anglers, is not under statute, and compromises suggested on net length to be sent to the Southern IFCA. monitor illegal fishing for bass by the represents a hobby. Limited working by MMO/DEFRA, no impact study, no Local newspaper anti-commercial public or commercial fishermen (nets). knowledge of commercial fisheries, compensation. Boats reduced to mullet netting propaganda articles published. Already suggested by AT. therefore should have no say in net fishing only, or hook and line fishing Suggestive allegations of illegal Current status: Many points commercial fisheries to set a long-term from small dory boats unsuitable for targeting of salmonids and provision implemented by DEFRA in full. Near- bass management plan (2016). 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Electronic monitoring: aiding a culture of co-operation, or surveillance? The NFFO discusses the application of electronic vessel monitoring of the inshore fleet to fisheries management As the government is poised to to be in a management area and as it stands, multiple lists of Fully Documented Fisheries to generate knowledge for the extend the use of vessel monitoring making headway at a similar speed co-ordinates in byelaws are all scheme that aids the prevention common good should underpin systems (VMS) across the inshore to that when fishing – avoiding that exist to inform fishermen of of unwanted discards – a similar successful fisheries management fleet in England, recent experience tide, weather or shipping; waiting management boundaries. It is up initiative is ongoing to address policy. with electronic monitoring for a closed area to open; dealing to fishermen to enter these into unwanted catches of spurdog. systems (EMS) illustrates two very with a breakdown; or simply just their navigation systems to make These types of collaborative Culture clash different trajectories for fisheries resting – to name but a few. sense of them. approaches may also provide Developing a culture of management. Until additional technology that Under these circumstances, the a relevant model for tackling co-operation will not be realised can verify whether fishing is taking approach to enforcement is critical. cetacean and bird by-catch in the if electronic data is used within Enforcement place is introduced, these are the Get it wrong, and the consequences future. a ‘shoot first, ask questions One trajectory, characterised by limitations of current technology, extend beyond the immediate The NFFO is an enthusiastic later’ style of enforcement. This prosecution cases based on VMS and the usual evidential standards victims of rough justice. It is likely supporter of these collaborative approach leaves it to the courts evidence, conjures up images of have to be met. that many would become wary approaches. We believe they can to do the questioning, and obliges enforcement officerssitting at Even when evidence is of entering management areas or demonstrate practical conservation small businesses – even if found computer screens picking out rule- considered sufficient, enforcement making headway at speeds slower results by working with the grain innocent – to bear the stress, and breakers in a Space Invaders-style policy should also be applied than six knots – unnecessarily of maintaining a profitable fishing potentially crippling costs, of game, without the need to leave the proportionately, including compromising operational business. They enable industry defending themselves. comfort of a padded office chair. education and warning options, as freedom and, potentially, safety. to get involved, and demonstrate Such an approach will only Undoubtedly, while many see well as staged sanctioning. The prospect of heavy legal costs, responsible marine stewardship. generate distrust and an ‘us and electronic monitoring as a boon in if faced with prosecution, may This requires the building of them’ culture, persuading industry aiding the prevention of unlawful Spatial management persuade some to plead guilty or trust and co-operation between that it should only ever give the activities and ensuring offenders Recent VMS enforcement cases accept a fine when given the choice, managers and industry, where minimum information away, and are brought to justice, in the case are at the vanguard of policing when in fact they are innocent. electronic data gathering and be continually looking over its of VMS, it is not the same as a the increasing volume of spatial monitoring provides a knowledge shoulder, so as not to fall foul of visual inspection of wrongdoing. fisheries regulations. As well as Partnership building base, that in turn can assist in the authorities. Trust built up can The data shows only the extension of VMS systems to In contrast to an alienating formulating management measures be easily lost. position, speed and heading, not the inshore fleet, control of fishing and remote-control form of that are more practical, effective It is essential to get to grips whether illegal fishing is taking in and around marine protected enforcement is the careful and sustainable. with how electronic monitoring place. It therefore needs to be areas (MPAs) is about to get a lot work that has been going on Investment in time and effort is data on fishing activities should be corroborated, and not used as a more expansive and complex, as for a number of years between needed on all sides, and results may applied alongside other evidence foregone conclusion of an offence, measures are progressively rolled government, scientists and the take a number of years to come to in enforcement actions, and to whether to secure a prosecution out across our seas. fishing industry to develop and fruition, as baseline evidence is consider what constitutes sufficient or to trigger a fixed administrative This rollout has yet to be test bottom-up schemes that seek gathered and trials are proved, evidence to justify a particular penalty. Without corroboration, accompanied by aids that will help to involve the industry in tackling before measures can be applied course of action. Clarity is needed there is a risk of false prosecution. skippers to navigate the measures. some of the more knotty fisheries more widely, and inform how to if the co-operative path between There are numerous legitimate A new initiative by Seafish aims management challenges. best frame policy and regulation. industry and managers is to be reasons why a vessel may need to address this eventually, but A good example is the MMO Giving industry confidencerealised.

ILO 188 WORK IN FISHING CONVENTION APPLIES TO ALL FISHERMEN

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Main areas covered by ILO 188 are: ● Responsibility for operation of the vessel ● Extending Health and Safety requirements to everyone on board ● Wearing a PFD or lifeline unless you can eliminate the risk of going overboard ● Medical Certificates ● Training ● Manning and Hours of Rest ● Crew Lists and Work Agreements ● Recruitment ● Payments ● Accommodation, Food and Water ● Medical Care and Repatriation 8 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 Nichola of Ladram launched in Holland The new 14.95m vivier- Fitted out at the Luyt BV at the Ibis shipyard, Burgum, crabber Nichola of Ladram E shipyard for Devon owners before being towed to Den Starting to move Nichola of Ladram 1 was lifted into the water by Waterdance Ltd, part of the Oever for completion by Luyt from the Luyt BV two cranes at Den Oever in Greendale Group, Nichola of BV. shipyard… Holland last week, after the Ladram was designed by Ian On the same day as Nichola launching had been delayed Paton of SC McAllister & Co of Ladram was launched, by a prolonged spell of gales, Ltd. the hull of the new Irish reports David Linkie. With main dimensions of beam trawler Tilly WD 3 was registered length 14.3m, beam lifted out of the water at Den 7m and depth moulded 3.65m, Oever for completion by Luyt the fully shelterdecked double- BV, after being towed from chine hull, together with the Burgum. wheelhouse, was fabricated Featuring a Caterpillar C18

… before being manoeuvred by a tug to a quayside berth past the new Kilmore Quay beam trawler Tilly WD 3. (Photos: Rienk Nadema)

† … by low loader to the quayside.

main engine, two Caterpillar C4.4 auxiliary engines and a 1.5t Britannia hauler, Nichola of Ladram is now ‡ Two cranes share the load as being readied for sea trials Nichola of Ladram is lifted into next month, before arriving the water... in Devon. Eternal Light launched at Buckie Scallop fisherman fined £5,362 A new automated scalloper, for fishing in Lyme Bay MPA built by Macduff Shipyards In a case heard in Weymouth for species including sea fans, for Whitelink Seafoods of Magistrates Court, the sponges and corals. These Fraserburgh, was launched into Plymouth-based scallop habitats, in turn, attract many Buckie harbour late on Wednesday fishing dredger Cristal Waters fish and crustacea. Fishing is night of last week, reports David FY 34 was found to have used allowed in the MPA as long as Linkie. scallop dredges within the the activities are not damaging Specialist low-loader units were Lyme Bay Marine Protected to the seabed or to the nature used to manoeuvre Eternal Light Area (MPA), contrary to the conservation. FR 35 out of the fabrication hall Southern IFCA Bottom Towed “Coastal fishing and down an adjacent slipway Fishing Gear Byelaw 2016, communities from Lyme at low water. The scalloper was reports John Periam. Regis, West Bay and Cristal Waters was elsewhere rely upon this intercepted by one of productive ecosystem for Southern IFCA’s four FVPs their livelihoods. Illegal fishing approximately three miles which damages the reefs offshore from Burton threatens both the marine Bradstock, inside the environment and these protected area, on 15 July, coastal fishing communities, 2018. The officers onboard which are protected by IFCA ‡ Eternal Light was manoeuvred down the slipway by two specialist noticed that it had scallop byelaws.” crawler units at low water ready to float off on the incoming tide. dredges over the side of the The skipper of Cristal vessel, full of scallops. Waters, Matthew David Bull then supported before the low a 2,200mm-diameter propeller A spokesperson for from Exmouth, Devon, failed loaders were removed. After gently and a triple rudder. Mitsubishi Southern IFCA said: “The to appear in Weymouth floating off six hours later, shortly 6D24 and S4KT auxiliary engines Lyme Bay MPA is designated Magistrates Court on 21 before midnight, Eternal Light was are also fitted. for the protection of mud January to answer the towed to her fitting-out berth in The scalloper’s hydraulic deck stone reefs, for which it is charges, and in his absence, Buckie’s inner harbour. machinery, together with the considered to be one of the he was sentenced with a fine Eternal Light features a outer hull tipping doors and catch best areas in the United of £3,000, costs of £2,192, and ‡ Welders remove a stern shore Mitsubishi S6R2 main engine, a conveyors, were manufactured Kingdom. The protected mud a victim surcharge of £170, as darkness falls. Masson 7.063:1 reduction gearbox, in-house by Macduff Shipyards. stone reefs provide a habitat making a total of £5,362. Angler fined £684 for taking bass and obstructing a fishery officer At Weymouth Magistrates At the hearing, the At the time of the offences, offences, and ordered him to those who fish, even if they are Court on 28 February, Adrian magistrates heard that the no bass were allowed to be pay a victim surcharge of £30 recreational fishermen, to know Barron, aged 69, of Weymouth, offences were detected on 13 taken by recreational anglers and to contribute £500 to the that the laws also apply to them. Dorset, pleaded guilty to September, 2018, just outside in an effort to protect stocks, costs of the case, making a total Our commercial fishermen work retaining a quantity of bass Portland Marina in Dorset, as part of a wider package of of £684 to pay. hard to retain a sustainable from a recreational fishery, and when officers from Southern measures designed to rebuild Southern IFCA’s chief fishery fishing area, and they know only to intentionally obstructing a IFCA and the MMO inspected the population of this species. officer Robert Clark said: “It too well that if they break the Southern IFCA enforcement Mr Barron’s recreational fishing The magistrates fined Mr is our duty to protect these laws, they will be punished. The officer, reports John Periam. boat Dragonfly. Barron £70 for each of the two areas, and it is important for same applies to anglers.” 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BLUE WHITING 9 Storm-ridden blue whiting fishery Fishing activity for blue whiting in the North Atlantic, some 100-150 The Peterhead pelagic vessel miles west of Ireland, increased Pathway running off to fish last week as sea conditions some 100 miles west of started to improve in the wake of Killybegs, between storms Gareth and Hannah. three successive storms – Freya, Gareth and Hannah. After sheltering in Killybegs harbour and Inver Bay for several days (Fishing News, 21 March, ‘Storm Gareth crowds Killybegs’), the first midwater trawlers started to head out to the grounds in a small weather window as storm Hannah tracked in. A relatively quieter spell of weather last week yielded more consistent fishing opportunities that benefited a mixed fleet of Danish, Irish, Norwegian and Scottish vessels currently fishing blue whiting. These were joined by the new Fraserburgh midwater trawler Taits FR 229, which landed its maiden trip into Killybegs. This small selection of photographs taken by Ryan Cordiner captures some of the action from the blue whiting fishery.

The Killybegs midwater The Danish vessel trawler Áine SO 734 pumping Rockall… blue whiting west of Ireland.

‡ Smaragd shooting its blue whiting trawl in quieter conditions.

The Norwegian midwater vessel Knester underway to land 1,640t … tracking a mark in a of blue whiting in Skagen. decaying swell.

Western Chieftain towing for blue whiting. 10 TYNESIDE BREXIT PROTEST Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 FISHING VESSELS JOIN TYNESIDE BREXIT PROTEST A flotilla of fishing vessels took part in a demonstration and parade on Tyneside on Friday last week, to protest against the Brexit withdrawal deal, and to highlight that the government has capitulated to Britain having to obey all EU law after Brexit

Trawlers berthed on Newcastle quayside, downstream of the iconic Millennium and Tyne bridges.

rexit campaign group represents a death sentence Fishing for Leave (FFL) for the industry, as the EU will Bsaid, following the be free to enforce and impose demonstration, that fishermen detrimental rules on us, to and fishing communities were cull what’s left of the UK fleet. ‘enraged’ at the capitulation. The withdrawal agreement Aaron Brown of FFL said: will become an internationally “We hope our contribution helps binding treaty from which we to inspire all patriotic Britons to can never escape – as outlined make a noise demanding that by the government’s top lawyer, MPs must listen, and not thwart the attorney general.” or betray Brexit or Britain by FFL said that, under the terms voting through Theresa May’s of the withdrawal agreement, ‘Brexit-in-name-only’ withdrawal the government has agreed agreement, or postponing/ to re-obey all EU law post- cancelling a democratic Brexit for a two- to four-year instruction. transition period. It highlights “The withdrawal agreement that this means that the already- Of particular horror to British fishermen is that the withdrawal agreement would mean that the EU can Charmel leads Good Fellowship, demand full enforcement of the EU Ivy May, White Pearl and Mary discards ban Manson up the Tyne… 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews TYNESIDE BREXIT PROTEST 11

‡ … before going alongside Moremma – the first boat to moor up on Newcastle quayside.

‡ Trustful, Emily Rose, Palatine, Innisfallen and Ocean Provider rafted five out.

struggling industry will remain trapped in the disastrous CFP until possibly January 2023. The group highlights that under the withdrawal agreement terms, the UK will be excluded from EU decision-making, but will be bound to obey all new EU rules. FFL says this would allow the EU ‘to enforce any detrimental laws to cull what is left of Britain’s fishing industry’. It says the EU would be free to slash Britain’s quotas, abolish the 12-mile limit, and trade UK resources in international deals. “Of particular horror to British fishermen is that the ‡ The Tyne protest attracted high levels of interest from national withdrawal agreement media teams – Moremma skipper Gary Dunbar being filmed by a would mean that ‡ Lisa Tamlin and Anne Symonds, together with the national TV crew. the EU can English bull terrier Gerrard, made the long journey demand full from Kirkby Lonsdale in Lancashire to support enforcement UK fishermen, and will be in Parliament Square on The withdrawal agreement is a of the EU 29 March. discards total turkey trap, where the EU ban,” said Brown. resources using international Aaron “The EU law under article 62.2 of can force Britain into CFP has every UNCLOS. † Aaron incentive “Even worse, under the associate membership forever Brown of FFL. to enforce withdrawal agreement, the UK any and all agrees to ratify the draft future detrimental relationship between the EU and legislation to UK after the transition period. cull what’s left of This future relationship is to be the UK fleet. Under based on ‘existing reciprocal international law, if we no access and quota shares’, and longer have the fleet capacity on ‘non-discrimination’ – the to catch our own resources, founding principle of equal the EU can then claim these access to a common resource.

‡ Mary Manson approaching Newcastle quayside, after steaming 12 ‡ Local and visiting crew show their support for FFL. miles up the river Tyne from North Shields. 12 TYNESIDE BREXIT PROTEST Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019

Also, any fisheries agreement fisheries, then the EU will close “MPs must respect the would be traded ‘within the its markets. democratic instruction and leave context of the overall economic “The withdrawal agreement the EU on 29 March with no partnership’.” is a total turkey trap, where the deal – which is no problem! Our FFL also points out that EU can force Britain into CFP industry won’t take being sold if Britain won’t agree to EU associate membership forever,” out a second time. All patriotic demands, then the EU can said Aaron Brown. “It is not Britons must make every effort – invoke the ‘backstop’ – severing much better for any other part as we will – to ensure that MPs’ Northern Ireland from Britain of our nation. The withdrawal ears ring with the message that and trapping Britain as a agreement puts Britain over Britons won’t take a betrayal of permanent EU rule-taker. Britain a barrel, paying £39bn for Britain or Brexit.” can only escape by agreeing the privilege, and then only He called on all supporters to to the EU’s ‘future relationship’ to be forced into becoming a join the March to Leave, which terms. The backstop also says permanent vassal state under will arrive in London on the that if the UK won’t yield on the draft future relationship. withdrawal date of 29 March. ■

‡ Innisfallen and Charmel maintained a continual presence in the middle of the river, a short distance downstream from the Millennium Bridge.  Charmel, White Pearl, Mary Manson and Arlanda moored on Newcastle Quayside ahead of the rest of the flotilla. REMAINERS ABUSE FISHERMEN FIGHTING FOR LIVELIHOODS A 30ft traditional NE England abusing working folk fighting coble mounted on a lorry, for survival shows how elitist escorted by a pipe band, left and detached they are from the 1 North Shields harbour at 8.30am majority of the country.” and arrived at Newcastle FFL said that the protest quayside at midday. At the was conducted with dignity same time, a flotilla of some 20 and professionalism, and gave fishing vessels left North Shields ‘a huge thanks to all the boats and headed up the Tyne to the that took the time, and made Millennium Bridge, intending the effort, to raise the industry’s to join the boat, lorry and pipe voice’. It also thanked the pipe band at Newcastle quayside. band, the lorry and the traffic However, Gateshead police. Council decided not to open The coble was led across the Millennium Bridge as was Tyne Bridge by the band before scheduled, giving only five – in a historical nod – passing minutes’ notice before the boats the Jarrow church from which, in arrived. 1936, Jarrow marchers started As vessels arrived, they to walk the 300-plus miles to were accosted by a group London, to highlight the plight of of Remainers. FFL said, “Yet the working folk of Britain to the again, Remain fanatics decided public and politicians (Fishing to hurl abuse at hardworking News, 21 March, ‘FFL organises march to London, said: “We are and cultural heritage, and to their senses and respect British fishermen fighting for Tyneside protest’). delighted to have the support yet is being sacrificed, as the the will of the people. Let us their livelihoods – fishermen Richard Tice, founder and of Fishing for Leave, and thank government yet again bows to leave the EU on WTO terms, were only too happy to hurl eggs vice-chairman of the Leave it for its considerable efforts. the demands of the Brussels and save £39bn in the process, back! It seems that the Remain Means Leave Brexit campaign The UK fishing industry is a bureaucrats. and prepare for a bright and campaign hasn’t learnt that group, which is organising the vital part of the UK’s economy “Politicians must now come prosperous future.”

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‡ 1: Remain advocates on the Millennium Bridge… 2: … alongside Leave supporters, which led to some lively debate. 3: Skipper Gary Dunbar in discussion with a finger-pointing Remain supporter from Europe. 4: A marching drum band… 5: … led a symbolic coble on a specialist low-loader from North Shields to Newcastle quayside, before crossing the Tyne Bridge en route to Jarrow. 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 13 Voisinage agreement put on hold until fishing industry’s concerns are heard The proposed amendment to our fishing communities. be a level playing pitch across the NESFLAG programme invests £500,000 the sea fisheries bill by the Irish “These concerns are that this island, and our fisheries must be in local fishing communities Department of Agriculture, Food legislation will give a legal footing managed responsibly and fairly,” he and the Marine that would give the for companies from anywhere to concluded. The North East Scotland across fishing communities voisinage agreement legal footing fish inside Ireland’s six-mile limit, Francis O’Donnell, CEO of the Fisheries Local Action Group including Stonehaven, has been stopped in the Seanad and it will give a legal footing for Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation, (NESFLAG) has awarded grants Johnshaven and Gourdon. (the upper house of the Oireachtas), multi-national corporations to come told Fishing News: “We need to be worth a total of £516,472 to 11 Prospective applicants should reports Pauric Gallagher. in and plunder Ireland’s natural listened to on what is an extremely new projects in Aberdeenshire contact the co-ordinator (email: Senators have urged minister for resources, such as our mussel controversial fisheries bill, fraught and Angus. jamie.wilkinson@aberdeenshire. agriculture, food and the marine fishery, as they have been allowed with risks. This is the second time The group approved the gov.uk) who can offer support in Michael Creed to engage in proper to do in the past.” that senators have raised serious applications in the latest round the preparation of applications. consultation with fishermen and He added, “They are also concerns communicated to them by of the programme, which The next deadline is 14 July, their representatives, to address concerned that the British all of the fisheries organisations in supports economic activity and 2019. Further details can be their concerns. government may be about to Ireland. community development in the found at: nesflag.org.uk Senator Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, withdraw from the London “While we agree that a new fishing communities of the North Jamie Wilkinson, the Sinn Féin’s Seanad spokesperson Fisheries Convention and the voisinage of sorts is required, there East. NESFLAG co-ordinator, said: on the marine, welcomed the Common Fisheries Policy, so they is no justification for rushing it. NESFLAG manages the small- “These projects represent decision of the Seanad not to ask, why is the Irish government The UK is leaving the Common scale ‘community-led local some great examples of facilitate the full passage of the proposing to open up the precious Fisheries Policy on 29 March, and development’ element of the how NESFLAG can deliver sea fisheries (amendment) bill, and fisheries within our six-milethe London Fisheries Convention European Maritime and Fisheries community-led local said, “The government has parked limit without reciprocal legal on 4 July. The UK has chosen to Fund (EMFF), financed by the development. this controversial legislation for reassurances and actions by the erect sea borders already, and European Union and the Scottish “In this round, we have two years now, and in that time, it British government? it is only prudent that Ireland government. supported a number of has failed to consult with a range “Sinn Féin absolutely supports understands what that means. The programme is applications along the coast that of fishing organisations around our legislation that opens up all waters “Credit has to be given to the co-ordinated by Aberdeenshire will deliver significant benefits to coast, or to attempt to address their within the six-mile limit around Senate in that it has shown great Council, and comprises a small-scale fishermen. We have concerns. The minister must respect the Irish coast to all of our Irish support for Irish fishermen on this partnership of around 20 also offered grants to projects the opinions and real concerns of inshore fishermen, but there must issue,” Mr O’Donnell concluded. organisations from the private, which improve coastal tourist public and community sectors. It attractions and celebrate the has a strong representation from maritime heritage of the region. fisheries organisations. “Particularly exciting is the FFL: Why the withdrawal agreement The programme, which expansion of the Peterhead launched in March 2016, has a Seafood Festival, following a total budget of £1.43m, of which successful small-scale pilot is disastrous for British fishing more than £1m has now been event in 2018.” Fishing for Leave (FFL) is urging fishermen to join awarded to 25 projects. Charles Milne, chairman of the the March to Leave, scheduled to take place in Whitehills Inshore Fishermen’s Parliament Square this Friday, 29 March – the day on The successful projects in Association, said: “One of the which the UK should have left the EU. the latest round include: aims of the Whitehills Inshore An FFL spokesperson said: “The withdrawal deal • Redevelopment of part Fishermen’s Association was to is tantamount to a second surrender of Britain’s of Arbroath’s Signal Tower improve harbour facilities for the fishing industry, given the desperate situation it will Museum and creation of new 11 inshore boats. put it in. fishing heritage displays “We applied for NESFLAG “Under this dire deal, Britain will be re-obeying all • A new berthing pontoon for EMFF funding, and we were EU law for the transition period of up to four years. the use of fishing, leisure and absolutely delighted when this “However, we will have no say or veto, meaning tourism vessels at Arbroath funding was approved. It has that Britain will be a gagged EU satellite, bound harbour helped us build a top-quality under Article 5 of the withdrawal agreement’s terms • Purchase of a rigid inflatable chill facility, complete with ice of ‘good faith’ to enforce whatever laws Brussels boat, berthing pontoon and machine, scales and landing decrees. It is worse than membership, despite the equipment for a new-start davits. This will keep our catch British people instructing our elected representatives tourism business in safe, and in prime condition for to leave. Stonehaven market. “Unlike any international treaty before, sickeningly, • A major new slipway at Banff “It is a wonderful addition this one has no escape clause; as the government’s harbour to the harbour, and hopefully own attorney general has clearly stated, there is no • Conversion of the former a great legacy for future way out. Britain will be over a barrel, with no escape. fishmarket in Whitehills to generations. We are extremely “This will allow the EU to enforce any detrimental create new landing facilities grateful to NESFLAG for all their legislation to cripple and cull what’s left of the Article 184, says that the UK and EU should look for local inshore fishermen help and guidance. British industry. It has every incentive to do so. to agree their future relationship. For fishing, that is • Purchase of innovative new “Funding these projects Under international law (UNCLOS Article 62.2), if a one based on the principle of ‘non-discrimination’ buoys that will reduce fishing means that we are maximising coastal state does not have the capacity to harvest – the founding tenet of equal access to a common gear conflict in Fraserburgh the current opportunities all its resources, then it must give the ‘surplus’ to its resource. And it’s to be bartered as part ‘of the • The pre-development phase available to us under the neighbours. This is not conjecture; EU documents overall economic partnership’. of a major project to refurbish European Maritime and Fisheries recognise this situation. “The government is trying to hide behind ‘the UK and extend the Stonehaven Fund.” “The EU would be free to cull what’s left of our will be an independent state’. We may officially be, Tolbooth Museum Janette Hardie, treasurer fleet by: but we will be an independent state that’s chosen • A waste management and of Fraserburgh Harbour • Slashing quotas that Britain is dependent to be shackled to the EU for up to four years in the environmental project at Commissioners, said: “Having upon – Article 130 says that current percentage- transition. Fraserburgh harbour support from NESFLAG to build based ‘relative stability shares’, which are hugely “We don’t need a deal to leave. We leave under • Construction of new bespoke our bespoke three-level modular imbalanced against Britain, will be maintained, but the Article 50 clause of the ‘treaties ceasing to towers for improved access access towers is an enormous the EU can slash quota tonnages for species the apply’, as agreed by the EU and as legislated in to boats on the shiplift at improvement for all contractors UK is dependent on – 100% of zero tonnes is still parliament. The PM’s deal is a sell-out designed to Fraserburgh harbour who are working on the vessels zero envelop Britain into being a permanent EU satellite. • A major seafood festival at the shiplift. • Abolishing the 12nm limit – that protects British It completely and brazenly spits in the face of the for Peterhead, to be held in “As an innovative port inshore fishermen and nursery grounds largest vote in British history. September 2019 using bespoke engineering • Barter UK resources in international swaps – “Fishing for Leave will have a vessel on a low-load • New fish-landing facilities, techniques that are safety- using British resources, that will be in the common lorry, escorted by two pipe bands, passing Whitehall including an ice machine conscious, building the modular pot, as negotiating capital, while we have no say into Parliament Square on Friday, 29 March at 2pm, and chill room, at Rosehearty towers means that one can be • Full enforcement of the ill-founded discards to support the March to Leave. harbour. permanently erected at each ban – worst of all, it can enforce the ill-founded “We extol everyone to join the March to Leave. NESFLAG now has a very shiplift cradle, but at the same discards ban, which addresses the discards Make MPs hear loud and clear that patriotic British limited budget remaining in time be easily movable if one symptom rather than the cause, which is the rules citizens won’t take this shambles any more. Show North Aberdeenshire, and is of the sections were to be of the EU quota system that fishing and coastal communities won’t lie down, fully committed in Angus. The damaged. We would be able to “Therefore, May’s dire deal is a suicide pill to our and won’t be swept back into the cupboard. programme continues to be remove that section for repair, industry, as many won’t survive four years of the “We hope that as many as possible will march open for funding applications and possibly slot in one of the above. with the boat. Email: [email protected] for more from South Aberdeenshire, and other sections, that could allow “To make it worse, the withdrawal agreement, in details.” welcomes enquiries from groups, us to carry on with work as associations and businesses usual.” 14 EAST ANGLIA’S FISHERY Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 EAST ANGLIA’S FISHERY DISQUIET ON THE EASTERN FRONT – BUT A SOLE CONSOLATION As Brexit passes from delivery through dilution to disMay, East Anglia’s fishermen are no longer holding their breath. They’re just trying to get on with making a living. John Worrall reports ife has got steadily harder sole – is now being banned, the for East Anglia’s inshore EU having decided last month Lfleet over the past decade. to rescind half of the 84 active Hit with vastly reduced licences this year, and phase opportunity on its most valuable out the remainder by 2021. fish, bass, almost cleaned Pulse research will revert to out of its next most valuable, the original maximum of 5% of sole, zero opportunity on any EU member’s beamer fleet, spurdog, and now an impending which would limit the Dutch – requirement to fit i-VMS: the who have done most of it so far most community-sustaining and – to a dozen or so licences. low-impact part of the industry This seems finally to be is fighting to avoid strangulation. an acknowledgement of the And whether Brexit – if it ever bleeding obvious. Invented in happens, and in what form – 1992 by Dutchman Piet Jan improves things remains to be Verburg, pulsing was soon seen. banned in many parts of the world, including Europe back Not much sole in 1998 – although that 5% Let’s start with a bit of good research derogation was news, which is that pulse fishing allowed in ICES areas 4b and 4c – which has cleaned out the from 20 07.

‡ The way things were – drifters at Lowestoft in the early 20th century, at the height of the herring fishery. (Photo: Port of Lowestoft Research Society Collection)

And then, at the end of 2013, came article 14 of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy that said, with reference to the then- imminent landing obligation, that member states could conduct ‡ The last beamer company to work from Lowestoft was Colne pilot projects to explore ways Shipping. ‡ The racks for drying herring drift nets before storage are still there. of avoiding, minimising or eliminating unwanted catches. benthic ecosystem and nutrient This brought an immediate dynamics.” Colne Shipping’s outbreak of pulsing ‘pilot In itself, this ought to have boats finished in projects’, which threw the been reason enough to call a the 1990s. supposed 5% maximum over halt right there and then, more the side. At one stage there were particularly since relatively light reportedly 112 boats at it, the pulse gear can also work much vast majority Dutch. softer ground than conventional In 2015, this North Sea beams, and therefore in areas equivalent of the Japanese previously unexploited, that had whaling ‘science’ charade had become stock havens. the ICES working group on Non-pulsing inshore electrical fishing, WGELECTRA, fishermen soon knew that it saying that the 84 boats was hammering the sole stock licensed at that point – including in particular, because their own 35% of the entire Dutch beam catches went into steep decline. trawl fleet over 18m – was a Southwold fisherman Paul level of effort unjustified on any Klyne, skipper of Laura K LT 974, scientific basis. It said that it was made the point last month on ‘not in the spirit of the previous the BBC’s ‘Sunday Politics East’ advice’ and that ‘such a level programme, saying that his sole of expansion is not justified catches had ‘plummeted’ in the from a scientific perspective’. past five years, from up to 180kg It was ‘essentially permitting a to 30-40kg a day. commercial fishery under the “It is just not viable,” he said. guise of scientific research’. “I firmly believe that since the By 2017, it was adding, Dutch were licensed to pulse- “Little is known on the effects fish, there has been a major step of electrical stimulation on the backwards.” development of eggs and larvae. More ominously, fishermen No studies have been done on were reporting dead ground, the effect of pulse stimulation dead fish and dead everything on the functioning of the in the pulsers’ wakes, and that 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews EAST ANGLIA’S FISHERY 15

‡ About 15 inshore boats land to Lowestoft market now…

† But a lot of boats on this coast are having to turn to whelking for ‡ … plus the occasional visitor, like the Brixham vivier vessel Ebonnie BM 176, which is nice – and want of other opportunity. would be even nicer if its landings of whelks were creating jobs by being processed locally, rather than heading straight for Korea. eventually led in January 2018 to MEPs voting by 402 to 232, with but findings are rumoured 40 abstentions, to ban it – again. to show collateral damage But that didn’t change much all the way up the food except oblige EU commissioner chain, and at least as bad – and Karmenu Vella to engage in a possibly worse – than feared. ‘trilogue’ with MEPs and the Either way, DEFRA announced Council, and as recently as last Lowestoft fishmarket – but the in February that pulse fishing autumn, there was little sign of two of them had also lobbied would be banned in UK waters action. The Dutch fishing lobby on the home front, having long after Brexit, the announcement had been particularly effective had the ear of the then fisheries coming at about the same time in getting that degree of pulsing minister George Eustice, through as the EU was agreeing its latest allowed, despite the 1998 ban, local MP Peter Aldous. wider ban. and it still held sway. They constantly put But the CEFAS investigations It has taken and their now- heavy lobbying rumoured findings on the other side The work was done last year, were barely in the of the argument picture for the by the France- and is now out for peer review, EU discussions, based NGO which were steered BLOOM, together but findings are rumoured to show more by a belated ‡ Lowestoft market on a good day with a coalition of acknowledgement for March 2019… Belgian, French, collateral damage all the way of the illegality of Dutch, Spanish the present level of † … with a lot less sole. and UK inshore up the food chain pulsing, in the light of fishermen, to bring that 1998 ban. plummeting sole catches were about change. forward the reports of ground This makes it a rich irony that probably a clue, but even a The UK contingent was devastation, and eventually Brussels is now considering cursory look at the Dutch fleet spearheaded by Great Yarmouth persuaded the minister to fund a legal action against the Dutch would have helped. fisherman Paul Lines, and June CEFAS investigation. for transgressing the original “Ten years ago, we were Mummery, managing director The work was done last year, 5% limit. Did they not know it seeing five tonnes of sole a week of BFP Eastern, which runs and is now out for peer review, had been happening? Those on Lowestoft market,” says June

Mummery. “Now it’s between 250 and 500kg a week. Dutch pulsers have made millions of pounds by breaking the law. So I want them to reimburse me for what I’ve lost. And fishermen around the southern North Sea want the same.”

Not much bass either Meanwhile, bass catches have also plummeted over the past couple of years, although that is down to regulation rather than stock depletion. ICES is again involved, but as protagonist rather than observer, ‡ ... with a goodish amount of advising that the stock remains ‡ Lowestoft fishmarket on a so-so day in 2015… sole. under pressure, something that 16 EAST ANGLIA’S FISHERY Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 flies increasingly in the face of what can be seen on the inshore grounds – which, in turn, reinforces the thinking that ICES is well behind the curve. But again, the scientists can only do as much work as the politicians will pay for. ICES did, in fact, report a slight improvement in bass stock levels last year, and recommended a marginal easing of restrictions. But with the continued limiting of UK bass effort to hook and line, and to netting and trawling by-catch, and only for boats with established track record, and with a closed season in February and March, the small boats are being hurt a lot more than big trawlers that have inadvertently hauled up tonnes of it, and thrown it over the side. With first sale prices at anything between £10 and £15 a kilo, half a dozen decent fish can make the difference between a good and a bad day for an under-10m boat. One factor still only tacitly acknowledged by regulators is predation. Back in the autumn, CEFAS held a series of four ‡ … and ran a big campaign. workshops around the country as part of its Sea Bass Fisheries Conservation UK project, Her market at Lowestoft is seeing C-Bass, a two-year project funded by the EMFF to promote far less fish generally, not only long-term sustainable bass fisheries in the UK. sole and bass, but also cod, which The project included a tagging programme, in which historically was a winter and spring bright red cylindrical tags, about an inch long, were inserted fish on this coast into fish to transmit details of location, water depth and not only sole and bass, but also rub their noses in it? And then temperature. By the time of the cod, which historically was a logbooks. We’ve got nothing to presentation in Lowestoft in winter and spring fish on this catch, so why would you want it October, 1,391 tags had been coast, but seems to have moved logged?” deployed, and results showed north as the seas have warmed. “Most fishermen down this that some fish travelled well ‡ They and local MP Peter Aldous lobbied hard… coast have converted to whelk over 100km, with seasonal But plenty of i-VMS… fishing,” says Paul Lines. “It’s movements between the of those tagged fish, and they And no spurdog at all All this adds further irony to the the last opportunity. But that’s southern North Sea and the were only the ones where the As for spurdog, that’s a dead impending requirement for all showing signs of strain. All we Channel, and some evidence of predator actually swallowed the dog for now. “Ten years ago, inshore boats to have i-VMS. can hope for is that in two or fish returning annually to inshore tag. they banned it,” says June “Why should we accept three years’ time, with pulsing feeding grounds. There’s certainly no shortage Mummery. “Where’s the science that?” says June Mummery. “If finished, we’ll have a healthy But predation, indicated by a of seals. being done on that? People will they give us fish to catch, we’ll stock of sole again.” sudden rise to mammalian body “Scroby Sands, just off forget what it’s like. They ban do it. But we’ve got no cod, little DEFRA’s i-VMS consultation temperature, accounted for 20% Yarmouth, has 4,000,” says something – they did it with the sole, and no bass at all at the closed on 14 November, and Paul Lines. “And then Horsey, herring – and now they say, ‘Why moment, with the two-month government responses to points Waxham and Sea Palling, just up don’t people eat herring?’ closed season. They spring raised were promised within the coast, have another 4,000. Because they’ve that upon fishermen three months. But nothing has And there are probably 500 in forgotten what the who cannot afford to appeared. and around Yarmouth outer fish is.” feed their families. As matters stand, many east harbour.” Her market Do they want to coast fishermen intend to resist He could throw in another at Lowestoft thousand or two along the is seeing north Norfolk coast, including far less fish Blakeney Harbour. generally,

‡ But holy soles! The Dynamic Duo, market owner June Mummery and fisherman Paul Lines, had been pushing for the pulse ban, which has finally arrived. ‡ Bass could be a saviour again… Circled: … if it wasn’t for the seals… ‡ … and you can’t ban seals. 28 March 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews EAST ANGLIA’S FISHERY 17 It’s up to government to invest, and get private investors to come here Essex, and who would like to “It’s up to government to join the endeavour. invest, and get private investors The project recently to come here,” says Paul Lines. obtained over £130,000, three- “But not just British investment. quarters of it from the MMO, If that fisheries bill manages to explore opportunities for it properly, fish-processing reinvigoration. companies in Holland, France The biggest and Denmark should see that port, it’s beneficial to set up here, Lowestoft, and become British entities ‡ Seals ate at least 20% of the CEFAS-tagged bass. † But the east coast looks to the now has about and invest in our communities.” future now, with REAF and the expectation of, at least, a sole revival. 15 boats And in the end, communities landing fish are the key. June Mummery it, saying that it will increase question of whether approved @REAF2018) there. At the sums it up. “The thing is that operating costs to the point suppliers with a captive and (Fishing News, height of the it isn’t about the fishermen, where small, inshore fishing legally obligated market will be 10 January). herring fishery it’s about the community. The enterprises, also grappling with free to charge what they like. This is a in the early merchants, the onshore jobs – the landing obligation, will be The units use mobile phone partnership of 20th century, one job at sea is worth eight on driven out of business. technology and, like mobile fishing industry there were land. The high-skill wind farm According to the consultation phones, they wear out or interests and hundreds. But jobs aren’t going to save east documents, airtime costs become obsolete. When the local councils, spearheaded a feasibility study is underway coast communities, but fishing quoted by three potential i-VMS three suppliers were asked how again by the Mummery/Lines to assess the current state of will. You give me six local boys suppliers range from £114 to long they could be expected to dynamic duo and Peter Aldous play, and to identify what is and I will put them to work, £168 per annum at the required last, only one replied, stating MP, who has also been closely needed in terms of investment like boys I went to school with, three-minute reporting interval. that its device ‘would work for involved with the passage of the and measures to maximise who went fishing and are now But the bigger imponderable longer than five years, but similar fisheries bill through parliament. opportunities. It should be well-off.” is the cost of repair and, when to a mobile phone, become They are always pleased to hear concluded in late summer, and Well, it worked once, and if necessary, replacement of outdated at that point’. from anyone who is interested be followed by a strategy for control of the fish off the east the units, for which individual And then there is the question in the sector in East Anglia and implementation. coast can be taken back… ■ fishermen will be responsible. of functionality, and how the The initial installation will be technology will cope in the wet covered by the EMFF (the MMO conditions of a beach-launched will be the applicant), at a cost, open boat – because boats FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 according to the consultation, of cannot fish if the i-VMS isn’t £1,266 per unit. But a footnote transmitting. to that figure says: “The costs Such questions will PRESENTATION EVENING of units do vary depending on presumably have been raised which supplier is chosen and the in the consultation, along with quantity bought. We received other concerns, such as data TICKETS NOW ON SALE unit cost information from three security. The government’s suppliers, and calculated the responses will hopefully be Book your seat for our celebration of the average. The unit costs are illuminating. based on 2018 prices.” best of British and Irish commercial fishing This opens up future costs Still, you have to huge conjecture, more to keep trying… particularly since there was no But despite these tribulations, indication whether that £1,266 this coast still hopes for a Brexit was for one-off installation or future, now viewed through the bulk-buying for the whole under- lens of REAF – Renaissance of 12m fleet. And then there is the East Anglian Fisheries (Twitter

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The fact that they had to Naomi Roche, Dentaid UK project as a result of which several local remove so many teeth shows manager, explained how they fishermen are no longer in dental that some fishermen are living tackle this. “We know that anxiety pain. in constant dental pain, but still is an issue for many patients, but Concerned that fishermen aren’t accessing dental care. By our approach is different. We sit are unable to access dental taking our mobile dental unit to with them and guide them through care, SeaFit commissioned the harbour, not only did we help the process before, during and international dental charity them out of immediate pain, we after treatment. It makes them Dentaid to provide free treatment also helped them re-engage with much more comfortable and allays in its mobile clinic down at dentistry, which is crucial to their any anxieties they might have.” Bridlington harbour. general health and wellbeing.” Whatever their reason for not Dentaid treated seven grateful When it comes to getting going to the dentist, the patients patients in just over six hours dental treatment, for some busy seen at Bridlington were really – there were six fishermen and fishermen it’s really difficult to fit keen to get treatment. “We were ‡ Members of the Dentaid team with some of the local fishermen who benefited from the free quayside service at Bridlington. one fisherman’s wife. Everyone it in, and for others, it’s just not a told you were coming, and I had a check-up and oral health priority. Many have families and couldn’t wait to see you, as I’m Healthtrainer service for fishermen by bringing the dentist down to screening, including checks for young children and would rather having trouble with my teeth and and the local Fishermen’s the harbourside. The fishermen oral cancer. And there was a spend their precious time with am in a lot of pain,” said one. “I’ve Mission. Talking about the were delighted with the treatment significant amount of work to be them. “Only being ashore for a not seen a dentist for over 15 initiative, Fishermen’s Mission and came out smiling. And the done, with 17 extractions, four brief time between fishing means years, as I had bad experiences in superintendent Tracey Stephens healthtrainers were on hand to fillings, and three scale and polish it’s difficult to make and stick to the past,” another said. said: “We know how hard it can be book them an appointment for treatments. appointments, and I have other The Dentaid clinic was to get to the dentist when you’re a health check. All in all, it was a Commenting on the Bridlington priorities,” one patient explained. co-ordinated by the East Riding out at sea. So we made it easy great success.” 20 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019 Increased patrol capabilities for D&SIFCA with launch of FPV David Rowe Devon and Severn Inshore pioneering use of activity-based infra-red (FLIR) camera that Fisheries Conservation permitting byelaws. D&SIFCA was fully funded by EMFF grant Authority (D&SIFCA) launched is the first IFCA to use these funding. The new vessel is and named its new Fisheries so extensively. David was a equipped with an inshore vessel Patrol Vessel, David Rowe, tremendous supporter and monitoring system (IVMS) earlier this month, the purchase advocate for the D&SIFCA, unit, which will assist with the of which was part-funded by which is proud to name the monitoring of all the national the European Maritime and boat after him, to honour his patrol vessel assets by the Joint Fisheries Fund (EMFF). memory. Maritime Operations Centre. The FPV has been named The boat will be used The authority’s approach to after David Rowe, chair of the for enforcement patrols enforcement is complemented D&SIFCA byelaw and permitting and research support. Its by the addition of such a vessel sub-committee, who sadly surveillance ability will be and advanced technology. The passed away last April. As enhanced by its advanced vessel will provide much better chair of the sub-committee, technology, including the sea-keeping qualities, which David oversaw D&SIFCA’s installation of a forward-looking will enable it to operate in much

‡ James and Hilary, and their mother Val Rowe (widow of David Rowe, after whom the boat is named) toast the new FPV with Gavin Mayhew, D&SIFCA’s senior enforcement officer.

poorer weather conditions than “The new 7.8m patrol vessel, the previous vessel. In addition manufactured by Ribcraft, to this, the gyro-stabilised FLIR Yeovil, will be a great asset, and camera will mean that the crew undoubtedly increase our patrol can observe fishing activity capabilities significantly. It will in low light conditions and at also offer added protection considerable distances, without and safety for our officers, with a vessel being aware it is being the provision of a three-sided monitored. wheelhouse, and improved Mat Mander, D&SIFCA surveillance, with the advanced acting chief officer, said: technologies onboard.” Fish exporters urged to register Arnott Marine plots for digital export services South West expansion After a hectic 2018, which saw groups, free insurance tips and DEFRA says that businesses present catch certificates when DEFRA account, using your Arnott Marine re-establish its workshops, and potentially some wanting to export fish to the EU trading with the EU. business contact details. You’ll product lines outside of the partnerships designed to help after 29 March, 2019 should sign To be ready for leaving the EU, only need to register once. fishing industry, on the back of local owners. up to the new digital services, so fish exporters should familiarise To register, visit the guidance its best year since being back in Arnott Marine believes that that they can continue trading fish themselves with the new services page on creating a UK catch family ownership, the company offering the fishing industry with the EU in the event of no deal. to generate the necessary export certificate at:gov.uk is making big plans to grow its access to helpful information to Should the UK leave the EU documentation, including: Registering early gives fishing business in the South do with its insurance policies can without a deal, UK exporters will • catch certificate exporters time to test the new West of England. make a big difference to owners, be required to obtain a validated • processing statement service before the UK leaves the The South West is traditionally and to protecting their assets. catch certificate for most fish • storage document EU. a strong area for Arnott Marine, Arnott has historically had and fish products exported to the • prior notification form Any sample documents created but it believes that now is the good ties in the South West of EU (excluding some aquaculture • pre-landing declaration before 29 March, 2019 will not be time to work even more closely England, and sees it as a main products, freshwater fish, some To access the service, you’ll valid for export. with the fishing industry there. area of focus over the coming molluscs, and fish fry or larvae). need to sign in or create a new To check what documents you In order to help to create new years. The company would Catch certificates prove that Government Gateway user ID. need to export fish to the EU in relationships and rekindle old therefore welcome constructive fish has been caught in line Make a note of your Government the event of a no-deal Brexit, visit ones in the area, Arnott Marine conversations with members of with established conservation Gateway user ID and password so the guidance page on exporting has a range of plans including the fishing industry in the South and management measures. All you can sign in next time. You’ll and importing fish if there’s no visits, dedicated social media West on collaborative projects. non-EU countries are required to then need to create a business Brexit deal at: gov.uk

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ir-seiners The skippers and crews of the Peterhead pa Guiding Light H 90 and Guiding Star H 360 endured heavy weather on their last trip of 2018, reports . David Linkie s After dodging for 24 hours north of Whalsay a sterly Storm Deirdre generated a force 10 south-eaast of gale, the boats fished for another 36 hours e nds when Shetland, before encountering 50-knot wi making in to land at Peterhead. The 26m pair-seiners Guiding Light H 90 and Guiding Star H 360 head Ciaran Gilmore is presented with the Apprentice of the back out to fish east Year Award by Craig McBurnie of sponsors Sunderland of Shetland as seas ‡ Ocean Venture II Marine. (Photo: Whitby Gazette) begin to moderate, after arriving at Ardglass sheltering from 70-knot Whitby and District Fishing Industry Training School COVER PRICE held its AGM recently, when the achievements of the The new Co Donegalwinds north midwater of Whalsay… trawler Western Chieftain Designed in-house by Karstensens for pumping to land herring. (Photo: Ivan Reid) (Photos: Ross Mulhall) apprentices were recognised by the presentation of a number of awards, reports SO 237 arrived at Killybegs last week after being named pelagic fish at the stern, Western Chieftain has main David Linkie. f the Peterhead trawler Opportune The Apprentice of the Year Award – Sea Fishing The skippers and crew o wish † … before at Skagen, where the vessel was built by Karstensens dimensions of LOA 51.9m, beam 11.20m, and a depth † Buddy M and A succession of early winter gales in Shetland were a take time out from looking over their twin-rig gear to Pathway – was presented to Ciaran Gilmore by coming for Frank Doherty of Premier Fish Products, Killybegs, to shelterdeck of 7.55m. The hull was built at the Nauta Cisemair landing timely reminder that 2018 is rapidly drawing to a close, Craig McBurnie from sponsors Sunderland Marine all fishermen all the best and safe fishing in 2019. through the reports David Linkie reports David Linkie. shipyard in Poland, and towed to Skagen for completion herring at Ardglass. . Insurance. breakwaters at With a record number of boxes of whitefish landed, ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 industry to maintain the momentum The Arries-Ide Award (in memory of the two young Brussels, reports David Linkie . Peterhead 48 by Karstensens. new vessels preceding the arrival of further fleet additions, gathered in recent years, cannot be fishermen from Amble who tragically lost their lives in As Opportune’s crew took time There is little doubt that 2019 hours later in Western Chieftain features a MAK main engine, Renk large-scale investment in new shore-based infrastructure, to wish everyone in the fishing understated. Whitby harbour in 2014) was handed over to Kieran will be a momentous year for UK another south- and high uptake in fishing training courses, 2018 has been industry a happy new year, what Fishing News wishes all readers gearbox, Caterpillar auxiliary engines and Rapp deck Several visiting Co Cork midwater pair-trawlers landed herring Bush of Stevenage, Hertfordshire by Duncan Atkins of fishermen. The importance of easterly gale, another successful year in Shetland. were subsequently described as a happy, prosperous and safe new machinery. sponsors Whitby Gazette resolving key fishing and political gusting up to into Ardglass harbour, Co Down earlier this month, afterConcerns fishing about the discards ban, higher than usual . ‘challenging’ discussions had just year. The George Traves Excellence Award (in memory issues, in a manner that enables the 50 knots. SeaQuest Systems of Killybegs supplied the vessel’s in the Irish Sea, reports David Linkie. numbers of foreign vessels fishing in local waters, and started at the fisheries council in of George Traves MBE, a founder director of Whitby fish-pumping equipment and two deck cranes. Ocean Venture II S 121, Buddy M C 333 and CisemairBrexit, serve S 430as reminders that challenge is a constant Fishing School), given to the fisheries apprentice EUROPE £175 REST OF WORLD £190 Skippered by Frank Doherty’s brother Charlie, discharged top-quality herring to lorries on the quay,factor for in deliveryfishing. displaying the highest levels of commitment, dedication, A detailed Shetland feature will be included in spirit and tenacity, was presented to Liam Riley of Western Chieftain replaces a 45m midwater trawler of to the local processors S&P Milligan and C&O Milligan.News Fishing ‡ The Whalsay creel boat Resolute returning to Symbister in fres next week. h Redcar by Chris Traves. the same name, built in 2005, and is the fifth in a series The Kilkeel pair team Havilah N 200 and Stefanie M N 265 weather. (Photo: Ivan Reid) Peterhead boats light Further details in Fishing News of pelagic vessels that Karstensens has built for Frank also fished short trips on some of the traditional herring grounds next week. up for Christmas Doherty since 1997. in the Irish Sea in recent weeks, regularly landing into Belfast, ean The local trawlers Favonius and Oc from where the catches were delivered by road to factories at Festive lights and spirit were stmas … and leaving Denmark last week for Killybegs. Bounty dressed overall with Chri Ardglass and Kilkeel. FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 increasingly evident at Peterhead lights at Peterhead. 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First and last markets in excess of 7k boxes were at £1.95 and round whiting £1.20- Bounty, Castlewood, Attain II and contributed to a busier week at Peterhead, £1.60 per kg. Monkfish sold at £2.25- Opportune, plus three consignments from where a five-day total of 26,436 boxes has £4.50, ling £1.45-£2.05, hake £2.75-£6.15, Russa Taign, Avrella and Sparkling Star, only been passed on one occasion to date, lemon sole £8-£10.35, plaice £1.55-£2.55, landed 5,232 boxes to last Thursday’s (28,254 boxes w/e 1 February) reports squid £3.15-£7.65 and coley 85p-£1.70 market at Peterhead. This sale included David Linkie. per kg. 1,621 boxes of whiting (1,455 rounders), All selections sold strongly throughout Twenty-four hours later, three boats, 1,239 boxes of cod, 602 boxes of coley, the week. Victory Rose, Our Lass III and Westro, 432 boxes of gutted and 169 boxes of round Eleven boats, Celestial Dawn, Golden together with two consignments from haddock, 304 boxes of ling, 195 boxes of Gain, Summer Dawn II, Jolanna M, Sunrise, Endeavour IV and Good Hope, contributed monkfish, 169 boxes of megrim, 109 boxes Valhalla, Boy John, Rosebloom, Shalanna, 3,169 boxes for last Tuesday’s market. This of hake, 102 boxes of squid and 90 boxes Ocean Dawn and Courageous III, plus two tally included 1,240 boxes of coley, 498 of flatfish. consignments from Atlantic Challenge boxes of cod, 445 boxes of hake, 376 boxes Large/medium gutted haddock last and Ocean Endeavour, contributed 7,528 of gutted haddock, 132 boxes of megrim, Thursday morning made £2.45-£3.45 per boxes to the first market of last week at 101 boxes of whiting (55 rounders), 88 kg, selected £3.05-£4, small £3.10-£3.85, Peterhead. boxes of monkfish, 87 boxes of ling, 39 chippers £2.40-£3.30, metros £1.65-£2.45 Monday’s sale, the biggest of the week, boxes of squid and 34 boxes of flatfish. and round haddock 90p-£1.80. Large included 2.012 boxes of whiting (1,676 Seven boats, Orion, Guiding Star, cod sold at £2.60-£4.20 per kg, medium rounders), 1,585 boxes of gutted and 163 Guiding Light, Ellorah, Revival, Favonius and £2.75-£3.20, selected £2.70-£3 and small boxes of round haddock, 1,340 boxes of Fruitful Bough, along with one consignment £2.50-£3.15. Gutted whiting were at £1.55- ‡ Budding Rose landing into Peterhead fishmarket. cod, 1,078 boxes of coley, 317 boxes of by Reliance II, landed 3,403 boxes for last £2.60 per kg and round whiting 85p-£1.70. monkfish, 240 boxes of hake, 194 boxes Wednesday morning’s sale at Peterhead. Monkfish sold at £3.60-£5 per kg, megrim with four consignments from Endeavour IV, The 26,436 boxes of whitefish sold of flatfish, 150 boxes of ling, 76 boxes of This market included 859 boxes of coley, £3.30-£8.05, ling £1.60-£2.15, plaice Ocean Endeavour, Radiance and Caledonia on Peterhead market last week came megrim and 21 boxes of squid. 686 boxes of cod, 590 boxes of whiting £1.70-£3.35, lemon sole £2.95-£10.25, III, contributing 7,106 boxes. Friday’s market from 45 boats and 14 consignments. This At the start of last week at Peterhead (384 rounders), 468 boxes of gutted and coley 75p-£1.50 and hake £2.65-£9 per kg. included 2,234 boxes of coley, 843 boxes tally included 6,013 boxes of coley, 4,874 large cod sold at £2.15-£4.65 per kg, 16 boxes of round haddock, 264 boxes of Last week ended strongly when 15 of gutted and 418 boxes of round haddock, boxes of whiting (4,046 ungutted), 4,826 medium £2.60-£2.80 and small £2.25- monkfish, 159 boxes of flatfish, 73 boxes of boats, Jubilee Quest, Deeside, Victoria 1,063 boxes of cod, 701 boxes of hake, 550 boxes of cod, 4,449 boxes of haddock (766 £3.10. Large/medium gutted haddock made ling, 23 boxes of megrim, 17 boxes of squid May, Faithlie, Endurance, Forever Faithful, boxes of whiting (476 rounders), 275 boxes rounders), 1,803 boxes of hake, 1,139 boxes £2.20-£2.35 per kg, selected £2.35-£2.55, and eight boxes of hake. Acorn, Ocean Harvest, Harvester, Golden of monkfish, 163 boxes of megrim, 161 of monkfish, 775 boxes of ling, 604 boxes small £2.35-£2.80, chippers £1.65-£2.60 Nine boats, Shekinah, Bonaventure, Sceptre, Attain II, Castlewood, Karen Ann boxes of ling, 127 boxes of flatfish and 40 of flatfish, 563 boxes of megrim and 219 and metros £1.15-£1.60. Gutted whiting Shalimar II, Falcon, Tranquility, Ocean II, Courageous III and Ocean Dawn, along boxes of squid. boxes of squid. BIG OPENING MARKET PRICES GOOD AT BRIXHAM At the start of last week, better weather ones averaged £3.66/kg and £2.36 for kg. IN SHETLAND conditions allowed the Brixham fleet 2s. Size 1 dabs averaged £3 and 2s Plaice 1s averaged £4.60/kg, 2s to resume fishing. Prices were good £1. John Dory 1s were £14.80/kg, 2s £3.50, 3s £4.50, 4s £3.60 and 5s Monday’s market of 3,135 boxes from 14 boats At 77,257kg, cod led the way on the markets all week, with some highs towards the £13.60, 3s £11 and 4s £8. £1.75. Pollack 1s were £4.70/kg, 2s was the largest daily market since Monday 14 between Monday and Thursday, followed by end: size one turbot hit £33.50/kg, Haddock 1s averaged £2.70/kg, £4.50, 3s £3.80 and 4s £3. January, when 3,346 boxes were landed by 11 73,778 kg of whiting (including 56,145kg of and size fours £31.50. Large brill saw 2s £2.60 and 3s £1.90. Hake size 2s Sand sole 1s were £9.50/kg and 2s boats. rounders), 45,411kg of haddock, of which £20.50/kg mid-week. averaged £6.70/kg, 3s £6.80, 4s £7, 5s £5.20. Large scallops averaged £7.80 1,518 boxes were landed by five boats to 8,129kg were ungutted, 19,832kg of monkfish, The total sales for the week were £6.80, 6s £6 and 7s £4.40. Herring was and 2s £3.90. Dover sole 1s averaged the electronic auction on Tuesday morning. 12,047kg of saithe, 9,370kg of plaice, 8,728kg of £414k. £2.20/kg. Lemon sole averaged £9.50/ £14/kg, 2s £16, 3s £19, 4s £12, 5s Wednesday’s market was the smallest across the ling, 7,461kg of lemon sole, 6,546kg of megrim Blondie wing 1s averaged £6.50/kg, kg for 1s, £10.30 for 2s, 3s were £10, £11.20, 6s £8.50 and 7s £5.80. Large first four days of the week with 800 boxes from and 1,510kg of hake. 2s £6, 3s £5.60 and 4s £4.30. Size one 4s £4.20 and 5s £2.50. Ling averaged squid were £10/kg for 1s and £11 for four arrivals, before 1,508 boxes were landed by Top prices over the first four markets last black bream averaged £10/kg, 2s £9, £2/kg for 1s, 2s were £2 and 3s were 2s. seven boats to Thursday’s market. Thirty boats week in Shetland included cod at £3.23 per kg, 3s £7.70, 4s £6 and 5s 80p. Size 1 brill £1. Lobster was £20.60/kg. Thorny wings averaged £4.50/kg for landed a total of 6,961 boxes across the first gutted haddock £3.45 and round haddock £1.64, averaged £16/kg, 2s £12, 3s £11, 4s Mackerel 1s averaged £4.60/kg, 2s 1s and 2s, 3s were £4.40 and 4s were four markets of the week. With over 2k boxes hake £5.58, halibut £15.38, lemon sole £8.23, £9.40 and 5s £8.10. £4 and 3s £2.10. Monkfish 1s averaged £2.50. Large tubs were £5.40/kg and scheduled to be landed on Friday, the total for ling £1.90, megrim £6.28, monkfish £4.79, plaice Size 1 and 2 cod averaged £4.70/ £12.40, 2s £14.50, 3s £13, 4s £11.80, 2s £4.30. Turbot averaged £28/kg for the week was expected to be well in excess of £2.71, saithe £1.74, squid £7.63, turbot £16.54 kg, 3s £4, 4s £3.40 and 5s £2.20. Size 5s £10.70 and 6s £5.50. Red gurnard 1s, 2s £25.50, 3s £22.20, 4s £20, 5s 9,000 boxes. and whiting £3.03 per kg (rounders £1.62). 1 coley were £3.10, 2s £2.50 and 3s 1s were £4.60 and 2s £3.50. Red mullet £17.50 and 6s £11.20. Large whiting £1.80. Conger averaged £1.40 for 1, 2s averaged £13.80/kg for 1s, 2s £13.20, averaged £3/kg, 2s £2.80, 3s £1.20 £1.40 and 3s were 50p. Cuttlefish size and 3s were £8. Octopus averaged £2/ and 4s 65p. QUALITY INSHORE FISH AT NEWLYN The week kicked off with a quiet market were N2 brill £16.10/kg, N3 Dover sole were 0.5t of cuttlefish, 0.2t Dover sole, at Newlyn, with just 270kg of mackerel £20.0/9 and N1 John Dory £15.60/kg 0.5t grey mullet, 0.2t John Dory, 4t landed from the hand line boats. On Wednesday, one netter and mackerel, 0.7t megrim, 0.5t monkfish Demand was high, and good prices inshore boats landed 6.1t for auction. and 0.2t plaice. were achieved: L mackerel £5.80/kg, LM Partly contributing to this volume were To end the week on Friday, four part- £5.87/kg and M £4.72/kg. 0.4t haddock, 0.2t MSC hake, 0.3t trip beamers, two netters and inshore Tuesday’s market was supplied with lemon sole, 0.2t ling, 1.8t mackerel, 0.3t boats supplied the market with 29.4t. 1.4t of top quality fish from the local monkfish and 0.7t of pollack. Best volumes were 0.3t of brill, 1t inshore trawlers. The highest volume Demand remained high throughout cuttlefish, 3.2t Dover sole, 0.7t gurnards, species were 0.3t of haddock, 0.1t the auction for all species. 1.4t haddock, 7.5t MSC hake, 2t lemon lemon sole and 0.2t of mackerel. One beamer and inshore boats landed sole, 1.7t megrim, 1.4t monkfish, 0.8t Good prices to note from the morning 11.2t for sale on Thursday. Top volumes pollack and 0.6t of whiting.

GOOD VOLUME AND STRONG PRICES AT LOWESTOFT While there were no supplies from North Shields or the west side, the variety and volume of fish traded at the Lowestoft fish market last week was good, with 10 boats along the east coast supplying the auction. Just over 10t were sold, across nine species, and prices were The Whalsay trawlers Arcturus and Venturous landing at Lerwick for strong. Herring saw around three-quarters of the volumes, with prices up to 75p per kg. Blonde rays saw highs of £3.50 per kg, skate Monday’s electronic auction. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) £2.50, turbot £13, brill £14, sole was up £5 from the previous week at £20, and lobster sold for £20.80, a record price for Lowestoft. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 28 March 2019

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth SCRABBSTER, MON Min Max Max, Max, yr TO 22 MARCH price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago 18 MARCH price/kg price/kg wk ago ago Five-day rolling-average price and volume trends for main species

week wk ago yr ago Chippers £2.22 £2.22 £2.47 £2.69 £6.00 48,000 £6.00 60,000 Boxes whitefish 28,254 23,259 22,120 Cod £3.00 £3.24 £2.63 Peterhead haddock Catfish £2.58 £2.73 £3.18 £3.11 Hake £3.89 £4.80 £5.44 £3.00 Lemon sole £3.28 £13.75 £8.28 £6.96 £5.00 40,000 £5.00 50,000 Cod (A1) £3.32 £4.44 £5.42 £4.29 Ling £1.38 £1.86 £1.76 £1.83 Peterhead cod Cod (A2) £3.08 £3.98 £5.70 £4.25 Medium cod £3.02 £3.27 £3.33 £2.16 Cod (A3) £2.91 £3.21 £4.03 £3.79 Megrims £0.80 £4.57 £5.50 £3.58 £4.00 32,000 £4.00 40,000 Cod (A4) £2.61 £2.70 £3.41 £3.54 Monkfish £3.59 £4.41 £3.75 £3.77 Cod (A5) £2.56 £2.91 £3.50 £3.49 Pollock £4.49 £4.49 - Saithe £0.97 £1.18 £1.11 £1.10 £3.00 24,000 £3.00 30,000 Haddock (A1) £2.62 £2.88 £3.13 £2.56 Selected haddock £2.00 £2.00 £1.96 £2.71 Haddock (A2) £2.96 £3.33 £3.64 £2.84 Small haddock £2.00 £2.00 £2.27 £2.53 Sprag £2.87 £2.97 £3.82 £2.61 Haddock (A3) £3.01 £3.38 £3.48 £2.76 £2.00 16,000 £2.00 20,000 Haddock chippers (A4) £2.36 £3.08 £3.09 £2.34 Squid £6.32 £8.00 £8.00 £6.76 Haddock metros (A4) £1.70 £2.33 £2.33 £1.75 ICELAND (RSF), WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 4 £1.00 10,000 Hake (A1) £5.97 £6.88 £4.48 £4.48 THURS 21 MARCH landed price/kg wk ago wks ago £1.00 Daily sales (kgs) 8,000 (kgs, small) (kgs, large/medium) Hake (A2) £5.04 £5.86 £4.29 £4.09 Size 3 high price per kg Price per kg (small) Size 3 high price per kg Hake (A3) £3.74 £5.16 £3.01 £3.55 week wk ago 4wks ago Size 2 high price per kg £0.00 0 Kgs sold 2,219,739 2,332,582 1,950,426 £0.00 0 Hake (A4) £3.24 £3.77 £3.23 £3.17 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Average price £1.42 £1.51 £1.74 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Hake (A5) £2.69 £2.88 £2.77 £2.56 Value of sales (£) £3.17m £3.52m £3.37m Halibut £11.76 £13.88 £14.63 £13.60 £5.00 20,000 Arctic charr fillets 35 £8.92 £9.11 £9.54 £5.60 35,000 Lemon sole (A1) £9.63 £10.14 £10.50 £10.34 Blue ling (gutted) 201 £0.95 £1.17 £0.71 Shetland cod Shetland haddock Lemon sole (A2) £8.60 £9.63 £8.52 £7.78 Catfish (gutted) 170,650 £1.02 £1.19 £1.65 £4.80 30,000 Lemon sole (A3) £4.39 £6.11 £6.49 £5.96 Catfish (ungutted) 46,822 £0.70 £0.89 £1.22 sales, size 3 (kgs) sales, size 2 (kgs) £4.00 16,000 Ling (A1) £1.81 £2.01 £1.88 £1.86 sales, size 3 (kgs) sales, size 2 (kgs) Cod (large, gutted) 200,187 £2.07 £2.05 £2.24 £4.00 Avg price, size 3 Avg price, size 2 25,000 Ling (A2) £2.16 £2.24 £1.99 £3.11 Cod (large, ungutted) 449,123 £1.82 £1.76 £1.86 Avg price, size 3 Avg price, size 2 Ling (A3) £2.06 £2.28 £2.46 £3.14 Cod (small, gutted) 10,275 £1.02 £0.61 £1.15 £3.00 12,000 Megrim (A1) £6.11 £6.63 £5.86 £6.51 Cod (small, ungutted) 8,239 £1.06 £0.98 £1.14 £3.20 20,000 Megrim (A2) £4.73 £5.20 £4.34 £4.96 Cod cheeks 30 £7.25 £6.41 £6.38 Megrim (A3) £3.63 £4.18 £3.94 £4.44 Dab (gutted) 55 £0.10 £0.51 - £2.40 15,000 £2.00 8,000 Megrim (A4) £2.49 £2.95 £1.86 £2.11 Greenland halibut (gutted) 748 £2.78 £2.05 £2.28 Megrim (A4) £3.69 £4.04 £3.05 £3.55 Haddock (large, gutted) 340,754 £1.35 £1.52 £1.63 £1.60 10,000 Monkfish (A1) £4.26 £4.53 £4.11 £3.99 Haddock (large, ungutted) 297,571 £1.28 £1.41 £1.63 £1.00 4,000 Monkfish (A2) £4.27 £4.68 £4.47 £4.30 Haddock (small, gutted) 4,996 £0.62 £0.69 £1.15 £0.80 5,000 Monkfish (A3) £4.53 £4.68 £4.42 £4.60 Haddock (small, ungutted) 4,623 £0.52 £0.65 £0.97 Monkfish (A4) £4.55 £5.02 £4.18 £4.62 Halibut (gutted) 2,060 £3.74 £4.23 £3.57 Lemon sole (gutted) 30,453 £3.45 £4.44 £4.28 £0.00 0 Monkfish (A5) £3.65 £4.24 £3.76 £3.72 £0.00 0 Ling (gutted) 69,263 £1.21 £1.19 £1.25 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Plaice (A2) £2.46 £3.07 - £2.98 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Ling (ungutted) 35,037 £1.01 £1.15 £1.23 Plaice (A3) £1.82 £2.00 £2.24 £2.40 £4.00 250,000 £3.00 150,000 Megrim (gutted) 2,745 £1.23 £1.65 £1.65 Plaice (A4) £1.93 £2.53 £1.83 £1.79 Monkfish (gutted) 7,890 £3.76 £3.67 £3.11 Icelandic cod Icelandic haddock Pollack (A1) £4.60 £4.86 £4.85 £2.71 £2.50 125,000 Plaice (gutted) 104,876 £2.06 £2.05 £1.99 200,000 Pollack (A2) £4.40 £4.66 £4.90 £2.74 Redfish (ungutted) 188,684 £1.12 £1.18 £1.35 £3.00 Pollack (A3) £3.09 £3.58 £4.63 £2.41 Saithe (gutted) 102,758 £0.87 £0.83 £0.95 £2.00 100,000 Round Haddock £1.19 £1.73 £1.42 £1.22 Saithe (ungutted) 21,293 £0.51 £0.54 £0.62 150,000 Saithe (A1) £1.36 £1.59 £1.77 £1.45 Skate (gutted) 5,851 £0.46 £0.50 £0.54 Saithe (A2) £1.32 £1.48 £1.71 £1.44 Spotted catfish (gutted) 9,182 £1.38 £1.49 £2.13 £2.00 £1.50 75,000 Saithe (A3) £1.12 £1.34 £1.61 £1.50 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 16 £0.08 £0.89 £1.40 100,000 Saithe (A4) £0.92 £1.13 £1.50 £1.57 Turbot (gutted) 3 £4.42 - - £1.00 50,000 Squid trawled £6.33 £8.17 £7.50 £8.55 Tusk (gutted) 18,905 £0.48 £0.55 £0.64 Ungutted sales (kgs) Tusk (gutted) 18,905 £0.48 £0.55 £0.64 £1.00 Turbot £15.42 £17.66 £13.92 £2.40 Gutted sales (kgs) 50,000 Whiting (A2) £2.38 £2.76 £3.06 £1.98 Tusk (ungutted) 12,751 £0.14 £0.26 £0.40 £0.50 25,000 Ungutted price Ungutted sales (kgs) Gutted sales (kgs) Whiting (A3) £1.99 £2.51 £2.78 £1.83 Whiting (gutted) 2,659 £0.52 £0.49 £0.57 Whiting (ungutted) 502 £0.44 £0.28 £0.37 Gutted price Whiting (A4) £1.65 £1.80 £2.77 £1.67 £0.00 Ungutted price Gutted price 0 Witch (gutted) 479 £1.28 £1.50 £1.33 £0.00 0 Whiting (round) £1.45 £1.87 £2.63 £0.30 Sun 03 Sun 10 Sun 17 Witch (ungutted) 1,446 £1.40 £1.33 £1.46 Sun 03 Sun 10 Sun 17 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr £8.00 32,000 £5.00 12,000 TO 22 MARCH landed price/kg wk ago ago HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m TO 22 MARCH landed price/kg wk ago ago Hantsholm cod Hantsholm hake week wk ago yr ago £7.00 28,000 week wk ago yr ago 10,000 Boxes landed 9,382 7,517 8,455 Size 3 (kgs) Size 2 (kgs) £4.00 Kgs sold 795,556 509,484 324,663 £6.00 24,000 Catfish 740 £2.26 £2.45 £2.26 Average price £2.09 £2.28 £2.33 Avg price per kg Avg price per kg Cod (2) 34,630 £2.74 £3.63 £2.74 Value of sales (£) £1.67m £1.16m £0.75m 8,000 Cod (3) 25,417 £2.59 £3.37 £2.59 £5.00 20,000 Catfish (1) 1,459 £4.01 £4.71 £2.70 £3.00 Size 2 (kgs) Cod (4) 14,299 £2.45 £3.01 £2.45 Cod (0) 633 £3.89 £4.49 £3.27 Size 1 (kgs) Cod (1) 8,396 £3.79 £3.99 £3.28 £4.00 16,000 6,000 Cod (5) 11,464 £2.33 £2.88 £2.33 Avg price per kg Cod (6) 6,081 £2.35 £2.88 £2.35 Cod (2) 16,401 £4.20 £4.76 £2.92 £2.00 £3.00 12,000 Avg price per kg Haddock (1) 5,201 £2.24 £2.11 £2.24 Cod (3) 15,388 £4.50 £4.78 £2.37 4,000 Cod (4) 14,297 £3.87 £4.10 £2.46 Haddock (2) 10,103 £2.54 £2.79 £2.54 Cod (5) 5,900 £3.72 £3.91 £1.44 £2.00 8,000 Haddock (3) 9,820 £2.67 £2.83 £2.67 £1.00 Haddock (1) 7,191 £2.47 £2.34 £2.17 2,000 Haddock (4) 10,888 £2.61 £2.82 £2.61 Haddock (2) 7,312 £2.10 £2.07 £1.51 £1.00 4,000 Haddock (5) 10,262 £1.76 £2.32 £1.76 Haddock (3) 3,525 £1.58 £1.44 £1.08 Haddock (round) 8,582 £1.27 £1.80 £1.27 Haddock (4) 205 £0.97 £0.45 £0.00 £0.00 0 £0.00 0 Hake (2) 735 £5.41 £4.67 £5.41 Hake (0) 7,618 £5.02 £4.69 £1.50 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Hake (3) 603 £4.32 £4.67 £4.32 Hake (1) 12,339 £3.93 £3.71 £1.91 £9.00 6,000 Hake (4) 754 £3.07 £2.62 £3.07 Hake (2) 19,982 £3.66 £3.16 £1.78 £6.00 80,000 Halibut (3) 203 £14.27 £13.72 £14.27 Hake (3) 9,195 £2.88 £2.28 £1.37 Brixham cuttlefish Brixham scallops Lemon sole (1) 27 £8.81 £9.68 £4.65 Halibut (4) 140 £10.87 £11.80 £10.87 Lemon sole (2) 283 £10.58 £9.93 £4.04 John Dory 6 £6.75 £4.03 £6.75 Lemon sole (3) 125 £5.96 £5.58 £3.76 £4.50 60,000 Lemon sole (2) 1,330 £7.49 £7.40 £7.49 Ling (1) 18,849 £1.98 £2.08 £1.89 £6.00 4,000 Lemon sole (4) 3,550 £4.15 £4.36 £4.15 Ling (2) 14,506 £1.97 £2.21 £2.05 Ling 14,857 £1.73 £1.78 £1.73 Ling (3) 10,543 £1.89 £2.02 £1.88 Lythe 2,342 £4.18 £3.54 £4.18 Megrim 2,050 £2.08 £2.04 £2.44 £3.00 40,000 Megrim (2) 3,791 £5.56 £5.64 £5.56 Monkfish (1) 7,547 £4.71 £4.19 £4.57 Sales (kgs, size 1&2) Monkfish (2) 19,526 £4.63 £4.36 £4.16 Megrim (3) 2,493 £4.06 £4.13 £4.06 Avg price, size 1 £3.00 2,000 Megrim (4) 2,344 £3.33 £3.17 £3.33 Monkfish (3) 20,277 £4.58 £4.15 £3.83 Monkfish (4) 5,147 £4.51 £4.05 £3.79 Monkfish (1) 891 £3.55 £3.36 £3.55 £1.50 20,000 Monkfish (5) 323 £3.44 £3.15 £3.20 Monkfish (2) 7,634 £4.37 £4.02 £4.37 Plaice (1) 565 £4.07 £4.22 £2.29 Daily sales (kgs) Monkfish (3) 14,928 £4.44 £4.08 £4.44 Plaice (2) 1,133 £4.74 £3.75 £2.17 Avg price per kg Monkfish (4) 6,205 £4.38 £3.97 £4.38 Plaice (3) 689 £4.66 £3.41 £2.23 £0.00 0 £0.00 0 Monkfish (5) 1,053 £3.46 £3.10 £3.46 Plaice (4) 1,980 £2.91 £2.14 £2.01 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Monkfish (6) 705 £2.44 £2.20 £2.44 Pollack (2) 871 £4.51 £4.94 £4.64 Plaice (2) 1,422 £2.24 £1.96 £2.24 Pollack (3) 2,468 £4.35 £4.17 £3.69 £5.00 5,000 £8.00 7,000 Plaice (3) 3,672 £1.60 £1.68 £1.60 Pollack (4) 295 £3.42 £3.14 £3.33 Newlyn megrim Newlyn hake Saithe (1) 19,901 £1.55 £1.69 £0.87 £7.00 Plaice (4) 5,527 £1.29 £1.28 £1.29 6,000 Saithe (2) 46,983 £1.41 £1.52 £0.93 £4.00 4,000 Saithe (2) 1,810 £1.52 £1.58 £1.52 Saithe (3) 188,179 £1.27 £1.45 £0.85 £6.00 5,000 Saithe (3) 5,744 £1.12 £1.29 £1.12 Saithe (4) 269,371 £1.18 £1.25 £0.45 Saithe (4) 27,520 £0.78 £1.26 £0.78 Squid 1,822 £1.50 £1.62 £5.61 £3.00 3,000 £5.00 Skate 1,401 £1.66 £1.65 £1.66 Turbot (0) 11 £35.12 £17.13 £13.13 Sales (kgs, size 2&3) 4,000 Skate, mixed 343 £1.33 £1.34 £1.33 Turbot (1) 131 £18.55 £15.58 £10.26 £4.00 Avg price, size 2 Skate, roker 45 £2.32 £2.17 £2.32 Turbot (2) 113 £17.16 £13.28 £9.22 Avg price, size 3 3,000 £2.00 Sales (kgs, size 4) 2,000 £3.00 Squid 2,856 £5.16 £4.77 £5.16 Turbot (3) 61 £15.29 £14.96 £7.73 Sales (kgs, size 5) Turbot 142 £14.81 £15.48 £14.81 Turbot (4) 23 £12.17 £7.21 £6.51 2,000 Whiting (1) 759 £1.77 £2.46 £1.16 Avg price, size 5 £2.00 Whiting (2) 7,762 £2.61 £2.99 £2.61 £1.00 1,000 Whiting (2) 2,106 £1.90 £1.49 £1.48 Avg price, size 4 1,000 Whiting (3) 14,407 £2.06 £2.47 £2.06 Whiting (3) 1,044 £1.63 £1.36 £0.53 £1.00 Whiting, round 68,852 £1.17 £1.83 £1.17 Witch (1) 578 £5.08 £5.08 £3.68 Witches, (2/3) 398 £1.45 £2.77 £1.45 Witch (2) 2,699 £3.60 £2.92 £2.80 £0.00 0 £0.00 0 Witches, (4) 846 £0.78 £1.35 £0.78 Witch (3) 2,810 £1.90 £1.31 £1.16 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 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BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Five-day rolling-average price and volume trends for main species 22 MARCH landed price/kg wk ago ago TO 22 MARCH landed price/kg wk ago ago £6.00 12,000 £3.50 35,000 week wk ago yr ago week wk ago yr ago Peterhead monkfish Peterhead saithe Kg landed 118,390 107,398 157,744 Kg landed 48,596 43,524 68,626 £3.00 30,000 £5.00 10,000 Average price £3.50 £3.54 £3.83 Average price £4.46 £3.91 £3.65 Value of sales (£) 414,732 379,881 600,821 Value of sales (£) 216,805 169,976 248,383 Brill (1) 335 £15.59 £14.61 £11.34 £2.50 25,000 Blonde Ray (L) 231 £3.13 £2.77 £2.78 £4.00 8,000 Brill (2) 302 £11.84 £10.89 £8.25 Brill (3) 522 £10.80 £10.41 £7.59 Blonde Ray (M) 178 £3.23 £2.20 £2.37 £2.00 20,000 Brill (4) 477 £9.37 £8.52 £6.34 Blonde Ray (S) 16 £1.73 - £1.46 Brill (1) 33 £15.01 £12.09 £12.27 £3.00 6,000 Brill (5) 26 £8.06 £7.04 £4.85 Brill (2) 151 £13.81 £12.14 £12.43 £1.50 15,000 Cock crabs 124 £6.27 £5.81 £5.20 Cod (1) 66 £4.57 £4.78 £4.08 Brill (3) 217 £10.51 £9.16 £8.14 £2.00 4,000 Cod (2) 50 £4.59 £4.93 £4.40 Brill (4) 86 £8.52 £7.50 £7.34 £1.00 10,000 Cod (3) 11 £4.01 £4.66 £4.16 Brill (5) 10 £6.91 - - Conger (1) 286 £1.07 £1.01 £1.00 Cod (3) 174 £5.31 £5.36 £4.63 Daily sales (kgs) £1.00 2,000 Daily sales (kgs) Conger (2) 46 £1.31 £1.01 £1.12 Cod (4) 136 £3.08 £4.78 £1.23 Price per kg (3) £0.50 5,000 Price per kg Conger (3) 76 £0.50 £0.57 £0.26 Cod (5) 24 £3.62 £4.02 £2.73 Cuttlefish (1) 11,197 £3.66 £3.27 £4.10 Price per kg (2) Price per kg Conger Eels (1) 13 £0.40 - £0.84 £0.00 0 Cuttlefish (2) 3,635 £2.36 £2.25 £3.13 £0.00 0 Cuckoo ray (L) 183 £2.37 - £1.44 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Dogfish 13,959 £0.25 £0.25 £0.23 Gurnard (2) 115 £3.43 £3.83 £2.05 Cuckoo ray (M) 565 £1.80 £1.84 £1.42 Cuckoo ray (S) 28 £0.26 £0.22 £0.98 £5.00 10,000 £3.00 12,000 Gurnard (4) 6,108 £0.60 £0.60 £0.59 Haddock (1) 1,606 £2.59 £2.83 £2.69 Cuttlefish (L) 530 £3.64 £3.24 £4.11 Shetland monkfish Shetland saithe Haddock (2) 102 £2.54 £2.74 £1.73 Cuttlefish (S) 1,012 £2.11 £2.15 £3.08 £2.50 10,000 Haddock (3) 21 £1.90 - £1.05 Dover sole (1) 254 £14.55 £11.29 £10.80 £4.00 8,000 Hake (2) 6 £6.70 - £4.14 Dover sole (2) 699 £14.18 £14.82 £11.63 Daily sales (kgs, size 3&4) Hake (3) 92 £6.73 £5.97 £4.18 Dover sole (3) 1,049 £14.90 £17.23 £12.30 £2.00 Avg price, size 3 8,000 Hake (4) 289 £6.98 £5.75 £4.15 Dover sole (4) 881 £10.82 £11.09 £9.59 sales (kgs, size 3&4) Hake (5) 1,143 £6.74 £5.64 £3.92 £3.00 Avg price, size 3 6,000 Avg price, size 4 Dover sole (5) 484 £10.00 £9.72 £8.34 Hake (6) 2,973 £5.98 £5.37 £3.05 Grey mullet (1) 120 £4.19 - £3.46 Avg price, size 4 £1.50 6,000 Hake (7) 500 £4.38 £3.96 £2.35 Hen crabs 24 £3.00 £3.00 £3.07 Grey mullet (2) 710 £3.50 £4.56 £2.30 £2.00 4,000 John Dory (1) 41 £13.62 £16.66 £13.10 Grey mullet (4) 29 £3.00 £4.20 - £1.00 4,000 John Dory (2) 6 £13.51 £14.78 £13.23 Gurnard and latchet (L) 85 £4.13 £3.07 £3.02 John Dory (3) 38 £10.62 £11.36 £9.85 Gurnard and latchet (M) 125 £3.07 £1.46 £1.23 Lemon sole (1) 167 £9.26 £11.79 £8.78 Gurnard and latchet (S) 1,099 £0.73 £0.71 £0.57 £1.00 2,000 £0.50 2,000 Lemon sole (2) 370 £10.21 £11.18 £8.21 Haddock (1) 431 £2.79 £2.62 £2.86 Lemon sole (3) 1,011 £9.98 £9.93 £7.51 Haddock (2) 1,611 £2.87 £2.89 £2.70 Lemon sole (4) 5,671 £4.11 £4.00 £5.16 Haddock (3) 733 £2.74 £3.13 £2.74 £0.00 0 £0.00 0 Lemon sole (5) 3,164 £2.43 £2.65 £3.10 Haddock (4) 163 £1.29 £0.57 £1.34 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Line mackerel (1) 252 £4.58 £6.21 £3.00 Haddock (5) 125 £0.99 - £1.00 Line mackerel (2) 49 £3.89 £5.54 £2.17 Hake (0) 44 £0.54 £0.93 £1.59 £3.00 24,000 £1.50 75,000 Line mackerel (3) 65 £2.10 £4.42 £1.87 Hake (1) 28 £6.40 £4.55 £3.73 Icelandic plaice Icelandic saithe Lobster 153 £20.52 £23.20 £24.87 Monkfish tails (1) 34 £12.16 £12.81 £11.15 Hake (2) 125 £6.74 £4.72 £3.68 £2.50 20,000 Ungutted sales (kgs) Ungutted sales (kgs) Monkfish tails (2) 289 £14.10 £14.51 £12.02 Hake (3) 523 £6.67 £5.19 £3.70 Ungutted price Gutted price Monkfish tails (3) 415 £12.70 £13.09 £11.68 Hake (4) 1,634 £6.50 £5.74 £3.52 £2.00 16,000 £1.00 50,000 Monkfish tails (4) 307 £11.71 £11.55 £10.96 Hake (5) 3,721 £5.33 £4.59 £2.66 Monkfish tails (5) 246 £10.66 £10.81 £9.25 Hake (6) 1,818 £3.03 £3.32 £2.24 Ungutted sales (kgs) Monkfish tails (6) 410 £5.36 £4.54 £5.09 Herring (M) 25 £1.36 - £1.09 £1.50 12,000 Octopus 1,461 £1.94 £1.88 £1.74 Gutted price John Dory (1) 55 £14.21 £13.81 £11.18 Plaice (1) 561 £4.52 £3.76 £2.82 John Dory (2) 91 £14.12 £10.38 £8.45 Plaice (2) 1,017 £3.35 £2.69 £2.27 £1.00 8,000 £0.50 25,000 John Dory (3) 170 £9.81 £8.02 £5.80 Plaice (3) 1,201 £4.48 £2.67 £2.13 John Dory (4) 76 £7.52 £5.61 £6.08 Plaice (4) 1,256 £3.56 £2.29 £1.69 John Dory (5) 122 £4.33 £4.57 £4.83 £0.50 4,000 Plaice (5) 2,645 £1.74 £1.65 £1.54 Pollock (1) 305 £4.63 £3.40 £2.99 Lemon sole (1) 267 £8.95 £8.79 £7.80 Pollock (2) 1,630 £4.44 £3.83 £3.10 Lemon sole (2) 369 £8.48 £9.38 £7.42 £0.00 0 £0.00 0 Pollock (3) 797 £3.70 £3.45 £2.76 Lemon sole (3) 716 £8.02 £8.41 £6.51 Sun 03 Sun 10 Sun 17 Sun 03 Sun 10 Sun 17 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 432 £6.42 £7.18 £6.21 Lemon sole (4) 1,183 £3.82 £3.97 £4.87 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 844 £5.85 £6.18 £5.51 Lemon sole (5) 715 £2.19 £2.47 £2.27 £8.00 16,000 £3.50 140,000 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 332 £5.47 £6.28 £5.15 Ling (L) 376 £1.84 £2.20 £1.92 Hantsholm monkfish Hantsholm saithe Ray wings (small eye, 3) 7 £4.45 - - Ling (M) 112 £2.03 £2.03 £1.97 £7.00 Size 3 (kgs) 14,000 £3.00 120,000 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 101 £4.48 £4.20 £3.63 Mackerel (LM) 762 £3.78 £6.03 £4.65 Size 4 (kgs) Ray wings (thornback, 3) 169 £4.31 £4.44 £3.60 Size 2 (kgs) Mackerel (M) 8,068 £1.37 £3.15 £2.15 £6.00 12,000 Size 3 (kgs) Ray wings (thornback, 4) 107 £2.50 £3.09 £2.04 Mackerel (S) 1,694 £0.43 £0.42 £0.43 Avg price per kg £2.50 100,000 Avg price per kg Red mullet (3) 19 £13.33 £12.34 £9.74 Megrim (1) 69 £6.18 £5.91 £4.03 £5.00 Avg price per kg 10,000 Avg price per kg Round pouting 4,924 £0.44 £0.46 £0.31 Scallop (2) 22,093 £3.69 £4.28 £5.34 Megrim (2) 190 £6.40 £5.15 £3.55 £2.00 80,000 Scallop meat 88 £13.00 £13.00 - Megrim (3) 227 £5.03 £4.69 £3.16 £4.00 8,000 Sole (1) 512 £13.91 £11.15 £10.68 Megrim (4) 329 £4.36 £4.26 £2.74 £1.50 60,000 Sole (2) 717 £15.63 £16.36 £11.92 Megrim (5) 825 £3.48 £3.56 £2.52 £3.00 6,000 Sole (3) 1,293 £18.82 £19.29 £12.62 Monkfish - Cheeks (9) 4 £8.80 - £8.97 Sole (4) 837 £11.97 £11.93 £10.19 Monkfish (1) 34 £12.83 £14.97 £9.94 £1.00 40,000 £2.00 4,000 Sole (5) 706 £11.20 £10.30 £9.23 Monkfish (2) 313 £14.68 £14.79 £11.67 Sole (6) 126 £8.47 £7.62 £7.50 Monkfish (3) 739 £12.24 £12.46 £11.48 Squid (1) 366 £9.70 £8.34 £7.41 £1.00 2,000 £0.50 20,000 Monkfish (4) 543 £11.46 £11.67 £11.00 Squid (2) 746 £10.93 £9.83 £9.12 Monkfish (5) 573 £8.76 £8.87 £9.61 Squid (mix) 130 £8.55 £7.97 £7.19 Octopus (L) 104 £2.11 - £1.43 £0.00 0 £0.00 0 Turbot (1) 73 £27.53 £22.14 £22.82 Octopus (M) 197 £1.99 £1.23 £1.39 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Turbot (2) 159 £24.78 £21.05 £19.25 Pilchard/Sardines (2) 180 £1.19 £0.30 £0.58 £16.00 1,400 £24.00 2,000 Turbot (3) 187 £21.73 £19.85 £19.25 Turbot (4) 298 £19.30 £16.46 £15.15 Plaice (1) 75 £3.94 £3.43 £2.91 Brixham monkfish tails Brixham sole Plaice (2) 167 £3.26 £2.81 £2.02 £14.00 Turbot (5) 504 £17.12 £15.95 £12.82 1,200 Turbot (6) 228 £11.18 £10.61 £8.72 Plaice (3) 207 £3.42 £2.75 £1.97 Whelks 297 £1.40 - - Plaice (4) 273 £2.61 £1.80 £1.54 £12.00 £18.00 1,500 1,000 Whiting (1) 72 £2.89 £2.59 £2.01 Pollack, lythe (1) 248 £4.21 £4.99 £3.01 Whiting (2) 235 £2.78 £2.35 £1.49 Pollack, lythe (2) 849 £4.85 £4.45 £3.14 £10.00 Whiting (3) 169 £1.19 £1.66 £0.92 Pollack, lythe (3) 679 £4.11 £3.86 £3.03 800 Pollack, lythe (4) 281 £3.03 - £2.69 Sales (kgs, size 3,4&5) GRIMSBY, THURSDAY Min Max Max, Max, yr £8.00 £12.00 1,000 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (m) 2 £0.40 - £0.20 Avg price, size 3 21 MARCH price/kg price/kg wk ago ago 600 Sales (kgs, size 3&4) Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 133 £0.45 £0.41 £0.23 £6.00 Avg price, size 4 Avg price, size 3 Catfish £1.80 £1.80 - £1.33 Red mullet (1) 23 £12.01 £11.52 £10.26 Cod (1) £2.50 £2.50 £2.80 £2.30 Red mullet (2) 93 £10.01 £8.00 £7.23 Avg price, size 5 400 Avg price, size 4 £4.00 £6.00 500 Cod (2) £2.50 £2.60 £2.80 £2.48 Red mullet (3) 74 £8.76 £6.00 £6.74 Cod (3) £2.30 £2.40 £2.80 £2.30 Red mullet (4) 6 £9.29 £5.88 £5.90 200 Codlings (best) £2.60 £2.80 £2.80 £2.40 Saithe (2) 10 £2.07 £2.59 £1.93 £2.00 Codlings (small) £2.60 £2.80 £3.00 £2.37 Saithe (3) 8 £2.00 £2.80 £1.34 £0.00 0 Haddock (best) £1.80 £2.50 £2.80 £2.30 £0.00 0 Haddock (jumbo) £1.90 £2.20 £2.30 £2.25 Saithe (4) 6 £1.00 - - Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Mon Mar 04 Mon Mar 11 Mon Mar 18 Haddock (large) £1.80 £2.20 £2.30 £1.90 Scallops 57 £2.17 £2.18 £2.06 Haddock (medium) £1.80 £2.50 £2.50 £2.18 Sea Breams (3) 0 £1.00 £13.20 £11.67 £16.00 3,500 £20.00 600 Haddock (small) £0.80 £1.50 £2.00 £2.33 Shagreen ray (L) 7 £1.70 £2.10 £1.30 Newlyn monkfish tails Newlyn sole Monkfish (best selected) £3.00 £3.00 - 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(Photo: Ivan Reid) (Photos: Ross Mulhall) apprentices were recognised by the presentation of a number of awards, reports SO 237 arrived at Killybegs last week after being named pelagic fish at the stern, Western Chieftain has main David Linkie. f the Peterhead trawler Opportune The Apprentice of the Year Award – Sea Fishing The skippers and crew o wish † … before at Skagen, where the vessel was built by Karstensens dimensions of LOA 51.9m, beam 11.20m, and a depth † Buddy M and A succession of early winter gales in Shetland were a take time out from looking over their twin-rig gear to Pathway – was presented to Ciaran Gilmore by coming for Frank Doherty of Premier Fish Products, Killybegs, to shelterdeck of 7.55m. The hull was built at the Nauta Cisemair landing timely reminder that 2018 is rapidly drawing to a close, Craig McBurnie from sponsors Sunderland Marine all fishermen all the best and safe fishing in 2019. through the reports David Linkie reports David Linkie. shipyard in Poland, and towed to Skagen for completion herring at Ardglass. . Insurance. breakwaters at With a record number of boxes of whitefish landed, ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 industry to maintain the momentum The Arries-Ide Award (in memory of the two young Brussels, reports David Linkie . Peterhead 48 by Karstensens. new vessels preceding the arrival of further fleet additions, gathered in recent years, cannot be fishermen from Amble who tragically lost their lives in As Opportune’s crew took time There is little doubt that 2019 hours later in Western Chieftain features a MAK main engine, Renk large-scale investment in new shore-based infrastructure, to wish everyone in the fishing understated. Whitby harbour in 2014) was handed over to Kieran will be a momentous year for UK another south- and high uptake in fishing training courses, 2018 has been industry a happy new year, what Fishing News wishes all readers gearbox, Caterpillar auxiliary engines and Rapp deck Several visiting Co Cork midwater pair-trawlers landed herring Bush of Stevenage, Hertfordshire by Duncan Atkins of fishermen. The importance of easterly gale, another successful year in Shetland. were subsequently described as a happy, prosperous and safe new machinery. sponsors Whitby Gazette resolving key fishing and political gusting up to into Ardglass harbour, Co Down earlier this month, afterConcerns fishing about the discards ban, higher than usual . ‘challenging’ discussions had just year. The George Traves Excellence Award (in memory issues, in a manner that enables the 50 knots. 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2006, £8,750. South African offshore 590 powered by twin 2006 mariner 50hp fourstrokes which are tidy and look in very good condition ,this is a brilliant piece of kit for sea or lake £3,250-£3,500. 1 x perkins M90 with fishing , has teak deck and seating for borgwarner 2.1, £3,250. 2 x 4 cylinder about 6 good men she is just under nannies 115 hp keel cooled with 20ft in length , both engines can be 2.1 gearboxes, £3,500 ono the pair, seen running and pumping plenary £1,200 Ono. Can be heard running. will split. 1x5 cylinder nannie none £POA. Aluminium net drum with Bopp of water. Please call 07784 717247, Please call 07753 813688, South runner parts offers. Please call 07783 motor. 55 inches wide Please call £2,200. Please call 07903 226202, Kilkeel. (12.01) Lanarkshire. (12.03) 555218, Hasttings. (12.01) 07802 460966, Kilkeel. (12.03) North Shields. (12.02) 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 Fishermen! Advertise boats, equip- Traders to call: 01732 447008ment and accessories, for sale or FISHERMENS' FREE ADS! wanted, absolutely FREE! RADAR HEAD UNIT SHIELDS CREELS 10 TRAMMEL NETS WHELK POTS RENAULT REDFINN 6000 20FT PREDATOR 165 FISHING POTTER FISHER24X16X15 FREEWARD 10MM CREELS 24 £100. 200 YDS x 4" deep, 200 YDS BOATS FOR SALE TURBOx 3" deep. DIESEL Egg shape floats and leadBOAT line. In need of repair. Please call SEAHOG ALASKA 500XL 01229 830413, Cumbria. (11.67) TRAMMEL NETS

£25. 212 Mustang pots - £25 each. £14,000. Fisher Freeward 24 , 80 These pots have external cast weights hp ford mermaid,colour sounder and internal steel weights good for ,vhf,garmin plotter,cd, R10 pot hauler. strong tidal areas. Internal weights open to offers Licence available. could be removed if preferred. Please call 07749 220443. 11.36 Pots located in Orkney, transport to Aberdeen or Glasgow can be ORKNEY ORKADIAN 20 arranged at buyers cost. Anyone £150. Furuno 1835 radar head landing to Macduff Shellfish im sure unit only. With mount. Screen is they would assist with transport unmarked. Possible demo use south from Aberdeen. Please call only as Mount and radar socket 07769 685991, Kirkwall. (12.02) unused. Slight marks on surround, still available from furuno. Bargain. WOODEN PARLOUR POTS £56. 10 24x16x15, 10mm plastic Tested and perfect. No power lead 1997, £3,000. Going for all details it is coated creels covered with 4mm. but can show working. Please call the best in England with only 50000 Three soft eyes bait bag roped, on the truck from new when last year 07909 884328. (12.05) 10mm blue rubbered spinner. Ready and when through and only done 17 SALTED MACKEREL FOR to fish, £56 per unit plus vat. Please miles from then in side is as new and BAIT call 07921 540208. (11.68) the same under. Please call 07516 £10,099.638534. Built (12.05) 2008 yanmar engine STAINLESS ROOF ARCH put in 2014 7.26 meter.s for sale with £30. 80 x 40"Wooden parlour potsshellfish WANTED licence open to offers. Please £30 each. Used 6 months. Please callcall 07852 947178. 11.38 £25-£350. 2 x 6” x 500 yards trammel 07774 757375, Whitby. (12.02) nets in bins, £350 each . anchors £25 BOATSINFORMATION AND OUTBOARDS WANTED 2006, £8,995. Predator 165 “Sea POA. Prices for most on website £7,500. SeaHog Alaska 500XL fast each. Please call 07803 696614. (12.05) Wanted. Information wanted about Angler”.TRUCKS Yamaha FOR F50 SALE EFI 4 Stroke Www.northtynemarine.co.uk. Please fishing boat in excellent condition. the disappearance of a splicing vice Outboard. Single Axle Roller Trailer. call 07719 663128. 11.38 Fitted with 2 x swivel seats, padded TWO 80LTR PUMPS FittedMITSUBISHI with new brakesL200 SINGLEand wheel CAB in Scrabster. Went missing in early cushions, nav lights, white light, bearings. Freshly antifouled. Polished. BOATFebruary. IP 15 Please call 01847 892795, search light, battery cut off, cabin All ready to use. This was traded in Scrabster. (12.02) light, fish finder, fire ext, VHF radio, to us for a Merry Fisher 695. It has aux engine bracket, rod rests etc. The decent electronics, a half canopy. OUTBOARDS engine is a 50hp 4 stroke longshaft Full tonneau cover and is presented Wanted. We are currently looking for engine with power tilt trim and as very well. These are popular day new prop.It was serviced by Clyde new stock of outboards but nothing fishers suitable for family use or keen outboards in April with no issues. It £12,750. Orkney Orkadian 20 86,000 miles, £3,500. MoT until older then year 2000. Please call 2003, £17,750. redfinn 6000 comes anglers. Easy to tow around and sits on a galvanised bunked trailer Pilothouse powered by a Honda 75 07719 663128, Hexham. (12.04) launch.December Easy to2019. story Timingat home. belt The has with winch jockey wheel and lighting fourstroke comes with trailer and with trailer , powered by a Mercruiser Yamahabeen changed,4 Stroke Outboardgood tyres has all lowround, board.£POA. Boat Salted can mackerelbe viewed packed on Loch in electrics, toilet , cooker everything 1.7dti with only 140 hours plenty of YANMAR ENGINE £85. Stainless steel roof arch 14" £POA. One is good the other is not,hours upgraded and runs rear well. springs There andis a spareexcellent Earnbins andwith testedscrew bylids serious and handles potential for you need any test welcome also room to fish , comes with Chartplotter Wanted. 12 to 15HP, in good condition high × 7" wide x 62" long. 3 bolt fit.and am vhf open , runs to well offers , any could test welcome deliver toengine condition bracket. inside Please and out.call 07930Ready to buyers.easy movement. Please call Please01764 670481call 07508 or trade welcome. Please call 07784 or similar. Air or water. Please call Stainless plate for radar dome. Please Brixham/newlyn. Please call 07831421007. work. 11.38Please call 07885 463481, Isle 717247. 11.36 and trade welcome. Please call 07784 07813 200035.(11.66) 11.35 of Mull. (12.04) 355252. call 07909 884328, Plymoutth. (12.02) 717247.249182. 11.36 (12.03) 01346 571562, Aberdeenshire. (12.02)

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Time catches up with Nil Desperandum The iconic inshore seine-netter & Mackenzie of Buckie as Nil Nil Desperandum LK 235, Desperandum PD 363 for which fished the waters around Peterhead owners, the seine Shetland for more than half a net boat was purchased by the century, was cut in half and lifted Wiseman family four years later. out of the water at Hay’s Dock, In the late 1960s, the inshore Lerwick, last week, reports seine-netter had the distinction David Linkie. of being the first boat Nil Desperandum had been in the Shetland berthed at Hay’s Dock for several fleet to have years, after the boat was gifted a gutting to the Shetland Amenity Trust by machine ‡ Contractors prepare to lift the forward section Eternal Light launched at Buckie the late James Wiseman, who fitted. of Nil Desperandum out of Hay’s Dock… See page 8 bought the vessel in 1951. After Built at Lossiemouth in being … onto an adjoining quay at Lerwick last week. 1947 and completed by Herd bought by Philip Abernethy this year, that the amenity trust of Stonehaven had no funds to restore the in 1977, Nil vessel, an appeal went out to the Desperandum community to take on the project returned to Shetland – but the trust did not receive any in 1984 when bought responses. by Robert Guthrie. Following a In an attempt to safeguard the further change in ownership 12 71-year-old vessel, volunteers months later, James Wiseman removed the mast and heavy subsequently bought his old winches from its deck about four boat for the second time. years ago. Storm-ridden blue whiting fishery On his retirement from After being cut in two See page 9 fishing, James Wiseman gifted amidships at low water, the two Nil Desperandum to Shetland halves of the hull were lifted Amenity Trust in 2010, in the ashore over two tides last week. hope that the trust would Nil Desperandum’s timbers refurbish the boat for display as will be salvaged and donated to ‡ The iconic Nil Desperandum afloat in better days, in Hay’s part of its collection. a local artist and furniture maker Dock. (Photos: Sydney Sinclair) When it became clear, earlier to be ‘upcycled’. ASAP celebrates 30 years in business ASAP Supplies, based in requirements. Fishing vessels join Tyneside Beccles, Suffolk, celebrates ASAP now employs over 40 Brexit protest See pages 10 - 12 a significant milestone of 30 staff and is achieving record years in the marine industry sales, with the head office on 1 April, 2019. staying locally in Beccles, and Co-founders Mark the south coast branch based Reynolds and Peter Edwards in Fareham. ASAP is a now an formed the company in April industry leader in delivering 1989 with a small garage marine equipment, with over and a delivery van, supplying 9,000 products and spares. marine equipment and spares Its team of experts offers to local fishermen, businesses trusted technical support to and boatyards. customers in their projects for They worked tremendously maintenance, repair or refit. hard, and with their In June 2017, ASAP drive and enthusiasm, the Supplies was acquired by East Anglia’s fishery company steadily grew, Arleigh International, which See pages 14 - 17 allowing them to acquire a strengthened the company, warehouse, supplying local allowing it to develop and ‡ Peter Edwards and Mark Reynolds (right) on the first day of and national customers with grow further. ASAP Supplies in 1989. all their marine equipment The company has taken great pride in its technical said: “The company has spares. It will continue to knowledge, and places grown rapidly, thanks to the maintain and build new customers at the heart of hardworking dedicated team relationships with boat its business strategy. In we have, and the unrivalled owners, boatbuilders and recognition of this, on 6 service we provide to our engineers, and invest in its March, ASAP Supplies won customers. We are looking award-winning website. the Customer Focus Award forward to another successful ASAP Supplies will be for excellent customer service year ahead.” exhibiting nationally at at the 2019 UK Customer During its ‘pearl’ year in Skipper Expo Int Aberdeen, Satisfaction Awards ceremony. the industry, ASAP plans to British Marine Expo, Seawork Boat of the Week Kirkella H 7 ‡ The first ASAP Supplies Cheryll Gill, general further expand on its range International and the See page 18 delivery van. manager at ASAP Supplies, of quality marine parts and Southampton Boat Show.