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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL PRAWN SECTOR NEEDS HELP REPORT New-look Beryl fishes her first trip Skippers Colin and Jon Mitchell sailed from Fraserburgh at the end of last week to fish their first trip with the new-look whitefish stern trawler Beryl BF 440, reports David Linkie. After leaving Peterhead at the end of the previous week, where the 29m Beryl was given a distinctive new black and white look by Davidsons Marine and Industrial Painters, she berthed at Fraserburgh in preparation for pulling on new fishing gear, swinging the compass and running fishing trials in the Hole- of-the-Broch last Thursday, before ‡ … after being hydro-blasted and fully leaving for her maiden trip under the repainted by Davidsons. (Photos: Ryan Cordiner) new owners. Named after a precious stone, Beryl is dating back to Colin and Jon Mitchell’s the seventh boat of the same name to be great-grandfather. ‡ Beryl leaving Peterhead last week to rig out at Fraserburgh… owned by the Mitchell family of Whitehills, Continues on page 4

Christina S landing herring at Lerwick last week. North Sea herring season draws to a close (Photo: Sydney Sinclair)

The few boats still fishing North Sea herring took their final shots last week, reportsDavid Linkie. A succession of landings in recent weeks by boats from Shetland, North East Scotland and Northern Ireland to the Pelagia Shetland processing factory at Lerwick concluded with the Fraserburgh midwater trawler Christina S pumping herring ashore. Fishing this month was generally focused between Fair Isle and Orkney, where prime-quality MSC-accredited herring were taken in short trips. Pelagic crews are now preparing for the start of the North Sea mackerel fishery, with the first boats expected to leave harbour in the next few weeks.

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BIB AND BRACES UNO WITH APRON X-TRAPPER ISOMAX CHINOOK Manufacturer in France since 1964 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 Scots leaders press for help for prawn sector ‘Little prospect of early market recovery’ Scottish industry leaders are usual price. diminished. It would be fair to exploring with the Scottish All the main Scottish freezer assume that back-up reserves government ways to help the processors, including the SFO, would have dwindled by now, struggling Nephrops sector, halted production, as did most so I doubt this fleet would be reports Tim Oliver. fresh operators. Some smaller particularly resilient to further Demand plummeted due to operations continued trading, significant shocks.” Covid-19, and although it has but prices were low and barely In view of this ‘worrying recovered a little, the sector is viable for most SFO members. prospect’, he and industry still struggling, in North East The outcome was that the colleagues have been in dialogue England and Northern Ireland as value of Nephrops landings by with Scottish cabinet secretary well as in Scotland. the SFO fleet this year was down Fergus Ewing, Marine Scotland Giving evidence to the House over 50%, representing a 30% and Scotland Food and Drink of Commons Scottish Affairs price decrease on average across officials about setting up a Committee, which is examining the board. ‘Nephrops sector-specific the impact of coronavirus on “That is grim by any stretch of resilience initiative’. the Scottish industry, industry the imagination,” the SFO chief This would aim to identify leaders said that the worst hit actions to enable a sustained told the committee. “The reality “I know it’s to help the industry, but there’s a limit to the had been the shellfish sector, is that coronavirus has majorly economic recovery throughout and Nephrops in particular. impacted on the Nephrops value the Nephrops supply chain and number of bloody prawn cocktails that my insides will cope John Anderson, chief executive chain, and it looks like it will ‘ultimately try to drive this with in a week.” of the Scottish Fishermen’s take quite some time to fully sector forward post-Covid and Organisation (SFO), the UK’s recover.” into a post-Brexit environment impact and a difference. We are the coronavirus pandemic had biggest PO, said that the He said that any further as well’. concerned about the viability of hit the sector very quickly, and Nephrops sector supply chain market failures resulting from He hoped that a formal parts of not just the Nephrops some parts of it very hard. had come together ‘to try to second waves of Covid-19, initiative would be established fleet but the onshore processing “It was apparent pretty quickly brainstorm what we need to do lockdowns and so on would have in the near future. “There will sector.” that the shellfish part of the to get us moving in the right a serious impact on the viability be supply side and demand- He added that, depending fleet was the most immediately direction again’. of the industry. driven initiatives; no doubt, on future developments, ‘we hit – initially, the very smallest He said that demand had “Nephrops vessels were tied up new marketing and promotional may well have to seek some part of that fleet, and then the ‘practically fallen of a cliff’ from with no income for a significant strategies, quality initiatives, additional emergency hardship slightly larger vessels,” she told mid-March to early May. Most of time period earlier this year,” he product differentiations and so funding – it is very difficult to the committee. the prawn fleet had been tied up, told the committee. “Although on,” he told the committee. say at this stage’. The whitefish fleet had and those who still had a market they are now mostly back at “The question is to what Elspeth Macdonald, chief continued to operate, but ‘in a were being paid a fraction of the sea, profitability has greatly extent that will really make an executive of the SFF, said that very significantly altered way and serving a very volatile marketplace’, while the seasonal pelagic sector ‘escaped Remote communities under threat unscathed, compared with the others’. “The shellfish part of the Asked about support for the handed down over generations long term and the bigger picture. prospects, which will go on for catching sector was certainly the shellfish sector, the Scottish would be lost for good, even when With that, I am confident that generations to come.” most significantly affected,” she industry leaders said that the the industry recovers. communities and business can Elspeth Macdonald said that in said. Scottish and Westminster It was very difficult to grow,” he told the committee. This terms of support, it was important Jimmy Buchan, chairman governments had acted quickly, stimulate enough demand for would create a thriving industry, that any future arrangements of the Scottish Seafood and that they generally welcomed shellfish in local economies to and money coming back to the should ‘allow us to make those Association, said that the the financial help that had been save businesses, despite efforts to government through taxes, he said. quick, agile and necessary shellfish sector was ‘probably given. do so, he said. “Until we can get “We have to get the investment to responses to whatever situations still only at 50% of capacity for “Without that help, I am international trade moving at pace get the return.” we find ourselves in’. where it should be at this time of pretty sure that a number of these and in volume, we will be in a He said there were ‘huge That was one of the reasons year’, and remained a concern. businesses would not be here very difficult position.” challenges’, but they were critical the SFF had been keen not to “It is a high-value export right now,” Jimmy Buchan told Jimmy Buchan said that one to the future. Without investment, see a lot of prescriptive rules market,” he told the committee. the committee. of the main things needed was fish may be landed abroad, ‘and in the fisheries bill that would “Until we see some sort of But he said that a number a replacement for the European the economic benefit will be lost prevent governments and local normality return to how people of shellfish businesses were Maritime and Fisheries Fund to the communities’. communities from moving go on holiday or travel on still struggling. “I have asked, (EMFF), and that the industry He said: “This is a huge quickly, she said. business, we will find a reduced and I continue to ask, that the was engaging with the Scottish opportunity, and it is time that we “The way that the four parts market for that product.” governments look at this situation and UK governments on this. all got together to start working of the UK were able to respond He said there was a ‘new on a case-by-case basis.” “That will be crucial to growing collectively, instead of trying to differently to their local needs normal’, with social distancing He said that some shellfish this industry going forward.” stop and resist where this industry was evidence of how we need to reducing capacity in restaurants businesses provided vital Inward investment was needed wants to go. have systems that have sufficient by 50%, which reduced employment in remote areas of onshore, and that could only “If we get the fisheries and flexibility for communities to be consumption by that amount. Scotland. If they were not helped, come with government incentives. the investment onshore correct, able to do things,” the SFF chief “Covid-19 is certainly having a the businesses and the skills “We have to start looking at the that will create wealth and job told the committee. serious effect on the hospitality sector,” he said. DEFRA: Supertrawlers ‘don’t damage seabed in MPAs’ DEFRA says that ‘supertrawlers’ from supertrawlers operating in within the water column MPAs most at risk, and aim to fishing gear that can be used, to are unlikely to damage seabed those zones. and are unlikely to damage make rapid progress as soon as fishing vessel licences. habitats in marine protected Answering on the minister’s the seabed habitats, such as the transition period ends,” she “Foreign vessels operating areas (MPAs) because they behalf, junior DEFRA reef and sediment habitats, said. in UK waters will have to largely target pelagic species, environment minister Rebecca for which most MPAs are “Our fisheries bill prohibits follow UK rules, including the reports Tim Oliver. Pow said: “The impact a designated.” any commercial fishing vessel conditions that are attached Secretary of state George fishing vessel has on an MPA is She said that a new power from fishing in UK waters to their commercial fishing Eustice was asked in written determined by how damaging proposed in the fisheries bill without a licence. It also licence.” questions if he would limit the fishing method is, rather will allow the MMO to protect provides powers to attach She added that marine the size of trawlers allowed to than the size of the vessel. offshore MPAs from damaging conditions, such as the areas protection is a devolved matter, operate in MPAs, and what steps “Supertrawlers generally fishing activity. that can be fished, species that so the information she provided he is taking to protect MPAs target pelagic species of fish “We are prioritising those can be caught and the type of related to England only. 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Industry views needed High stakes on fishing vessel code The Maritime and Coastguard Between 2012 and 2019 there Agency (MCA) is reminding were 45 fishing fatalities, which is fishermen that the proposed equivalent to 54 in every 100,000 new Code of Practice for Small fishermen losing their lives at in Brexit talks Fishing Vessels (Less Than 15m work, compared to a national Length Overall), which includes average across all sectors of 0.5 As Brexit talks continued on a stand-alone fisheries fisheries as part of these a requirement for fishing boats fatalities per 100,000. last week with no signs of a agreement for 2021. These negotiations’. to be inspected both in and out The revised code will breakthrough, the NFFO has will aim to set TACs, access Jimmy Buchan, chief of the water every five years, is address crew protection and warned that ‘the stakes are arrangements and quota executive of the Scottish currently out to the industry for man-overboard recovery, high’, reports Tim Oliver. shares. Seafood Association, told the consultation. construction, watertight and But the federation also said Without an annual committee that a deal was The proposed tightening of the weathertight integrity, stability, that there was no indication agreement, there would be needed that worked for both regulations is part of ongoing work machinery, electrical installations, from anything the government no reciprocal access to each the EU and the UK. by the MCA and its partners in the and in and out of water inspections. had said to the industry that other’s waters from 1 January. He said that there are ‘£1bn Fishing Industry Safety Group to The consultation will close on 8 there would be any surrender “EU fleets fish around six times of seafood trades either way reduce the number of deaths in the November. To have your say, go to: on fishing. as much in UK waters as UK annually, so anything that industry. bit.ly/33yJBJJ “Privately and publicly, the fleets fish in EU waters and affects the UK will equally UK government has said that it so, at that point, the pressure have an effect on the EU’. This is prepared to walk away from would be on the EU to make meant that the UK had to be an agreement unless it reflects concessions on quota shares careful not to ‘shoot ourselves French vessel detained the UK’s sovereign rights as to secure access for its fleets,” in our own foot’. an independent coastal state,” said Barrie Deas. He said he was working said chief executive Barrie “The question is whether very closely with DEFRA to at Plymouth Deas. an agreement on fisheries that try to make sure that fresh He said the UK industry and respects the UK’s new status seafood can flow out of government were not seeking as an independent coastal the country, and fish can anything extraordinary, but state can be signed before come into the country. But only what every other coastal things get to that stage.” ultimately, industry leaders state in the world ‘holds by Giving evidence to the were ‘not at the table’, and right’. “It is only the scale of Westminster Scottish Affairs could only lobby and advise. the imbalanced distortion Committee, SFF chief “We may have to just accept caused by the CFP over the executive Elspeth Macdonald that in a negotiation, there are last 40 years that makes the said that a trade deal giving always winners and losers.” change seem so large.” the UK tariff-free and quota- He stressed that while But EU member states with free access would be ‘a great politicians might influence fishing interests had ‘worked outcome’, but a negotiation markets, it was ultimately the hard to ensure that the EU on fishing was very different. people who wanted to sell and negotiating mandate allows There was a balance of buy seafood who were the for no change in access about £1bn in trade each way market. arrangements or quota shares’. between the EU and the UK “We have shown that over “So, as we enter the final on seafood, but with fishing thousands of years,” he told stretch of the negotiations, the opportunities, there was ‘a the committee. “Politicians can stakes are high,” said Barrie real imbalance that has to be try and sway that market, and ‡ Felir arriving in Plymouth under MMO escort. Deas. fixed’. we have got to accept that as He said that preparations Stressing that trade and a risk that is in the debate, but Marine Management The 25m Felir was escorted are underway on both sides fishing should not be linked, we are still very much focused Organisation (MMO) officers into Plymouth, arriving at for a no-deal exit. “This would she said: “The EU does not on how this is the biggest from the fisheries patrol Victoria Wharf at about 9pm mean trade with the EU on link these issues in any of the opportunity that has come to vessel Ocean Osprey that evening. The vessel was WTO terms – unfavourable for other fishing agreements that the fishing industry, ashore and detained the French fishing released at around 6.30pm all parties, but very far from no it has with other independent afloat, in the last 40 years. vessel Felir between the last Tuesday (15 September), trade.” coastal states.” “We encourage our political Lizard and the Eddystone and sailed straight for Roscoff, With or without a fisheries She said that the SFF masters of all denominations lighthouse off the southwest arriving early the following framework agreement, talks had been ‘very reassured to get behind us and support coast of England on Saturday, morning. with the EU and other coastal by the priority that the us in what will bring back fairer 12 September, following a The MMO is now proceeding states will begin this autumn UK government has given fishing to the United Kingdom.” routine boarding. with its investigation. Government ditches green amendment to fisheries bill The government has voted down Major retailers and processors fulfil its manifesto commitment “We will continue to push healthy fish stocks in order to a Lords sustainability amendment also voiced their support for the to deliver on sustainable fisheries. policy-makers to put the health have a fishing industry. to the fisheries bill that the amendment in a joint letter from MCS chief executive Sandy of our seas first and foremost. “I don’t think that the Lords’ industry argued would be heavily the Sustainable Seafood Coalition Luk said it was ‘incredibly Healthy seas full of life amendments will be reinstated, damaging – for example, by (SSC) to DEFRA secretary of disappointing’ that the contribute to thriving coastal because the original version of locking the government into state George Eustice (Fishing government had turned its communities and a prosperous the bill was carefully constructed imposing rigid MSY targets, News, 17 September, ‘Big buyers back on making sustainability fishing industry.” by the government to avoid the reports Tim Oliver. back damaging changes to the prime objective of the new NFFO chief executive Barrie rigidity and inflexibility that has The bill, which will establish fisheries bill’). As well as urging fisheries bill. Deas rejected the MCS’s claim been the major flaw in the CFP. the post-Brexit UK fisheries the imposition of strict MSY “The government has missed that the overturning of the “No one in the fishing industry management regime, is currently targets by 2020, the SSC also its golden opportunity to give amendment meant that the or fisheries management, or being scrutinised by parliament called for onboard cameras to be the UK’s seas the protection government had turned its back in government, wants to find and is in its committee stage. installed on all vessels, regardless they desperately need,” she on sustainability, and said it ourselves back in a ‘CFP-lite’ The Marine Conservation of size. said. “Without sustainability remained at the heart of the through badly conceived Society (MCS) said that the The MCS said that if the as the prime objective, it’s not fisheries bill. domestic legislation. amendment ‘put sustainability Lords amendment had remained just marine life that will suffer, He told Fishing News: “Five “ClientEarth and Greener UK at the heart of the bill’. It in the bill, it would have put but also fishers and coastal out of the eight objectives in the are happy to ignore the practical was supported by a coalition sustainability at the heart of communities, who risk economic bill are related to sustainability consequences of having an of environmental charities, fisheries management in the UK, losses as fish populations in one way or another, and inflexible position on MSY, for including the MCS, and had influenced sustainable policy- continue to decline. This isn’t a everyone – not just green NGOs example. Fisheries managers and cross-party support in the House making for generations to come, case of ‘plenty more fish in the – recognises that we need a the fishing industry can’t afford of Lords. and allowed the government to sea’. functioning ecosystem and to be so complacent.” 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL No easy fix to prawn market problems EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ It is clear that there is a longstanding means, has to be across the board, the short term, is looking increasingly KELSEY.CO.UK structural imbalance in the Nephrops because a voluntary restriction may likely. We need a high-powered sector that the Covid-19 crisis has just leave the door open to competitors campaign to educate the British public Kelsey Publishing Ltd, highlighted and made worse. who are unable or unwilling to make and persuade them to eat more locally The Granary, Editor There has been an oversupply of sacrifices. But this still leaves the sourced seafood. Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie prawns for some time now, and there international dimension – restraint on This would help to persuade UK Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] were warnings early this year, before landings by the UK might only give supermarkets, which only respond to Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 the virus hit, that cold stores were full more of the market to the Irish, Danes public demand, to stock more locally and boats were catching more than the and Dutch, for example. caught prawns instead of cheap market could absorb. Some skippers call for an end to imported products from Asia. Because the market for prawns is twin-rigging or no weekend fishing to There is also a view that landings largely the European export market and reduce effort, but if a boat’s economics of tailed prawns would be reduced if hospitality sector, the impact on the are geared to twin-rigging and a foreign crews were not employed to already struggling prawn fleet was, and seven-day week, such sacrifices are not carry out the mind-numbing job of remains, devastating. economically viable. tailing, which few UK fishermen or As always with cases of There is little opportunity for most workers are prepared to do. But again, overcapacity, there are no easy or prawn boats to diversify to whitefish if boats find it hard to catch large Managing editor painless answers. Oversupply always as the quota to do so is not available, prawns and their economics rely on News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] leads to even lower prices that and for some boats, whitefish is not this labour, the only alternative is to go email: [email protected] simply make a bad problem worse, there in sufficient quantities on their out of business. as fishermen with bills and crews to local grounds. The nub of the problem is a pay land more to try to make up the The loss of the export market longstanding mismatch between supply shortfall in grossings. due to Covid-19 has hit the prawn and demand that must somehow be This has been partly addressed by sector hard, and has led to calls for sorted out. It is to be hoped that buyers telling boats to restrict trips to campaigns to develop the domestic the talks now going on between three or four days to ensure top quality market. This has taken on an added the industry and Marine – though this in turn has pushed some urgency, as a no-deal Brexit, which Scotland to find ways to bring Lincolnshire, East Anglia and boats to the margins of viability. would have a severe impact on the some stability to the market Cornwall correspondent Essex correspondent Restricting effort, by whatever European export market, at least in result in workable solutions. Phil Lockley John Worrall email: email: [email protected] [email protected] 07748 644971 New-look Beryl fishes her first trip 01326 340372 Continued from page 1 Endeavour IV BF 515 from Peter for eight years, and the yard’s largest Beryl’s single and twin-rig trawls were Lovie and partners of Whitehills as a build to date. made by Colin and Jon Mitchell, in replacement for the previous 27.8m Beryl The vessel’s MaK 8M20C main engine conjunction with Strachan Trawls, BF 440, which was sold to Shetland drives a 3,000mm-diameter CP propeller Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and Graham Buchan of Seaway Nets and skipper Ross Christie and renamed through a Mekanord 6.06:1 reduction Dorset correspondent John Periam Jackson Trawls, which also supplied Opportune LK 209. gearbox, off which three PTOs drive the Art editor email: periam.photojournalist@ a new set of 26mm-diameter Bridon With 10.5m of beam, Beryl features hydraulic deck machinery. Nick Bond btopenworld.com Starfish trawl wire. a full-length trawl deck headed by six Two Mitsubishi-driven 415/3/50 email: [email protected] 01243 584718 Insured by Sunderland Marine, Beryl sweep winches and twin stern ramps. generators and a Perkins Sabre harbour MANAGEMENT set are also fitted. will be using a new set of Thyborøn Macduff Shipyards completed Chief Operating Officer: Phil Weeden trawl doors and middle clump to spread Endeavour IV for skipper Peter Lovie Beryl’s Rapp Ecosse deck machinery Chief Executive: Steve Wright the single and twin-rig whitefish gear. and partners of Whitehills in April includes Lebus spooled 25t and 28t Managing Director: Kevin McCormick Skippers Colin and Jon Mitchell, in 2009, when the trawler had the double split trawl winches, six 17t sweepline Finance Director: Joyce Parker-Sarioglu partnership with Denholm Fishselling, distinction of being the biggest new winches, two 12t bagging winches, two Retail Director: Steve Brown Audience Development Manager: Andy Cotton bought Beryl two months ago as whitefish vessel to join the Scottish fleet 15t Gilsons and two 10t codend winches. 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French small-scale fishermen and sardines it will catch ‘will working in the Bay of Biscay while are planning a demonstration in have absolutely no impact on smaller vessels were tied up due to Concarneau on 25 September to the local economy; everything the crisis. protest against French-flagged will be landed in IJmuiden in the “French fishermen are up in but foreign-owned pelagic Netherlands’. arms against this model of fishing, supertrawlers fishing in French He says the vessel, like two which monopolises quotas and has waters. others in the France Pélagique a strong impact on the resource,” Their protest is timed to coincide fleet, the Sandettie and the Prins he says. with the naming in Concarneau Bernhard, has ‘a vast fishing Alleging that ‘France Pélagique of a new pelagic trawler, the 80m capacity’. It can catch up to 200t destroys jobs’, Thibault Josse Scombrus, that is joining the of fish in one night – equivalent to says that the Label Normandy French fleet. the maximum volume that can be was sold by them and its crew It is owned by French company handled in the auction at Lorient, made redundant to finance the France Pélagique, which is a the largest in France. Scombrus. “This social scandal subsidiary of Cornelis Vrolijk, “This is an economic and social has left its mark on the company, the big Dutch fishing company scandal. The impact of this type with many crew and staff not that ‘owns many giant trawlers of fishing on the ecosystem is agreeing with this authoritarian and monopolises the quotas of enormous… and to be viable, decision taken by the directors ‡ Scombrus CC-919999. European countries through let alone profitable, such a boat and shareholders.” its subsidiaries,’ says French requires a huge concentration of He says that leading figures in their lands,” writes Thibault weeks’, and is calling on fishermen’s organisation Pleine quotas, eating the few remaining the French industry and POs have Josse. They have invited ‘the ‘fishermen, associations, trade Mer (Deep Sea). crumbs available for the artisanal vested interests in the pelagic whole court of industrial fishing’ unions and citizens’ to ‘mobilise’ Writing on the Pleine Mer sector,” writes Thibault Josse. sector. for the naming of the new with them on 25 September. website, Thibault Josse says He says that at the beginning “Just like feudal barons, these Scombrus. “The impunity of industrial that the thousands of tonnes of of the Covid-19 pandemic, France fishing lords pass on power to Plein Mer says it will ‘reveal fishing has gone on long enough!” herring, mackerel, horse mackerel Pélagique’s ‘giant trawlers’ were each other whilst serfs work on more information in the coming it concludes. Parkol launches 27m Havara for Shetland New CEO for SIFCA The Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (SIFCA) has just welcomed its new chief executive officer Ian Jones onboard, reports John Periam. Ian joins the authority with a wealth of experience in fisheries management, gained in both the UK and Australia. He replaces Robert Clark, who has ‡ Ian Jones, the new CEO recently taken up the of Southern IFCA. post of chief officer ‡ … ready to be moved from her for the Association of The inshore waters of ‡ Havara loaded onto two low-loader units… building berth… IFCAs. Robert said: “I this coastline are some cannot think of a better of the most diverse The new 27m Shetland salmon The twin-screw vessel is deck crane of SWL 3,000kg @ person to follow in my and important in the farm fish feed vessel Havara was powered by Cummins KTA19-M3 15m. footsteps – we have country, and coastline lifted into the river Tees last week, engines of 447kW @ 1,800rpm Five single-berth cabins are known each other for fishing is a significant reports David Linkie. coupled to Reintjes gearboxes located aft on the main deck, many years, and the part of what makes Built to Workboat Code of 6:1 reduction. Three Cummins together with a day lounge, galley region’s fishermen in this area so special. I Category 2 in Parkol Marine auxiliary units running Havara’s and messdeck. Hampshire, Dorset and really look forward to Engineering’s Middlesbrough electrical and hydraulic systems LCL Shipping took delivery of the Isle of Wight will working in partnership fabrication hall, Havara was are also fitted. a similar vessel, Havilah, from have a new CEO who with the local fishing loaded onto two specialist Two wing tanks in the Parkol in 2015. will take their interests communities and low-loader transporters engineroom will allow 17,000 litres Havara will engage in a similar onboard and will help balancing the needs of positioned either side of the of fuel to be carried. pattern of activity to Havilah, them at any given the different interests keel. The 250t vessel was then A large watertight cargo hold, delivering feed to salmon farms in opportunity.” to deliver world-class moved out of the fabrication hall served by aluminium hatch remote locations in Shetland. Ian served previously fisheries management and 100m to the quayside before covers fabricated by the yard, Due to the ongoing Covid-19 as deputy chief officer to our seas.” being lifted into the river Tees, will accommodate up to 350 situation, Michael Pearson was at SIFCA, and latterly SIFCA chairman in an operation that took just 75 one-tonne bags of salmon feed the only partner to travel from as the national lead Professor John minutes. stacked in four tiers. Shetland to Teesside for the training officer for the Humphreys said: “Ian’s Parkol Marine Engineering Cargo handling will be carried launch. Havara was scheduled to Association of IFCAs, appointment will build built the innovative Havara in nine out by an HS Marine telescopic run engine trials from Teesside making him very familiar upon the significant months for Whalsay partners before arriving at Whitby at the with the complexities of progress we have Colin Kay, Leonard Anderson and start of this week. fisheries management made in improving the Michael Pearson of LCL Shipping and conservation coastal fisheries and of Lerwick, part of the BioMar issues. In this post he delivering conservation Group, after the contract was worked with people in in our unique coastal signed at the Skipper Expo Int all the other IFCAs, so areas. Ian has a Aberdeen in May 2019. he will be a familiar face strong background in Designed by Ian Paton of SC to the other CEOs. community involvement McAllister & Co Ltd, the round Ian said: “I am very and I, as well as bilge vessel has a registered excited about serving the members of the length of 23.95m, beam 9.70m the coastal communities authority, look forward and amidships depth moulded of ‡ … in Parkol’s fabrication hall on within my region, which to working with him in 4.80m. Teesside… ‡ … and lifted into the river Tees. is an area I know well. his new role.” 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 Irish trawler in Commission accepts build on Teesside NWWAC brown crab advice The European Commission has and other Asian countries is and count on the work done by written to the North Western the difference in regulation the advisory councils in recent Waters Advisory Council regarding heavy metals, years. (NWWAC) to confirm that it will particularly cadmium. This “The development of a joint be taking the organisation’s applies to all the exporting group with the North Sea is advice on brown crab, reports countries, but Ireland, a commendable idea, and Pauric Gallagher. the UK and France have I will instruct my services The NWWAC wrote to been individually excluded to participate wherever the director-general of DG from Chinese markets for possible. Whilst there are MARE Charlina Vitcheva lengthy periods, while health indeed some management last month outlining the certificates and monitoring measures already in place at recommendations from its programmes are negotiated the European level, such as brown crab focus group on and renegotiated. This an effort regime and minimum issues common to all brown situation is creating enormous sizes, the Commission would crab stakeholders. uncertainty along the entire welcome further measures One of its recommendations supply chain and needs to be to be developed through the ‡ Of 26.7m LOA and 7.8m of beam, the hull of the new trawler for is the development of a joint addressed. regionalisation process. D&N Kirwan of Clogherhead is progressing well in Parkol’s extensive group to manage the North The NWWAC also said that “Depending on the nature fabrication hall on Teesside. Sea crab stocks. strategies are needed, and fall- of your recommendations, The NWWAC also said that back plans must be developed, this would most likely involve The hull of a new prawn twin-rig individual vessel sectors to protect stakeholders when the drafting of a Joint refrigerated/freezer trawler of the brown crab industry, unforeseen events bring their Recommendation from the being built for D&N Kirwan of including both inshore (under industry to a standstill, as has relevant member states’ Clogherhead in Parkol Marine 12m) and offshore, cannot happened this year. regional groups. Thus I Engineering’s fabrication hall in be dealt with in isolation, In her letter to the chairman would strongly advise that Middlesbrough is now fully plated with regard to either fisheries of the NWWAC, Charlina the advisory councils also up to main deck level, reports or markets. The fisheries Vitcheva said: “We fully invite representatives from David Linkie. now include substantial understand the current the member states to attend Designed by Ove Kristensen of areas of the North Sea, difficulties we all face during future meetings on brown crab Vestværftet ApS, Hvide Sande, and mainland Europe is a the Covid-19 pandemic, and management. and with main dimensions of ‡ Starting to assemble the deck major hub for landing and in particular those facing the “On the subject of joint 26.7m LOA and 7.8m beam, the house on the main deck. exporting, particularly for live fishing sector. Let me also management with the United trawler is the first vessel that crab. As soon as possible, assure you that, whilst not Kingdom, it is indeed too Parkol Marine Engineering has WGF 773 gearbox of 12.490:1 management measures will managed by an annual TAC soon to tell what our future built for Ireland. reduction. have to be developed on an at EU level, the Commission relationship will look like. The new vessel will feature a Mitsubishi SB63, 6DI6 and appropriate scale in order fully recognises that brown However, I can assure you that full Mitsubishi propulsion and S4S units will run the vessel’s to respond to the challenges crab is of great importance the management of non-TAC auxiliary engine package. hydraulic and electrical systems. posed by the different areas as a fishery. Therefore, we stocks such as brown crab are Developing 460kW @ EK Marine of Killybegs will and fishing fleets, said the are in agreement that the also important for us. Joint 1,350rpm, the S6R2 PPTAW3M supply the deck machinery NWWAC. stock should continue to be management for the future main engine will drive a package, including three split It also noted that a major managed in a sustainable continues to be a key subject 3,000mm-diameter fixed trawl winches and two split and issue for exporters to China manner, and we thus support for our negotiation team.” propeller through a Reintjes two plain net drums. Remotely piloted aircraft technology Action to stop could drive next-generation SAR seal killing New technology that could how the use of remotely satellite communication Transport secretary Grant The UK government is taking action to prevent underpin the next generation piloted aircraft could support system and automatic Shapps said: “Drones have the killing of seals in English, Welsh and of HM Coastguard search the work of HM Coastguard. identification and EPIRB the potential to help us in so Northern Irish waters as a result of commercial and rescue operations is This is in addition to ongoing receivers. many aspects of our lives. fishing, says fisheries minister Victoria Prentis. being tested. evaluations being carried In addition to search and From search and rescue She was asked in a written question what The Maritime and out by Bristow Helicopters rescue and safety overwatch, missions to delivering critical plans DEFRA has ‘to ban seal shooting in Coastguard Agency (MCA) in North Wales, evaluating a the remotely piloted aircraft medicines to places like the UK waters before the US Marine Mammal is leading work with the Civil remotely piloted aircraft in could potentially be used Isle of Wight, we’re exploring Protection Act Import Provision Rule deadline Aviation Authority on how simulated – and recently in for counter-pollution work, how this new technology of 1 January, 2022’. remotely piloted aircraft real-time – search and rescue providing vital live video and could revolutionise our Replying that the government was technology can be used in operations. still photographs of ongoing emergency responses. I’m taking action to prevent seal killing, the the demanding environment Although the Hermes 900 incidents. proud to see the UK lead minister added: “The Marine Management of search and rescue. is not currently being used Following the completion the way in trialling these Organisation has not issued licences to kill The MCA began its in live operations in the UK, of the trial activity at West technologies, which could or take seals in the last 10 years under the evaluation back in 2018 with it will be flying in the colours Wales Airport near Aberporth, lead to saving many more Conservation of Seals Act for the purpose of a joint challenge with the of HM Coastguard, and the a report will be published at lives.” preventing damage to fisheries. RNLI to the aviation industry, assessment will add to the the end of this year which will Director of HM Coastguard “However, the ‘netsman’s defence’ provision and has since been laying the ongoing work around using identify the key components Claire Hughes said: “We in the act allows the unlicensed shooting of foundations for its future use future technology in its work. of work that will be required continue to do all we can to seals to prevent damage to equipment, or fish in potentially saving lives as With a wingspan of 15m, to achieve regular, routine use existing technology as within it, and where specific firearms and part of rescue operations. the Hermes 900 Maritime beyond visual line of sight well as look to the future in ammunition are used. More test flights were Patrol remotely piloted (BVLOS) flights in any class of our ongoing work of saving “We have tabled amendments to the fisheries carried out during the first aircraft is especially suited to airspace in the future. lives at sea. Remotely bill that will, if passed, make it illegal to two weeks of September identifying potential hazards The MCA will work piloted aircraft continue to kill seals intentionally or recklessly. These using the Elbit Systems at sea, as well as assisting with other government be a big part of that work, amendments aim to ensure that UK fisheries Hermes 900 as part of a search and rescue operations departments and agencies both to potentially save exports are compliant with the US Marine programme of events in West by monitoring large areas to share selected report lives in search and rescue Mammal Protection Act. Wales. of sea and coastline. Its contents and information and to protect our beautiful “The Scottish parliament recently passed The MCA and Elbit features include an advanced regarding the outcome of the coastlines from the worst similar legislative changes via the Animals and Systems UK are exploring maritime search radar, a trials. effects of pollution.” Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Act 2020.” 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Minister spells out future vision for Welsh fisheries As full Brexit approaches, Welsh the UK after Brexit. “We have, Respondents to the Brexit and industry should incentivise She said that collaboration and fisheries minister Lesley Griffiths therefore, taken steps to increase Our Seas consultation wanted sustainable practices, improve safety co-operation were needed to create has set out steps towards a future fishing opportunities available more done to increase the domestic and working conditions on vessels, Wales’ new fisheries policy, and that fisheries policy for Wales. to under-10m vessels, and will market, with greater consumer support new entrants and marine a number of stakeholder groups Her statement included responses continue to do so,” said the interest in Welsh seafood achieved conservation, and promote Welsh had provided ‘invaluable’ challenge to the Brexit and Our Seas minister. through education and promotion. fish and fish products,” said Lesley and support. “I will be establishing consultation carried out in Wales Policy will also include a modern “We will continue to work with Griffiths. the architecture to allow for this last year. and flexible system of domestic Seafish on its promotion campaigns “I remain committed and focused co-production to take place. She says that the potential for a management for non-quota stocks such as Fish is the Dish and on delivering our vision for the “While the Covid-19 pandemic no-deal Brexit and the ‘catastrophic that will safeguard the environment Seafood Week,” said the minister. future, whilst also taking effective has delayed our work on developing impact’ on the industry of the and maximise socio-economic The Welsh government is action in the short term to support a ‘Future Fisheries Policy’, our vision Covid-19 pandemic changed benefits to coastal communities, she working with the industry on a £1m and protect Welsh fisheries and for a thriving industry, built on healthy everything, and ‘focus moved to said. “I remain fully committed to Welsh-branded market development fishers.” and resilient seas, remains the same.” supporting the industry through introducing evidence-based flexible programme. this incredibly tough period’. management regimes for a range Consultees also wanted to see Ninety-seven percent of eligible of Welsh fisheries such as whelks, healthy seas and stocks. This would vessels – 158 boats – applied for scallops and cockles.” require evidence on the health of Backing for grant aid, and around £500,000 She said that the UK fisheries stocks and the impact of fishing was paid out. bill was the first step to Wales on them, said Lesley Griffiths. “An She said that Wales needs having the legal powers to deliver its improved evidence base will support seafood campaign to develop its own Welsh policies. The bill makes provision our fisheries policy, including the fisheries policy, and that she was for devolved powers, and the Welsh achievement of MSY, to manage The Welsh Conservatives’ campaign to increase the publishing a summary of the 55 government would be introducing a our stocks responsibly. shadow fisheries minister, domestic and global market detailed responses that the Welsh ‘joined-up’ Welsh fisheries bill that “Officialsare working to Janet Finch-Saunders, for our fish products,” she government received to its Brexit will provide it with legal powers to develop two-year Welsh fisheries endorsed calls for the said, adding that sustainability and Our Seas consultation (see: bit. manage Welsh fisheries. and aquaculture evidence plans development of a Welsh must be at the heart of any ly/2FETgpZ). Lesley Griffiths said that setting out how the fisheries seafood brand campaign public campaign. Welsh policies will be set out in the Covid-19 pandemic had and aquaculture evidence needs to support an increase in She also said that the the Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS) ‘significantly reduced trade with identified in the marine evidence demand. Welsh government must ‘heed drawn up with the other devolved our main markets and hampered strategy will be delivered. The first She said that the recently calls from fishing associations administrations as part of the new our plans to promote Welsh seafood plan will be published in 2021.” announced trade deal with that further help is needed UK fisheries bill. overseas during 2020’. She said that the Welsh Japan was an indication to update our nation’s fishing The JFS will include a statement She said: “The EU remains the government will need to support the that an ‘enthusiastic global fleet so that they may be on proposed use of fisheries main market for Welsh seafood, Welsh fishing industry to grow and market’ existed ready to capable of fishing beyond 12 management plans, and will set and the challenges of exporting live make the most of any post-EU exit consume ‘world-renowned’ nautical miles’. “Our boats out policies on sustainable fisheries product means unfettered access to opportunities through a successor Welsh seafood such as Conwy must receive the necessary management. the single market remains a priority. programme to the European mussels and West Wales grant support so that they Many consultation respondents However, we also want to secure Maritime and Fisheries Fund coracle-caught salmon. can stand ready to enjoy the suggested ways the industry diverse and sustainable markets at (EMFF). “I enthusiastically endorse benefits that a Brexit Britain could benefit from additional home and beyond the EU for Welsh “Respondents were clear that these calls for a marketing can bring.” fishing opportunities allocated to seafood.” any future support to the fishing Overseas Patrol Squadron plans for post-Brexit fisheries protection Share fisherman The Royal Navy Overseas Patrol Belfast, conducting defence gets 15 months for Squadron (OPS), formerly the engagement in central London. Fishery Protection Squadron, She will remain on standby to has had a busy few months support any maritime security under its new commanding operations in UK waters until tax evasion officer Commander David Louis, next summer. reports John Periam. The final Batch 2 OPV, A Moray fisherman who “The company provided The approaching end of the HMS Spey, is about to undergo earned £425,000 over five HMRC with details of who Brexit transition period has contractor sea trials in Scottish years, but failed to submit crews their boats. It was then occupied a lot of the squadron’s waters, and her crew is being any self-assessment tax discovered that Alan Hunter, time. Commander Louis said: assembled. It is planned that returns during that period, although registered for self- “There is a big push planned for both she and HMS Tamar will has been jailed for 15 assessment, had never actually the rest of this year to ensure ‡ Commander David Louis RN. deploy overseas next year. months. declared earnings or paid tax that our fishery protection (Photo: Geoffrey Lee) Although the squadron’s Alan Hunter was sentenced or National Insurance.” boarding officers are trained name has now changed, the at Inverness Sheriff Court on Cheryl Burr, an assistant to support MMO requirements and Severn, have all been protection of the UK fishing fleet 10 September, after previously director in HMRC’s Fraud going forward. The training supporting national tasking, will continue to be a key part of admitting defrauding HMRC Investigation Service, told burden is challenging but ensuring the safety and security its tasking. of £90,000 in revenue Fishing News: “Hunter chose remains on track. To date, this of shipping in UK waters. At Commander Louis said: between 2012 and 2017. not to declare his income and requirement has not had an times this has included escorting “None of us currently know Sheriff Ian Cruickshank thought he could pocket the impact on any other concurrent Russian vessels and monitoring what challenges lie ahead once told him: “This is an money, which should have tasking. the migrant situation. we leave the EU and how our extremely serious charge of been funding vital public “Covid-19 has presented a Of the Batch 2 OPVs, HMS UK fishery will operate, and dishonesty over a five-year services. huge challenge for sustaining Forth is continuing her work more important how other EU period. You failed to declare “Most people pay the tax crew rotations right across the in the Falkland Islands and fishery countries will respond. £425,000 of earnings and they owe, when they owe it, squadron, but all personnel South Atlantic, with her tasking We very much want our failed to pay £90,000 in but a small minority think have risen to this and continue including support of the fishing fishermen – in particular the income tax. they are above the law. No to deliver results on operations. industry there. HMS Medway is inshore fleets – to be aware that “This was a wilful and matter how well you think We have to keep ahead of conducting counter-narcotic and we are there all the time, even if deliberate act, and there is you’ve covered your tracks, the current situation, and are disaster relief operations in the not visible, and will help them no alternative to a custodial nobody is beyond our reach. very much aware of the extra Caribbean. in times of need, including the sentence.” “Tax fraud is a serious work involved in planning our HMS Trent is now fully all-important safety at sea role. Alan Hunter was a share crime, and I ask anyone with rostering, as most of our vessels operational following a hugely “It has been a busy summer fisherman on Carina BF 803, information about those who work 24/7 during the year.” compressed timeline from her here at the OPS, and I am sure owned by the Don Fishing may be involved to contact us The Batch 1 offshore patrol build. Most recently, she was this will continue well into Company. Fiscal depute on: gov.uk or call our fraud vessels (OPVs), Mersey, Tyne berthed outboard to HMS 2021.” Robert Weir told the court: hotline on: 0800 788 887.” 8 NEWS Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews 24 September 2020 MMO: data vital for transition to independence The MMO is aiming to raise sales to EU destinations will information. The catch records enable catch certificates to be to trade with the EU, and how best awareness of the vital role that be validated through the data necessary to make vital decisions issued. it can support them. The MMO is timely submission of catch and provided by the fisher and and fight our industry’s cause This data submission engaging with fishers, merchants sales records will play in enabling merchant. And knowing the origin – on quotas, negotiations, awareness campaign is part of the and seafood processors via online the industry to thrive after the UK of the catch ensures customers area closures, environmental MMO’s commitment to engage surveys and one-to-one calls, and leaves the EU. have confidence to buy the legislation, funding and grants, with the seafood industry to will shortly launch a fortnightly From 1 January, 2021, product. port developments, export better understand the needs of email bulletin and ‘one-stop shop’, big changes will be required “The records and statistics approval and more – all depend businesses, the impact impending offering support and guidance for to prepare for new trading on what is taken out of the sea, on good data. The rapid financial changes will have on their ability the industry. relationships with the EU and where and when, are also used support during the Covid the rest of the world so that by MMO and government to lockdown crisis was only possible fishing businesses can continue make decisions on the future because of the data held. to compete successfully in the sustainability of fish stocks “There is an immediate need The case for better data international marketplace. and the seafood industry. This for everyone to begin now to Tom McCormack, chief includes managing fishing change practices where this is The MMO says that records funding executive officer of the MMO, opportunities, conservation needed to ensure that their records submitted on time: • Improve the evidence base for said: “This data submission measures and, in very recent are submitted within the legal environmental management and awareness campaign is very much times, awarding grant funding.” deadline – if you wait until 1 • Provide a stronger evidential legislation changes in the spirit of ‘help us to help Barrie Deas, CEO of the January, it could be too late.” base to negotiate better • Support the industry voice you’. It is a legal requirement NFFO, said: “We now have sole UK exporters will have to outcomes for England’s fishers in marine development and to submit accurate landing responsibility for our waters, comply with the EU’s illegal, and help stabilise and grow the conservation declarations, logbooks, sales notes and it is up to us to ensure we all unreported or unrecorded (IUU) industry • Establish track records for and Catch App records on time, do the right thing to make sure fishing regulations, and supply • Improve fisheries management individual businesses to support but not everyone is yet aware our industry has a profitable and catch certificates and other with potentially more localised MMO decision-making on that these records provide the sustainable future. documents in order to continue to opportunities to fish licences to fish pressurised traceability data evidence needed “Parts of our industry have export fish and fishery products • Provide a record of stocks when restrictions are to allow the industry to operate been disadvantaged by poor to customers in the EU. Accurate traceability which assures required from 1 January. data for too long. We should all records – logbooks, landing customer confidence in UK • Facilitate trade and prevent “This data now has additional recognise that good management declarations, catch records and products obstructions in export trade importance in fish exports, as decisions and good regulation sales notes – must be submitted • Provide the evidence for grant from 1 January, 2021. catch certificates required for depend on access to good within the legal deadlines to 300 scientists call on Macduff-built Benarkles EU to ‘end overfishing’ A statement signed by over 300 signatories, said: “Overfishing together at Peterhead scientists has called for action means taking more fish out of by the European Commission, the water than can grow back. Two twin-rig trawlers, Benarkle parliament and member states To be honest, that’s pretty stupid. PD 400 and Benarkle II PD to end overfishing ‘as an urgent Because then the stocks shrink, 400, built by Macduff Shipyards and necessary response to the and shrunken small stocks can in 2001 and 2014 for Mark biodiversity and climate crises’. only support small catches. So Addison and Peter Strachan, The scientists are urging that makes no sense at all; it were by chance moored next the EU to set fishing limits doesn’t help the fishermen, it to each other last week at within scientific advice, and to doesn’t help the fish, it doesn’t Peterhead, reports David Linkie. recognise that ‘ecosystem-based help anyone. The whole thing also The 18m Benarkle was fisheries management is critical has an impact on the climate; fish bought by skipper/owner to the health of the ocean and its stocks that are too small cannot David Smith and renamed capacity to respond to climate fulfill their role in the ecosystem.” Shekinah INS 155 when her change’. “The science is clear – now the 24m successor was in build at The statement, signed by EU must ensure that a healthy Macduff in 2014. a number of leading voices in ocean is central to its response Building the steel-hulled marine science, was delivered to the nature and climate crisis – Benarkles extended the already to EU fisheries commissioner and that means finally putting an strong links that existed ‡ Benarkle II and her predecessor berthed at Peterhead last week. Virginijus Sinkevicius and end to overfishing,” said Rebecca between the owners and (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) member state fisheries ministers Hubbard, programme director Macduff Shipyards Ltd. by the Our Fish campaign last of Our Fish. “If we continue to Skipper Mark Addison’s 143, which was fitted with a before the company moved to week, ahead of talks to agree batter the ocean with overfishing, grandfather George Addison, 66hp Kelvin engine and built at Macduff. TACs for 2021, and to members the whole system will weaken who lived on the Moray Firth Gardenstown in 1946. Thirty-four years later, this of the EU parliament who are further, until it can no longer at Cullen, ordered the first boat George Addison replaced the boat gave its name to the 18m preparing their response to the provide us with the life support to be built by Bill and George Seafield with a second new boat steel-hulled twin-rig trawler EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy. we need it for – oxygen, climate Watt of Banff, who founded the in 1967, the 54ft seine-netter Benarkle PD 400, which was Dr Rainer Fröse of the regulation, food and jobs. The EU family firm of boatbuilders that Benarkle BF 447, which holds designed and built in-house by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre must stop dragging its feet and is now Macduff Shipyards. This the distinction of being the last Macduff Shipyards to replace the for Ocean Research in Kiel, take this clear and decisive action was the 52ft seiner Seafield BF boat built by Watts at Banff 17m Angela PD 400. Germany, who was one of the now, before it’s too late.” PECH chair questions EU fisheries budget cut The chair of the European the 2021 budget by 13.9%. He viability of the industry, he said. consider extending these measures progress in Brexit negotiations parliament’s PECH committee has said that, for EU fisheries to He also stressed the importance beyond 31 December if the and the growing likelihood of questioned the EU Commission’s remain viable, increased funding of repairing the economic and pandemic continues. a no-deal exit, the case for that decision to cut the fisheries budget is needed, and that the budget social damage caused by the He said: “Before the break, we budget extension was becoming for 2021, given the challenges of needs to be consistent with the Covid-19 pandemic – which, he had a proposal from the European increasingly strong. Covid-19 and Brexit. EU’s new goals, including the said, justified exceptional financial Commission to extend the EMFF He also said that the PECH Speaking at the committee’s European Green Deal and the EU support being made available budget by €500m, saying that committee needs to have a say first meeting after the summer Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. immediately. He welcomed the would cover the Brexit issues if we on the allocation of the proposed break, Pierre Karleskind Achieving these goals must go action taken by the Commission had to adapt or adjust anything.” €500m, and that it should not be criticised the decision to cut hand in hand with maintaining the to date, but said that it needs to He argued that, given the lack of ring-fenced by the Commission. 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 9 FLEET SURVEY DIARIES Small boats, big contribution Oscar Wilkie, economic researcher at Seafish, discusses the importance of gathering data from all parts of the UK fleet – big or small In the UK we are fortunate to have is not the case. Over a third of all income of low-activity boats comes We have sent the survey to all UK an extraordinarily diverse fishing UK boats are low-activity and land from non-fishing activities. That is vessel owners this year because you fleet. A testament to the complexity less than £10,000-worth of seafood three times the proportion earned are all a vitally important part of and breadth of our catching sector per year. Although the individual through non-fishing activities by our fishing fleet. We want to make is the fact that our analysis of the contribution may seem small, UK vessels as a whole. sure we give everyone, regardless UK fishing sector involves breaking collectively they landed 1,591t of A common practice for some of the scale of their fishing activity, the fleet down into 33 different seafood worth £5m in 2019. small vessel owners combines their a chance to take part, so we can segments, based on gear type, vessel These small businesses are fishing knowledge and expertise show the diversity of the UK fleet. size, capacity and area fished. Every also cornerstones of remote rural with tourism, by combining sight- Every contribution is essential to one occupies a vitally important communities. They make a vital seeing trips with fishing activities help us accurately and reliably niche in the wider sector. contribution to the supply of local such as hauling pots. Ventures measure the performance of our ‡ Oscar Wilkie. I’ve had a few calls recently from seafood, and the maintenance of like these play an important part wonderfully diverse fishing fleet and owners of small boats who feel that longstanding traditional fishing in ensuring that the general public the challenges its people face. Please throughout September. For because their activity is small-scale, practices, as well as providing maintains an appreciation of the keep sending in your completed more information or support in they don’t have much of value to a route into the industry for hard work of those who work on surveys, or give us a call to completing the survey form, contact add to the survey. If you’re feeling newcomers. They also enable other fishing vessels, and the importance complete the survey over the phone. Seafish at: fleet.survey@seafish. the same, I can assure you that this business initiatives – 6% of the of our fisheries. The Fleet Survey is running co.uk or on: 07876 035 759. Campaign needed to First confirmed Spanish boost domestic sales sea bream off Irish coast A reluctance to buy locally caught Macdonald said that anecdotally, and Two Spanish sea bream unusual fish and shellfish Northumbria and Whitby, seafood is holding back the development from her own observations, there had caught off the Irish coast in Irish waters, told Yorkshire during December of direct sales in Scotland to offset been a lot more local sales. recently were the first Fishing News: “These 1867 and January 1887 the loss of export markets during “There was quite a lot of support and confirmed record of the specimens, which measured respectively. the Covid-19 pandemic, say Scottish assistance put in place by the likes of species in Irish waters, approximately 20cm in “During the last century, industry leaders, reports Tim Oliver. Seafood Scotland and Seafish to help reports Pauric Gallagher. length, represent the first two specimens were They have called for efforts to fishers to sell their catch locally, in terms Although Spanish or confirmed records of P. recorded from Danish encourage consumers to buy more of guidance on what the regulatory axillary sea bream (Pagellus acarne from Irish waters. waters – September 1961 locally caught species, but acknowledged requirements were and what they could acarne) is commonly found “Since 1833, only 26 and August 1987 – and two that it is difficult to change public and could not do,” she said. Statistics southwards from the Bay of specimens have been more from Dutch waters – attitudes. from Seafish during the early phase of Biscay to Senegal (including authenticated in NW May 1969 and June 1972. During an evidence session of the Covid-19, when things had been very Madeira, the Canaries and European waters, including More recently, prior to 2015, Westminster Scottish Affairs Committee difficult, showed that there had been ‘a the Cape Verde islands) and the northernmost record a specimen was reported on the impact of Covid-19 on the real upturn in things such as sales from in the Mediterranean, where which was captured from southwest Scotland. Scottish fishing industry, they were fish vans’. it is commercially important, during September 1966 “On 24 February, asked if there had been any shift in SFO chief executive John Anderson the species is regarded as off the Väderöarna islands, 2017, the Olgarry SO 591 the types of fish that people have been said there had been ‘a definite boost’ extremely rare in North Bohuslän, SW Sweden captured a specimen while buying during the pandemic, or whether in domestic consumption of seafood as West European waters, (Skagerrak). trawling off northwest seafood caught in Scottish waters has some vessels turned to direct selling to particularly northwards of “The species has rarely France. This specimen, to be exported because there is not a offset the loss of traditional markets. the English Channel. been recorded from the which measured 265mm domestic market. “That was positive, and demonstrated The two Spanish sea North Sea, with half of and weighed 236g, was Jimmy Buchan, chief executive of the entrepreneurship, to some extent, on the bream were caught and the reports dating to the donated to the Natural Scottish Seafood Association, said there part of some of our fishermen,” he said. released at Cappagh Pier 19th century. During July History Museum in Dublin. was limited demand for some species, There had been various campaigns in the Shannon estuary, Co 1836, two specimens were “Juvenile Spanish sea and that was why some of the shellfish from Seafood Scotland to stimulate and Clare at the end of August captured near Musselburgh, bream are generally found companies were still at 50% capacity. increase the domestic consumption of by Clive Morgan. in the Firth of Forth on in inshore waters at depths “The product is there, it can be seafood products that were normally Declan Quigley, an the east coast of Scotland, of 20-100m, whereas adults harvested, but the market is very exported. “We were knocking on the authority on rare and and two more off Beadnell, occur in offshore waters difficult because it is primarily a global doors of the retailers to try to get them from the surface down to export,” he told the committee. to reopen fish counters, and so on, but 500m. “That is not to say that we should not with very little success,” he told the “Spanish sea bream are be encouraging a change of mindset. committee. relatively small, attaining Covid has shown us the speed that “There has been a real push to a maximum length and we can change businesses around – as make the best of a bad situation. weight of 38cm and 600g. supermarkets decided to take fish off Fundamentally, UK consumers do not The species is a sequential the shelves, for whatever reason, that really like the core seafood products that protandric hermaphrodite, very quickly transformed into a home we catch and produce. We export the changing from a functional delivery service. majority of what we catch and produce, male to a functional female “Out of something that was quite and import the majority of what we at a length of 14-29cm. restrictive, new opportunities came for consume. It is a real uphill battle, and “The occurrence of this new businesses.” we have tried and failed many times over warm-water species in Irish He said that only time would tell what many years to redress that balance. That waters may be related to the longer-term effects on shopping is not to say that we shouldn’t continue increasing sea temperatures and consumption habits would be. The to try.” in the NE Atlantic.” industry would like to see ‘a bit more He said that the pandemic had Declan Quigley would focus’ on changing people’s attitudes brought the issue ‘back into sharp focus’, be very interested to hear of in the future, and making them more and he believed it would feature as part any further captures from aware of the health benefits of local of the strategy to help the Nephrops the Irish coast. Contact him seafood. sector that the industry is trying to get ‡ The two Spanish sea bream captured in the Shannon on: 087-6458485 or at: SFF chief executive Elspeth off the ground (see page 2). estuary last month. [email protected] 10 CARA LEE BRD 625 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 SINGLE-HANDED TRAWLING ON SCARBOROUGH CASTLE GROUNDS CARA LEE: FOR PRIME AND WHITING David Linkie looks back to a day spent with Filey skipper Brian Cox on the Scarborough trawler Cara Lee in November 2011 hirty minutes after leaving Scarborough harbour, the Trhythmic beat of Cara Lee’s Gardner 6LXB engine slowed to a burble when skipper Brian Cox eased back the handle in preparation for shooting. With Cara Lee having been forced back to harbour the previous morning after the first haul by a freshening southerly wind, the trawl was neatly wound on the elevated net drum, as a result of Brian Cox using the extra time ashore to shake the net clean of weed and check it over for damage before taking it back onto the starboard drum. Targeting a mix of prime fish, including Dovers, brill and turbot, together with whiting and the occasional sprinkling of green on sandy ground off Scarborough, the under-10m Cara Lee used a 72ft Rye Bay cover trawl rigged on a 3in rubber footrope with drop chains in the bosom section. Until a few years earlier, when a similarly rigged trawl arrived on the former under-10m Rye trawler Orca RX 380 when skipper Mick Sharp moved to Scarborough, Yorkshire inshore skippers traditionally used bare chain. With the rubber footrope proving to be more forgiving in terms of getting over an area of hard sand or shady bottom, local skippers subsequently adopted this method of rigging their light ‡ Single-handed skipper Brian Cox sorting the first haul on Cara Lee. trawls. With the net smoothly 90ft versions of the Rye Bay cover slowly north into the flood tide at disappearing astern into the nets, together with 15-fathom splits, 1.7 knots, with the 127hp Gardner lingering darkness shortly before in order to give more headline engine running at 1,150rpm. In 7am on a wet early November height. targeting higher-value prime, Brian morning, skipper Brian Cox quickly On attaching towing chains to the Cox preferred a slow towing speed. clicked on the sweeps before wires, skipper Brian Cox clipped a Driving a 34in-diameter four-bladed releasing the net drum pennants. bridle, attached to either leg of the propeller through a Self-Change 3:1 Spread by a set of 5ft Vee doors, trawl gantry, across the transom. reduction box and steaming at Cara Lee’s sweeps consisted of Supporting a free-running sheave to under 1,500rpm, Cara Lee returned eight-fathoms splits and nine which short towing strops were a fuel consumption of nine to 10 fathoms of 22mm combination. attached, this arrangement gave a litres an hour – a frugal rate which Seventy fathoms of 12mm wire low towing point below the transom played a key part in achieving a were run off the outer drums of the rail, at the same time as allowing the viable economic return from North Sea Winches three-drum warps to take up an optimum low-impact fishing. trawl winch before the brakes were position when Cara Lee turned. As the early-morning rainclouds applied. Having shot in 20 fathoms two began to clear away, the four other A couple of Scarborough trawlers and a half miles east of inshore trawlers that had left fitted with bigger engines worked Scarborough, Cara Lee towed Scarborough harbour at 6am – CJ

‡ A free-running sheave on a transom bridle gave Cara Lee a low and self-aligning towing point.

‡ Brian Cox shooting a 72ft Rye Bay cover trawl off the starboard net drum… ‡ … before running off 70 fathoms of 12mm wire. ‡ Coming round on the gear. 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CARA LEE BRD 625 11

‡ Single-handed skipper Jamie Cox’s Challenge towing into the northwest towards Fraggle Rock.

water, for which he shot 10 fathoms skippers of the other three boats. less wire. After towing with the first of the Having hauled at the same time, ebb for 90 minutes and then easing the signs from the other through between two wrecks in 17 Scarborough boats were not fathoms, skipper Brian Cox altered particularly encouraging, as they the Simrad AP35 autopilot to haul could now be seen towing out into Cara Lee round to starboard before ‡ Malcolm Ward and Tom Sheader’s trawler Provider towing south in the late afternoon. the southeast and deeper water. towing out into the southeast, as the With Cara Lee heading in the rest of the fleet continued heading Lewis, Challenge, Mairi Kelly and making 80p-£1 on Scarborough were also a few codling, a couple of opposite direction, this was an into the northwest before towing Provider – could be seen towing market. After towing up to a wreck brill and a good-sized turbot, Dover indication that the skippers were round the Fraggle Rock looking for closer inshore, one and a half miles displayed on the Simrad CX44 soles were conspicuous by their unsure whether to stick or twist – at a few codling. to the north, in an area that usually plotter, Cara Lee came round to absence. least some things never change in On returning to sea three days yielded mainly groundfish. Shortly port to take the last hour of the tow The lack of Dovers, both in the fishing! earlier after a heavy southeasterly after Cara Lee had settled into the on a reciprocal southerly heading. pond and as stickers meshed in the Picking the catch off the deck sea had left favourable conditions of tow as an initially lumpy sea fell Shortly after a fine breakfast of bag and needing to be picked out, resulted in Brian Cox washing and thick water, the inshore trawlers had away, the NEIFCA fisheries patrol fried haddock and dabs, the initially surprised skipper Brian boxing 10st of round whiting and landed a few boxes of cod for their vessel North Eastern Guardian III hydraulics were clutched in after the Cox, until he noticed two soles with 2st of green, but very little prime. day’s work, but this catch rate had steamed past heading south, having gear had been down for two and their heads ripped off – the result of On Challenge, Brian Cox’s son quickly dropped off as the water left Whitby on the first bridge. three-quarter hours. With the a marauding seal having enjoyed a Jamie reported 1½st of Dovers and cleared. Having found a reasonable toe-ends hauled back to the gantry, tasty free breakfast after latching a similar amount of cod, but only A second uneventful tow ended showing of good-quality whiting Brian Cox clipped on an extension onto the trawl. half a basket of whiting. Similar after two and a half hours, when the slightly further out 48 hours earlier, to the dog rope before using the Although reasonably pleased with results were received from the codend was brought towards the together with a small amount of whipping drum to haul the bag to the quantity of whiting, with the groundfish, Brian Cox had opted to the starboard quarter, where it was added bonus of a few codling, Brian return to the same area, partly lifted aboard. Cox was disappointed by the lack of influenced by the fact that with light On releasing the codline, whiting prime, so he decided to begin the whitefish markets in northeast dominated the fish that tumbled second tow heading into the Scotland, round whiting were into the deck pond. While there northwest and slightly shallower CARA LEE

‡ The toe-ends of the net are hauled back to the trawl gantry… ‡ … before Brian Cox starts to haul the dog rope… ‡ Cara Lee returning to Scarborough from the inshore grounds.

he under-10m trawler Ltd completed at this time Cara Lee BRD 625 for local skippers, the others Tarrived at Scarborough being Calabar LL 3, Yat Ding in March 2011, when Brian Ho LL 146 and River Island. Cox bought the GRP-hulled Subsequently reduced vessel from Dennis Huggins of in length to under 10m, the Sheerness. vessel was bought by George Based on a Marislock GRP Wilson of Dunvegan, Skye, hull designed by Roy Bently in 1997 as Trust SN 348 from and moulded by Gordon Don McNeil of North Shields, Evans of Marislock Ltd, and renamed Cara Lee BRD Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead, 625. Rigged for scalloping, Cara Lee was built in the early Cara Lee was bought by 1980s as the Lady Jen BS 234 Pwllheli skipper Mike Jones for John Hughes of Llandudno in 1999. Nearly 10 years later, Junction and fitted out by the Cara Lee moved to southeast owner at Deganwy docks. England when bought by Lady Jen was one of four Dennis Huggins, before being similar boats that Marislock extensively refurbished. ‡ … as the bag is brought… ‡ … towards the transom. 12 CARA LEE BRD 625 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020

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2. … before taking it aboard. 6. … before the trawl is shot 10. Whiting dominated the away again. day’s catches. 3. Brian Cox slips the codline… 7. Selecting fish out of the 11. Skipper Brian Cox boxing deck pond. whiting. 4. … to release a reasonable haul of whiting into the deck 8. Headless Dovers left in the 12. Gutting the third haul in pond. net by a marauding seal. Scarborough bay. 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CARA LEE BRD 625 13 SKIPPER REFLECTS ON 50 YEARS OF CHANGE aving spent half a century Seeing the potential for lining, After selling Challenge to Mick fishing by the time of this in 1976 Brian Cox bought the Barker of Bridlington, Brian Cox Htrip, Filey skipper Brian 44ft Magdalene Ann CT 33, built moved into inshore trawling. Cox reflected on the largescale by Nobles of Girvan in 1960, This led to the purchase of the changes that he had lived from Jim McFarlane of Islay. The under-10m steel-hulled trawler through and adjusted to during boat was also used for trawling, Tamarlyn from Fife skipper a career that included potting, skippered by Brian Nicholson Tommy Gordon, which Brian Cox longlining, gill-netting and of Scarborough. After returning renamed Jo Dan C SH 279 after trawling. to coble fishing for a few years, his first grandson. Born at Filey, a traditional Brian Cox subsequently bought Following the sale of this boat inshore fishing community five the 52ft Intrepid OB 280, built at to Newlyn skipper Kevin Curtis, miles south of Scarborough, Macduff in 1958 as the seine- Brian Cox downsized again on Brian Cox spent a few years netter Transcend BCK 75, from buying Calypso NN 135, a Colvic crewing on beach-launched Oban. Renaming it Challenge SH 31, from Clint Davies of Wales. cobles before, at the age of 263 after his coble, Brian Cox This boat was subsequently ‡ CJ Lewis tows south past Scarborough Castle. 27, placing an order with local used this boat for gill-netting, replaced with the aptly named boatbuilder Gordon Clarkson both over wrecks and over hard under-10m trawler Challenge II day’s work during a gale of wind off with a couple of brill and squid and for the 30ft Yorkshire coble ground during the winter months, from Blyth. the land. some codling – some of which Challenge SH 193. as well as for trawling. Challenge II was Equally, however, fishing days might have been in the tunnel from In addition to potting, skipper With the onset of quota decommissioned in 2009 before were frequently lost to sea winds, earlier hauls. Brain Cox regularly went lining problems, Challenge was being replaced with Autumn which had been increasingly After lying in Scarborough bay for for dogfish with Challenge, converted to potting by Parkol Rose KY 30, a Buccaneer 21 frequent in the previous two years. 15 minutes to finish off gutting and working up to 12 lines, each of Marine Engineering at Whitby, potter, which Brian Cox sold to The extent to which fishing on the boxing, skipper Brian Cox eased 200 hooks. While 200-250st when a new wheelhouse Boscastle before buying Cara exposed east coast of England was Cara Lee alongside the quay under catches of dogs were fairly was also fitted. On moving Lee in 2011. regularly constrained by unsuitable Scarborough fishmarket shortly common, on one occasion, his operating base south to Not long after this trip, skipper conditions is shown by the fact that before 4pm, as a fairly typical day after particularly heavy fishing, Bridlington in the early 1990s, Brian Cox called time on single- this trip only took place at the third for a single-handed inshore trawler Challenge returned to Filey coble Brian Cox spent some time handed trawling by selling Cara time of asking, after two earlier drew to a close. landing with just one plank out whelking, steaming up to 45 Lee and replacing the boat with a planned attempts were blown out of The last piece in the jigsaw of the water, after catching what miles to grounds off the Humber smaller potter, which he worked the water. This was only the second involved Brian Cox weighing in, turned out to be 96 boxes of and making three 36-hour trips for a couple of years until finally full day’s fishing that Brian Cox had boxing and icing 350kg of round dogfish (approximately 500st). a week. stepping ashore. been able to put in during the whiting, 35kg of green and 14kg of previous seven, while another six prime, before the top-quality fish, all days would pass before Cara Lee of which had been caught in the the final tow into the southeast in a six miles of harbour, and when the left harbour again. preceding nine hours, was put into similar area to where most of the need arose, within one mile of the Brought to a halt just over a mile the chill overnight, ready for the whiting were thought to have been land. This takes the form of offshore from Scarborough Castle, 7.30am auction the following taken towards the close of the substantial cliffs, particularly north the third tow yielded a similar morning, when cod made over £2.50 second drag, before coming round of the harbour, meaning that quantity of whiting to the first, but per kg, sole £5-6, turbot £8-10 and to starboard and heading towards skippers could sometimes put in a with a few more Dovers, together round whiting 82p per kg. n the distinctive landmark of Scarborough Castle – a move that would shorten the steaming distance back to harbour at the end of the third haul. Heavy Duty Fish Basket by Craemer Steadily working away to empty a full deck pond resulted in Brian Cox washing seven baskets of round Characteristics whiting before starting to gut a few Best quality, durable Fish Basket codling and Dovers. Challenge’s • second haul had yielded three boxes • Long service life of whiting, 1st of prime and 4st of • Can be used on shore as well as green. at sea Although single-handed trawling • Accepted and successfully ‡ Landing the day’s catch at is widely recognised as being employed in other food industry Scarborough… difficult, by using a lifetime’s applications experience of inshore fishing and • Standard 45 litre transom to reveal a slightly better sticking to a well-established bulk of whiting, together with a few routine, Brian Cox succeeded in more Dovers. Opening the codend making it look deceptively easy – revealed that most of the whiting which, of course, is usually a good Technical Specifications: had been caught towards the end of indication of a highly skilled Material: HDPE the tow, suggesting that the decision professional. External height: 440 mm (with handles) by skipper Brian Cox had been a One advantage shared by the Internal height: 370 mm (without handles) correct one. Scarborough inshore trawling fleet Top external diameter: 490 mm On retying the codline shortly was that nearly all of their fishing Top internal diameter: 430 mm before 1pm, he took the first leg of could be carried out within five to Base internal diameter: 340 mm Handle height: 50 mm Volume: 45 litre Colours: red, blue

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‡ … and weighing off whiting ready for icing in the fishmarket. 14 COD WARS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 A BATTLE WON IN A LOSING WAR Tom Watson, who skippered the Wyre Victory FD 181 during the second Cod War of 1972-3, recalls an encounter with an Icelandic gunboat in which Britain came out best

here has been a lot in the so it could keep on station. press of late linking the We deployed this, and when Tnegotiations about the Odinn came along, I gave them a fishing limits when we leave the good b------t story about how it COD WAR 1972-3 EU with the so-called Cod Wars was connected to our main with Iceland, when they generator and would send a he second Cod War invented the warp cutter or extended their limits. This powerful electric shock back up between the UK trawlwire cutter – a device prompted me to reminisce about the cutting wire. The captain of Tand Iceland began shaped like an anchor that our experiences, and in the Odinn might have been a few in September 1972, could be towed on the end particular when I disabled the things, but he wasn’t daft. He when Iceland unilaterally of a long wire. By going gunboat Odinn. thanked me for the warning as he extended its fishery limits across the stern of a trawler, It occurred in April 1973, proceeded to turn alongside us to to 50 nautical miles. British a gunboat could hook onto when we had a film crew show the cutter being launched. deep-sea trawlermen, who the trawler’s warps and onboard, filming the I then got the bosun, Cyril were heavily dependent on sever them. documentary ‘A Life Apart – Armitage (his nickname was these rich fishing grounds, This was extremely Anxieties in a Trawling Spud – one of the best seamen I vehemently opposed the dangerous for the trawler Community’, and the whole ever sailed with, apart from move and continued to fish crews, and very expensive thing was filmed. That wasn’t when he’d had his dram!), up inside the new limits. This for the vessel owners in loss intentional – I didn’t know that onto the boat deck, where the set the stage for a year of time and gear. Despite they had filmed it until it was all ‡ Tom Watson. grass rope attached to the fog of confrontation between protection by Royal Navy over, as I was too busy. buoy was made fast. British trawlers and Icelandic frigates, many UK vessels The disabling of Odinn was grounds a bit further north Odinn then turned and started fisheries patrol vessels. suffered the loss of a full set never shown in the documentary, across Ísafjörður gully and were its run and, as it approached, This phase of the Cod of gear. and was kept out of the press enjoying a bit of peaceful fishing Spud began to release the grass Wars saw the Icelandic The constant harassment because the government didn’t off Kogur and the Little Cape rope. I ran out onto the boat gunboats target the trawlers’ by Icelandic gunboats led to want to embarrass the Icelandic until he found us again. deck shouting, “Not yet, not yet.” gear. The director of the a number of trawler skippers government during talks that He did the usual – called us on When the Odinn got to just short Icelandic coastguard had taking retaliatory action. were going on at that time – talks the VHF and warned us – but I of crossing our stern, I shouted which, in fact, we now know had what I thought was a secret to Spud, “Now, Spud, let it go were being heavily influenced by weapon. now!” have to be towed back to around too long. I started to the trawler owners, but that’s Whilst in dock following the The timing was perfect! The Reykjavík. steam along the North Side, and another story. previous trip, the manager of heavy grass rope snaked out onto I hauled my gear and, after had a link call with the office to Anyway, I’ll describe what Wyre Trawlers, Mike Johnstone, the surface, and Odinn crossed getting the gear onboard, called tell them what had happened. happened; it is a long story had suggested that it might be an with a big bow wave that then Odinn on the VHF and said that They said that they were because there were other idea to tow a device behind the dropped away, and became dead it looked like he had a problem, disappointed because the orders characters involved who deserve vessel on a long tow-rope to try in the water. The rope had gone and could we help. I take my hat were to ‘play it cool’, and when I a mention. and dissuade them from going round its propellers and stripped off to him because he answered said that they must be joking, During our trip, we had had across the stern and cutting our them from the shaft; it was me, even though his voice was even the operators at Portishead several run-ins with both the gear. He suggested a device used completely disabled and would trembling with rage. He told me started laughing. Odinn and the Aegir trying to cut by the merchant navy no, I couldn’t help, but I It was while steaming along our trawling gear away and, at convoys during the Second should be aware that other the North Side that I got a one stage, Odinn had threatened World War called a fog I got a 183-word telegram Icelandic coastguard vessels 183-word telegram from us with its gun – nothing unusual buoy. This was a kind of were expected to arrive somebody either in the in that; they threatened small sledge that was towed from somebody either in the shortly, and wherever I government or MAFF, I forget everybody. behind the vessel during government or MAFF. In went I would be arrested, which – but the telegram The weather then freshened up poor visibility and threw up and I would never be contained instructions of what I so they left us alone for a bit, but a fountain of water that reply, I told the sparks to allowed to fish at Iceland was supposed to do. I was once it moderated, the Odinn could be observed from the again. instructed to immediately go returned. We had by then moved ship behind in the convoy, send back two words After that, I didn’t wait outside the 50-mile limit and stay

‡ Wyre Victory FD 181. (Photo: Fleetwood Motor Trawlers/Mark Stopper) ‡ Skipper Tom Watson at around the time of this incident. 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews COD WARS 15

Wyre Victory FD 181 was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd of Beverley in 1959. She was one of the most successful boats of her day, as reported in Fishing News in December 1971. outside; I was to maintain radio Grimsby’s top men) had picked it silence and not communicate up and had a dhan down. (This with anybody; I was to navigate was a marker buoy that was around Iceland and down the sometimes used when fishing East Side, keeping outside the was good, especially when there 50-mile limit until I reached a set were no landmarks to fix the position off SE Iceland. vessel’s position. It was a long I was then to send just one piece of timber with a large cork telegram informing of when I fixture around it about halfway would be docking. In reply – and down, and had wire attached to this is the truth – I told the an anchor which kept it fixed in sparks to send back two words: one position. It also had a radar ‡ The warp cutter, invented a few years prior to this incident by the director of the Icelandic coastguard, “Get f----d”. That is another reflector fitted on the top, and was used to sever trawlers’ gear. (Photo courtesy of Hull Maritime Museum) thing I curse myself for, because was normally used when other I never saved that telegram. means of fixing the ship’s cooling-off period and, Life Apart – Anxieties in a • Tom Watson is trying to Word must have got around, geographical position were not amazingly, I was requested to Trawling Community’, which locate the film of this incident, because we also got a call available.) keep a low profile. I was not to intercuts footage of this Iceland which he believes was removed through Portishead radio for I called one of the crew up on speak to the press or TV about trip with commentary from from Granada Studios in Michael Grigsby, the the VHF and asked what they what had happened because, as Fleetwood trawlermen and their Manchester by fisheries documentary producer onboard, were catching. I told them what mentioned before, sensitive families, is included in the officials. If anyone has any from the ‘World in Action’ TV had happened, but they already negotiations with the Icelandic British Film Institute free information, please get in programme, asking what had knew. They told me that they government were ongoing, and collection and can be seen in full touch via: fishingnews.ed@ happened. When they found out were on good fishing and invited they didn’t want to cause any at: bit.ly/3mppkyH kelsey.co.uk that it was all on film, they us to join them. I said that they embarrassment. That is why this wanted to send a helicopter to should be aware that I might was never in the press or get the film, but I wouldn’t give bring the gunboat to them but, to mentioned on the news. I never my position out because I was a man, they were delighted with thought much about it at the afraid that I would have been what had happened and said that time, but it makes me angry picked up by one of the other if the gunboat came, we’d all when I think about it now. gunboats and arrested. chase it away. The Icelanders were offering a As I was steaming along the We fished there for two or deal all the time, but our naïve north coast, I picked up on a three days and I filled the boat and incompetent government group of Hull and Grimsby boats up; we never saw a gunboat. was being lobbied by the greedy that were on a ‘fish shop’ – an When I got home, I was told trawler owners to keep asking area where ships congregated that I wasn’t to be allowed to go for more, and so we finished when the fishing was good and back to Iceland for three months, with nothing. n plentiful. and I would have to go home Billy Hardy (‘Wiggy’, one of fishing around the UK during a • The superb documentary ‘A

‡ A fog buoy, as towed by merchant navy ships in Second World War convoys, was deployed by the Wyre Victory to thwart the use of warp cutters. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) THE AFTERMATH n May 1973, British Navy agreement in June 1976 that frigates were deployed to reduced the UK’s annual catch Iescort UK trawlers fishing at within the Icelandic 200-mile Iceland – but after a series of limit to 30,000t. talks within NATO, they were For the ports of Fleetwood, recalled on 3 October. An Hull and Grimsby, whose agreement was signed on 8 fleets predominantly targeted November, 1973 limiting British distant-water fisheries, this fishing activities to certain was a disaster. Thousands of areas inside the Icelandic people employed in the fishing 50-mile limit, and capping industry, both in the catching the UK annual catch there at and processing sectors, 130,000t. lost their livelihoods, and In 1975, Iceland further hundreds of ships were sold or extended its fishery limits, scrapped. Many experienced this time to 200 nautical fishermen, especially older miles, triggering the third Cod men, were forced out of the ‡ Another notable retaliatory action by a UK trawler occurred in April 1976, when the Hull trawler Arctic War. This concluded with an industry altogether. Corsair H 320 rammed the gunboat Odinn, badly damaging its stern. 16 INSHORE CORNER Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 INSHORE CORNER with Phil Lockley GREASE ON RUBBER: A CAUTIONARY TALE arely do I meet a skipper fishing to become a top pole man. who has built his own boat, I have the privilege of knowing Rfishes successfully and several such skippers at Newlyn, can strip down an engine and the Lizard, St Ives, Newquay, put it back together. If you need Mevagissey and Looe. anything manufactured or fixed, I’m firmly fixed on a lower rung no problem; he never wastes a in pole fishing, but I often get calls penny, and when blindfold, he can from skippers around the UK identify any make of beer, wine or who would like to give it a go. In cider. I know just one such chap! both theory and operation, pole He’s a pretty good singer, too fishing is fairly simple, but it is very – Steve Smith of Budock Water in difficult to explain. However, in a Cornwall, who about 20 years ago forthcoming Inshore Corner I will built my boat. Steve now owns a make an attempt. Treeve DS16. To become successful in Recently, I was chatting to pole fishing requires many ‘no Steve about the geometry in line fish’ days, learning how to rig fishing, and the subject moved and position the weights and to pole fishing for bass. This is a the towing line, and the correct successful technique for catching placing of the poles, the pole both bass and pollack; used length and of course the towing extensively around Cornwall and speed. What may be the right way Brittany, it is now spreading to in some ports is different to the regions including Devon, Dorset best way in others. The same is and parts of Wales. true between skippers. Although Pole fishing is something I do, the general arrangement is but I have much to learn. In my similar, slight variations between ‡ The Spanish windlass was successful on the starboard mounts, but with the engine lifting-points not being opinion, you have to be born into fishermen are common; copying central, the port side lift would have taken too much strain.

another fisherman doesn’t equal success. I will never forget the advice of a Lizard pole man who said: “Knowing the ‘postcode’ of the fish is the first step, getting the right lure is the next step, but the only thing that will bring a full house – both lines with a fish on the end – is having a picture in your mind of 40 fathoms behind the boat, ‘seeing’ the lures in action. You might have gone over a mark, but that’s no use unless the lures do the same.” Lures – or ‘eels’, as many say – are another huge variant. Whereas some skippers stay with certain colours of Red Gills, some use Sidewinders, and others use ‡ With the new mounts securely in place, Steve begins the slow job of ‡ Considering five years of use, the old mounts were clean… new types of lure made by the tightening the bolts – the restrictions of the coamings gave just one-eighth firm Eddystone Eel. There are of a turn each time. huge numbers of different makes and different colours, and just as to produce what he still describes men. I told Steve about my steep in angling, lures often catch more as ‘a tiger’. He and his wife Jenny learning curve in pole fishing, fishermen than fish! named the boat Boy Matthew saying, “Come and see the gear Being Cornish, Steve Smith has to celebrate their son. Later, in action.” He did. witnessed pole fishing for much the Boy Matthew was sold to On returning to the mooring, of his life, with every intention Newlyn skipper Neil MacDonald, Steve lifted the engine box to of trying it one day. Although he becoming the Amanda J FH 9. admire the Beta Marine engine, moved away from commercial Later, I was lucky enough to and said: “Put it in idling speed,” fishing some years ago, he has buy the Amanda J from Neil, and which I did. had considerable experience in for the last 15 years have enjoyed He asked: “When did you trawling, scalloping, gill-netting, working it. About five years ago, last check the engine mounts?” longlining and more. Since leaving I had a new engine fitted, a Beta I replied: “I haven’t – they are his work at sea, he has owned Marine B30 – a superb quiet the originals, but they seem a small boat for either part-time engine that is perfect for line OK, and I often spray both the commercial fishing or pleasure fishing. engine beds and the mounts with fishing. Chatting with Steve, we spoke wax oil to protect them.” Steve About 20 years ago, he ordered about how my rig for pole fishing raised his eyebrows and said: ‡ … but the rubber had been almost ruined by misguided TLC using wax a bare hull from Cygnus Marine, on Amanda J was based on the “Stop the engine and give me a oil. a GM19, and planned the fit-out help of a couple of Lizard pole screwdriver.” 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews INSHORE CORNER 17

‘of little faith’, I asked how much further we needed to wind. Steve advised me to calm down and tie off the lever, saying that the engine was already up far enough. Just three turns had lifted the Beta B30 – around 150kg – by just under two inches, far enough to replace the starboard mounts, one at a time. Before replacement, the distance between the first support nut, on which the engine sits, and the top of its central bolt was measured with a Vernier gauge, and that same distance was set exactly on the new mount. The new mount was then put in place and bolted down, but with the bolts left slightly loose. Both starboard-side mounts were in ‡ On the port side, slowly wedging and lifting with wooden blocks ‡ Gently does it – up a wee bit, then another wedge, and so on. place in less than 20 minutes, provided access to the old mounts. and the engine was wound back nearby yard would spell another warmly surprised to hear that each into place, with the intention of He dug the screwdriver into the if you can afford it, I would stick huge cost. cost just £29 plus VAT – and unlike repeating the process for the port flexible section of the mounts, and with Beta Marine to get an exact I explained that to Steve, who several other makes, the mounts mounts. after each one asked for a cloth replacement.” looked confused. “Why do you are all identical. “You don’t need However, with a B30 engine to wipe the black jelly from the My heart sank. Waiting for two want the boat lifted out? We can different front and back mounts,” I the lifting-points are not central; screwdriver. “You should never spinal operations, I can only fish do it here on the mooring. There’s was told. the forward point is set slightly to put oil or any lubricant on rubber, on calm days, and in truth very few not much traffic in the Port Navas I pushed my luck even further by starboard, so the engine lifts more even man-made rubber,” he said. of those. I’m living on painkillers, creek, so there is little wake to asking if they could be delivered on the starboard side. The engine “Get some new mounts. There are and basically, I’m skint. I have worry about, and it won’t take tomorrow. The spares manager would not raise high enough to cheap ones on the market. Beta remortgaged the house to get by, more than a couple of hours to said: “Of course, what’s your clear the port mounts. Marine is probably expensive, but and having the boat lifted out at a change all of the engine mounts. address?” I ordered the mounts at But two bits of wood appeared, We only need to raise the engine 2pm, and they were delivered the and by slowly wedging the engine, by a couple of inches.” following day at 1pm! – a superb the old port-side mounts were Now feeling less worried, I said service. replaced. that I would phone around and Several hours before the mounts I was expecting the next hire a suitable engine-lift. Steve were due to arrive, I got a phone phase to take hours, screwing said: “Lockley, money trickles message from Steve: “Have you or loosening the support nuts through your fingers like water. We seen the old engine mount yet? of the new mounts to provide don’t need an engine-lift – we will I put it outside your front door. exact alignment to recouple the use a Spanish windlass. Just get I didn’t wake you up at 6am, shaft. However, the Vernier gauge a strong rope that will fit through because all you could have done had done its job, and the bolt/ the engine lifting-points, one or is watched me work. Better that hole pairings between the shaft two thick woods long enough to you stayed in bed! and coupling went together with spread over the gunwales, and “I’ve done the preparation work. nothing more than finger pressure, two bits of hardwood to wind up I managed to wedge one side of in perfect alignment. Testing with the rope with.” the engine to have a look at one a feeler gauge proved it to be spot Having no idea what a Spanish mount (aft, port) and – well, you on. windlass was, I bought a can (or better have a look yourself.” After the top washer, locking ‡ Use of the Vernier gauge paid off, and no engine alignment was two) of cider, went home, and I opened the door, picked up washer and Nyloc nut were lightly necessary. used Google. I discovered that it the mount, and the pictures tell tightened to each mount, one by is a simple way of shortening two the story – after five years of one the new mounts were secured strands of rope by twisting the intermittent use and diligent but to the engine beds. The top bolt strands, and is extremely efficient. misguided application of wax oil, of each mount was then tightened Steve warned that it might the rubber had become stiff jelly. and secured; the alignment was take a couple of hours to carry Thankfully, the mounts were still a rechecked, and all was good. out the preparation work before bit flexible, and not yet completely With the kind work by Steve, the engine could be lifted and ruined. plus £133.62 (including VAT) paid the mounts replaced. This would The following day, I gathered to Beta Marine, a few bits of wood, include uncoupling the propeller the necessary bits and pieces and my spare bow-rope and a flask, shaft, slackening off the bolts that phoned Steve. Armed with two the job was done. However, one hold down the engine mounts planks of wood, a strong nylon further mistake made by me must to the beds, and taking off the rope, two short bits of oak plank be noted – the tea cups were still water pipes, the exhaust pipe and and a flask, I rowed Steve out to at home! anything else necessary. Since the boat. I couldn’t do much other It is now Saturday, 12 the hydraulic pump and clutch than hand him tools as necessary. September, almost flat calm at the are attached to a cradle that is Rather than trying to describe how bottom of neap tides – a perfect permanently bolted to the engine, the Spanish windlass worked, day, with the help of skipper Colin there was no need to bother with again, I will let the picture tell the Barden, to run the trials on pollack that, I was told. story. boards and produce figures I phoned the spares department Steve began to wind the for the next Inshore Corner, to ‡ No, I promise I won’t spray anything on it – Steve greased a small at Beta Marine to ask the price wooden lever, then passed it to complete the series on geometry section of the bolt and Nyloc nut, and also the short thread of the mounting of flexible mounts for a B30. me; I wound further and passed in line fishing. bolts. Expecting a huge sum, I was it back to him, and so on. 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ike many young Shetlanders, drives her forward. surprisingly warm and it was a great I first sailed on the Swan as I have so many memorable moment. La primary school pupil when experiences from my trips – here are I would recommend a trip on the Andrew Halcrow was skipper. It just a few. Swan to anyone, and my top advice was a fantastic and memorable When we set the topsail for the would be to get involved with as experience. When I was older, I first time underway in Ålesund, much as you can, and ask loads of volunteered with Swan, and in Norway, it took us a while to get questions. As crew, we really like 2016 was part of the volunteer everything and everyone ready, and when people take an interest and ask crew for a few trips, including it was quite a heave to the top, but about what is going on. school day sails, a 10-day trip to what a sight once it was set! This Our Shetland location is fantastic St Kilda, and sailing her home is a light wind sail only, and really – the sailing area is challenging but from Gothenburg for the Tall Ships adds to the speed overall in these uniquely beautiful, in scenery and Races via Denmark and Norway. I conditions. wildlife. We are also ideally located absolutely loved it, and the following Crossing the Arctic Circle on our for the start of an adventure, sailing season was delighted to be offered way up to the Lofoten Islands was abroad to Norway, Denmark, Faroe, a position as bosun. I jumped at the very cool. Having a bucket of iced Sweden and many more countries, chance, and have been part of the water chucked over you to mark the and south to Orkney and mainland crew ever since, becoming mate in occasion was memorable! The whole UK. I hope that the Swan continues 2018. trip to the Lofoten Islands was very to be a part of the community in As one of only two paid crew, special, exploring new places and the Shetland, and that many more and also volunteering to help over remarkable landscape. people are able to sail on her. I also the winter months, I have got to Sailing in gales is always hope she is able to keep exploring know the wide range of people who exhilarating. We got caught in a further afield and introducing volunteer and book trips with the force 10 on the nose as we were Shetlanders, and our living heritage, Swan Trust, both on and off the sailing round the infamous Stad in to different people, cultures and water. There is a great community Norway. We were already reefed but countries. feel around the Swan, and the only expecting a force fve that day. Working on the Swan over the common interests of the sea, boats, The extreme wind started to rip the past four years has given me the our heritage and sailing really mainsail at the top, and all the crew chance to learn from some fantastic bring folk together. Being part of worked together to sail (very slowly) people – skipper Thorben Reinhardt, a relatively small crew is great, as into Måløy, where there was a lot of Peter Robertson and engineer you get involved with everything hand-stitching the next day! Ian Nicolson especially. This and necessary to run a successful sailing One of the best trips I crewed the Swan Trust’s membership of vessel. ‡ Maggie Adamson at Swan’s helm. was the Tall Ships in 2018, as the the Association of Sail Training This includes maintenance, trainees we had from Shetland were Organisations UK have supported trip planning, navigation and the consequences of doing it poorly diffcult to reef at sea, so we always brilliant. They learned so much, me to achieve my Yachtmaster watch leading, which all change are evident. have to watch the weather very and were really keen and good fun Ocean qualification, which I couldn’t dramatically depending on the type Apart from designated youth carefully and plan ahead. There is a to have onboard. Unfortunately have done otherwise and am very of trip and clients you have. This trips, the Swan is open to all ages. capstan onboard which we can use there was not much wind and we proud of. I am also grateful to the variety throughout the season is We’ve had charters, family sails, for the mainsail, but if we have a full had to put the engine on to keep up trust for allowing me to skipper my brilliant, and keeps every trip fresh. and a day sail with a dementia crew, we do all the sail changes and with the rest of the fleet fairly early first commercial trip last season for There is no one kind of person group where many of them had trim by hand. This is challenging, on, putting us out of the race. This a 10-day sail around Orkney and who comes sailing with us, and sailed boats like the Swan in but really good fun and rewarding didn’t dampen any spirits though, Shetland. learning about their reasons for their working days. You just can’t for all onboard. Generally, any time and about halfway across from If I were to sum up my experiences being onboard is really interesting. experience anything like it from we are able to set the sails and switch Sunderland to Esbjerg in Denmark on Swan in five words they would Our clients are of mixed abilities, watching videos or reading about it the engine off is a brilliant moment. the sun was shining and the sea was be: exciting, challenging, rewarding, varying from people who have – the real thing is so important. The hum of the engine disappears flat, so we made preparations and fun and unique. Overall, what the sailing experience to those who Every day on the Swan is and is replaced by the sound of the went swimming off the side of the Swan means to me is a great way of have never been on a boat before. different. While at sea, there are sea as the wind power in the sails boat in the North Sea! The sea was life. n It’s very satisfying to see someone two main types of trips, day sails nervous and unsure about being and overnights. Day sails can feel onboard become a confident more intense, as you have a much crew member a few days in. Even shorter time to explain things to experienced sailors can find a new the passengers and to give them a boat daunting. However, everyone chance to try everything. Overnight has key skills which contribute to trips are often more satisfying – the group dynamic – and we find after a few days onboard, clients that a sense of humour and some are generally more confident. I love cooking skills are also very valuable! sailing away from land for a few days The youngest passengers I’ve and settling into the watch rota with had were a group of pre-school the sole focus of making the boat sail bairns from Skeld. They were about and work well, while having a great four years old; we showed them time. Even when the weather is grim the sails and the helm, and they or you are having a bad day, it’s still explored the boat below decks. The great to be on the water with good smiles on their faces all morning company. were fantastic. I’m sure they will Onshore, we are either doing remember that trip – as I still do my maintenance, or planning and first trip in primary school. preparing for the next trip. This can What the Swan does for older include painting, varnishing, tarring, teenagers is something unique stitching sails, engine maintenance, – they have to learn many life toilet maintenance (the worst skills and take responsibility for kind!), changing bunks, cleaning, themselves and others during navigation, meal planning and their time onboard. For many, shopping. it is their first time cooking and Compared to modern boats, cleaning. Living onboard teaches sailing the Swan does have its discipline, timekeeping and challenges, which include the size teamwork to a high standard, and and weight of the rigging. She is also ‡ The crew of Swan with pupils from Mid-Yell Junior High. Maggie Adamson is front left. 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? THE 2-SPEED CROSSWORD SUDOKU You can choose to do either quick or cryptic clues, the answers are the same. Fill the grid with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column and 3x3 block contains the numbers 1 to 9. 1 23456 CRYPTIC CLUES 78ACROSS 1 Lass refused to become BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE 910 confident (4-7) 9 Sign of agreement from retiring lecturer (3) 5721 39 10 Smarmy liar inept on shift (9) 11 12 11 See April turning out garden 19325 45 1 trellis (8) 13 12 Bird disgusting, it’s said (4) 9 18 14 Help given in class is 14 15 16 tremendous (6) 5 698 52397 Standard issue for 17 16 churchman (6) 45 49 63 18 19 20 18 Look to gym lesson to make great strides (4) 2 961 68795 21 19 Demanding hiding place, we hear, for money (4,4) 4 13 22 23 22 Not just breaking china lute (9) 84796 648 23 Heat source located in caverns underground (3) 497375 24 24 Spouse’s parent on white marl, bewildered (6-2-3) DOWN 2 Arrive with extremity in the QUICK CLUES air (3,2) ADVANCED Last issue’s solutions 3 Class not so much without ACROSS DOWN shape (8) 457268391 354762819 1 Very confident (4-7) 2 Turn out to be (3,2) 4 Great eating starter of 6 816397542 791485263 9 Sign of agreement (3) 3 Without shape (8) prawns for meal (6) 932145876 268913457 5 One short term for 82 94641572938 129637584 10 Snake, lizard, for 4 Late-evening Cambridge, say, given 593684217 837154926 example (9) meal (6) time (4) 96 5 278913654 546829371 11 Lattice for training 5 Kitchen fixture (4) 6 Steroid prepared for 729436185 612348795 pressmen (7) 23 5 164859723 983571642 fruit trees (8) 6 Magazine 7 ‘Around’ clued incorrectly, 385721469 475296138 12 Chicken (4) chiefs (7) getting one in trouble (5, 1,5) 5 4867 14 Help (6) 7 In disfavor (5, 1,5) 8 Brave prepared most of fine 329415687 2-Speed Crossword lunch with gin (11) 541768392 ACROSS: 1 Wise-cracker 16 Vicar (6) 8 Brave (11) 159 768392451 9 (O)Pal 10 Sage-green 13 Instrument held by 11 Narrates 12 Turn 14 Tac-tic 18 Stride easily (4) 13 Stringed commando lingeringly (8) 617534928 642 893627145 16 Fe-west 18 Rued (Rude) 19 Ready money (4,4) instrument (8) 15 Drink more rum with 19 He-a-t rash 22 Fore-CA-sts 254981763 22 Morally wrong (9) 15 Overall chief (7) all-powerful leader (7) 5736 23 O-w-l 24 Predominate 17 Cavalryman’s terribly clean. 176859234 DOWN: 2 Idler 3 EC- 23 Solar power source (3) 17 Cavalry soldier (6) Right! (6) 435276819 static 4 Ragged 5 C-age 20 Sailing the ocean, 7 982143576 6 Execut(IV)e 7 Spend-th(e)- 24 Spouse’s 20 On a ship (2,3) rift 8 In a nutshell 13 Jet-tison parent (6-2-3) 21 Persian ruler (4) confused (2,3) 15 Clearer 17 Jets-am 20 Af- 21 Persian ruler cooking All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd - www.puzzler.com o-o-t 21 A-CID 24/09 See next issue for all puzzle solutions. hash (4) Shipwrecked Mariners’ SFPA winning mural unveiled The port office of the with the fishing industry, Society AGM to be held online Sea-Fisheries Protection which the SFPA ran with Authority (SFPA) at Dunmore the assistance of Waterford Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Activity Update’ and it will start amazing honorary agents.” East now features an Walls. Students aged Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society automatically at noon. There will Since 1839, the Shipwrecked eye-catching fisheries- between 13 and 19, enrolled has had to change its plans for also be a video on the charity’s Mariners’ Society has been themed mural, thanks to in second-level school or its 2020 AGM, which normally work available to watch after the providing vital financial support the creative inspiration of Youthreach centres across includes the announcement of its event, either via the society’s and practical assistance to fifth-year Ardscoil na Mara, Waterford, were eligible to annual skill and gallantry awards, website or from its YouTube fishermen, merchant seafarers Tramore student Sarah enter. reports John Periam. channel. and their dependants in times of Rogers. Waterford Walls artist Chief executive Justin Osmond Justin Osmond said: “We need. In the past year, it has paid Her design was the winning Magda Karol brought the said: “The society has regrettably would normally use our AGM out £1.4m in grants in over 2,000 entry in an art competition design to life on the wall with decided that it would not be to announce the winners of our individual cases of need brought to celebrate the region’s ties Sarah Rogers’ assistance. appropriate to hold a traditional annual skill and gallantry awards. about by debt, illness, disability, annual general meeting during However, due to the significant unemployment or retirement. 2020. However, we very much disruptions caused by the Currently, the society is working recognise the importance of pandemic, particularly to those hard to support fishermen and providing our supporters and organisations who provide many of their families through the Covid-19 those interested in our work with our nominations, we have decided pandemic, and like all charities is an update of our activities, whilst to postpone this year’s awards and under a lot of pressure to raise the also laying out our plans for the incorporate them into next year’s necessary funds. future, including our response to activity. It needs the support of those the ongoing pandemic.” “We will, however, still be in the fishing industry – both by On 6 October at 12pm, you can announcing the results of our letting local honorary agents watch a live online update from annual photographic competition, know of anyone in need of the the society, by going to: youtube. as well as the winners of our Lord charity’s help, and through com/ShipwreckedMariners. Just Lewin awards, which seek to donations. Find out more at: ‡ Sarah Rogers with her winning mural. click on the link for the ‘Annual recognise the contribution of our shipwreckedmariners.org.uk 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES MIDWEEK LULL AT PETERHEAD Following a strong start last week, boxes of megrim and 25 boxes of ling. seven consignments from Saltire, Selected gutted haddock made £5.75- Thirty-five boats and 28 whitefish supplies on Peterhead market At the start of last week at Prevail, Shaulora, Prosperity, Charisma, £6.40 per kg, small £1.35-£2.75, consignments contributed to last fell away, with less fish landed on Peterhead, large cod sold at £4.50- Deeside and Transcend, put 2,786 chippers 42p-£1.50, metros 42p-85p week’s four-day total of 17,469 boxes Wednesday and Thursday than there £5.90 per kg, sprags £4.50-£5.90, boxes ashore to Peterhead fishmarket and round haddock 53p-80p. Monkfish on Peterhead market. This tally was for Monday’s market, reports medium £4-£5.55, selected £3.90- last Wednesday morning. This total, sold at £2.65-£6.40, gutted whiting included 6,551 boxes of haddock (2,294 David Linkie. £4.85 and small £2.65-£4.15. Selected the smallest of the four days, included £1-£2.40, round whiting 60p-£1, plaice rounders), 3,135 boxes of whiting In short supply due to the current gutted haddock made £2.25-£3.75, 712 boxes of gutted and 219 boxes of £1.15-£3.05, lemon sole £1.75-£6.40, (2,463 ungutted), 2,366 boxes of coley, restrictions, green secured firm prices small £1-£2.80, chippers 55p-£1.80, round haddock, 639 boxes of whiting coley £1.40-£2.30, ling £2.50-£2.90, 1,838 boxes of cod, 950 boxes of throughout the week, with selected metros 50p-£1 and round haddock (359 rounders), 498 boxes of coley, hake £2.60-£5.05, squid £1.65-£9.35 hake, 508 boxes of squid, 499 boxes peaking at £7 per kg on Thursday 40p-50p. Gutted whiting were at 380 boxes of cod, 119 boxes of squid, and line-caught mackerel £1.75-£1.95 of monkfish, 411 boxes of flatfish, 240 morning. Selected haddock also 50p-£1.50 and round whiting 30p-65p 43 boxes of flatfish, 34 boxes of hake, per kg. boxes of ling and 78 boxes of megrim. exceeded £7 on Tuesday’s market, per kg. Monkfish sold at £2.90-£5.15, 16 boxes of monkfish and 14 boxes of although buyer interest in smaller lemon sole 40p-£5.50, plaice £1-£2.40, ling. selections of haddock and rounders was megrim 35p-£5.30, hake £1-£7.50, ling Six boats, Golden Gain, Summer considerably weaker. £1.65-£2.35, coley £1.25-£2 and squid Dawn II, Acorn, Ceol-na-Mara, Fifteen boats, Sunrise, Artemis, 30p-£9 per kg. Courageous and Ocean Dawn, together Jubilee Spirit, Opportunus IV, The following morning, nine boats, with four consignments from Northern Devotion, Steadfast Hope, Fruitful Victoria May, Celestial Dawn, Attain II, Eagle, Radiant Star, Deeside and Bough, Acorn, Fruitful Vine, Phoenix, Castlewood, Ocean Endeavour, Zenith, Radiance, contributed 2,917 boxes to Helenus, Jubilee Quest, Budding Rose, Guiding Light, Guiding Star and Forever last Thursday’s market at Peterhead. Lapwing and Favonius, together with Faithful, plus two consignments from This sale included 617 boxes of gutted 15 consignments, landed 6,455 boxes Aalskere and Prevail, contributed 5,311 and 565 boxes of round haddock, 865 to the first market of last week at boxes. Tuesday’s tally included 804 boxes of whiting (773 rounders), 267 Peterhead. boxes of gutted and 495 boxes of round boxes of cod, 227 boxes of coley, 76 Monday’s sale, the largest of the haddock, 1,227 boxes of coley, 715 boxes of monkfish, 67 boxes of squid, first four days of last week, included boxes of cod, 685 boxes of hake, 434 54 boxes of flatfish, 41 boxes of hake, 2,124 boxes of gutted and 1,015 boxes boxes of whiting (318 rounders), 233 eight boxes of ling and six boxes of of round haddock, 1,197 boxes of boxes of monkfish, 193 boxes of ling, megrim. whiting (1,013 rounders), 476 boxes of 117 boxes of flatfish, 45 boxes of squid Last Thursday morning at Peterhead, cod, 414 boxes of coley, 277 boxes of and 42 boxes of megrim. large cod and sprags sold at £4.50-£7 squid, 197 boxes of flatfish, 190 boxes Five boats, Achieve, Shalimar II, per kg, medium £5.10-£5.70, selected ‡ Artemis landing at Peterhead for the first market of last week, after of hake, 174 boxes of monkfish, 30 Falcon, Castlewood and Attain II, plus £4.50-£4.90 and small £4.25-£5. a pair-seining trip with Sunrise. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) VARIABLE SHETLAND WHITEFISH MARKETS BRIXHAM ACHIEVES ANOTHER £1M+ WEEK Twenty-two boats landed 1,280 boxes for Monday morning’s £3.90, saithe £1.90, squid £8.25, turbot £14.10, gutted A busy week at Brixham saw projected £1.25 for 8s. Lemon sole averaged £11/kg market, before 456 boxes were put ashore by 12 vessels on whiting £3.30 and round whiting £1.15 per kg. sales for the full week over the £1m mark for 1s, £10.60 for 2s, £8.80 for 3s, £2.20 for Tuesday for the smallest market of the first four days of last for the second time this month. The million 4s and 50p for 5s. Prime and large lobsters week. Supplies increased on Wednesday morning’s market milestone was achieved for the first time were both £16.20. Mackerel was £5 for 1s, with 965 boxes from 20 boats. Thursday’s market was the since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown £4.50 for 2s and £1.60 for 3s. largest of the four days, when 1,840 boxes were landed by in the first week of September, while the Megrim was £4 for 1s and 2s, £3.20 for 24 boats, bringing the four-day total to 4,541 boxes from 78 second week of September saw sales of 3s, £1.60 for 4s and £1.10 for 5s. Monkfish boats. £927,000. 1s averaged £9.50, 2s £9.80, 3s £9.10, 4s Inshore line boats made the most of settled weather to be Over the first four markets last week, £9.40, 5s £7.60 and 6s £5.30. Grey mullet well-represented on the markets each morning. bass fetched £16.60 for 1s, £15.80 for 2s, 1s were £2.60 and 2s £2.50. Red mullet sold Haddock (33,921kg) was the top species landed in £13.20 for 3s, £9.20 for 4s and £8.80 for at £10/kg for 1s, £7.80 for 2s and £3.10 for Shetland over the first four markets of last week, ahead of 5s. Blondie wing 1s and 2s were £3.20, 3s 3s. Octopus averaged £1.80. whiting (28,736kg, including 16,592kg of rounders). The £2.70 and 4s £2/kg. Black bream made Plaice 1s averaged £4.50/kg, 2s £3.60, balance included cod (17,766kg), mackerel (17,357kg), £7.80 for 2s, £6 for 3s and £4.20 for 4s. 3s £2.90, 4s £2.30 and 5s £1.55. Pollack saithe (13,087kg), monkfish (12,965kg), ling (12,041kg), Size 1 brill averaged £13/kg, 2s £8.60, 3s 1s were £5.70, 2s £5.20, 3s £5 and 4s hake (9,738kg), megrim (6,190kg), plaice (6,070kg) and £7.80, 4s £7.20 and 5s £4. £3.80. Sand sole 1s were £9.40/kg and 2s lemon sole (2,008kg). Cod made £7.50 for 1s and 2s, £6.50 for £5.20. Large scallops were £8.50 and small Top prices included cod at £6.05 per kg, gutted haddock ‡ The visiting Banff trawler Norlan 3s, £5 for 4s and £3.20 for 5s. Coley 1s and £3.30. Dover sole 1s averaged £14.30/kg, £5.60, hake £6, lemon sole £9, ling £2.30, line-caught approaching Lerwick fishmarket before landing 2s were £2.20, and 3s 70p. Conger 1s and 2s £13.60, 3s £15.80, 4s £15, 5s £12.80, 6s mackerel £1.45, megrim £10.05, monkfish £4.75, plaice for Wednesday’s auction. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) 2s were £1.80 and 3s 50p. Large cuttlefish £11.70, 7s £10, 8s £9.20, 9s £7.70 and 10s averaged £2.35. Size 1 dabs were £3 and £6. Squid 1s were £10 and 2s £7.80. 2s 30p. John Dory 1s were £13.20/kg, 2s Thorny wings averaged £2.30 for 2s and £12.80, 3s £9.50 and 4s £7.70. Red gurnard £1.20 for 4s. Tubs were £3.40/kg for 1s and HIGH DEMAND MAINTAINED AT NEWLYN 2s made £2 and 4s 60p. £1.50 for 2s. Turbot averaged £24.50/kg for For auction at Newlyn on Monday landed 5.7t for sale on Tuesday. megrim sole, 0.9t monkfish and Haddock 1s were £4.90, 2s £4.50 and 3s 1s, 2s £20, 3s £15.80, 4s £14.50, 5s £12.40 morning, two beamers, one netter Highest-volume species were 0.1t 0.9t of pollack. Prices most worthy £1.30. Hake made £6.20 for 2s, 3s and 4s, and 6s £10.50. Size 1 whiting averaged and inshore boats landed 20.1t. of haddock, 3.5t MSC hake, 0.1t of mention from the sale were N1 £5.70 for 5s, £4.50 for 6s, £3.20 for 7s and £3.50/kg, 2s £1.60, 3s 80p and 4s 40p. Contributing to this volume were 0.1t megrim sole and 0.1t of monkfish. monkfish £9.40/kg, N2 John Dory of brill, 1.3t Dover sole, 1t haddock, Due to the building spring tide, £12.14/kg and N2 brill £9.13/kg. 5.9t MSC hake, 0.2t John Dory, 0.4t this would be the last landing of One beamer and inshore boats lemon sole, 0.2t ling, 1.1t mackerel, MSC hake at Newlyn for the week. landed 7.9t for auction on Thursday. BUSIER MARKET WITH GOOD VARIETY AT LOWESTOFT 3.4t megrim sole, 2.2t monkfish, Demand was again good throughout Notable high volumes were 0.2t of 0.2t octopus, 2.8t plaice, 0.2t the sale for all species. brill, 0.6t of Dover sole, 0.3t John Fifteen boats and some overland consignments supplied 3.7t of fish to the Lowestoft market last pollack, 0.3t squid and 0.2t of turbot. A volume of 6.4t was landed Dory, 0.4t lemon sole, 0.7t mackerel, week, making it the busiest auction since March. The variety on offer was also the best for six Demand was good throughout the for Wednesday’s auction from one 0.3t megrim sole, 1t monkfish, 0.1t months. morning, with top prices being N1 beamer and inshore boats. Notable octopus, 1.1t plaice, 0.9t pollack, 0.1t Dover sole remained the main species, and prices here were up £2 on the week, back to recent megrim sole £8.13/kg, N1 MSC hake high volumes were 0.4t of Dover turbot and 0.2t of whiting. Demand highs of £20 per kg. Bass also saw prices up £2, with some good 4kg fish fetching £15. Turbot saw £5.36/kg and N1 pollack £4.60/kg. sole, 0.3t haddock, 0.1t John Dory, was good for all species throughout £13 and brill £10. Skate prices dropped 50p to see highs at £2.50. Grey mullet and monkfish saw One netter and inshore boats 0.3t lemon sole, 0.7t mackerel, 1.5t the morning. £3.50, and cod was seen on the market for the first time since March, with prices up to £4. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 24 September 2020

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 19 SEPTEMBER price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 17 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 19 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 19 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Catfish £2.84 £3.00 £2.56 £3.33 Catfish (1) 643 £5.77 £6.14 £4.66 Bass (1) 101 £16.34 £14.26 £18.37 Bass (3) 16 £12.53 £13.00 £15.60 Cod (A1) £5.23 £6.14 £6.01 £5.20 Cod (0) 799 £6.86 £7.01 £5.51 Bass (2) 297 £15.54 £11.06 £17.05 Bass (4) 106 £12.13 £13.36 £13.33 Cod (1) 2,850 £7.32 £7.39 £5.39 Bass (5) 112 £10.86 £11.77 £11.77 Cod (A2) £5.22 £6.08 £5.41 £4.70 Bass (3) 541 £12.90 £9.84 £14.58 Blonde Ray (L) 974 £1.39 £3.40 £2.01 Cod (2) 6,345 £6.92 £6.67 £5.13 Cod (A3) £4.90 £5.28 £4.88 £4.29 Bass (4) 1,164 £8.92 £8.41 £10.99 Blonde Ray (M) 726 £1.49 £3.00 £1.69 Cod (3) 14,546 £5.69 £5.30 £3.77 Cod (A4) £4.59 £4.89 £4.06 £3.68 Bass (5) 477 £8.36 £7.33 £10.15 Blonde Ray (S) 78 £0.58 - £0.88 Cod (4) 14,121 £4.35 £4.09 £3.47 Blue Shark (9) 22 £0.50 - £0.82 Brill (1) 424 £12.76 £12.19 £12.24 Cod (A5) £4.50 £4.60 £4.00 £3.46 Cod (5) 4,188 £3.86 £3.36 £3.09 Brill (1) 24 £10.82 - £11.11 Brill (2) 687 £8.27 £8.13 £7.64 Haddock (A1) £5.73 £6.30 £4.63 £4.60 Haddock (1) 10,425 £3.13 £2.83 £2.73 Brill (2) 66 £10.06 £13.00 £11.48 Brill (3) 1,020 £7.52 £7.59 £7.31 Brill (3) 170 £8.08 £10.00 £8.31 Haddock (A2) £4.91 £5.55 £5.16 £4.94 Haddock (2) 5,867 £2.72 £2.14 £2.01 Brill (4) 970 £7.03 £6.58 £5.63 Brill (4) 64 £7.55 £10.60 £6.90 Haddock (A3) £2.64 £3.26 £4.81 £3.36 Haddock (3) 2,653 £1.59 £1.40 £1.29 Brill (5) 1 £7.50 - £4.69 Brill (5) 162 £3.66 £3.53 £3.23 Haddock chippers (A4) £1.25 £1.69 £3.44 £1.92 Hake (0) 8,739 £6.11 £6.27 £4.77 Claws (9) 20 £2.90 £3.20 £3.60 Cock crabs 291 £4.99 £5.04 £4.92 Cod (3) 69 £6.13 - £5.58 Haddock metros (A4) £0.79 £1.01 £2.27 £1.30 Hake (1) 11,919 £5.43 £5.37 £3.79 Hake (2) 17,654 £3.82 £3.79 £2.63 Cod (2) 23 £7.74 - £4.91 Cod (4) 6 £3.77 - £2.59 Hake (A1) £5.50 £5.97 £7.20 £3.04 Cod (5) 3 £0.92 - £2.93 Hake (3) 968 £3.13 £2.56 £1.82 Cod (3) 39 £6.83 £6.60 £4.38 Hake (A2) £4.40 £5.06 £5.72 £3.43 Cuckoo ray (L) 4 £1.00 - £1.20 Lemon sole (1) 233 £7.84 £6.74 £6.30 Conger (1) 648 £1.53 £1.94 £1.25 Cuckoo ray (M) 406 £0.83 £1.20 £1.04 Hake (A3) £3.62 £3.98 £4.04 £3.38 Lemon sole (2) 1,197 £5.36 £7.99 £6.23 Conger (2) 183 £1.67 £1.91 £1.11 Cuckoo ray (S) 265 £0.57 - £0.40 Hake (A4) £2.89 £3.12 £3.43 £2.07 Lemon sole (3) 1,150 £2.30 £2.93 £3.00 Conger (3) 360 £0.24 £1.19 £0.38 Cuttlefish (L) 61 £2.00 £2.49 £2.97 Hake (A5) £2.18 £2.26 - £0.82 Ling (1) 1,353 £2.99 £2.83 £2.42 Dover sole (1) 122 £13.57 £16.00 £17.92 Cuttlefish (1) 18,993 £2.28 £2.78 £2.51 Dover sole (2) 204 £13.36 £18.26 £17.55 Lemon sole (A2) £5.83 £7.31 £5.14 £5.04 Ling (2) 1,249 £3.42 £2.93 £2.18 Cuttlefish (2) 18,008 £2.17 £2.34 £2.69 Dover sole (3) 502 £14.31 £20.07 £16.96 Ling (3) 1,527 £2.20 £2.14 £1.95 Lemon sole (A3) £1.98 £2.98 £1.93 £2.29 Dogfish 10,544 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Dover sole (4) 799 £11.46 £14.02 £13.89 Megrim 66 £4.50 £2.77 £2.07 Dover sole (5) 401 £8.36 £13.03 £10.15 Ling (A1) £2.21 £2.33 - £1.37 Gurnard (2) 91 £2.00 £1.97 £3.51 Monkfish (1) 1,822 £4.52 £4.56 £4.76 Grey mullet (1) 2 £3.00 - - Ling (A2) £2.47 £2.49 - £1.95 Gurnard (4) 10,837 £0.61 £0.47 £0.61 Monkfish (2) 4,118 £4.63 £4.76 £4.97 Grey mullet (3) 1 £2.00 £4.26 £3.00 Ling (A3) £2.55 £2.74 £2.29 £1.83 Haddock (1) 141 £5.65 £4.36 £3.63 Grey mullet (4) 1 £0.50 - - Monkfish (3) 4,037 £4.47 £4.64 £5.09 Gurnard and latchet (L) 150 £1.94 £6.80 £3.59 Megrim (A1) £3.33 £5.40 £5.48 £3.80 Haddock (2) 90 £4.03 £2.71 £3.06 Monkfish (4) 3,165 £3.95 £4.21 £5.01 Gurnard and latchet (M) 65 £1.10 £1.44 £2.59 Megrim (A2) £3.58 £4.54 £4.35 £3.67 Monkfish (5) 638 £2.20 £2.85 £3.04 Haddock (3) 35 £1.50 £0.59 £1.48 Gurnard and latchet (S) 1,315 £0.77 - £0.57 Megrim (A3) £4.59 £4.69 £2.95 £1.41 Plaice (1) 6,442 £3.27 £3.99 £3.68 Hake (1) 15 £5.87 £5.57 £3.91 Haddock (1) 207 £4.68 - £3.98 Megrim (A4) £2.57 £3.09 £2.86 £0.77 Plaice (2) 13,311 £3.15 £4.71 £3.78 Hake (2) 58 £6.04 £5.12 £3.89 Haddock (2) 733 £4.63 - £4.36 Haddock (3) 302 £3.05 £6.60 £3.91 Monkfish (A1) £4.68 £5.09 £4.09 £3.92 Plaice (3) 29,519 £2.14 £3.28 £2.86 Hake (3) 318 £6.14 £5.13 £3.84 Haddock (4) 53 £1.19 £1.36 £0.79 Monkfish (A2) £4.56 £4.81 £4.57 £3.76 Plaice (4) 79,125 £1.79 £1.83 £2.24 Hake (4) 937 £6.11 £5.08 £3.90 Haddock (5) 70 £1.56 - £0.92 Monkfish (A3) £4.42 £4.45 £4.40 £3.44 Pollack (2) 1,411 £6.41 £5.79 £5.35 Hake (5) 2,237 £5.47 £5.29 £3.78 Hake (1) 159 £5.28 - £3.59 Pollack (3) 3,745 £4.99 £4.87 £4.46 Hake (2) 305 £5.13 - £3.54 Monkfish (A4) £4.03 £4.21 £4.27 £3.11 Hake (6) 7,531 £4.41 £4.48 £3.31 Pollack (4) 1,205 £4.03 £4.37 £3.65 Hake (3) 785 £5.00 - £3.92 Monkfish (A5) £3.01 £3.07 £3.60 £2.45 Hake (7) 6,102 £3.12 £2.14 £2.57 Hake (4) 2,137 £4.92 £5.20 £3.57 Saithe (1) 3,410 £1.99 £1.59 £1.78 Hen crabs 564 £2.08 £1.87 - Hake (5) 3,597 £4.98 £5.40 £2.84 Plaice (A1) £3.14 £3.16 - £3.00 Saithe (2) 16,117 £2.10 £1.43 £1.77 John Dory (1) 98 £12.85 £11.70 £13.83 Hake (6) 1,541 £2.98 £2.00 £2.18 Plaice (A2) £2.12 £2.62 £2.73 £2.23 Saithe (3) 25,178 £2.05 £1.52 £1.69 John Dory (1) 24 £10.71 £11.98 £12.97 John Dory (2) 206 £12.03 £10.55 £13.19 Plaice (A3) £1.85 £2.27 £2.10 £2.38 Saithe (4) 14,040 £1.77 £1.47 £1.61 John Dory (2) 196 £10.56 £12.23 £13.11 John Dory (3) 485 £8.91 £7.85 £10.42 John Dory (3) 263 £8.99 £11.02 £9.76 Plaice (A4) £1.25 £1.62 £1.43 £1.70 Squid 1,476 £3.93 £4.36 £4.79 Lemon sole (1) 207 £10.45 £10.78 £10.25 John Dory (4) 91 £6.66 £8.00 £7.53 Pollack (A1) £5.20 £5.40 - £4.85 Turbot (0) 56 £20.99 £26.50 £19.97 John Dory (5) 59 £6.80 £2.80 £3.20 Lemon sole (2) 282 £10.33 £11.17 £10.82 Pollack (A2) £4.29 £4.29 £5.12 £4.43 Turbot (1) 83 £19.33 £16.75 £15.97 Lemon sole (1) 220 £8.58 £11.00 £10.93 Turbot (2) 68 £16.30 £17.04 £14.10 Lemon sole (3) 667 £8.32 £8.04 £10.12 Lemon sole (2) 91 £8.59 £10.13 £10.56 Pollack (A3) £5.25 £5.27 £4.20 £4.16 Turbot (3) 283 £13.00 £10.80 £10.93 Lemon sole (4) 1,859 £2.02 £2.01 £2.43 Lemon sole (3) 265 £7.85 £11.60 £9.40 Pollack (A4) £3.90 £3.90 - £3.51 Turbot (4) 704 £3.50 £4.71 £5.10 Lemon sole (5) 752 £0.33 £0.52 £0.58 Lemon sole (4) 390 £2.49 £3.36 £2.30 Round Haddock £0.52 £0.63 £0.90 £0.80 Lemon sole (5) 140 £0.34 £0.50 £0.52 Whiting (1) 2 £1.65 £0.00 £1.50 Line mackerel (1) 32 £4.92 £5.78 £4.77 Ling (L) 48 £1.26 - £2.10 Turbot £13.92 £15.00 - - Whiting (2) 59 £1.87 £1.99 £1.47 Line mackerel (2) 27 £4.19 £6.74 £3.62 Ling (M) 194 £1.95 £5.00 £2.08 Whiting (A1) £3.33 £3.33 £3.26 - Witch (1) 221 £5.97 £6.49 £3.99 Line mackerel (3) 164 £1.63 £3.28 £1.30 Mackerel (LM) 382 £3.85 £5.76 £3.00 Mackerel (M) 1,830 £1.95 £4.59 £1.38 Whiting (A2) £2.49 £2.53 £2.89 £2.25 Witch (2) 575 £4.09 £4.57 £2.53 Lobster 181 £15.85 £16.96 £14.55 Mackerel (S) 703 £0.45 £0.63 £0.51 Witch (3) 436 £0.98 £1.20 £1.02 Whiting (A3) £1.49 £1.73 £2.72 £1.06 Monkfish tails (1) 257 £9.19 £9.10 £10.50 Megrim (1) 142 £7.55 - £6.04 Whiting (A4) £0.99 £1.00 £1.75 £1.02 ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Monkfish tails (2) 1,219 £9.62 £9.37 £10.49 Megrim (2) 420 £6.42 £5.33 £5.29 Whiting (round) £0.64 £0.85 £1.49 £1.33 TO 17 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (3) 2,464 £8.90 £8.88 £10.35 Megrim (3) 754 £4.83 £4.36 £3.96 Arctic charr fillets 20 £8.18 - - Megrim (4) 1,200 £3.56 £5.82 £3.00 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Monkfish tails (4) 3,231 £8.18 £8.48 £10.15 Megrim (5) 1,610 £2.78 £2.20 £2.33 TO 19 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Blue ling (gutted) 428 £1.13 £1.14 £1.21 Monkfish tails (5) 2,158 £7.45 £7.30 £7.57 Monkfish (1) 185 £8.44 £13.50 £10.46 Catfish 3,902 £0.24 £0.90 £3.37 Blue ling (ungutted) 203 £1.17 £1.12 £1.30 Monkfish tails (6) 441 £5.09 £5.67 £3.94 Monkfish (2) 570 £9.52 £12.69 £10.65 Catfish (gutted) 6,111 £1.90 £1.66 £1.17 Monkfish (3) 793 £9.08 £13.69 £10.41 Cod (2) 50,349 £0.53 £1.84 £3.94 Octopus 2,487 £1.84 £2.19 £2.11 Catfish (ungutted) 1,630 £1.15 £0.99 £0.74 Monkfish (4) 1,106 £8.29 £10.50 £10.18 Cod (3) 25,925 £0.82 £1.83 £3.54 Plaice (1) 1,929 £4.33 £4.47 £4.42 Cod (large, gutted) 9,126 £3.62 £3.40 £1.84 Monkfish (5) 1,485 £6.80 £8.53 £6.05 Cod (4) 8,770 £0.41 £1.52 £2.90 Plaice (2) 2,230 £3.28 £3.66 £3.24 Octopus (L) 25 £2.10 - £3.78 Cod (5) 2,506 £0.07 £1.39 £2.57 Cod (large, ungutted) 156,902 £2.59 £2.52 £1.88 Plaice (3) 2,807 £2.70 £3.44 £2.92 Octopus (M) 311 £2.07 £2.00 £2.11 Cod (6) 260 £0.01 £1.44 £2.55 Cod (small, gutted) 2,640 £1.48 £0.93 £0.57 Pilchard/Sardines (3) 90 £0.32 - £1.04 Plaice (4) 1,937 £2.08 £2.07 £2.14 Haddock (1) 12,692 £0.57 £1.70 £2.74 Cod (small, ungutted) 4,600 £1.47 £1.42 £0.38 Plaice (1) 297 £4.06 £6.20 £3.69 Haddock (2) 12,854 £0.50 £1.72 £2.80 Cod cheeks 49 £6.10 £5.60 £6.47 Plaice (5) 5,721 £1.53 £1.49 £1.70 Plaice (2) 170 £3.20 £5.74 £3.22 Plaice (3) 180 £2.98 - £3.21 Haddock (3) 27,559 £0.35 £1.07 £2.77 Dab (gutted) 647 £0.50 £0.53 - Pollock (1) 6 £7.56 - £4.79 Plaice (4) 277 £2.18 £3.80 £2.01 Haddock (4) 67,238 £0.18 £0.56 £2.16 Greenland halibut (gutted) 124 £2.43 £2.49 £2.29 Pollock (2) 29 £5.31 £5.81 £5.14 Pollack, lythe (2) 92 £5.03 £6.09 £5.54 Haddock (5) 61,741 £0.12 £0.30 £1.50 Haddock (large, gutted) 26,974 £1.59 £1.61 £1.28 Pollock (3) 26 £5.03 £5.63 £4.44 Pollack, lythe (3) 834 £5.52 - £4.63 Haddock (round) 7,459 £0.00 £0.15 £0.98 Haddock (large, ungutted) 84,607 £1.66 £1.71 £1.33 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 535 £3.14 £3.19 £4.37 Pollack, lythe (4) 900 £4.38 - £3.24 Hake (2) 2,896 £0.87 £2.09 £3.83 Haddock (small, gutted) 1,511 £1.07 £0.95 £0.34 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 1,153 £2.98 £2.85 £3.36 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (m) 7 £0.20 - £0.36 Hake (3) 13,081 £0.82 £1.87 £2.97 Haddock (small, ungutted) 2,842 £1.07 £0.99 £0.20 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 306 £0.39 - £0.25 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 357 £2.57 £2.84 £3.17 Red mullet (1) 38 £10.07 - £13.20 Hake (4) 23,272 £0.51 £0.98 £2.08 Halibut (gutted) 249 £1.04 £2.09 £1.87 Ray wings (small eye, 2) 4 £1.26 - £0.28 Red mullet (2) 69 £10.55 - £12.08 Halibut (3) 1,116 £0.94 £3.48 £9.95 Lemon sole (gutted) 1,698 £1.97 £1.58 £1.61 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 149 £2.13 £1.98 £2.67 Red mullet (4) 6 £3.81 - £7.22 Halibut (4) 789 £1.39 £3.15 £9.15 Ling (gutted) 1,806 £1.10 £1.17 £0.79 Saithe (1) 8 £1.58 - £1.63 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 349 £2.05 £1.84 £2.59 Lemon sole (2) 2,035 £1.06 £3.49 £7.44 Ling (ungutted) 3,012 £1.23 £1.20 £1.01 Saithe (2) 51 £2.33 - £1.79 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 239 £1.03 £0.94 £1.92 Lemon sole (4) 5,085 £0.26 £0.96 £4.16 Megrim (gutted) 693 £2.47 £0.00 £0.75 Saithe (3) 12 £1.54 - £1.47 Ling 48,111 £0.47 £0.89 £1.99 Red mullet (1) 83 £3.66 £3.80 £3.04 Saithe (4) 4 £0.79 - £0.79 Monkfish (gutted) 487 £3.49 £3.51 £3.88 Scallops 133 £1.99 £3.73 £1.31 Lythe 7,089 £0.65 £1.94 £4.06 Red mullet (2) 62 £3.02 £3.01 £2.56 Plaice (gutted) 26,975 £1.98 £1.94 £1.88 Sea Breams (3) 2 £6.20 - - Mackerel 54,710 £0.26 £0.46 £0.79 Redfish (ungutted) 31,659 £1.34 £1.33 £0.94 Red mullet (3) 47 £9.67 £10.32 £11.84 Shagreen ray (L) 38 £0.96 - £1.48 Megrim (2) 11,192 £1.25 £2.38 £5.89 Saithe (gutted) 4,604 £0.94 £0.92 £0.71 Round pouting 5,247 £0.34 £0.36 £0.45 Shagreen ray (M) 40 £1.08 - £1.46 Megrim (3) 9,966 £0.92 £2.12 £4.91 Saithe (ungutted) 11,628 £0.80 £0.72 £0.44 Scallop (2) 4,870 £1.55 £1.67 £5.83 Shagreen ray (S) 13 £0.20 - £0.45 Smoothhound (L) 33 £1.00 - £0.67 Megrim (4) 11,125 £0.48 £1.42 £3.78 Skate (gutted) 309 £0.80 £0.59 £0.20 Scallop meat 490 £10.68 £9.34 £11.07 Monkfish (1) 2,499 £0.34 £1.05 £3.52 Smoothhound (M) 117 £0.95 - £0.52 Spotted catfish (gutted) 2,365 £1.54 £1.72 £0.78 Sole (1) 1,577 £14.55 £16.60 £17.34 Smoothhound (S) 61 £0.20 - £0.41 Monkfish (2) 19,934 £0.65 £1.35 £3.83 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 391 £1.16 £1.37 £0.94 Sole (2) 2,648 £13.56 £14.41 £17.63 Squid (L) 11 £9.20 - £10.15 Monkfish (3) 23,080 £0.56 £1.41 £4.50 Tusk (gutted) 121 £0.48 £0.59 £0.41 Squid (M) 555 £6.42 £10.19 £9.37 Monkfish (4) 13,658 £0.46 £1.47 £4.67 Sole (3) 1,987 £15.54 £15.75 £18.58 Tusk (gutted) 121 £0.48 £0.59 £0.41 Squid (S) 24 £5.67 - £6.85 Monkfish (5) 5,857 £0.52 £1.20 £3.99 Sole (4) 2,234 £14.99 £15.60 £17.83 Turbot (3) 40 £15.23 - £17.65 Tusk (ungutted) 3,235 £0.40 £0.35 £0.30 Monkfish (6) 2,330 £0.24 £0.58 £2.69 Sole (5) 1,245 £12.71 £12.45 £16.25 Turbot (4) 57 £14.94 £12.00 £14.66 Whiting (gutted) 146 £0.14 £0.32 - Plaice (2) 5,915 £0.37 £1.32 £2.98 Sole (6) 1,257 £11.49 £11.61 £13.54 Turbot (5) 98 £14.35 £15.00 £12.70 Whiting (ungutted) 243 £0.41 £0.28 £0.25 Turbot (6) 80 £12.38 £15.40 £10.71 Plaice (3) 7,930 £0.24 £0.86 £2.58 Squid (1) 53 £10.52 £10.44 £9.86 Witch (gutted) 457 £1.54 £1.36 - Whiting (1) 85 £1.96 £1.98 £2.18 Plaice (4) 11,697 £0.13 £0.52 £1.81 Squid (2) 506 £7.81 £7.97 £9.08 Witch (ungutted) 157 £1.06 £1.45 £1.25 Whiting (2) 89 £0.85 £1.24 £1.62 Saithe (2) 10,753 £0.08 £0.60 £1.58 Squid (mix) 735 £5.59 £6.66 £7.58 Whiting (3) 158 £0.41 £1.92 £0.71 Saithe (3) 20,757 £0.25 £0.48 £1.45 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Price/kg Price/kg Avg, Avg, 4 Turbot (1) 71 £24.31 £25.29 £22.46 SCRABSTER, WEEK TO Min Max Max Avg, yr Saithe (4) 28,277 £0.23 £0.53 £1.22 TO 18SEPTEMBER minimum maximum yr ago yr ago Turbot (2) 343 £19.07 £21.75 £16.93 15 SEPTEMBER price/kg price/kg 1m ago ago Skate 5,340 £0.05 £0.21 £0.97 Bass £8.00 £15.00 £18.00 £14.50 Turbot (3) 298 £15.84 £17.87 £16.93 Skate, mixed 354 £0.01 £0.08 £0.45 Brill £5.00 £10.00 £0.00 £9.25 Brill £6.19 £6.19 £9.00 Turbot (4) 552 £14.19 £14.65 £13.57 Hake £2.86 £2.86 £2.46 Skate, roker 562 £0.23 £0.44 £1.05 Cod £2.00 £4.00 £3.50 £4.68 John Dory £4.29 £4.29 £6.75 Turbot (5) 1,142 £12.18 £11.65 £9.98 Squid 4,020 £0.87 £1.89 £4.57 Dover sole £5.00 £20.00 £18.00 £17.13 Lemon sole £6.41 £6.41 £1.10 £4.13 Turbot 367 £1.50 £5.76 £12.94 Grey mullet £1.50 £3.50 £3.50 - Turbot (6) 161 £10.24 £9.37 £7.88 Ling £2.15 £2.15 £1.65 £1.79 Whiting (2) 14,631 £0.40 £1.11 £2.56 Lobster £8.00 £15.00 £15.00 £17.33 Whelks 179 £1.30 £1.59 £1.35 Megrims £1.43 £1.43 £3.61 £3.57 Whiting (3) 40,583 £0.27 £0.62 £2.25 Monkfish £2.50 £3.50 £0.00 - Whiting (1) 63 £4.00 £2.79 £2.74 Monkfish £3.55 £4.30 £4.24 £4.40 Whiting (4) 11,738 £0.24 £0.52 £1.36 Plaice £1.71 £1.86 £2.55 Skate £0.50 £2.50 £2.80 £1.53 Whiting (2) 74 £1.80 £1.58 £1.84 Squid £4.33 £5.00 £5.75 Whiting, round 104,645 £0.08 £0.27 £0.78 Turbot £7.00 £13.00 £0.00 £11.50 Whiting (3) 50 £0.72 £0.80 £1.55 Whiting £2.00 £2.00 - 24 September 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

UK monthly pelagic and shellfish landings & prices, last two years

UK mackerel landings into UK ports UK herring landings into UK ports UK sardines landings into UK ports 30,000 2.00 25,000 1.20 2,500 12.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 1.80 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) 25,000 1.00 10.00 1.60 20,000 2,000 1.40 20,000 0.80 8.00 1.20 15,000 1,500 15,000 1.00 0.60 6.00

Landings (t, left scale) 0.80 10,000 1,000 10,000 Price per kg (right scale) 0.40 4.00 0.60 0.40 5,000 500 5,000 0.20 2.00 0.20 - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20

UK other pelagic landings into UK ports UK total pelagic landings into UK ports UK total shellfish landings into UK ports 9,000 1.00 30,000 2.00 25,000 3.50 Landings (t, left scale) 8,000 0.90 1.80 Price per kg (right scale) 3.00 25,000 1.60 20,000 7,000 Landings (t, left scale) 0.80 2.50 Price per kg (right scale) 0.70 1.40 6,000 20,000 15,000 0.60 1.20 2.00 5,000 0.50 15,000 1.00 4,000 1.50 0.40 0.80 10,000 3,000 10,000 0.30 0.60 1.00 2,000 0.40 5,000 0.20 5,000 Landings (t, left scale) 0.50 1,000 0.20 0.10 Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20

UK nephrop landings into UK ports UK crab landings into UK ports UK scallops landings into UK ports 5,000 5.00 4,000 3.50 3,500 3.00

4,500 4.50 3,500 3.00 3,000 2.50 4,000 4.00 3,000 2.50 2,500 3,500 3.50 2.00 2,500 3,000 3.00 2.00 2,000 2,500 2.50 2,000 1.50 1.50 1,500 2,000 2.00 1,500 1.00 1,500 1.50 1.00 1,000 1,000

1,000 1.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 0.50 Landings (t, left scale) 500 0.50 500 500 0.50 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) - 0.00 - 0.00 - 0.00 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20 Jun-18 Oct-18 Feb-19 Jun-19 Oct-19 Feb-20

UK lobster landings into UK ports UK whelks landings into UK ports UK squid landings into UK ports 600 25.00 9,000 1.60 600 6.00

8,000 1.40 500 Landings (t, left scale) 500 5.00 Price per kg (right scale) 20.00 7,000 1.20 400 6,000 400 4.00 1.00 15.00 5,000 Landings (t, left scale) 300 0.80 300 3.00 4,000 Price per kg (right scale) 10.00 0.60 200 3,000 200 2.00 Landings (t, left scale) 0.40 2,000 Price per kg (right scale) 5.00 100 100 1.00 1,000 0.20

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UK cuttlefish landings into UK ports UK cockle landings into UK ports UK prawn landings into UK ports 1,000 6.00 3,000 2.50 300 20.00 Landings (t, left scale) Landings (t, left scale) 900 18.00 Price per kg (right scale) Price per kg (right scale) 5.00 2,500 250 800 2.00 16.00

700 Landings (t, left scale) 14.00 2,000 200 4.00 Price per kg (right scale) 600 1.50 12.00

500 3.00 1,500 150 10.00 400 1.00 8.00 2.00 1,000 100 300 6.00

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The new 28m single-rig whitefish stern from two sets of split sweepline winches trawler Courageous LK 470, being built (2 x 15t) located at the fore end of a full- ‡ Preparing to shoot away the starboard 12m chain mat by Vestværftet ApS for a young Whalsay length trawl deck. Two split trawl winches beam trawl. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 REVISIONS TO ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE OMITTED IF OBSTRUCTING THE PRODUCTION SCHEDULE partnership, was lifted into the water at (21t) will also be mounted midway along the Gdansk, Poland last week, reports David shelterdeck. The hydraulic deck machinery Linkie. package, which also includes two ‡ Releasing the codends on Georgina of Ladram during the beamer’s first trip. ‡ Patrick and Morgan Oliver come ashore to a heroes’ welcome at Galway after the rescue. (Photos: Joe With a beam of 8.7m and a moulded depth bagging drums and a codend Gilson, was O’Shaughnessy) and the Doolin and Costello Bay The new beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 to shelterdeck of 6.66m, Courageous will manufactured by Thyborøn Skibs & Motor. completed a successful maiden trip last week by landing not wetsuits. Fortunately, they had Coast Guard units. ‡ Kayaker Jack Gatacre rounds Pittenweem breakwater, with the how Georgina of Ladram performed on her first seven-day Tributes have been paid to two buoyancy aids. The Civil Defence, local local prawn trawler Winaway giving him a fishermen’snow be welcome.towed to Hvide Sande, Denmark for Catches on the new Courageous will be 250 boxes of prime fish at Brixham for Tuesday’s market, reports trip, when everything went smoothly. EUROPE £175 REST OF WORLD £190 Galway fishermen who found and A full-scale air-sea search was His efforts have raised over David Linkie fishermen, anglers, leisure craft engine/machinery installation and fitting out bagged over the transom on the vessel’s . Delivered to Waterdance Ltd by the Luyt Group, the Jack Gatacre has raised over In keeping with the longstanding tradition, the first box of rescued two young women who initiated after 10pm, co-ordinated and hundreds of shore searchers £9k for theby Mission Vestværftet to date, ApS. centreline, before being delivered to a VCU 35.25m Georgina of Ladram marks a significant milestone survived 15 hours at sea after by Valentia Marine Rescue also participated, as did pilots with £9,000 for the Fishermen’s with donations continuing to fish raised over £1k for the local Fishermen’s Mission when Courageous is being built for skipper Ian automated fish-handling/washing system on auctioned by Brixham Trawler Agents (see page 3). by being the biggest vessel to be built for Brixham, and the IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE ANY CONFIRMATION THIS WILL INDICATE THE northeasterlyPROOF winds carried their Sub-Centre in Co Kerry, and Galway FlyingIS Club, Aer Arann CORRECTMission by completing a be received. Anyone wishing port’s first new beamer of her class for 30 years. paddleboards offshore, reports involving RNLI lifeboats from Aran and the Oranmore-Maree coastal daunting 700-mile Scottish to supportShearer, the cause in canpartnership do with James Johnson, the main deck. ‡ Partners James Johnson, Ian Shearer, Christopher Irvine and Malcolm SkipperReid standing Trevor Sclater and the crew were delighted with . An in-depth feature on Georgina of Ladram starts on Lorna Siggins and Galway, a rotation of Irish search volunteers. kayak lap, reports David so throughMalcolm his JustGiving Reid, Christopher Irvine and LHD Ltd. Courageous will feature a Mitsubishi under the bow of Courageous, where a profile map of Whalsay is proudly depicted on page 8. Cousins Sara Feeney (23) and Continues on page 3 Linkie. Coast Guard helicopters from page. Single-rig whitefish trawls will be worked S12R main engine, a Heimdal 11.5:1 the trawler’s stem crest. ‡ Georgina of Ladram passing Berry Head at the start of Ellen Glynn (17) of Knocknacarra Shannon, Waterford and Sligo, Fourteen days after setting Continues on page 2 her maiden trip. (Photo: Alan Letcher) in Galway city were located by out from Pittenweem, Jack fishermen Patrick Oliver and his Gatacre arrived back at the 18-year-old son Morgan, some Fife harbour, where the local 17 nautical miles from their last prawn trawler Winaway was known position. waiting to meet the intrepid THE LAW HAS CHANGED NEVER MISS AN ISSUE FREE DELIVERY DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR The two women, who had kayaker off the breakwater. Bridlington research lab takes first berried lobsters lashed their boards together Jack Gatacre’s matharon when they were unable to return effort to raise funds for the TO MAKE COMMERCIAL FISHING SAFER. to shore, had managed to grab Fishermen’s Mission took in the hold of several floats attached Forth and Clyde canal, Arran, A new state-of-the-art shellfish the laboratory. delayed by funding and other problems, to gear owned by fisherman the Crinan canal, Jura, the research facility that has just opened The Holderness Fishing Industry and then by Covid. Visit homeanddry.uk and make sure you get back Bertie Donohue some two miles Isle of Mull, Fort William, Loch at Bridlington received its first berried Group (HFIG) facility is located at the There will be more details of the and make sure you get back southwest of the Aran island of Inis Ness, Inverness, Aberdeen, ‡ Wendy Chamberlain, MP Oírr. Dundee and St Andrews. for NE lobstersFife, local Mission from local potter Perseverance fish quay on Bridlington’s South Pier. laboratory’s work in a future issue of By that stage, they had endured Despite encountering superintendentII on 22 Colin July, Mackay reports Tim Oliver. Jamie Robertson, chief executive of Fishing News. #HOMEANDDRY a night of heavy rain, thunder and some of the worst weather and JackPerseverance Gatacre’s girlfriend II skipper Pete HFIG, said that the small laboratory is lightning after they vanished from conditions of the summer, Janet SandersonGourlay congratulate was himpictured on Twitter with not a lobster hatchery like the one at Yorkshire port aims to be ‘lobster view at Furbo beach, some 10km Jack Gatacre completed on his return to Pittenweem from Galway city. this tremendous effort on after histhe epic first fundraising lobsters effort. landed. His vessel Padstow, for example, but was purely capital of Europe’ – pages 8-10 The cousins had gone for a schedule. is one of a small number that have a for research purposes.

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The 26.5m Courageous was built at Campbeltown reduction gearbox and a matching Heimdal Shipyard as Guardian Angell K 535 for ‘Full range2,800mm-diameter of CP propeller insafety a high- Orkney skipper Balfour Bain and partners in efficiency nozzle. Two Mitsubishi 6D24 1992. equipment available’ COVER PRICE ‡ A heavy-lift floating crane takes the strain as the new Whalsay whitefish trawler Courageous clears the stocks at Gdansk… The new 28m single-rig whitefish stern ‘Liferaftfrom two sets of split sweepline winches Hire trawler Courageous LK 470, being built (2 x 15t) located at the fore end of a full- ‡ Preparing to shoot away the starboard 12m chain mat by Vestværftet ApS for a young Whalsay length trawl deck. Two split trawl winches beam trawl. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 partnership, was lifted into the water at (21t) will also be mounted midway along the Gdansk, Poland last week, reports David shelterdeck. The hydraulic deck machinery Linkie. package, which also includes two ‡ Releasing the codends on Georgina of Ladram during the beamer’s first trip. ‡ Patrick and Morgan Oliver come ashore to a heroes’ welcome at Galway after the rescue. (Photos: Joe With a beam of 8.7m and a moulded depthfrom bagging drums and a codend Gilson, was£265.00’ O’Shaughnessy) and the Doolin and Costello Bay The new beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 to shelterdeck of 6.66m, Courageous will manufactured by Thyborøn Skibs & Motor. completed a successful maiden trip last week by landing not wetsuits. Fortunately, they had Coast Guard units. ‡ Kayaker Jack Gatacre rounds Pittenweem breakwater, with the how Georgina of Ladram performed on her first seven-day Tributes have been paid to two buoyancy aids. The Civil Defence, local local prawn trawler Winaway giving him a fishermen’snow be welcome.towed to Hvide Sande, Denmark for Catches on the new Courageous will be 250 boxes of prime fish at Brixham for Tuesday’s market, reports trip, when everything went smoothly. EUROPE £175 REST OF WORLD £190 Galway fishermen who found and A full-scale air-sea search was His efforts have raised over David Linkie fishermen, anglers, leisure craft engine/machinery installation and fitting out bagged over the transom on the vessel’s . Delivered to Waterdance Ltd by the Luyt Group, the Jack Gatacre has raised over In keeping with the longstanding tradition, the first box of rescued two young women who initiated after 10pm, co-ordinated and hundreds of shore searchers £9k for theby Mission Vestværftet to date, ApS. centreline, before being delivered to a VCU 35.25m Georgina of Ladram marks a significant milestone survived 15 hours at sea after by Valentia Marine Rescue also participated, as did pilots with £9,000 for the Fishermen’s with donations continuing to fish raised over £1k for the local Fishermen’s Mission when Courageous is being built for skipper Ian automated fish-handling/washing system on auctioned by Brixham Trawler Agents (see page 3). by being the biggest vessel to be built for Brixham, and the northeasterly winds carried their Sub-Centre in Co Kerry, and Galway Flying Club, Aer Arann Mission by completing a be received. Anyone wishing port’s first new beamer of her class for 30 years. paddleboards offshore, reports involving RNLI lifeboats from Aran and the Oranmore-Maree coastal daunting 700-mile Scottish to supportShearer, the cause in canpartnership do with James Johnson, the main deck. ‡ Partners James Johnson, Ian Shearer, Christopher Irvine and Malcolm SkipperReid standing Trevor Sclater and the crew were delighted with . An in-depth feature on Georgina of Ladram starts on Lorna Siggins and Galway, a rotation of Irish search volunteers. kayak lap, reports David so throughMalcolm his JustGiving Reid, Christopher Irvinewww.norwestmarine.co.uk and LHD Ltd. Courageous will feature a Mitsubishi under the bow of Courageous, where a profile map of Whalsay is proudly depicted on page 8. Cousins Sara Feeney (23) and Continues on page 3 Linkie. Coast Guard helicopters from page. Single-rig whitefish trawls will be worked S12R main engine, a Heimdal 11.5:1 the trawler’s stem crest. ‡ Georgina of Ladram passing Berry Head at the start of Ellen Glynn (17) of Knocknacarra Shannon, Waterford and Sligo, Fourteen days after setting Continues on page 2 her maiden trip. (Photo: Alan Letcher) in Galway city were located by out from Pittenweem, Jack fishermen Patrick Oliver and his Gatacre arrived back at the 18-year-old son Morgan, some Fife harbour, where the local 17 nautical miles from their last prawn trawler Winaway was known position. waiting to meet the intrepid THE LAW HAS CHANGED NEVER MISS AN ISSUE FREE DELIVERY DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR The two women, who had kayaker off the breakwater. 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Advertising on these pages is free for fishermen selling used boats and equipment. If you are a commercial supplier, please contact TalkMedia Sales on 01732 447008 SEE INSIDE! Fishmongers’ Company feeds Londoners in need The Fishmongers’ Company, together with the Worshipful Company of Drapers and food charity City Harvest, are working to feed over 200 people who are either homeless or in need across London every day. The Livery Kitchen Initiative follows on from the success of the Fishmongers’ Company’s Covid-19 Rapid Response Grant Programme which, as well as providing emergency funding to help fishing businesses diversify and continue to trade during lockdown, also supported Scots leaders press for help for restaurants and catering prawn sector companies in making and See page 2 distributing meals for those who were shielding or in need of support. In Newlyn, using seafood ‡ The team of chefs at Fishmongers’ Hall are preparing over 200 ‡ … ready for distribution to purchased with grant funding meals a day… Londoners in need. from the Fishmongers’ Company’s Fisheries healthy dishes for those “It is a brilliant initiative; and it is great to use this Charitable Trust and in London who need not only that we are able relationship to support local Seafarers UK, the Tolcarne them most. Working with to repurpose the kitchen charities, some of which Inn was able to prepare City Harvest, a long-term during this pandemic and have emerged just to help and cook almost 1,700 charitable partner of the keep the chefs cooking, but those in need during this nutritious meals for the most Fishmongers’ Company, that we are able to send out pandemic.” vulnerable in the community. these meals are donated 200-plus nutritious meals The project will run With its ability to hold to eight different London a day to people who are in throughout the remainder of Parkol launches 27m Havara for events at Fishmongers’ Hall charities, who then distribute desperate need at this time. 2020, and Stefan Pini has a Shetland currently highly constrained them to people across the For some, this may be the range of recipes planned to See page 5 by Covid-19, and wanting city including the homeless, only access to a hot meal keep London’s vulnerable fed to put its excellent team refugees and low-income they will have that day. while incorporating as much of chefs to best use, the families. “We already have a strong fish and seafood as possible, Fishmongers’ Company and The Fishmongers’ working relationship with City using nutritious British the Worshipful Company Company’s executive head Harvest and the Worshipful seafood to help those who of Drapers are cooking up chef Stefan Pini explained: Company of Drapers, need it most. Smiles at Sea back on tour The SeaFit team are back on the road Care Hubs that we’ve been running on in Cornwall and Devon, although this behalf of NHS England since Easter Cara Lee – Single-handed year’s #SmilesAtSea and SeaFit tour Saturday. And there will be free oral trawling on Scarborough Castle will be a little different due to Covid-19 health goodie bags for every eligible grounds for prime and whiting regulations. person who comes to see us. See pages 10-13 This year the focus will be on “We hope to be joined by health increasing knowledge and awareness of partners who can provide information on good oral health among fishermen and mental wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, safety their families, along with reducing their training and other health support. There sugar intake and changing their eating will also be vouchers for free eye tests and toothbrushing habits to improve their ‡ This year’s Smiles at Sea tour is taking with Vision Express.” dental health. in six ports in Cornwall and Devon. Carol added: “Fishermen really SeaFit manager Carol Elliott said: welcome these local health events, and “We know how hard it can be to get to and Mevagissey on 17 and 18 September, it encourages them to seek help. The the dentist when you’re out at sea, and and will continue in Brixham (25 and Fishermen’s Mission local port staff often it’s even more difficult at the moment, 28 September), Plymouth (5 October), report that they are much busier after so we’re bringing free dental advice and Padstow (16 October) and Newlyn (19 events like this with people asking for information to the harbourside instead. and 20 October). advice and support – so the more we can We’ve always been delighted with the Smile Together’s Joy Callender, who do, the better.” response to this dental tour, and many has led the Smiles at Sea initiative for the The SeaFit programme is a joint of the fishermen we’ve seen in the past past four years, said: “We really wanted initiative between the Fishermen’s Mission hadn’t seen a dentist for years, so knowing to visit the harboursides this year despite and the Seafarers’ Hospital Society, with how to prevent the need for treatment is the pandemic, to help fishermen and funding from Seafarers UK. SeaFit has even more important now. their families with their oral healthcare at partnered with Smile Together to provide “We will be following local and home. this free dental advisory service to local Inshore Corner – Grease on national Covid-19 guidelines to keep “Whilst we can’t provide free dental fishermen and their families across rubber: A cautionary tale people safe, and there’s no need to book – treatment this year from a mobile dental Cornwall and Devon. See pages 16-17 just turn up!” unit, our dental team will be on hand to To find out more about the SeaFit The tour – confirmed at short notice provide information on how to improve programme, call Carol Elliott on: because of the current Covid-19 situation dental health and signpost any dental 07486 319 621 or email: PDMSeafit@ SEE INSIDE! – began in Newquay on 16 September emergency to the local Urgent Dental fishermensmission.org.uk