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KELSEY KELSEY fishingnews.co.uk BREXIT TALKS DEADLOCKED TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Girl Dee Dee joins Beaming during Brendan South West fleet The Buccaneer B21 Girl Dee Dee is lifted from workshop to lorry, before being taken to Newlyn to be launched.

‡ Deckhand Danny guides the port side beam trawl down onto the deck.

Built to the highest of standards, the Skipper Daniel Gilbert, who is also latest Buccaneer B21, Girl Dee Dee FH a self-trained GRP boatbuilder and 31, was launched on 24 April at Newlyn maker of the 14ft open boat Sea King, in Cornwall, reports Phil Lockley. described the standard of workmanship Skipper/owner Daniel Gilbert will from PK Composites as ‘superb and soon begin his work as a potter – truly outstanding’. ‘using singles instead of strings’, he He added: “I am absolutely over the said. moon; the quality of build is the best I ‡ The Julie of Ladram E 271 was built in Holland in 1983. Similar in fit-out to advanced beach have ever seen, and as a boatbuilder (Photo: Alan Letcher) boats at coves such as Cadgwith, the myself, I don’t say that lightly.” Girl Dee Dee is equally suitable for Having chosen a multi-purpose craft, Photographer Tony Fitzsimmons, tasked by Waterdance non-tidal harbours like Newlyn. Daniel Gilbert will initially be fishing to document work onboard its fleet of boats, reports on Built at the premises of Falmouth shellfish using large single creels his latest trip – four stormy January days on the 38m beam Mouldings, the Girl Dee Dee is the work supplied by Caithness Creels. trawler Julie of Ladram. of a small team from PK Composites “I would rather fish singles, and fish As Storm Brendan raged and the Brexit clock ticked led by Patrick Kemp, whose skills in selectively, than use long strings shot down, he took action shots of the crew at work – and building GRP fishing boats began over over a given area; in my opinion, using ‡ Skipper Daniel Gilbert during downtime in the galley, recorded their opinions three decades ago at the original firm of singles is a more sustainable way of with his companion Suggs – on issues including the future for fishing outside the EU, Buccaneer Boats and Mouldings (now fishing,” he said. named after the lead singer sustainability and climate change. trading as Buccaneer Boats Ltd). Continued on page 5 of Madness! His report begins on page 12. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 No progress in Brexit fisheries talks, says EU chief Brussels insists on trade and fishing link The UK and EU remain deadlocked We won’t agree to continuing the CFP’ on the UK, and that ‘anything should be between the EU and UK, over fisheries in the Brexit Common Fisheries Policy. in the media that is spun otherwise and how much access and quota negotiations, which have continued “Extending would simply would not be a fair picture of what shares the UK will grant to EU to take place by video link despite prolong negotiations, create even has been presented’. vessels. the Covid-19 crisis, reports Tim more uncertainty, leave us liable to The source told Fishing News: If there was no agreement, they Oliver. pay more to the EU in future, and “The EU mandate is clear on what said there would be ‘no EU fishing The EU has again said that any keep us bound by evolving EU laws the member states want from a in UK waters, unilateral TAC trade deal must include a fisheries at a time when we need to control continued partnership in terms of setting, and no UK access to EU agreement. And, with time running our own affairs. In short, it is not in quota and access, but the UK is not markets – or at least very difficult’. out for a decision by 30 June the UK’s interest to extend.” ready to put figures on the table to A top-level conference is due to on whether or not to extend the A Brussels source close to the reflect what a ‘fairer share’ means.” be held in June to assess progress transition period beyond the end of negotiations said that the EU ‘fully They said that the UK fishing in the negotiations. Michel Barnier 2020, the UK government says it recognises’ that the UK is an industry had already won two warned that before then, there are will not ask for an extension. ‡ EU chief negotiator Michel independent coastal state with full battles – sovereign waters and no only two rounds of negotiations Britain’s chief negotiator David Barnier: “The EU will not agree to control of its waters. They said that CFP. What needed to be decided remaining – in the weeks beginning Frost said it would not be in any future economic partnership the EU ‘is not seeking to impose the was what level of co-operation there 11 May and 1 June. the UK’s interests to extend the that does not include a balanced, transition period. sustainable and long-term solution Spelling out the state of play on fisheries.” in the negotiations at a press ‘Vast gap’ between EU and UK conference in Brussels last week, ticking’, said Michel Barnier. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier A UK government spokesperson The NFFO said that the gap “But on fisheries, it would fish in EU waters) where this is said there had been ‘no progress’ on said: “On fisheries, the EU’s between the two sides was ‘vast’ hand the UK what it wants – the mutually beneficial fisheries. mandate appears to require us to and that it was ‘no surprise’ that no freedom to act as an independent • An exclusive 12-mile zone to “On this essential topic, the UK accept a continuance of the current progress has been made. coastal state, with control over protect the UK’s inshore fisheries. has not put forward a legal text,” he quotas agreed under the Common It said there was ‘zero prospect’ access and who fishes in the UK said. Fisheries Policy. We will only be of the UK agreeing to the EU’s EEZ, and in annual fisheries This is ‘pretty close’ to the “We have made no tangible able to make progress here on the negotiating mandate of retaining negotiations,” said Barrie Deas. EU’s current fisheries agreement progress, despite the political basis of the reality that the UK will the status quo on access rights He said that the EU has with Norway, said Barrie Deas. declaration stating that we should have the right to control access to and quota shares, and holding the published a draft legal text that He said it was ‘unlikely’ that make our best endeavours to its waters at the end of this year. UK as closely as possible to the reflects something close to the agreement could be reached in reach an agreement by July. This is “We now need to move forward provisions of the CFP. status quo, which it would like to June, or even later in the year. necessary to provide sufficient clarity in a constructive fashion. The UK “The EU mandate has been use as the basis for negotiations. “At present, the EU for EU and UK fishermen, and also remains committed to a deal with a deliberately designed to give The UK has yet to submit a negotiating mandate does not for all businesses linked to fisheries. free trade agreement at its core.” the Commission no room for legal text, but has made clear that allow for any flexibility, and so it “The EU will not agree to negotiation or compromise. As its objectives are: looks like a no-deal is the most any future economic partnership ‘Unprecedented’ no agreement is possible without likely outcome. On fisheries, the that does not include a balanced, proposals movement from the EU side, a • UK sovereignty to act as an UK will then prepare to enter sustainable and long-term solution The government spokesperson said stalemate is inevitable,” said NFFO independent coastal state, with the cycle of autumn negotiations on fisheries. That should be crystal that the UK would keep talking, chief executive Barrie Deas. regulatory autonomy over the with Norway, the EU and the clear to the UK.” but that some of the EU’s proposals He said that the EU’s ‘nuclear’ fisheries within its EEZ other countries with which it He said that the two parties must were ‘unprecedented’, and did not negotiating option would be to • Co-operation on the shares stocks, in the absence of be realistic about the two ‘very real’ take account of the fact that the UK block a free trade agreement unless management of shared stocks a UK-EU framework fisheries legal deadlines of 30 June – when would be ‘an independent state’. the UK caves in on fisheries – but • Annual fisheries agreements on agreement. the two sides must decide whether David Frost tweeted: “We are this would carry a high risk of a managing shared stocks “This is not ideal, but it is or not to extend the transition ready to work to agree a fisheries no-deal outcome. • Quota shares that more closely better than the alternative – period – and 31 December, the end agreement which reflects our rights This would hurt the UK, but reflect a scientific assessment of agreement to terms that would of the transition period. under international law to control also some EU member states that the resources in UK waters tie the UK back into a CFP-type The UK government has said it our own waters, and provides for depend heavily on trade with the • Access for EU vessels to fish arrangement. That would be would refuse any extension of the annual negotiations over access UK. in UK waters (and UK vessels to politically unsellable in the UK.” transition period, and ‘the clock is based on scientific principles. £1m scheme to support direct sales in England now open The new Domestic Seafood applications for funding until “With growing demand for necessary for the catching and the fisheries industry, and Supply Scheme, which will Monday, 11 May. Projects will meals at home, we are also processing sectors to connect has mobilised to design and fund projects to help seafood be assessed by a panel including looking for innovative ways to directly with consumers (e.g. deliver the new FRF and now businesses in England increase industry representatives. help fishermen adapt and be through online platforms or the Domestic Seafood Supply the supply of local seafood to Successful applications will be equipped to sell direct to local facilitation on the ground) Scheme in the fastest possible domestic markets, opened for announced from Friday, 15 May. consumers.” • Have the potential to generate time. applications on 29 April. The scheme will fund Applications are invited from longer-term sustainable benefit “With the support of the The £1m scheme, announced measures that help the industry groups of businesses in the to the seafood industry, creating fishing industry, we have set by DEFRA and HM Treasury to set up local and regional fishing, aquaculture and fish supply chain resilience. up a panel who will make the on 17 April, is part of the £10m distribution, such as plant and processing industries, or from decisions, to ensure that our fund for England’s fishing and equipment to assist with local individual businesses engaged The MMO has expanded its industry gets the funds needed aquaculture sectors in response fish processing, or assets that can in activities that support the grants team and increased its to be able to make the greatest to the Covid-19 pandemic. be shared at ports such as storage seafood supply chain, for projects opening hours to administer the difference in developing the It will help seafood businesses and refrigerated vans. that: £9m Fisheries Response Fund domestic market.” adapt to changes in their markets Fisheries minister Victoria (FRF), which was announced at To apply to the Domestic caused by Covid-19, by funding Prentis said: “This new grant • Maintain the availability of the same time as the Domestic Seafood Supply Scheme, visit: changes to businesses and/ scheme, part of a £10m lifeline fisheries products through Seafood Supply Scheme. In the gov.uk/mmo or infrastructure that will help for our fisheries sector, will help innovative regional distribution first week, the MMO team made In addition to this financial them to sell their products our fishing industry find new • Support the development FRF payments of over £2m to support, qualifying seafood domestically, and support markets for their catch during of infrastructure to sell fish over 500 fishing vessel owners. businesses may also be eligible projects that increase domestic this challenging time, which landed into English ports, or Tom McCormack, chief for other government assistance. consumption of seafood landed has seen falling prices and a fish processed in England, to executive officer of the MMO, The MMO has produced a or processed in England. downturn in restaurant and domestic consumers said: “Our MMO team is highly guide to what is available at: bit. The MMO will accept export sales. • Help develop the infrastructure experienced in supporting ly/2y9NRUk 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 French boycott of Scots fish hits markets and prices French fishermen and the from some Scottish fishermen France and Spain. French government are putting for French landings into “These exports are traditional pressure on supermarkets in Scottish ports to be stopped. and form a significant France to stop selling Scottish It has called on the French element of the trade from processed fish, and to sell only industry to ‘step back’ from its fish processors in northeast products labelled ‘Product of agenda of boycotting Scottish Scotland, who send regular France’, reports Tim Oliver. fish, so that the situation does shipments on a daily basis.” This has led to poor demand not escalate. The association said that for some species such as monk, Don Fishing said that the this trade is threatened as ‘a ling and hake, with the latter situation is leaving the auctions group of voices within the two ‘going for a pittance’ last open to the truckers taking French industry’ apply pressure week, according to Scottish fish whole fish to France, with little through political routes on large selling agent Don Fishing. or no competition from buyers retailers to ensure that only fish The Scottish White Fish who would normally purchase of French origin is purchased at Producers’ Association fish for processing. auction. (SWFPA) said that the French This, in turn, is enraging the “The genesis of their actions “This reminds me of an EU negotiating tactic.” embargo was leading to calls processors, as the whole fish is unclear, but is understood to moving into France is ultimately be linked to poor returns for a destined for supermarkets, quantity of French fish. What is which would in normal clear is the impact their actions circumstances be purchasing will have for Scottish fishermen, Pressure for support for processed goods from them. with exports of fish to France “This situation would seem now reduced to very low levels,” at odds with the embargo, but it said the SWFPA spokesman. does appear that Scottish fish is “Their actions have a direct fine – as long as it’s very cheap, impact on Scottish markets, English over-24m boats cut by a French knife and, with prices for a number of key most importantly of all, French species dropping sharply,” he Efforts are continuing to Jim Portus said that information such as fixed fishermen don’t see it being said, adding that Scottish waters get financial support for the although a very few scallopers costs, variable costs and delivered,” said a Don Fishing are fished heavily by around 30 English over-24m fleet, which were still fishing, the scallop income streams. spokesman. large French vessels. was excluded from the £9m market was effectively closed “Everyone at the last The spokesman said that “These vessels land their support package that DEFRA a month ago – particularly meeting agreed that parts of the anger of French fishermen, catch into Scottish ports and announced recently for the the French market, where the the DEFRA package are hitting for now at least, was very truck the produce to France. English fleet, reportsTim majority of the catch is sold. the right spot – but based species-focused. Retailers were Understandably, and in response Oliver. “All the other administrations on the Seafish data, DEFRA removing imported processed to the protectionist measures About 70 English-registered have schemes that support decided in its wisdom that the monk, ling, hake and skate from applied in France, a number of over-24m vessels are their scallop fleets, so the over-24m sector seemed to their fish counters, in the hope Scottish fishermen are saying excluded from receiving any English scheme is the poor be more resilient. But when that this will appease French that this practice must now be support. The English package relation, and the scallop you’ve got zero market, you’ve fishermen and the French brought to a halt. is the only one in the UK that sector is unable to do got zero resilience, and you government, and their stores “In the hope of de-escalating sets a length cap on eligible anything but tie up. There is still have costs. That’s our would not suffer any direct this whole affair, we are calling vessels. nothing for over-24m vessels. argument, and we want them action. on our French colleagues to The length cap means that The over-24m beamers are to look at that again. We want “The other concern is that step back from this agenda. around 24 English scallop struggling on with short trips, the sector to be properly French catchers are probably Far more will be gained from vessels are excluded, despite and struggling with a market supported. I would dearly love aware that some product being working together than operating almost all of the fleet being that doesn’t want to pay a scheme that supports the offered might be French- in isolation.” tied up due to the loss of reasonable prices.” scallop sector.” processed, but not necessarily On other export markets, its market – whereas in all He said that some sectors He said that the problem French-caught, and it’s thought Don Fishing hoped that after the other administrations, are falling through the gaps as we begin to come out of that the processing sector last Friday’s May Day (1 May) scallopers are eligible for in the support scheme, lockdown will be that every there could also come under holiday on the continent, the support. including some Anglo-Dutch other country will also be the scrutiny of French catchers Spanish market would improve, Jim Portus, chairman of the beamers and Anglo-Spanish doing so. “Spain, France, soon,” said the Don Fishing and megrim would be expected Scallop Industry Consultation netters. Acknowledging Belgium, the Dutch will spokesman. to recover. But leading on from Group (SICG) and of the that a significant number continue to support their The SWFPA said that the the French situation, Spain South Western FPO, said of over-24m vessels are own fleets. They won’t be Scottish seafood sector is was seeing increased volumes that the package did present flagships, he said: “I have to encouraging imports from the experiencing ‘a very testing and of hake, and prices may be a problem for the scallop say that every other country UK – they will want to get their trying time’, and is calling on suppressed for some time. sector, and that the SICG was supports their fleets, whether own fishermen back on their its counterparts in France to Some positive news from lobbying the government to try they’re quota hoppers feet as quickly as possible,” work with rather than against Spain was that bars and to get support for the English or not, and they deserve said Jim Portus. them, as the fishing sectors in restaurants will be permitted scallop vessels. support throughout this awful He said that the SWFPO both Scotland and France are to reopen on 2 June at 50% He said that the SICG had coronavirus upset that’s is not taking any levy from suffering. capacity, so some foodservice set up a working group in affecting everybody.” members for April or May to “Lost markets for a number demand will return. the middle of last year, to Jim Portus takes part in help cut boats’ expenses. of high-end species, such as On the domestic market, Don try to guide the sector to a a weekly online industry He also paid tribute to the scallops and prawns, and Fishing said that the market better-managed and more conference with DEFRA MMO for the speed with significantly reduced demand continues to hold steady, with sustainable future. It had sent officials, which includes which it is paying out the £9m for whitefish have led to a high ‘reasonable demand’ for haddock a lot of ideas to DEFRA and representatives from all areas support money. “They have number of vessels tying to and cod, and prices showing the devolved administrations, of the UK and all sectors of been very efficient, and are the quayside,” said a SWFPA a small sign of improvement. and was waiting for responses the industry. He explained paying out the money very spokesman. It was also expected that more when the Covid-19 crisis that the support package quickly – they have already “A limited number of vessels buyers dealing in the home arrived, and ‘everything we was based on data supplied spent £2.2m [as of 28 April]. continue to fish for haddock market would return to the had proposed to deliver a by Seafish from its annual They’ve been remarkably for the domestic market, with auction this week. “Hopefully brighter future for the sector fleet economic performance efficient – I take my hat off to species such as monkfish, the cod and haddock sales are came crashing down’. reports, which include them.” hake, ling and megrim shipped now, allowing for circumstances, to foreign markets, mainly in fairly settled,” said Don Fishing. 4 COMMENT/LETTERS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL EMAIL: Crucial weeks in Brexit talks FISHINGNEWS.ED@ KELSEY.CO.UK The devastating impact of the coronavirus to this, and the gulf between the two But while no deal would give the UK pandemic on the fishing and seafood sides is ‘vast’. complete freedom to decide who can Kelsey Publishing Ltd, industries and the overwhelming need The impasse is made even more fish in its sovereign 200-mile zone, it The Granary, Editor for government support, and efforts to intractable by the UK position – at least would open a Pandora’s box of unknowns Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie achieve this, have eclipsed all other issues at present – that it will not ask for an and uncertainty as the autumn fisheries Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] in recent weeks. extension to the transition period beyond negotiations on fishing opportunities in Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 But last week’s round of Brexit the end of this year. Negotiations of such 2021 begin between the UK, the EU and talks, with their disappointing though difficulty are painstaking and need time, Norway. predictable results, reminds us that there but there is very little time to reach any The restrictions on access to EU fish will be life after the current crisis, and sort of agreement in the few months that and seafood markets would have a huge that there will issues to be addressed that remain, if the transition period is not impact on the UK, which has already had will have momentous outcomes for the extended. a foretaste of the implications, caused by fishing industry. And it is not only fisheries that are the coronavirus. We have seen much of the Even while allowing for the stumbling block in reaching agreement. fleet tied up as a result, and falling prices grandstanding and negotiating positions Michel Barnier put fisheries fourth in for those who are still fishing. taken up by both the EU and the UK, the his list of the ‘fundamental issues’ that This will end, of course, but its Managing editor statements by EU chief negotiator Michel are creating great difficulty – behind the effects on the EU fleets will harden the News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] Barnier and his UK counterpart David so-called ‘level playing field’ on trade resolve of member states to protect email: [email protected] Frost and the UK government suggest and competition, overall governance, and their industries, with possible long- that both sides are entrenched in their police and judicial co-operation. term effects on imported fish – we opposing positions. By the end of June – just two short are already seeing action by militant The EU remains insistent that fisheries months away – the two sides must decide French fishermen to force must be linked to the overall trade deal, whether they have made enough progress French supermarkets to boycott and its negotiating mandate is for the to continue to try to reach agreement, Scottish fish. status quo to remain on quota shares or to start work on arrangements for a The next two months will be and access rights. As the NFFO has said, no-deal Brexit. As things stand now, the critical for the long-term future Lincolnshire, East Anglia and there is ‘zero chance’ of the UK agreeing latter looks like a very real possibility. of the UK fishing industry. 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A ‘days at sea’ The fine-tuning of these email: [email protected] 01243 584718 Freeman of DEFRA and local fishermen would earn from scheme with the aid of AIS proposals does not need to be MANAGEMENT MPs last month. everything that was caught. onboard all fishing vessels made complicated. The quota Chief Operating Officer: Phil Weeden Chief Executive: Steve Wright The situation with the would be easier to track system is so involved and Managing Director: Kevin McCormick Over the past couple of Covid-19 virus has really and control the effort. This unworkable that it has driven Finance Director: Joyce Parker-Sarioglu years, the government, the brought to the forefront the would alleviate the problem people away from the industry. 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The Fathom podcast welcomed that some fishermen have been paid there were more vulnerable sections A Scottish fisherman who Defence advocate David fisheries minister Victoria Prentis in already, which is fantastic news.” of the fleet needing the support. sailed to the Isle of Man from Clegg said that Mr MacDonald a landmark interview delving into Challenged on the fact that Picking up on the minister’s praise Oban has been fined £5,000 was not aware that the entry the recently announced Covid-19 funding is not available for boats of local delivery schemes in an open for breaching the island’s restrictions extended to the £9m support package for fishing over 24m, she said: “It was letter circulated on 17 April (Fishing Emergency Powers Act. island’s territorial waters. He businesses. becoming very clear to us that News, 30 April), Paul Trebilcock Neil MacDonald, from added: “But for that, he has Acknowledging that the industry people with smaller vessels – under highlighted the #FishToYourDoor Sinclair, Oban, was arrested been extremely careful. is having ‘a really, really difficult 24m – were having real trouble scheme in Cornwall, which was at Peel on 19 April. According “He has been self-isolating year’, the new DEFRA minister, who meeting their fixed costs, which all launched by Seafood Cornwall to a report on IOM Today, he on his boat for five weeks, and has been in post since 14 February, fishing vessels have to pay. What within hours of the government’s claimed he was unaware that but for the fact that the waters said: “I very, very much hope we will we wanted to do was to ensure we lockdown announcement. Both the closure of the island’s are included, his approach be coming through that in the next could help the parts of the industry agreed that the UK public could fall borders on 27 March extended was pragmatic.” Mr Clegg said few months, but what I would like that were suffering with the most back in love with domestic seafood to Manx territorial waters. that Neil MacDonald did not to reassure you and other fishermen immediate need.” as a result of the shortening of supply Neil MacDonald appeared set foot on the island until he is that we will carry on listening to Pressed further by Fathom host chains in response to the crisis. before High Bailiff Jayne was arrested. the industry, and we will try to help Paul Trebilcock, who noted that Victoria Prentis said: “I really, Hughes on 20 April. The court High Bailiff Jayne Hughes where we can.” fishing businesses with vessels over really hope that is a positive that was told that he was the said it had not been Speaking in detail about the 24m are also having a difficult time, comes from this crisis.” skipper of a Manx-registered contradicted by anyone that industry support package for the first the minister said: “It’s obvious the In a follow-up episode, the Fathom vessel, the 14.98m Zephyr PL Neil MacDonald acted on time, Victoria Prentis discussed how whole industry is having a horrible team spoke to MMO chief executive 6, owned by Billy Caley. behalf of, and after taking to access the funding with Cornish and difficult and challenging time at Tom McCormack, who provided The Zephyr was tracked advice from, the vessel’s Fish Producers’ Organisation’s CEO the moment, and I would never want more detail on application processes from Scotland to Manx waters owner, but that his actions Paul Trebilcock. She said: “If you are to downplay that.” She explained for the £9m package, and on support and into Peel, where Neil were still a serious breach. eligible, or you might be eligible, you that DEFRA evidence indicated for local seafood delivery services. MacDonald picked up a crew She fined him £5,000 and will receive an email, and you fill in a some vessels over 24m could meet Listen to the episodes in full at: member before heading to the ordered him to pay costs of form and email it back. I understand fixed costs at this time, and that bit.ly/3eYfnF3 and: bit.ly/35m71T5 grounds off Port Erin. £125. Covid-19 support Girl Dee Dee joins South West fleet Continued from page 1 Daniel Gilbert spoke of his ‘wish- list’, drawn up when planning the for Scottish industry build of the Girl Dee Dee, saying: “The key factor of any fishing boat is surely its engine, and in the end I chose a Volvo Penta D2. “I did plenty of homework from Brodies before deciding on Volvo Penta, but in terms of quality, fuel Brodies Solicitors of important to be able to consumption and many other Aberdeen has launched an interpret it properly, so that points, although slightly more easy-access Covid-19 hub it can be applied effectively expensive, the Volvo Penta in which the new guidance to businesses in different appears to be the best. and legislation for the sectors. “I spoke to many owners of catching and processing “Health and safety, Volvo engines, and in terms of sectors is explained. furlough, government- reliability it is at the top of their At a time when backed financing list. I approached the South businesses have to adapt opportunities and grant West dealer Marine Engineering to the new normal brought support are all key areas to (Looe) Ltd. They gave further about by the pandemic, consider just now. Keeping advice, and I went ahead. employers must also be abreast of the regulations “I still work some of the year in ‡ Skipper Daniel Gilbert checks Girl Dee Dee before the journey from aware of new legislation and entitlements and the offshore oil and gas industry near Falmouth to Newlyn. Note the extended wheelhouse, giving more and guidance brought in getting support via the new as a geotechnical design engineer, comfort on longer trips. by the Scottish and UK initiatives being proposed so I do have an advantage, but governments. Challenges by the government are key. the Girl Dee Dee still has a limit PH 122. I then moved to vivier- pots directly onto the gunwales, abound. For example, how “You can find all the to its costings. potters in Jersey, after that back to take away any back-breaking can you socially distance latest updates on our hub, “Commercial fishing remains on South West boats like beam work. Richard Carter has on a fishing boat, and and we are also holding a large part of my work. I have trawlers, then to netters at produced a raised top-pulley to what are the processes for regular webinars to support been fishing much of my life, Newlyn, and so on. do that.” accessing available grants our clients and contacts starting as a full-time commercial “When I made the decision With a plan to work only single and loans? through this difficult time. fisherman at the age of 15 on to move from my 18ft Plymouth pots, skipper Daniel Gilbert Malcolm Mackay, a “If you have a query the 14m Plymouth potter Bosloe Pilot and buy a far more is able to have an extended shipping and marine about anything – health and advanced boat, I obviously wheelhouse, a purpose-built unit specialist at Brodies, said safety, property leasing had ideas of what I wanted, offering more comfort on longer that along with supporting issues, employment law, but I also had the opportunity trips. fishing business, ports or the financial support of taking advice from a wide He explained: “When using and their agents in dealing available for under-12m range of people who specialise single pots, there isn’t the need with the current issues, the or over-12m vessels, fish in each field. Patrick Kemp to save deck space at the cost of firm has created a free-to- processors, whitefish, or has been building GRP fishing wheelhouse space. And although access hub helping fishing, specific schemes to support boats for a very long time – he the deck arrangement of Girl processing and other the prawn and shellfish specialises in constructing boats Dee Dee does include a transom business sectors navigate industry – we want to help.” like the Buccaneer B19 and B21. door, I will only use that if I have Covid-19 issues and their Brodies’ Covid-19 hub However, his firm will fit out to use short strings – but at the repercussions. can be found at: bit. whatever design a skipper wants. moment I have no intention of “With the pace at which ly/3bScEL5 – or you can “Also, I got in touch with moving away from single pots.” new legislation and contact: malcolm.mackay@ ‡ Left to right: skipper Daniel winch manufacturer Spencer Full details of the Girl Dee Dee accompanying guidance brodies.com for further Gilbert, Patrick Kemp of PK Carter Ltd, saying that I wanted and a round-up of previous B19s is being released, it is advice. Composites and Steve Pease of a P-bracket winch designed and B21s will appear in Fishing Falmouth Mouldings. especially for hauling large single News soon. 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 Donal O’Driscoll 1933-2020 ‘Champion of Irish fishing’ dies in West Cork

ributes have been paid With Cork businessman Tom career that he described as one miserable share of the quotas’. to fishing industry leader Hassett, he also established the that could only be pursued by In a tribute, the IS&WFPO TDonal O’Driscoll, who has Fishing for Justice website to those who loved it, given the said that Donal O’Driscoll and died in hospital in his home port champion a fairer deal for Ireland challenges of the elements and Tom Hassett, who died last year, of Castletownbere, West Cork, at within the CFP. the tough nature of the industry. contributed to transforming the the age of 86. Donal O’Driscoll was one of He was a tireless advocate, industry ‘into a modern business’, The Irish South and West a family of 14, and was born and was firm and fearless in securing stable prices and secure Fish Producers’ Organisation on Sherkin Island in 1933. his criticism of state policy on markets, and improving crew (IS&WFPO) described him as He learned his first fishing the marine. In 2011, he wrote income and vessel safety. ‘a champion of the Irish fishing techniques – seining for mackerel on behalf of Fishing for Justice “Donal will be remembered as industry’. – from his father, Dan William to then Irish marine minister a champion,” said the IS&WFPO. RNLI lifeboat operations O’Driscoll. Simon Coveney, outlining the “His contribution to the industry manager Paul Stevens said he was In an interview with author Pat background to the negative deal and the communities of the Beara ‘a great leader with a steady hand Nolan, he recalled ‘graduating’ secured on EU accession in peninsula is legendary.” on the wheel’. from lobster fishing in a punt 1973, and questioning why no His funeral was private due to The RNLI Castletownbere to drift-netting for mackerel in government had attempted to Covid-19 restrictions, but a guard lifeboat station, Castletownbere the Mystical Rose, a 36ft vessel change the status quo. of honour was formed for him in Fishermen’s Co-op and the owned by Willie McCarthy. ‡ Donal O’Driscoll. In 2012, he and Tom Hassett Castletownbere on 27 April to IS&WFPO are among the At the age of 17, he began wrote to then EU fisheries mark his final journey. organisations that Donal filling in for absentee crew on a fleet. commissioner Maria Damanaki, He is survived by his wife O’Driscoll was instrumental fleet of vessels owned by Paddy The brothers secured their stating that non-Irish vessels Maisie, children Liam, Brendan, in founding. He was appointed O’Keeffe, known as the ‘Bantry own vessels and spent a lifetime took over €1bn-worth of fish Marian, Donald, Christine and honorary secretary of the lifeboat boats’. His brothers Denis and fishing. Donal’s sons Liam and from Irish waters annually, while Sinead, and extended family. station in October 1997. Billy also skippered boats in the Brendan followed him into a the national fleet ‘survives on a Lorna Siggins EU ‘deeply concerned’ about Irish monitoring capacity The European Commission has introduced last month. and Galway. In response, the Irish marine “In this framework, DG expressed ‘deep concern’ about However, they now fear that the In his letter, Bernhard department has asked the SFPA MARE also reminded Ireland Ireland’s ability to monitor department will use the EU letter Friess said that the European for a ‘comprehensive stand-alone and all other coastal member commercial fishing activity during to pressurise them into resuming Commission ‘recognises the document’ showing how EU legal states to regularly transmit vessel the Covid-19 pandemic, reports inspections in wheelhouses, challenges presented by the obligations are being met. monitoring systems and electronic Lorna Siggins. putting both themselves and Covid-19 crisis’. An EU official confirmed to recording systems data as In a letter to Ireland’s crews at risk. However, he said it ‘expects Fishing News that it ‘sent letters required by the legislation. Department of Agriculture, The SFPA has said that member states’ competent to all member states, including “Finally, the Commission urged Food and the Marine, the EU personal protective equipment authorities to adapt to the new Ireland, reminding them of their member states not to delay any maritime directorate’s acting has been issued to staff, and that situation and introduce the obligations to ensure control, further the recourse to modern director-general Bernhard Friess it is ‘continuing to maintain its necessary measures and resources inspection and enforcement… control tools, such as remote has questioned how Ireland can sea-fisheries and seafood safety to ensure control, inspection while recognising the challenges electronic monitoring, and in meet legal obligations to control regulatory services, with some and enforcement of all activities presented by the coronavirus particular CCTVs, both onboard and check landings if physical modifications to ensure the relevant to the Common Fisheries crisis’. fishing vessels and in ports and inspections have to be reduced as health and safety of its staff and Policy’. The spokesman said the premises, as indispensable control a result of the virus. industry colleagues, in line with “We note the Irish Commission’s concern related tools.” Inspectors with Ireland’s government guidelines and HSE authority intends to continue to ‘continued fishing activities in Asked to respond to the EU Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority advice’. administrative tasks, crosschecks case physical inspections at sea concerns, the SFPA said it was (SFPA) had already stopped The Irish naval service is also and vessel monitoring as usual,” or at landing are significantly ‘extremely confident’ that it physical checks of landings in continuing its fishery protection Mr Friess wrote. “Although such reduced or discontinued’, as had ‘stepped up to the mark in some fishery harbours after role – although several of its checks are important… they ‘this would present a major risk inspection numbers’ and that it the Health Service Executive ships have been redeployed as do not serve as a substitute for regarding compliance with the had ‘put in place a protocol on (HSE) Covid-19 guidelines were Covid-19 test centres in Dublin physical controls.” rules of the CFP’. boardings’. No tie-up support for Ireland’s inshore sector

Irish inshore fishermen are of inshore fishing activities as through budgetary flexibility. The latter has been dismissed currently available for much of dismayed at the response by soon as practically possible. EU fisheries committee by those working in the the catch in this state. Even if the minister for agriculture, Two weeks ago, MEPs chair Pierre Karleskind said: inshore sector because of two live storage aid were available, food and the marine and adopted plenary additional “This special, interinstitutional key points. Firstly, storage live storage capacity is limited, his department to the crises measures providing support co-operation shows how aid is currently only available and it is unlikely that shellfish facing the sector due to the to EU fishers and aquaculture committed the EU is to to members of POs, which stored live would survive until coronavirus pandemic, reports farmers severely affected by addressing the consequences of excludes the majority of market conditions improve. Pauric Gallagher. the pandemic. The package of the pandemic on the fisheries under-12m operators. Inshore Fishermen and their The vast majority of inshore measures includes supporting sector. The EU can really be groups can now apply for PO representatives view a tie-up operators have had no option fishers who have to temporarily present for its citizens when it status, but that will take time, of the entire inshore fleet as but to tie up due to the lack stop operating, financial aid for channels its available resources and the sector requires a more the only viable option for their of viable markets, and are aquaculture producers when towards supporting them.” immediate solution. sector, but with that choice struggling financially as a production is suspended or But Minister Creed and his Secondly, the vast majority comes a heavy financial burden result. reduced, support for producer department are reluctant to of the inshore catch is stored, for them. It would require Representative organisations organisations needing to introduce a tie-up scheme for shipped and sold live at the immediate roll-out by the for inshore fishermen have sent store fishery and aquaculture the Irish inshore sector, and markets throughout Europe DAFM of the EU funding a number of submissions to the products, and a more flexible cited the Irish government’s and Asia, and the EU aid already available, in line with Department of Agriculture, reallocation of national Covid-19 payment scheme as does not apply to live storage. what other EU countries are Food and the Marine (DAFM) operational funds. These support for self-employed crew Processing and freezing the now doing for their fishermen. seeking the introduction of a changes also allow support to and fishermen, and an EU catch to make it eligible for It is understood there may be scheme involving EMFF Article be given to countries that have scheme to subsidise the storage storage aid is of little benefit, up to 20% of Ireland’s €239m 33, and the temporary cessation exhausted all allocated funding, of frozen catch. as only limited markets are EMFF tranche still available. 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Selsey lifeboat Irish navy detains French- coxswain retires Selsey lifeboat coxswain Martin In 1978, Martin Rudwick was registered fishing boat Rudwick retired from the RNLI on awarded a vellum certificate when 21 April, having joined the crew he was crew during the service The French-registered fishing and was bought by Spanish The Defence Forces press there in 1973, reports John Periam. call to the trawler New Venture. vessel Miss Jacqueline II was owners in 1997, who converted office said that this is the Martin Rudwick has strong In 1996, he was appointed second detained by the Irish Naval her for use as a longliner to fourth such detention by the fishing connections, and in the early coxswain, a position which still Service off the southwest fish for hake. Naval Service so far this year. 1980s became skipper of a local allowed him to continue fishing. coast of Ireland on 26 April, boat. In 1991, he bought his own After the retirement of coxswain reports Pauric Gallagher. boat, the KSL. He fished the Selsey Mike Grant, he was appointed full- The 32m vessel was held for grounds for many years – getting time coxswain, and sold his fishing alleged logbook offences after assistance from the lifeboat on vessel. However, he still managed to it was boarded by crew from three occasions. catch the odd bass from the end of the naval vessel LE George the old station’s slipway. Bernard Shaw 180 miles west During his time at the helm, of the Mizen Head in Co Cork. he has seen some challenging The vessel was then escorted rescues, especially with the yachting to Castletownbere in Cork, community who know the local where it was handed over to seas less well. He has served An Gardaí Síochána. on three classes of all-weather It was reported that Miss lifeboats. The current Selsey Jacqueline II is Spanish- lifeboat is the 13m Shannon-class owned and fishes out of La RNLB Denise and Eric, which now Coruna in northern Spain, sits in a new lifeboat house with even though she is registered beach-launching facilities. in Bayonne in France. During Martin’s time with the The vessel was built in Miss Jacqueline II. RNLI at Selsey between 1973 and St Malo in Brittany in 1962, 2020, the all-weather lifeboats have launched 845 times on service. One hundred and thirty-nine lives have been saved, and a further 738 people rescued. In 2005, Martin was invited to Quota balancing for Irish be a crew member on the RNLI lifeboat for the Fleet Review off ‡ Coxswain Martin Rudwick Portsmouth – a great honour, whitefish vessels delayed retired on 21 April, after 47 years and the last one attended by Her of service with the Selsey lifeboat. Majesty the Queen. The implementation of the pilot balancing process and to month. It is anticipated that quota balancing policy for the adapt in these unprecedented quota balancing statements for Irish whitefish fleet has been times.” whitefish stocks for January delayed until 1 June, reports The pilot quota balancing 2020 to May 2020 will now be Pauric Gallagher. policy for demersal stocks issued to licence holders for Huge changes to UK Announcing the delay, was due to be implemented information purposes only. minister for agriculture, food from 1 January, 2020. Quota Quota balancing will be and the marine Michael balancing means that where a applied for the following plankton population Creed acknowledged that vessel exceeds its catch limit whitefish stocks from June the current economic climate for a relevant stock during a 2020: haddock in VIa, hake in has had a significant impact fishery management period, a VI and VII, monkfish in VI and The UK’s population of They add that this is crucial on the industry and has been balancing adjustment is made VII and whiting in VIIb-k. Quota plankton – the microscopic to understanding broader particularly challenging for from a future catch limit for balancing will be rolled out for algae and animals that changes across UK waters. vessels in the demersal fleet. that vessel. further stocks at a later time. support the entire marine Since plankton are the very He said: “This delay will allow Quota balancing statements The pilot quota balancing food web – has undergone base of the marine food web, our whitefish fleet extra time to were due to be issued to policy is available to view at: sweeping changes in the past changes in the plankton are become familiar with the quota licence holders later this agriculture.gov.ie six decades, according to new likely to result in changes to research published in Global commercial fish stocks, sea Change Biology. birds, and even the ocean’s Involving leading marine ability to provide the oxygen scientists from across the we breathe. New chair for Seafood 2040 UK, led by the University Their analyses of plankton of Plymouth, the research functional groups showed Seafishhas announced the unprecedented set of challenges, and combined the findings of profound long-term changes, appointment of Neil Auchterlonie as Seafood 2040 will have an important UK offshore surveys such which were coherent across the new chair of Seafood 2040. role to play in helping the seafood as the Continuous Plankton large geographical areas right The Seafood 2040 strategic industry in England to find its feet Recorder (CPR) and UK around the UK coastline. framework was created following again. inshore long-term time-series. For example, the 1998- the establishment of a taskforce “Neil brings a wealth of experience This was the first time this has 2017 decadal average representing all sectors of the seafood and knowledge which will be been done. abundance of meroplankton, industry in England in 2015. It extremely valuable in shaping the It then mapped those a group of animal plankton aimed to shape a long-term ambition support that Seafood 2040 can observations against recorded which spend their adult to realise the full potential of the deliver for the industry. He has also changes in sea surface lives on the sea floor, was industry by 2040. The programme is previously served on the Seafood temperature, to demonstrate 2.3 times that for 1958- facilitated by Seafish, funded by the 2040 government-appointed Industry the effect of our changing 1967 when comparing CPR EMFF and supported by DEFRA and Expert Working Group alongside climate on these highly samples in the North Sea, England’s seafood industry. former chair Alison Austin. This puts sensitive marine communities. at a time of increasing sea Neil Auchterlonie takes over him on an excellent footing to bring The study’s authors say that surface temperatures. the role following the departure some continuity at this difficult time their findings provide further This contrasted with a of inaugural programme chair and carry on the excellent work she evidence that increasing general decrease in plankton Alison Austin. He is a technical started.” ‡ Neil Auchterlonie, the new chair direct human pressures on the that spend their whole lives expert in fisheries, aquaculture and Neil Auchterlonie said: “Seafood of Seafood 2040. marine environment, coupled in the water column, while sustainable seafood, and has worked 2040 will be a vehicle to support the with climate-driven changes, other offshore species noticed previously as an advisor to industry, seafood industry’s sustainability in we address these challenges will be are disrupting marine population decreases of governments and NGOs. the long term and, not least, assist in my priority.” ecosystems globally. around 75%. Marcus Coleman, CEO of Seafish, the recovery from the impacts of the For further information on Seafood said: “Covid-19 has created an Covid-19 pandemic. Looking at how 2040, go to: bit.ly/3aGRqPc 8 BEACH COMPANIES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 EAST ANGLIAN BEACH COMPANIES – SHARKS AND SAVIOURS In the days before lifeboat services, saving lives at sea went hand in hand with the chance to make serious money from salvage, reports John Worrall t was a question of time and out of the longshore fishing shingle ballast in bags from one place. fraternities, probably starting bilge to the other. But they were I In the 18th and 19th in the 17th century, although fast, and could be sailed with the centuries, off the eroding East there are no records as such of lee rail a foot below the surface, Anglian coast, where longshore them then. Already working their and men baling whatever little drift built sediments into shoals boats from shallow beaches, water the speed didn’t keep out. to trap any number of ships – not and well versed in the tricky art Racing them brought a least the countless colliers on of launching through surf, the recreational dimension to an the Tyne to London run – salvage fishermen had always grouped otherwise serious business, and developed into a big market together in mutual help – but noted performers included the opportunity for those with the knowing the ground and its 49ft Bittern of Southwold, built knowledge and the nerve. And channels, they were well placed in 1890 and memorialised by a given the rewards on offer, the to help any ships in trouble. And model in the Sailors’ Reading nerve wasn’t hard to find. as they got better at it, and saw Room there and her rudder Thus did the beach the money to be made, they mounted on a post outside. And companies form up to work began to kit out for the job, and despite their size, yawls could the niche, helping vessels in make sure there was always a be rowed in calm weather, and distress and saving lives but, crew on the beach to look out for some had eight or nine thwarts more particularly, claiming work and seize opportunities. with square oar ports, which salvage from ships’ owners. The favoured craft was the could be closed with wooden That was the money-spinner: yawl – or ‘yoll’ in the parlance: shutters when the vessel was getting abandoned ships off the an open workboat, 40ft to 70ft under sail. sandbanks or the beach and to a long, which came in broadly two The companies also used port, as intact as possible. types. other boats such as skiffs, It followed, then, that business The beamier version tended to gigs and cutters and, because was best where sailing was be used for the less dangerous lifesaving was very much part worst, and the shoal-ridden jobs – anchor sweeping, carrying of the job, they were the first stretch between Mundesley in out to the Roads and didling to get purpose-built lifeboats, northeast Norfolk and Aldeburgh for coal around sunken colliers. courtesy of various wealthy in Suffolk became known as the In autumn, these boats would benefactors who were appalled Beachmen’s Coast. That’s where help to land the annual herring at the loss of life and aware ships came to grief, especially catch from the drifters, getting it of the shortcomings of the in a wind from a northerly or quickly to the beach for packing yawls in very rough seas. The easterly quarter. Thirty or so and sale. first lifeboat was stationed at companies were working that The sleeker version could Lowestoft in 1801, but by the reach in the early 19th century do much of that too, but its mid-19th century, nearly every – not companies in the legal additional speed was also beachmen’s settlement had one. sense, though each had its own suited to salvage, because the Companies working out rules, but groupings of men unwritten but cast-iron rule was of towns such as Yarmouth, with a common purpose. Most that the first boat to reach a Gorleston, Lowestoft, Southwold settlements had at least one; casualty got the job. and Aldeburgh found plenty of ‡ The Old Company of Lowestoft, looking suitably nautical outside Great Yarmouth, at one time, had They were originally three- employment carrying supplies, their shed in the 1890s. A lookout tower was added in the early 20th seven. masted, but in the mid-19th passengers, pilots and cargos century. The beach companies grew century, the main mast was between shore and ships, abandoned and a big dipping especially those moored in lug-sail was set on the foremast, Yarmouth Roads – which is why complemented by a suitably Yarmouth had so many. And large mizzen. They were clinker- there was the sweeping for lost built and usually double-ended, anchors, of which there were and to sail properly, they needed plenty. a crew of a dozen or more to But the biggest returns came handle that big foresail around from the dangerous salvage the mast on tacking, while at the of stranded vessels, and the same time shifting two tonnes of ‘village’ companies competed

‡ The yawl Happy Return, showing the sail pattern with the mizzen sheeted to the long bumkin. That dipping lug, though a powerful propellant, was a handful to get around the mast on tacking, and could be caught aback by a sudden wind shift, with potentially disastrous ‡ Nice lines – a yawl on Southwold beach around 1890. consequences. 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BEACH COMPANIES 9 EAST ANGLIAN BEACH COMPANIES – SHARKS AND SAVIOURS

‡ The Palling beachmen in 1888.

first. When the California crew arrived and one Henry Brown tried to board, Jacob George of the Caister crew ‘caught him ‡ The Sea Palling lookout – by the look of it, an even more dangerous by the throat and struck him place than a yawl in a high wind. Unsurprisingly, it was destroyed by a violently, endeavouring to break storm in 1897. his hold away and threatening to throw him in the sea’. In the event, the ship’s master, still aboard, obviously didn’t like the look of either crew and declined to employ them, presumably then going on to sort out the problem himself. Caister had a much better day ‡ The lookout, on the right, of Aldeburgh’s Old Company, on 29 November, 1801, when the photographed in 2005. The town companies had a bit more general company had an uncontested carrying work – and a bit more money. job after the brigantine Aberdeen Merchant of Sunderland, sailing hard for that action. They didn’t reflect on the dinner table. And from Hull for London, grounded get much involved in carrying there was a rule with most on the Outer Barber Sand. The – there wasn’t much to carry companies that any member crew abandoned ship, and after from villages, except pilots who could touch the boat being two hours made an exhausted occasionally – but concentrated launched would be entitled to a landfall at Yarmouth. But the on salvage and rescue to brigantine survived the supplement their fishing night, much to the delight income. Speed was important of the Caister beachmen, Typically, the early who boarded her and, after companies had just a single for salvage, because the making repairs, got her off boat and a membership and anchored her in the of up to 25 beachmen unwritten but cast-iron rule Roads. They were awarded ‡ Winterton’s lookout in the 1890s. A similar structure at Caister was – enough to give half a £200.64 for their day’s struck by lightning and demolished in 1910. chance of having a crew was that the first boat to work – and this was at a to hand at any given time when an agricultural But a cod smack then pitched Meanwhile, the Betsy’s time. Members generally reach a casualty got the job labourer’s annual wage was up, her skipper launching a skiff master, who had rowed for had a share in proceeds, £20-£25. and offering assistance. With the two miles, decided to return, and there were rarely outside cut of the job’s proceeds, even But given the number of Betsy rudderless, the beachmen anxiously aware of the big investors. With their yawl on the if they didn’t manage to get companies looking out along the knew they would need a smack difference between a payment beach, close to their gear shed, aboard, and so occasionally coast, much more likely would be to tie on and help steer her, but for salvaging a deserted vessel they would keep watch from there would be latecomers a convoluted scenario like that they didn’t want it to have any and one for assisting a boat lofty – and often rickety – lookout rushing into the surf to try to at surrounding the Betsy which, in claim. They told the skipper that in difficulties with its crew still towers or platforms, from where least touch the boat – though 1802, went on the Haisborough they would throw him off if he aboard. they would hope to spot ships in they were no doubt pressured Sands and lost her rudder. She boarded, but if he lay to, they But he saw that he was too trouble before another company into doing a full shift the next was abandoned, but was spotted might hire him. late, because the Winterton did. time. from the shore at first light, and The Caister boat arrived next men had got her underway – at There was a bit of life or It bred fierce competition companies from Winterton, and tried to board, but was which point he encountered the death about it in more than one between companies. Take Happisburgh and Caister all repelled with handspikes and Happisburgh crew, who had respect, because a big salvage one event in April 1856, when launched. The Winterton men, boathooks and retired hurt. been hampered by contrary could bring temporary riches, a vessel got into distress in reckoned to be the best of the The Betsy was then refloated, winds. He asked them to take but a dearth meant that time on the difficult Cockle Gateway bunch at the time, sent three and the beachmen duly hired him to the Betsy but, with her the beach was time lost and, off Caister. The Caister and boats, of which a large yawl the smack for a flat fee to tie now too far to windward, they with not much in the way of California companies both arrived first, soon to be joined by on to the stern, to give steering eventually decided that it was social security, that could quickly launched, but Caister got there that company’s other two. through the Cockle Gateway. a lost cause. So he landed with 10 BEACH COMPANIES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020

‡ Scroby Sands, just off Great Yarmouth, caught out a few ships in the days of sail. Now it houses a wind farm and, in recent years, four or five thousand seals.

them back at Happisburgh, and help, as most crews did after the beachmen £276 5s. – a fifth went to Yarmouth to try to regain the event, though in fairness – to of the value of the vessel and his ship. them, anyway – they had left cargo. Meanwhile, a Revenue cutter two dogs onboard. Landing on But sometimes, it was the entered the picture, boarding Happisburgh beach and finding beachmen on the receiving end. even before the Winterton men a company boat preparing to go On one occasion in the 1870s, noticed – though when they off, they asked to be taken back a schooner was seen coming did, a row ensued, tempered to the barque. There followed through that treacherous Cockle only by the fact that Gateway with a signal flying throwing government from the main peak. The officers overboard was a A big salvage could bring weather was squally with touch more serious than snow showers, and the ditching a competing crew. temporary riches, but a Caister company, sensing They were allowed to some business, launched. stay. The Winterton men’s dearth meant that time on But when they drew close, protectiveness eventually they found that the skipper earned them an award of the beach was time lost had hoisted the signal in the £1,230 – about £40 a man. hope of getting a tug. The Sometimes companies some lengthy haggling, after company account of the event spent too much time arguing, which it was agreed that one states that they were ‘laughed at as in October 1801, when the man would be taken – but while by the master and well abused barque Henrietta of Danzig they argued, a fishing boat with strong language. Returned also struck the Haisborough snuck alongside the Henrietta, to station’. Sands. The crew abandoned, and when the Happisburgh Very occasionally, their skills ‡ The rudder of the Bittern, a noted racing yawl, outside the Sailors’ later claiming to be going for company eventually got let them down. In 1885, the Reading Room in Southwold. there, they found her in the skipper of Caister’s yawl Zephyr, possession of its master who, after a night launch in calm now in pole position, was able moonlit conditions, uttered the to reduce them to the level of famous last words: “Now, dear subcontractor in getting the boys, keep a lookout for that old barque off. He was later awarded stump,” referring to the mast of a £469 4s. 5d. – much of which stone-laden schooner, the crew he would have been able to of which had been saved by the keep, even after paying the Caister men some nine years Happisburgh men. earlier. No sooner had he said Then there was the occasional it than the yawl struck the mast diversionary tactic to get and the boat was ripped open. possession, as in February 1810, Eight of the crew drowned. when the schooner Ney Prove of And sometimes, the weather Copenhagen, bound for London, was just too bad, a sudden wind struck the Newarp Sand, keeled shift putting that big dipping lug over, filled with water and was sail aback, and with the ballast abandoned – although again, the thus suddenly on the lee side, crew later claimed to be merely bringing almost instantaneous going for help. Her boats landed capsize. That’s what happened at Winterton, where the master to the Increase, in 1835, when and pilot went to a pub to seek the leaking Spanish brig beachmen to take them back Paquette de Bilboa had signaled to the schooner. But sensing an for a pilot. Three men had been opportunity, the Winterton men put aboard to help with the played for time until they could pumps, and the yawl was making launch two yawls – and then the its way back when it sank. Eight master and pilot were ushered men died, and another swam for into one which immediately seven and a half hours and was took them to Yarmouth harbour, picked up 14 miles away. where they were obliged to In 1838, the Lowestoft wait for four hours. By the yawl Peace was one of two time they were eventually responding in competition taken to the vessel, the other to a schooner’s request for a ‡ The sailing barge Service ashore at Eccles, just up from Palling, in 1906. The Palling men are offloading yawl had boarded and got her pilot, but the schooner stood coal into carts before attempting to refloat her. underway. The court awarded out to sea, and although both 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BEACH COMPANIES 11

‡ The Trio of Guernsey ashore on the Norfolk coast in the 1890s, although judging by the crabber in attendance, fishermen got to her before any beach company. Either way, she survived to sail another day. She was wrecked in 1939.

‡ The private lifeboat Prince Albert at California, the coastal colony founded by the eponymous company – both so named because gold coins were found in the cliff at the time of the California gold rush. By the ‡ Onlookers watch as the grounded Caister lifeboat Beauchamp is mid-19th century, wealthy benefactors had stationed lifeboats at most settlements on this stretch of coast, hauled ashore in 1901. Capsized in the surf, it lost nine of its crew. before the RNLI had fully taken over. yawls turned back, the Peace Sand one stormy November night wave, turned over and trapped And in the end, as the oft-quoted Malster wasn’t heard of again, leaving in 1901, had been launched – the crew underneath. Nine died. Caister beachman James Haylett Once Upon a Tide by Harvey its company with no boat with after a three-hour struggle and a That was the other side of the put it, when asked by a judge at Benham which to continue working, change of crew – into the surf. No beachmen’s coin, the lifesaving an inquest if they cashed in on the and 12 widows and 32 children one knew that by then, the ship in and the life losing – for although misfortunes of others: “No, sir, we All archive photographs courtesy destitute. trouble had been washed off the they were regarded by some profit from their mistakes.” n of Time and Tide Museum, Another disaster befell Caister sand and was anchored. Finally seamen as longshore sharks, Blackfriars Road, Great with the capsize of the lifeboat scrambling back to the beach, they saved many lives before the Further reading: Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 743930. Beauchamp which, in response the Beauchamp grounded, was RNLI came fully into the picture, The Beachmen by David Higgins museums.norfolk.gov.uk/ to distress signals on the Barber caught on its quarter by a big and they lost many themselves. Saved from the Seas by Robert time-tide SUBSCRIBE TO TODAY

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Find us on Twitter Join the nd us on Join in the conversation £3.25 Fishing News group 26 July 2018 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews TRANQUILITY FISHING FEATURE 9 Fishing News group 8 TRANQUILITY FISHING FEATURE Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 26 July 2018 £3.25 28 November 2019 – follow this link Issue: 5491 @YourFishingNews £3.25 1 4 5 December 2019 TRANQUIL FIRST TRIP FOR TRANQUILITY Issue: 5492 fishingnews.co.uk 14 November 2019 http://on.fb.me/fishingnewshttp://on.fb.me/ shingnews Join the THE NEW WHALSAY FLY-SHOOTER TRANQUILITY LK 63 FISHED HER MAIDEN Issue: 5489 Fishing News group TRIP LAST MONTH, IN THE BURRA HAAF ON THE WEST SIDE OF SHETLAND – follow this link There was a tangible buzz of anticipation as the crew gathered in Tranquility’s forward messdeck a few minutes into a Saturday 17 April 2015 £2.99 Visit us online for morning, in preparation for the start of their maiden trip, reports David Linkie £3.25 news, features and http://on.fb.me/fishingnewshttp://on.fb.me/ shingnews Find us on Twitter Tranquility heading in to land at nostalgia Scalloway, with Fitful Head in the 14 November 2019 distance, after a two-day maiden Courageous Courageous approaches Symbister harbour for the first time after trip in the Burra Haaf. Issue: 5489 ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED being bought by a youthful Whalsay partnership (Photo courtesy £3.25 Join in the conversation Ivan Reid) 17 April 2015 £2.99 28 November 2019 TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT U10 E-CATCH ROLL-OUT Issue: 5491 @YourFishingNews at WhalsayTURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT TOUGHER DISCARDS POLICING £3.25 TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT 5 December 2019 Issue: 5492 fishingnews.co.uk 5 1: Taking the end buoys onto the net drum, before clipping in the Courageous approaches Symbister harbour for the first time after port rope. New 14.65m crabber Dalwhinnie arrives at Stonehaven Courageous being bought by a youthful Whalsay partnership (Photo courtesy 2: Hauling the wings of the net onto the starboard drum. A large number of Whalsay residents 3: The Burra Haaf delivers yet again. Ivan Reid) ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED The new Stonehaven crabber Dalwhinnie A 913 was New Brixham beamer launched in Holland braved gales force winds and driving 4: John Johnson prepares to release the codline. given an early opportunity to prove her seakeeping The hull of the new Brixham beam trawler Georgina TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT 5: Another haul of prime-quality whitefish, caught less than 15 Skipper Ian Mathieson berthed sleet toof welcomeLadram BM the 100 latest was addition lifted into the water at Ibis miles from harbour. U10 E-CATCH ROLL-OUT 6: Fishroom man Robbie Jamieson weighing cod released from qualities during the 700-mile delivery passage from at Whalsay Margaret of Ladram sets new Brixham record Dalwhinnie in Stonehaven harbour for to the local fleet, the 26.5m whitefish TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Tranquility’s automated VCU catch-handling system… Kilkeel to Aberdeenshire, reports David Linkie. Shipyard, Burgum on 31 October, before being pushed the first time last week following a trawlerthrough Courageous the Prinses LK 470, Margriet into canal to Den Oever, 7: … before adding it to the vessel’s catch-management system. Skipper Ian Mathieson reported that the vessel TOUGHER DISCARDS POLICING New 14.65m crabber Dalwhinnie arrives at Stonehaven 8: The first box of fish in Tranquility’s fishroom. stormy delivery trip from Kilkeel. Symbister harbour for the first time at 9: The first day’s work nears an end. handled extremely well when crossing the Irish Sea in where the 35.25m vessel will be completed by main TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT The new Stonehaven crabber Dalwhinnie A 913 was the beginningcontractors of this Luyt month, BV, reports reports given an early opportunity to prove her seakeeping 2 … on first trip back after Rugbya SE forceWorld 6-7, before steaming Cup from Kyle of Lochalsh David Linkie Skipper Ian Mathieson berthed . qualities during the 700-mile delivery passage from David Linkie. Dalwhinnie in Stonehaven harbour for The Waterdance -owned beamer Margaret of Ladram E to Cape Wrath in a heavy northerly swell. Of 8.70m beam and a moulded depth of 5.2m, Kilkeel to Aberdeenshire, reports David Linkie. The occasion was given added A largeNew number of Whalsay Brixhamresidents beamer launched in Holland the first time last week following a 6 8 Georgina of Ladram was designed by Luyt BV Skipper Ian Mathieson reported that the vessel Margaret of Ladram leaves Brixham Powered by a Doosan V158TI main engine driving braved gales force winds and driving stormy delivery trip from Kilkeel. 199 broke the Brixham record landing for a single trip last significance by the fact that Courageous The hull of the new Brixham beam trawler Georgina handled extremely well when crossing the Irish Sea in , auctioned on the market fishmarket after landing her record- in collaboration with Marimecs Marine Design & sleet to welcome the latest addition a SE force 6-7, before steaming from Kyle of Lochalsh ith the summer solstice wheelhouse equipment, before month when 7.5t of Dover sole has been bought by four young Whalsay of Ladram BM 100 was lifted into the water at Ibis Margaret of Ladram sets new Brixham record less than two weeks calling Lerwick port control for floor by Brixham Trawler Agents, grossed £125,630. breaking catch. Engineering for Waterdance Ltd. to the Shipyard,local fleet, Burgum the 26.5m on 31 whitefishOctober, before being pushed to Cape Wrath in a heavy northerly swell. Waway, the ‘simmer dim’, clearance to leave harbour, as the fishermen, skipper Ian Shearer (24), Powered by a Doosan V158TI main engine driving for which Shetland is renowned, crew prepared to throw the ropes Margaret of Ladram skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie Georgina of Ladram is the second new fishing trawlerthrough Courageous the Prinses LK 470, Margriet into canal to Den Oever, meant that the sky over Lerwick off. engineer Malcolm Reid (24) Christopher … on first trip back after Rugby World Cup was still grey, rather than jet Ten minutes later, the flash of – whose son Luke plays rugby for England and Exeter vessel to be built for Waterdance by Luyt BV, which Symbisterwhere harbour the 35.25m for the vessel first willtime be at completed by main black. Bressay lighthouse slipped astern Bow view of Irvine (19)earlier and this James year delivered Johnston the (18), 14.95m in vivier-crabber David Linkie. The Waterdance-owned beamer Margaret of Ladram E After Chris Shearer started to port as Tranquility headed due Chiefs – turned the boat around and went straight back the beginningcontractors of this Luyt month, BV, reports reports 199 broke the Brixham record landing for a single trip last Tranquility’s Mitsubishi S6U south, parallel to the east coast Dalwhinnie, Margaret of Ladram leaves Brixham Bow view of (680kW @ 1050rpm) main engine, of Shetland, retracing the route partnershipNichola with of LadramLHD Ltd. E 1. David LinkieOf 8.70m. beam and a moulded depth of 5.2m, month when 7.5t of Dover sole, auctioned on the market Dalwhinnie, the sound of which was barely driven four hours earlier on the to sea, without even waiting to see what his record catch which is based fishmarket after landing her record- floor by Brixham Trawler Agents, grossed £125,630. which is based discernible in the wheelhouse, way north from Sumburgh airport With anThe average Luyt group age willof just now 21 begin years, installation of TheGeorgina occasion of was Ladram given was added designed by Luyt BV breaking catch. had made. on a Buccaneer on a Buccaneer skipper Stuart Anderson to Lerwick. the newGeorgina partnership of Ladram’s is probably engineroom one of and deck significancein collaboration by the fact with that Marimecs Courageous Marine Design & Margaret of Ladram skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie carried out a quick check of the Fishing News had been unable The record-breaking trip was his first after returning 46 hull, fitted – whose son Luke plays rugby for England and Exeter 46 hull, fitted 3 the youngest on record for this class of has beenEngineering bought by for four Waterdance young Whalsay Ltd. out by G Smyth out by G Smyth Chiefs – turned the boat around and went straight back from watching Luke Cowan-Dickie play for England fishermen,Georgina skipper of Ian Ladram Shearer is the (24), second new fishing to sea, without even waiting to see what his record catch Boats. Boats. vessel. during the recent Rugby World Cup in Japan. engineervessel Malcolm to be builtReid for (24) Waterdance Christopher by Luyt BV, which had made. 7 Skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie said: “I’ve been The four partners have all been The record-breaking trip was his first after returning 9 crew membersAn unusual on localview ofwhitefish Georgina boatsof Ladram passing over a dual carriageway while Irvine (19)earlier and this James year delivered Johnston the (18), 14.95m in vivier-crabber from watching Luke Cowan-Dickie play for England managing my sole quota and my days at sea for the since leavingbeing school,towed to with Den IanOever. Shearer partnershipNichola with of LadramLHD Ltd. E 1. during the recent Rugby World Cup in Japan. past 11 months, just so I could try and break this record. With anThe average Luyt group age ofwill just now 21 begin years, installation of Skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie said: “I’ve been aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on managing my sole quota and my days at sea for the I found this little patch of good fishing just before the Georgina of Ladram’s engineroom and deck Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus the new partnership is probably one of past 11 months, just so I could try and break this record. World Cup started, but I was unable to fish it because the youngest on record for this class of I found this little patch of good fishing just before the ‡ … before starting to run the port rope. and James Johnston on Guardian World Cup started, but I was unable to fish it because of bad weather. I obviously couldn’t miss the chance to vessel. to be in Whalsay the previous as the skippers and crew finished presented a unique opportunity Angell before this boat was renamed The four partners have all been of bad weather. I obviously couldn’t miss the chance to weekend, when Tranquility arrived rigging out their new boat at too good to miss, providing travel watch my son playing in the World Cup, so I was keeping ‡ The 35.25m beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 in the Prinses Margriet canal, en watch my son playing in the World Cup, so I was keeping a 1,350mm-diameter propeller through a PRM 4.17:1 of Kilkeel, Dalwhinnie features a number of interesting home from Denmark, where the Lerwick. arrangements could be made. Courageous. An unusual view of Georgina of Ladram passing over a dual carriageway while seine-netter was built to a new in- A WhatsApp message on The tight timescale meant that my fingers crossed while I was away watching Luke crew members on local whitefish boats my fingers crossed while I was away watching Luke reduction gearbox, Dalwhinnie used just 1,700 litres of ideas in line with the owner’s requirements, including a route to Den Oever for completion by Luyt BV. (Photos: Rienk Nadema) being towed to Den Oever. fuel during the three-day trip. refrigerated 130-box-capacity dry hold. house design by Vestværftet ApS Thursday morning – “We’re going the usual overnight ferry was Continued on Page 5 since leaving school, with Ian Shearer that no one else would find it. After being in Japan for at Hvide Sande (Fishing News, 28 aff shortly after Friday midnight, not an option, but fortunately that no one else would find it. After being in Japan for so long, I ended up spending a small fortune, so I really Based on a Buccaneer 46 hull and built to a high Further details of Dalwhinnie will be included in June), so alternative options were with a 95% chance of landing on Loganair still had seats available so long, I ended up spending a small fortune, so I really aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on needed to land this catch! level of specification and finish by G Smyth Boats Ltd Fishing News soon. ‡ Magnus Polson putting the dahn away… discussed with Stuart Anderson Sunday. There’s a bed for you” – on the last flight of the day from machinery. This will include an ABC needed to land this catch! Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus ‡ The 35.25m beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 in the Prinses Margriet canal, en “Many people don’t realise that this was a sustainable vessel of this size, we are setting a new catch. I have my sole quota, which is based on what can “Many people don’t realise that this was a sustainable a 1,350mm-diameter propeller through a PRM 4.17:1 of Kilkeel, Dalwhinnie features a number of interesting 745kW main engine, a 3,200mm-diameter and James Johnston on Guardian route to Den Oever for completion by Luyt BV. (Photos: Rienk Nadema) propeller and an electrically powered standard. We have worked transparently Angell before this boat was renamed be sustainably caught, given to me in January every year. catch. I have my sole quota, which is based on what can reduction gearbox, Dalwhinnie used just 1,700 litres of ideas in line with the owner’s requirements, including a and together with Waterdance from the It is then down to me to manage my yearly quota how I fuel during the three-day trip. refrigerated 130-box-capacity dry hold. 10-drum winch manufactured by the yard. Courageous. vessel of this size, we are setting a new want throughout the year. Because of 15 years of careful Shetland team effort nd us on be sustainably caught, given to me in January every year. initial concept phase to offer a design that Continued on Page 5 machinery. This will include an ABC management, the sole population off Brixham has been Jacoline Luijt of Luyt BV said: “We are standard. We have worked transparently Join the Based on a Buccaneer 46 hull and built to a high Further details of Dalwhinnie will be included in 745kW main engine, a 3,200mm-diameter increasing year on year. Fishing News group It is then down to me to manage my yearly quota how I meets their expectations.” – follow thisthis linklink very pleased with the collaboration with and together with Waterdance from the assists Rosebloom £3.25 “This record wasn’t just broken by me. It was a team the massive financial investment put in from the vessel’s 14 November 2019 http://on.fb.me/fishingnewshttp://on.fb.me/ shingnews level of specification and finish by G Smyth Boats Ltd Fishing News soon. Issue: 5489 want throughout the year. Because of 15 years of careful Scheduled for completion in 2020, propeller and an electrically powered initial concept phase to offer a design that The Avoch-owned and to sea through the north Waterdance. As with Nichola of Ladram, effort and the result of years of hard work, right from owners at Greendale, to all my crew and shore support 17 April 2015 £2.99 FAL 10-drum winch manufactured by the yard. Peterhead-based 28m pair- entrance at around 1am, management, the sole population off Brixham has been Georgina of Ladram is the first new beam meets their expectations.” staff, as well as the team at Brixham who sold the fish for C Courageous approaches Symbister harbour for the first time after Courageous hie seiner Rosebloom INS 353 shortly after high water. being bought by a youthful Whalsay partnership (Photo courtesy this demonstrates Luyt’s capacity to F Jacoline Luijt of Luyt BV said: “We are Ivan Reid) : ‘Te us to be able to break the record.” increasing year on year. LL trawler of its class to be built for the UK Scheduled for completion in 2020, was successfully refloated and Weather conditions were U10at Whalsay E-CATCH ROLL-OUT the massive financial investment put in from the vessel’s MPs TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT develop tailor-made solutions. We look The 33m beam trawler Margaret of Ladram has been “This record wasn’t just broken by me. It was a team since the Colne Shipping Company Ltd very pleased with the collaboration with Georgina of Ladram is the first new beam towed a short distance into calm with light winds and a owners at Greendale, to all my crew and shore support the jewel of the Greendale fleet since the Exeter-based A largeNew number of Whalsay Brixhamresidents beamer launched in Holland forward to seeing our joint vision come Lerwick by the local harbour moderate sea swell, with the braved gales force winds and driving Waterdance. As with Nichola of Ladram, The hull of the new Brixham beam trawler Georgina sleet toof welcome Ladram BM the 100latest was addition lifted into the water at Ibis effort and the result of years of hard work, right from took delivery of the 42.35m St Anthony LT trawler of its class to be built for the UK company bought her from Belgium in 2012. Her new to the Shipyard,local fleet, Burgum the 26.5m on 31 whitefish October, before being pushed staff, as well as the team at Brixham who sold the fish for tugs Knab and Kebister, in air temperature just above trawlerthrough Courageous the Prinses LK 470, Margriet into canal to Den Oever, into service. With the construction of a this demonstrates Luyt’s capacity to Symbisterwhere harbour the 35.25m for the vessel first timewill be at completed by main owners carried out an extensive refit, including a new main the beginningcontractors of this Luyt month, BV, reports reports David Linkie. freezing. David Linkie. MPssince the Colne Shipping Company Ltd a highly co-ordinated and Of 8.70m beam and a moulded depth of 5.2m, Find us on Twitter 1005 in 1999. LL TheGeorgina occasion of was Ladram given was added designed by Luyt BV us to be able to break the record.” significance by the fact that Courageous : ‘Tedevelop tailor-made solutions. We look engine and a complete machinery overhaul, and she has in collaboration with Marimecs Marine Design & Shetland team effort we w F smoothly executed operation An initial attempt by has beenEngineering bought by for four Waterdance young Whalsay Ltd. Join in the conversation hie took delivery of the 42.35m St Anthony LT £3.25 fishermen,Georgina skipper of Ian Ladram Shearer is the (24), second new fishing C engineer Malcolm Reid (24) Christopher AnT been skippered by Adam Cowan-Dickie since 2015. vessel to be built for Waterdance by Luyt BV, which The 33m beam trawler Margaret of Ladram has been FAL 28 November 2019 on Saturday, 16 November, Lerwick lifeboat, and then Irvine (19)earlier and this James year delivered Johnston the (18), 14.95m in vivier-crabber forward to seeing our joint vision come Issue: 5491 @YourFishingNews ouT partnershipNichola with of LadramLHD Ltd. E 1. Fishermen’s Association Ltd Chairman calls ono fishing industry to put pressure on MPs 1005 in 1999. 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Her new has broken our longstanding Brixham port record for fish at Lerwick for consignment pull Rosebloom clear of the aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on assists Rosebloom ACCESS QUESTIONS DODGED Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus and James Johnston on Guardian TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT to Peterhead, Rosebloom soft contoured skerry proved Angell before this boat was renamed ‡ The 35.25m beam trawler Georgina of Ladram BM 100 in the Prinses Margriet canal, en landed, with a value of £126,000. Not only is Adam a very Right: Margaret of Ladram skipper Adam Cowan-Dickie... route to Den Oever for completion by Luyt BV. (Photos: Rienk Nadema) CFP’ Courageous. owners carried out an extensive refit, including a new main F Continued on Page 5 The Avoch-owned and to sea through the north o Fishing News machinery. This will include an ABC vessel of this size, we are setting a new grounded on the submerged unsuccessful. ouT good hardworking skipper, but he’s managed to pin down Left: … and his son Luke, who played for England in the 745kW main engine, a 3,200mm-diameter standard. We have worked transparently AnT New 14.65m crabber Dalwhinnie arrives at Stonehaven propeller and an electrically powered and together with Waterdance from the engine and a complete machinery overhaul, and she has The new Stonehaven crabber Dalwhinnie A 913 was Soldian Rock when returning 10-drum winch manufactured by the yard. initial concept phase to offer a design that Peterhead-based 28m pair- entrance at around 1am, given an early opportunity to prove her seakeeping the fish using a lot of skill and a bit of luck. Results like this Rugby World Cup final loss to South Africa. Continues on page 2 ‡ Rosebloom is towed into harbour by the Lerwick Port Authority vessels Knab and Kebister. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) Jacoline Luijt of Luyt BV said: “We are meets their expectations.” we w Skipper Ian Mathieson berthed qualities during the 700-mile delivery passage from very pleased with the collaboration with Scheduled for completion in 2020, Dalwhinnie in Stonehaven harbour for Kilkeel to Aberdeenshire, reports David Linkie. Waterdance. As with Nichola of Ladram, Georgina of Ladram is the first new beam the first time last week following a Skipper Ian Mathieson reported that the vessel don’t just happen overnight – this is the result of years of FAL ChieF: ‘TethisLL demonstrates Luyt’sMPs capacity to trawler of its class to be built for the UK been skippered by Adam Cowan-Dickie since 2015. stormy delivery trip from Kilkeel. develop tailor-made solutions. 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ollowing my week at sea onboard the Waterdance Fvessel Sam of Ladram, next up on my list was the Julie of Ladram E 271. The Julie is the largest boat in the Waterdance fleet, with an LOA of 38.25m and a sizeable beam of 8m. She was built at the Haak shipyard in Zaandam, Holland in 1983, fishing in and around the North Sea under the name Cornelis Maria for many years. Waterdance renamed the vessel Julie of Ladram in honour of the much-missed administrator of its parent company Greendale, Julie Jones, who passed away in 2018. Julie of Ladram is quite the stunner: long, wide, and with a generous stern and substantial deck that would allow for plenty of action shots, without me being in the way of the deckhands during a haul. As I arrived in Brixham just after midday, the crew were busy sorting nets, and I headed to the galley to meet skipper Sean Beck. He was only there to see the crew off, with this week and the next marked down as a well-earned break. Taking the helm for this trip was Nathan Marshall, a 34-year-old fisherman with 13 ‡ Mate Sprat and deckhand Ray repair the nets ahead of another trip years’ experience and an evident on the Julie of Ladram. passion for the sea. Nathan’s mate for this trip was his wife and their son and much older and wiser head on his Mike Smith, a fisherman of 35 daughter, while Danny, having shoulders, and an early interest in years’ standing. He went by the recently had his holiday with his the engineroom had quickly seen name Sprat, and I really had to wife and two girls, was now back Waterdance put him through a know why. “I was born in August,” at work for the long haul. shoreside engineering course. His he said. “My dad and grandad Marley Tyler, last but by no knowledge of the inner workings were fishing for sprats, and when I means least, was just 17 years old, of the Julie was very much on was born and he first saw me, he by far the youngest and also the show over the week. Marley was a said, ‘He ain’t no bigger than a most enthusiastic fisherman I had credit not only to his parents and sprat,’ and it stuck from that. ever come across since I began Waterdance, but to the UK fishing School teachers called it me, documenting lives and livelihoods industry, and if our UK vessels everybody called it me.” I asked at sea. Marley is tutored and each had a Marley on them, the Mike how tall he was. “Five foot mentored by both Nathan and future of our industry would be six. I never quite made it to 6ft!” Sean, but despite this being only bright indeed. I was met with a familiar face his fourth month as a fisherman, With evening approaching, we from my time onboard the William nothing about him suggested left Brixham harbour and of Ladram during Storm Doris in anything but a seasoned pro. His immediately headed towards January 2017: Lien ‘Numpty’ baby-faced exterior masked the Longbank. Despite the early Rogers, now sporting a full beard, causing a double-take moment until I heard his very familiar voice. Now 31 and with 10 years as a fisherman under his belt, this was his second week onboard the Julie as cook. The two Filipinos onboard were Danny and Ray, long-time friends who had known each other for much of their lives. Danny was also married to Ray’s niece. Danny, aged 38, had been a fisherman for 15 years, nine of those spent fishing out of Scotland, with this his first year in the South West. Ray, now 50, had also been a fisherman for 15 years. He would shortly return to the Philippines for a hard-earned ‡ Tony Fitzsimmon’s previous berth, the Sam of Ladram, leaves break, to spend a few months with Brixham ahead of the Julie. ‡ The Julie of Ladram crew on deck in Brixham harbour. 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews JULIE OF LADRAM 13

‡ Skipper Nathan Marshall in the wheelhouse.

‡ Ray brings in the first haul as the swell begins to build. appearance of calm, the sea state deckhands hard at work with my of noise and erratic movement. My ramped up considerably just a few camera wrapped in a thin death-warmed-up exterior spoke miles out of port, and I decided to waterproof wrap, but at times it volumes to those in the galley as go with just a bowl of rice and a was all just too much and I another day of easterly winds popadom before bunking down, retreated to lie on my bunk. began – the only good news being ready for a sunrise start the Forty-three years on the planet, that the following day was due to following morning. and I have yet to entertain a worse be much kinder. Sadly, when I woke early the feeling than seasickness. Again I did what I could out on next day, conditions had deck against the dramatics, worsened, and all that day I and when the lads were ‡ Marley Tyler prepares to bring in the starboard net. was plagued by an uneasy Weeks and weeks inside, I occupied my time feeling any time I caught and theirs with a series of glimpse of the tempest of flat calm, and then questions. As I collared outside. With the lads Nathan in the wheelhouse, coming back in off the deck in winter it can be 10s, the first topic was Brexit in early afternoon, and – and he was not cooked snacks prepped as 10s, 10s enthusiastic. deckhands switched over, the “We were doing really well. hustle and bustle and constant I did what I could that evening, I don’t think the boats have ever motion just added to the though the first day had largely done so well. We had the markets overwhelming sense that any time been a write-off. Still, I plodded all set up, the exports all set up, soon, I would throw up. With this on with one last night shoot before and they will completely destroy being a shorter trip, achieving turning in, as Danny and Ray took all that for months, until they set it what I had been tasked to do was to the deck, the wind and rain all back up again. We may even going to be a tricky affair. continuing to pelt down. take a hit financially. We were For much of the rest of the day, My night was restless; every never going to get our waters the Julie was peppered with strong time I drifted off, I was back, and if we did, we are in swells and swirling winds. I immediately smacked back wide French waters a lot of the time, so managed to get some shots of the awake by an unpalatable mixture we won’t be allowed in there.

‡ Easterly winds and swells batter the Julie. ‡ Marley sends another basket of cuttles down to the fishroom. 14 JULIE OF LADRAM Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020

‡ Marley and Lien work well into the night, sorting through the latest haul. ‡ Skipper Nathan Marshall tallies up the catch so far.

“To be honest, I would have waters back. Water’s water. sooner stayed in the EU. I do think “It’s more about the quota, and I’ve never done so well. Many we can have what we like then. others have never done so well, so And if it’s too much for us, that’s why change it? They may not great, we can dish it out and gain negotiate very well and just revenue through that. It can go completely screw us over, as a back into the fishing industry, for bargaining chip for something youngsters, for whatever reason, else.” for training, tickets, whatever. So Sprat disagreed, seeing a much hopefully it will go in the right more positive outlook for the direction. It can only go forwards, industry. “Prior to Brexit, it was although it is going to be used as a looking not great, but I think if we bargaining chip. We know that, we do get half of what was promised, knew that from the offset, but it’s then we will…” – he paused for a going in the right way.” moment – “... not win, we are Lien’s words echoed these never going to win, but we will get feelings. “Not that I really a lot more than we did have. It’s understand it all as a deckhand, not so much about getting our but it seems a lot of foreign boats

‡ The Waterdance vessel William of Ladram begins fishing operations close to the Julie.

‡ Marley hooking in the net on the starboard side. ‡ The fishroom begins to fill up, and Sprat checks over the catch so far. 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews JULIE OF LADRAM 15 have got a lot of our quota. I think one. You might see a scorpionfish, it is all right for them to fish here, and you wouldn’t have seen them but why have they got more years ago. Anchovies, they are percentage in our water? How is here in the upper channels, so the that fair?” water is obviously warmer, as they The topic of climate change was are traditionally a Mediterranean next on the list, as cantankerous fish.” swells continued to hit the Julie With the storm season kicking hard. Nathan said: “The summers off and Brendan clearly annoying are hotter, and they are stuffier at everyone onboard, I wondered sea. Calmer weather, weeks and what to expect from the long list weeks of flat calm, and then in of storm names to come, with winter it can be 10s, 10s, 10s! It’s Ciara up next. Right then it just more severe. You notice a certainly did feel worse – but then change in the seasons a lot more, I’m only at sea every so often, with definitely.” seasickness adding weight to my “There has been a change in opinion. water temperature,” Sprat added. Mentioning my unease about “That’s obvious, because of the the large supertrawler in the different species you see. Channel late last year, I asked Sometimes you might even see Sprat about sustainability. “It’s something exotic – only the odd managed now way better than it

‡ Sprat enjoying a little sun on deck after the storm subsides.

ever used to be. You have an they’ve made their money was tonnes of it – and we’ve only e-log that is done every 24 hours, already, and they stop. People been doing it for a few years. I they know what you’ve caught, seriously think we hoover don’t think we tended to notice and you are monitored when you everything up. We don’t. That’s what we were catching, years get in. I imagine there is still not what we are about.” ago. black fishing that goes on, there Given the impact that other “Back then, everyone did it. is bound to be, but it is not You’d take your gloves off as bad as it was, so going Every single bit of when they were sticky, forward, that’s massive, throw them over the rail. that’s really good. Bin bags – that one’s full, “We don’t, as fishermen, plastic – humans made chuck it over the rail. ‡ The mascot for the Julie keeps watch in the wheelhouse. want to kill everything. Everyone did it. For years! Why would we? We don’t it, we threw it in the sea, Now, no one does it. It all do that because what are we gets brought in.” So what’s going to catch tomorrow? and we’ve got to clear it changed, I asked? “I think What’s going to feed our we are a bit better educated grandkids, what are they up – it’s our duty – when you see on the telly, going to do? How is these big rafts of plastic and Brixham ever going to sustain industries have on our marine all that. Where did that come itself if we catch all the fish? We environment – even countries, from? Us, humans. Every single have a quota. If we catch up to it, for that matter – it is bit of plastic that’s ever we don’t fish any more, that’s it! disappointing to find so much anywhere, that’s caused by a The Irish mackerel boats, the blame still directed at fishermen. human. We made it, we threw it Scottish mackerel boats, once I found Sprat at his most honest in the sea, and we’ve got to clear they’ve caught their quota, they when it came to his views on the it up – it’s our duty.” stop. They might be laid up for matter. “When we first started To understand and six or seven months a year, but doing the fishing for litter, there acknowledge a problem is

‡ Marley checks the starboard net as Storm Brendan rages…

‡ … and brings in another late-night haul. ‡ The Channel Light Vessel under a lovely January sunset. 16 JULIE OF LADRAM Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 generally the first step towards finding a solution. The fact is that many fishermen and industry organisations are using their time and resources to tackle various environmental issues – despite the abuse from groups whose mentality is more about getting a headline. The reality is, we are all in the same boat. So has fishing for litter been a success? Sprat seemed to think so. “We are seeing a lot less, because we are picking it up. At the end of this trip, we might have two half-tonne bags of waste that we have picked up, and that is only four days’-worth. A seven-day trip, both of those bags are full. And it is all down to the education. We now know it is bad. Thirty, 40 years ago, you wouldn’t have seen a picture of a raft of plastic in the Pacific. Now it’s everywhere – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – it’s all over the place, and we have to do something.” Nathan was certainly behind this ongoing force for change. “Plastics – I hate it! I’ve gutted megrim and found bottle caps that they have digested. I don’t know how long it had been in there, but twice it’s happened. If you looked closely enough in most fish you were gutting, you’d find microplastics. It’s scary really, how the world has been impacted by human nature.” With the weather and the sea ‡ Ray climbs out of the fishroom… calming, I spent the final day taking a series of portraits of the crew as they continued their graft, with spirits now raised, thanks to Brendan becoming more akin to a whimper. A quick glance on XC suggested that next week was going to be something else entirely – and once again, a dreaded easterly. My understanding of weather at sea prior to this trip had been pretty hit and miss. While Sprat was at the helm, in the distance he pointed out the Channel Light Vessel. My mind was blown – a lighthouse! On a ship, out at sea! And by using its location (Channel Light Vessel in the search bar of XC), I learned how to call up accurate forecasts. No longer did I have to play a guessing game by working from ‡ … and lowers another basket of cuttles. ‡ Back in Brixham, Sprat begins landing the catch. the weather given for various southern harbours. As I watched the Channel Light Vessel from the stern – just a blinking imprint on a now gentle sea below a glorious sunset – I couldn’t help but feel moved by it all. With the seasickness now long behind me, I was almost disappointed to be heading back to Brixham the following day. On these trips I am always humbled and informed by the people I meet along the way – this time, the wonderful team of skipper Nathan Marshall, mate Sprat and deckhands Lien, Danny, Ray and Marley. But with yet another full waste bag of marine litter on deck, ready to empty into the harbour skip, in one sense at least, I felt we were heading in the right ‡ The Waterdance vessel Barentzsee heads out of Brixham under direction. n ‡ Sprat is caught doing his finest Whac-a-Mole impersonation. more tranquil skies. 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews QUIZ/NEWS 17 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 Laundry equipment removes BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE 910 splotches, eg (7,4) 9 European’s heading off to the boozer (3) 3 9 10 Tradesman will complain 11 12 and then go in (9) 5 142 46 13 11 Nepotist about, hurry up! 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Selsey fisherman Spike (Michael) it home. I gave it a bit of a clean-up, did collect a 250lb bomb in one of our Langford enjoys his regular copy and put it in my drawer with other nets. That I would not have put in my of Fishing News, and as he was odds and ends I have found over the drawer,” he said with a smile. reading ‘The Kaiser’s War: Mines years along the seafront. All fishermen There is a local Royal Navy and Zeppelins’ in the 23 April issue, are beachcombers at heart.” Association at Selsey, and Spike will he noticed an image of a metal Spike had no idea what it was at show them the cuff badge. He plans cuff badge and cap tally issued to the time – it was only on reading to keep it and hand it down within the members of the Royal Navy Mine about the Mine Clearance Service family. Sadly, there are no names on Clearance Service, reports John in Fishing News last month that he these badges, so its original owner Periam. discovered that these badges were cannot be traced. “I have seen one of these before,” he issued up to 1920, when the service As we finished our chat over the thought. Over the years, he has picked was disbanded. At some point, this phone, there was a knock on the up odd things from Selsey’s shingle one was obviously lost. “It would have door – it was Spike’s grandson Dan, beach and put them in a drawer at remained in my memorabilia drawer, with a nice plate of cockles for him. home. On checking, he found a Mine had I not read about it,” said Spike. “I am being well looked after during Clearance Service badge. “I started to fish at the age of 14, the current situation,” said Spike. “It “It must have been 50 to 60 years and retired at the age of 81 to look is not easy for the fishermen here. ago that they built the sea wall at after my wife, who had ill health. My However, they are doing their best to Selsey to replace the faggots [bundles son Richard and grandson Dan still survive, and in some cases supply of old sticks tied together] that they fish from Selsey. We have strong direct to customers at home. We then used to keep the shingle bank family traditions, and I remember must think positive – and like many, up. I was helping, and I suddenly saw when I started, most of my fishing was we fishermen are used to trials and ‡ Spike Langford, who started fishing at 14 and retired at 81, this object, and picked it up and took done under sail. On one occasion, we tribulations.” holding the metal cuff badge he found on Selsey beach. 18 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020 PORTS & PRICES FRAGILE DEMAND ON PETERHEAD FISHMARKET Although cod and haddock attracted fairly by Peterhead Port Authority on 24 March The following morning, eight boats, consistent demand from domestic markets because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Renown, Heather Sprig, Castlewood, Attain last week, groundfish prices were on the Monday’s sale included 1,648 boxes II, Karen Ann II, Westro, Falcon and Sunrise, floor, due to pressure that French fishermen of gutted haddock, 509 boxes of megrim, together with two consignments from Norlan and their government are exerting on French 490 boxes of hake, 454 boxes of monkfish, and Russa Taign, landed 3,534 boxes. supermarkets to stop them selling Scottish 421 boxes of whiting (373 rounders), 355 Tuesday’s tally included 884 boxes of gutted processed fish, reportsDavid Linkie. boxes of ling, 303 boxes of coley, 96 boxes of and 171 boxes of round haddock, 468 boxes Prices reached a nadir last Wednesday flatfish and 26 boxes of squid. of coley, 343 boxes of whiting (257 rounders), morning at Peterhead, when hake sold as At the start of last week at Peterhead, 295 boxes of cod, 273 boxes of monkfish, low as 10p per kg, ling 20p, megrim 30p and large cod sold at £1.95-£2.95 per kg, 197 boxes of hake, 194 boxes of flatfish, 184 monkfish 95p, further underlining the severe medium £2.10-£2.90, selected £2.30-£3.15 boxes of ling, 141 boxes of megrim and 21 problems currently facing skippers, crews and small 60p-£1.35. Large/medium gutted boxes of squid. and processors alike. haddock sold at £2-£3.65 per kg, selected Nine boats, Budding Rose, Lapwing, Six boats, Golden Gain, Summer Dawn II, £1.25-£2.75, small 75p-£2.05, chippers £1- Ocean Challenge, Revival, Celestial Dawn, Accord, Endurance, Conquest and Gracious, £1.95 and metros 40p-85p. Gutted whiting Guiding Star, Guiding Light, Favonius and together with nine consignments, contributed were at £1.15-£1.50 and round whiting 50p- Endurance, together with one consignment Golden Gain V, Summer 5,019 boxes to the first and largest market £1.30 per kg. Monkfish sold at £1.10-£3.20, from Harvest Hope, put 2,819 boxes ashore Dawn II and Conquest of the first four days last week at Peterhead, lemon sole £1-£2, megrim 55p-£3.70, hake for Wednesday morning’s market. This landing for the first market 25p-£3.15, ling 65p-80p, coley 95p-£1.55, total, the smallest of the four days, included thereby reaching the capacity limit of the of last week at Peterhead. social distancing regulations brought in plaice 95p and squid 75p-£3.40 per kg. 718 boxes of gutted and 57 boxes of round

haddock, 348 boxes of coley, 321 boxes of 40p-£1.60 and round haddock 45p. Large cod, 308 boxes of monkfish, 227 boxes of cod sold at £2.20-£2.90 per kg, sprags whiting (179 rounders), 166 boxes of hake, £2.70-£3, medium £2.50-£2.65, selected 129 boxes of flatfish, 128 boxes of ling, 34 £2.80 and small £2.55. Monkfish sold at boxes of squid and 31 boxes of megrim. £1.25-£3.15, megrim 30p-£4.45, gutted Three boats, Faithlie, Opportunus IV and whiting 90p-£2.10, round whiting 75p-£1.25, Valhalla, plus four consignments, contributed plaice 50p-£1.25, lemon sole £1.15-£2.25, 3,103 boxes to last Thursday’s market at coley 85p-£1.25, hake 30p-£2.40, ling 40p Peterhead. This sale included 640 boxes and squid 50p-£2.65 per kg. of gutted haddock, 595 boxes of megrim, Twenty-six boats and 16 consignments 365 boxes of cod, 392 boxes of monkfish, contributed to the four-day total last week 214 boxes each of coley and whiting (125 of 14,475 boxes on Peterhead market. This rounders), 195 boxes of hake, 153 boxes well-mixed tally included 4,118 boxes of of ling, 69 boxes of flatfish and 64 boxes of haddock (228 rounders), 1,427 boxes of squid. monkfish, 1,380 boxes of cod, 1,333 boxes Last Thursday morning at Peterhead, of coley, 1,276 boxes of megrim, 1,205 boxes large/medium gutted haddock made £1.50- of whiting (934 ungutted), 1,048 boxes of £2.75 per kg, selected £1.50-£2.40, small hake, 820 boxes of ling, 488 boxes of flatfish ‡ The pair-seiners Castlewood and Attain II landing at Peterhead last week. (Photos: Ryan Cordiner) 80p-£2.25, chippers 80p-£2.25, metros and 145 boxes of squid. CONSISTENT SHETLAND WHITEFISH LANDINGS STEADY SUPPLIES BUT Thirteen boats put 1,380 boxes on Tuesday’s market, when halibut and turbot came on Thursday morning LOW RETURNS AT BRIXHAM ashore for Monday’s market, which sold at up to £12.70, monkfish £3.15, at £5, £2.55 and £8.30 per kg, while The market at Brixham continued to £6.20, 3s £4.50, 4s £1.50 and 5s 50p. was the largest of the first four days saithe £1.35 and squid £3.35 per kg. round whiting made £1.20 per kg on see steady supplies of fish last week, Ling averaged 70p/kg for 1s, 80p for of last week in Shetland. This was The highest prices for megrim, plaice Wednesday’s market. although unsettled weather kept some 2s and 50p for 3s. Prime lobsters were followed 24 hours later by 1,004 of the day-boats tied up towards the £15.20 and large £14.20. boxes from five arrivals. Wednesday end of the week. Prices, however, Mackerel made £4.20 for 1s, £4.10 morning marked the low point of the remained low. It was estimated that total for 2s and £2.90 for 3s. Megrim 1s and week, when three boats contributed sales over the week would be around 2s were £1.80, 3s £1.40, 4s 70p and 897 boxes, before supplies increased £390,000. 5s 50p. Monkfish 1s averaged £6.80, to 1,080 boxes from eight boats for Over the four markets from Monday to 2s £7.20, 3s £7.50, 4s £6.50, 5s £5.80 Thursday morning’s sale, bringing the Thursday, bass fetched £6.50 for 1s, £6 and 6s £1.70. Red mullet sold at £9.50/ four-day total to 4,361 boxes from 29 for 2s, £5.50 for 3s and £7 for 4s and kg for 1s, £7.20 for 2s and £1.80 for 3s. boats. 5s. Blondie wing 1s were £2, 2s £1.80, Octopus averaged £1.80. At 41,867kg (including 32,646kg 3s £1.50 and 4s £1.20/kg. Size 1 brill Plaice 1s averaged £3/kg, 2s £2.70, of rounders), whiting led the way last averaged £6.20/kg, 2s and 3s were £6, 3s £2.30, 4s £1.75 and 5s 90p. Pollack week, followed by cod (18,731kg), 4s £5.60 and 5s £4.30. 2s were £3.80, 3s £3 and 4s £2.20. haddock (17,996kg, of which 1,632kg Size 1 cod were £7.20, 2s £4.80, 3s Sand sole 1s were £5.10/kg and 2s was ungutted), monkfish (17,203kg), £4.40, 4s £5.40 and 5s £3.50. Coley £2.40. Large scallops were £5.50 and saithe (16,252kg), ling (11,267kg), was £1.50 for 1s and 2s. Conger fetched small £3. Dover sole 1s averaged £8.60/ megrim (10,703kg), hake (4,842kg), £1.20 for 1s and 2s and 80p for 3s. kg, 2s £8.70, 3s £8.90, 4s £8.40, 5s plaice (3,745kg) and lemon sole Cuttlefish averaged £1.40 for 1s and and 6s £8.20, 7s £7.90, 8s £7.40, 9s (1,372kg). £1.25 for 2s. Size 1 dabs were £2.80, £6.10 and 10s £4.80. Large squid were Top prices fluctuated across the and 2s were 60p. John Dory 1s were £5/ £14.50 and 2s were £14.10. markets. Cod reached a high for the kg, 2s £4.50, 3s £3.70 and 4s £1.60. Thorny wings averaged £1.40 for 2s, week of £3.10 per kg on Monday Red gurnard 2s made 80p. £1.30 for 3s and 50p for 4s. Tubs were morning, when gutted haddock, hake, Haddock 1s averaged £4/kg, 2s £2.50 90p/kg for 1s, and 2s were 75p. Turbot lemon sole, ling and gutted whiting and 3s 50p. Hake fetched £3.70 for 2s, averaged £8.90/kg for 1s, 2s £8.20, 3s also peaked at £3.55, £4.10, £9.45, ‡ The visiting Fraserburgh twin-rig trawler El-Shaddai landing at £4.10 for 3s, £4 for 4s, £2.90 for 5s, £7.20, 4s £6.70, 5s £7.80 and 6s £8. 85p and £3.50 per kg respectively. Lerwick for the first electronic auction of last week in Shetland. (Photo: £2.40 for 6s and £2.20 for 7s. Lemon Large whiting averaged £3.20/kg, 2s Round haddock made 30p per kg Sydney Sinclair) sole averaged £6.50/kg for 1s; 2s were £1.40, 3s 40p and 4s 30p. 7 May 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 19

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 30 APRIL price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 30 APRIL landed price/kg wk ago ago 30 APRIL landed price/kg wk ago ago 30 APRIL landed price/kg wk ago ago

Catfish £0.92 £1.13 £2.28 £2.17 Catfish (gutted) 14,264 £0.37 £0.51 £0.97 Bass (1) 101 £6.28 £8.32 £17.58 Bass (2) 7 £10.00 - £7.73 Bass (3) 3 £7.31 £6.50 £7.73 Cod (A1) £2.39 £2.95 £2.19 £1.96 Catfish (ungutted) 7,278 £0.26 £0.23 £0.63 Bass (2) 241 £5.71 £8.86 £18.38 Cod (A2) £2.82 £3.02 £2.90 £2.50 Bass (3) 615 £5.30 £9.09 £15.37 Bass (4) 11 £9.33 - £12.49 Cod (large, gutted) 72,399 £1.57 £1.34 £2.01 Bass (5) 87 £9.04 £6.00 £12.50 Cod (A3) £2.71 £2.77 £2.77 £2.42 Bass (4) 642 £6.56 £9.55 £11.15 Cod (large, ungutted) 144,910 £1.14 £1.26 £1.75 Blonde Ray (L) 245 £1.26 £1.94 £1.89 Cod (A4) £2.69 £2.98 £2.28 - Bass (5) 554 £6.78 £9.46 £10.01 Cod (small, gutted) 328 £0.33 £0.39 £0.97 Blonde Ray (M) 491 £0.90 £2.89 £1.80 Cod (A5) £1.67 £1.95 £1.31 - Brill (1) 381 £5.63 £5.26 £12.35 Blonde Ray (S) 152 £0.29 £1.57 £1.08 Haddock (A1) £2.58 £3.21 £2.99 £4.34 Cod (small, ungutted) 3,142 £0.27 £0.31 - Brill (2) 386 £5.91 £5.28 £9.93 Brill (1) 26 £2.82 £5.46 £11.13 Greenland halibut (gutted) 675 £2.71 £1.75 - Haddock (A2) £1.97 £2.58 £2.08 £4.39 Brill (3) 698 £5.91 £5.09 £9.28 Brill (2) 69 £4.66 £5.40 £11.15 Haddock (A3) £1.98 £2.16 £1.91 £3.58 Haddock (large, gutted) 30,185 £0.85 £1.15 £1.69 Brill (4) 634 £5.59 £4.60 £8.14 Brill (3) 134 £4.25 £6.48 £8.81 Haddock chippers (A4) £1.83 £2.10 £1.36 - Haddock (large, ungutted) 35,162 £1.36 £1.20 £2.09 Brill (5) 46 £4.12 £3.50 £6.99 Brill (4) 118 £3.29 £4.83 £6.80 Haddock metros (A4) £0.73 £1.23 £0.55 - Haddock (small, ungutted) 276 £0.19 £0.25 £0.76 Cock crabs 111 £6.92 £5.74 £7.03 Brill (5) 16 £2.00 £5.00 £6.13 Hake (A1) £2.06 £2.42 £5.09 - Claws (9) 3 £0.50 - £5.50 Halibut (gutted) 319 £2.20 £1.42 £2.69 Cod (1) 30 £7.06 - £4.29 Hake (A2) £1.30 £2.74 £4.24 - Cod (3) 201 £3.15 £3.69 £4.17 Lemon sole (gutted) 3,499 £1.47 £1.70 £2.52 Cod (2) 107 £4.35 £6.54 £4.61 Hake (A3) £0.92 £1.73 £2.55 - Cod (4) 1,413 £1.81 £4.26 £3.05 Ling (gutted) 10,809 £0.33 £0.42 £0.93 Cod (3) 113 £4.13 £6.19 £4.24 Hake (A4) £0.76 £1.63 £2.03 - Cod (5) 2,662 £1.21 £3.05 £2.40 Conger (1) 138 £1.02 £1.33 £1.80 Cuckoo ray (L) 380 £0.70 £1.75 £1.15 Hake (A5) £0.50 £0.85 £1.57 - Ling (ungutted) 5,961 £0.37 £0.50 £1.16 Conger (2) 41 £1.17 £1.20 £1.53 Cuckoo ray (M) 348 £0.74 £1.32 £1.10 Halibut £4.17 £5.00 £7.65 £7.00 Megrim (gutted) 480 £0.86 - - Conger (3) 83 £0.72 £0.67 £0.37 Cuckoo ray (S) 134 £0.26 £0.42 £0.32 Monkfish (gutted) 5,139 £2.70 £3.01 £3.64 Lemon sole (A3) £1.43 £2.13 £4.49 £2.50 Cuttlefish (1) 27,449 £1.38 £1.58 £3.35 Cuttlefish (L) 938 £1.44 £1.71 £3.37 Ling (A1) £0.67 £0.70 £0.84 £2.83 Plaice (gutted) 33,782 £0.90 £1.20 £2.04 Cuttlefish (2) 6,296 £1.23 £1.22 £2.67 Cuttlefish (S) 189 £1.12 - £2.52 Ling (A2) £0.70 £0.79 £0.98 £2.83 Redfish (ungutted) 9,266 £0.54 £0.50 £1.77 Dogfish 4,732 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Dover sole (1) 58 £8.80 £8.92 £14.06 Ling (A3) £0.54 £0.59 £1.13 £3.00 Saithe (gutted) 27,591 £0.29 £0.48 £0.98 Gurnard (2) 58 £0.79 £1.92 £4.11 Dover sole (2) 132 £8.47 £9.01 £14.41 Megrim (A1) £3.35 £4.07 £5.81 £10.34 Dover sole (3) 378 £8.27 £9.39 £14.99 Saithe (ungutted) 15,851 £0.28 £0.43 £0.61 Gurnard (4) 7,936 £0.56 £0.58 £0.62 Megrim (A2) £2.54 £3.69 £4.43 £8.62 Dover sole (4) 468 £8.10 £8.01 £11.42 Skate (gutted) 1,516 £0.42 £0.46 £0.54 Haddock (1) 683 £3.91 £4.12 £3.11 Megrim (A3) £1.53 £2.36 £3.14 £6.50 Dover sole (5) 221 £7.88 £8.27 £9.86 Haddock (2) 192 £2.34 £3.22 £2.89 Megrim (A4) £0.65 £1.21 £2.18 £5.69 Spotted catfish (gutted) 2,921 £0.27 £0.64 £0.96 Gurnard and latchet (L) 85 £1.09 £0.86 £4.97 Haddock (3) 137 £0.34 £0.72 £1.26 Gurnard and latchet (M) 98 £0.63 £1.49 £3.05 Megrim (A4) £0.90 £1.21 £1.22 £5.00 Tusk (gutted) 6,801 £0.39 £0.33 £0.56 Hake (2) 12 £3.54 £2.84 £5.27 Gurnard and latchet (S) 188 £0.40 £0.32 £0.85 Monkfish (A1) £2.04 £2.18 £2.16 £4.51 Tusk (gutted) 6,801 £0.39 £0.33 £0.56 Hake (3) 148 £4.10 £2.79 £5.29 Haddock (1) 67 £1.91 £2.13 £2.39 Monkfish (A2) £2.44 £2.78 £2.57 £4.67 Tusk (ungutted) 3,378 £0.24 £0.13 £0.36 Hake (4) 450 £3.99 £3.08 £5.38 Haddock (2) 164 £1.79 £1.91 £2.50 Monkfish (A3) £2.96 £3.17 £2.70 £4.82 Whiting (gutted) 1,767 £0.25 £0.21 £0.23 Hake (5) 1,266 £2.83 £2.76 £4.52 Haddock (3) 226 £1.28 £1.61 £1.83 Monkfish (A4) £2.33 £2.68 £2.42 £4.31 Whiting (ungutted) 14 £0.04 £0.08 - Hake (6) 2,610 £2.35 £2.18 £3.14 Haddock (4) 47 £0.39 £0.43 £0.90 Monkfish (A5) £1.37 £1.56 £2.00 £3.88 Haddock (5) 105 £0.83 £0.97 £0.87 Witch (gutted) 32 £1.09 £0.93 - Hake (7) 994 £2.12 £1.78 £2.73 Plaice (A1) £0.59 £0.67 - - Hake (0) 33 £0.20 £0.51 £0.49 Witch (ungutted) 7,042 £1.34 £1.07 £1.29 Hen crabs 84 £2.33 £2.45 £3.04 Plaice (A3) £1.25 £1.25 £0.84 - Hake (1) 19 £1.66 - £4.84 John Dory (1) 279 £4.64 £7.09 £10.93 Plaice (A4) £0.83 £0.89 £1.26 £1.00 Hake (2) 46 £1.57 £3.94 £4.65 HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m John Dory (2) 172 £4.39 £6.97 £10.59 Pollack (A1) £1.45 £1.65 - - TO 30 APRIL landed price/kg wk ago ago Hake (3) 231 £1.65 £3.84 £4.74 John Dory (3) 387 £3.51 £6.22 £7.80 Hake (4) 709 £1.88 £3.73 £4.26 Pollack (A2) £1.95 £2.05 £1.75 - Lemon sole (1) 386 £6.32 £8.49 £10.33 Hake (5) 1,623 £1.61 £2.50 £3.85 Pollack (A3) £1.30 £60.30 - - Catfish (1) 6,873 £2.96 £2.84 £4.46 Lemon sole (2) 372 £6.08 £8.36 £10.44 Hake (6) 4,960 £0.80 £2.18 £2.45 Pollack (A4) £1.25 £1.35 - - Cod (0) 996 £4.03 £2.64 £5.04 Lemon sole (3) 937 £4.42 £4.96 £8.88 John Dory (1) 69 £5.15 £8.37 £11.09 Round Haddock £0.45 £0.45 £0.59 - Cod (1) 9,727 £4.03 £2.73 £4.92 Lemon sole (4) 3,134 £1.48 £1.83 £3.69 John Dory (2) 668 £3.75 £6.07 £10.18 Saithe (A1) £1.08 £1.10 £1.66 - John Dory (3) 1,576 £1.76 £4.10 £7.29 Cod (2) 23,656 £3.81 £2.55 £4.53 Lemon sole (5) 1,999 £0.36 £0.50 £2.42 Saithe (A2) £1.28 £1.40 £1.68 £1.13 John Dory (4) 674 £0.59 £2.19 £5.65 Line mackerel (1) 61 £4.20 £1.27 £2.76 Saithe (A3) £1.21 £1.28 £1.52 - Cod (3) 20,178 £3.49 £2.58 £3.60 John Dory (5) 168 £0.16 £1.30 £3.34 Line mackerel (2) 76 £4.05 £1.92 £3.63 Saithe (A4) £1.12 £1.16 £1.62 £1.35 Cod (4) 24,584 £2.85 £2.00 £3.17 Lemon sole (1) 265 £3.98 £5.39 £8.24 Squid trawled £1.19 £3.04 £3.32 £3.00 Cod (5) 11,589 £2.20 £1.89 £2.81 Line mackerel (3) 92 £2.85 £0.58 £1.88 Lemon sole (2) 320 £3.22 £5.67 £8.96 Lobster 277 £13.72 £15.23 £18.94 Turbot £5.67 £5.91 - £8.08 Haddock (1) 9,059 £2.12 £1.91 £2.39 Lemon sole (3) 755 £2.41 £4.22 £7.64 Monkfish tails (1) 94 £6.62 £7.44 £11.55 Lemon sole (4) 1,842 £1.11 £1.86 £3.55 Haddock (2) 7,604 £1.62 £1.34 £1.79 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Lemon sole (5) 1,305 £0.20 £0.38 £2.22 TO 30 APRIL landed price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish tails (2) 362 £6.92 £8.39 £12.20 Haddock (3) 5,757 £1.01 £0.80 £1.19 Monkfish tails (3) 904 £7.43 £8.69 £11.58 Ling (L) 17 £1.13 £1.55 £1.58 Haddock (4) 675 £0.38 £0.00 £0.42 Monkfish tails (4) 2,521 £6.20 £7.98 £10.99 Ling (M) 147 £0.90 £2.03 £1.49 Catfish 883 £0.74 £1.95 £1.86 Ling (S) 52 £0.57 - £1.02 Hake (0) 6,614 £5.05 £3.66 £3.24 Monkfish tails (5) 2,014 £5.66 £6.73 £9.20 Cod (2) 5,770 £2.48 £2.30 £3.28 Lobster (M) 5 £9.20 - - Hake (1) 15,668 £3.63 £2.68 £2.82 Monkfish tails (6) 495 £1.49 £2.16 £3.13 Cod (3) 5,378 £2.78 £2.42 £3.09 Mackerel (LM) 1,597 £1.81 £2.69 £4.20 Octopus 1,989 £1.73 £1.81 £1.95 Cod (4) 2,329 £2.56 £2.16 £2.62 Hake (2) 28,651 £2.50 £1.74 £2.09 Mackerel (M) 4,638 £1.15 £1.35 £4.10 Plaice (1) 1,744 £2.93 £2.90 £3.93 Cod (5) 1,043 £2.47 £2.05 £2.47 Hake (3) 13,527 £1.62 £0.86 £1.23 Mackerel (S) 847 £0.45 £0.40 £0.73 Cod (6) 2,351 £1.69 £1.77 £2.57 Lemon sole (1) 939 £6.36 £7.42 £5.36 Plaice (2) 2,000 £2.60 £2.32 £3.40 Megrim (1) 65 £2.21 - £3.34 Plaice (3) 2,453 £2.27 £1.71 £3.67 Megrim (2) 462 £2.40 £5.57 £3.68 Haddock (1) 1,584 £2.16 £2.16 £2.12 Lemon sole (2) 2,669 £5.67 £4.89 £4.48 Plaice (4) 2,286 £1.71 £1.42 £2.69 Megrim (3) 291 £2.48 £4.08 £2.95 Haddock (2) 3,001 £2.72 £2.81 £2.83 Lemon sole (3) 2,675 £3.75 £1.88 £2.32 Plaice (5) 2,972 £0.89 £1.19 £1.87 Megrim (4) 436 £1.84 £2.21 £2.47 Haddock (3) 2,955 £2.35 £2.56 £2.34 Ling (1) 13,059 £1.52 £0.88 £1.89 Pollock (1) 53 £5.00 £4.90 £4.91 Megrim (5) 1,262 £1.33 £1.61 £1.35 Haddock (4) 4,849 £1.67 £1.88 £2.15 Monkfish (1) 28 £6.54 £8.54 £10.16 Ling (2) 11,830 £1.45 £0.87 £1.89 Pollock (2) 888 £3.70 £5.73 £4.77 Haddock (5) 3,975 £1.03 £0.83 £1.30 Monkfish (2) 179 £6.74 £9.61 £10.84 Ling (3) 9,782 £1.18 £0.67 £1.78 Pollock (3) 845 £2.80 £4.91 Haddock (round) 1,632 £0.24 £0.44 £1.30 Monkfish (3) 407 £7.25 £9.97 £11.00 Megrim 2,896 £1.31 £2.34 £0.97 Hake (2) 516 £2.48 £3.07 £4.65 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 220 £1.97 £1.80 £4.69 Monkfish (4) 417 £6.48 £9.72 £10.15 Hake (3) 1,334 £1.73 £2.83 £3.64 Monkfish (1) 4,696 £4.33 £3.10 £4.06 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 603 £1.68 £1.50 £3.19 Monkfish (5) 889 £5.51 £4.92 £7.53 Hake (4) 2,992 £0.93 £2.04 £2.06 Monkfish (2) 16,068 £4.23 £3.19 £4.27 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 419 £1.42 £1.42 £2.91 Octopus (L) 115 £1.90 - £3.99 Halibut (3) 123 £11.14 £12.16 £10.77 Monkfish (3) 18,471 £4.01 £3.04 £4.29 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 1 £1.43 £1.52 £2.25 Octopus (M) 201 £1.79 £1.78 £1.81 Plaice (1) 63 £2.66 £2.47 £4.25 Halibut (4) 196 £6.55 £8.61 £8.43 Monkfish (4) 4,490 £3.84 £2.69 £4.31 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 320 £1.23 £1.25 £2.64 Plaice (2) 99 £2.46 £2.84 £3.65 Lemon sole (2) 212 £8.57 £8.08 £7.82 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 567 £1.25 £1.13 £2.67 Monkfish (5) 550 £2.63 £1.89 £2.55 Plaice (3) 249 £1.55 £2.05 £3.43 Lemon sole (4) 695 £2.86 £4.36 £3.38 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 420 £0.94 £0.54 £1.31 Plaice (1) 14,030 £2.52 £2.15 £3.39 Plaice (4) 194 £0.80 £1.35 £1.89 Ling 11,267 £0.68 £0.82 £1.01 Red mullet (1) 4 £3.02 £1.25 £3.34 Plaice (2) 26,703 £2.48 £1.80 £3.35 Pollack, lythe (2) 201 £2.03 £3.97 £4.55 Lythe 1,021 £0.94 £2.03 £3.17 Red mullet (2) 13 £2.23 £1.20 £2.86 Plaice (3) 20,550 £2.45 £2.03 £2.68 Pollack, lythe (3) 1,111 £1.85 £3.22 £3.36 Megrim (2) 4,655 £3.59 £4.64 £4.05 Red mullet (3) 76 £8.98 £10.08 £10.48 Pollack, lythe (4) 2,577 £1.34 £2.95 £2.43 Megrim (3) 3,195 £2.68 £3.78 £2.85 Plaice (4) 29,526 £2.21 £1.75 £2.13 Round pouting 6,950 £0.28 £0.30 £0.44 Red mullet (1) 6 £7.30 - £10.83 Megrim (4) 2,853 £1.71 £2.15 £2.05 Pollack (2) 5,531 £2.63 £1.45 £4.37 Scallop (2) 3,313 £1.47 £1.53 £3.87 Red mullet (2) 26 £6.96 £7.09 £9.63 Monkfish (1) 478 £1.50 £1.63 £3.33 Pollack (3) 19,694 £2.39 £1.41 £3.52 Scallop meat 16 £9.00 £9.00 £12.54 Red mullet (3) 56 £4.68 £6.49 £9.62 Monkfish (2) 5,307 £1.98 £2.11 £3.73 Pollack (4) 2,206 £2.05 £1.18 £3.09 Sole (1) 745 £8.53 £8.48 £13.92 Red mullet (4) 208 £0.47 £0.96 £6.79 Saithe (1) 19 £1.50 £1.90 £1.63 Monkfish (3) 6,425 £2.91 £2.64 £3.98 Saithe (1) 20,393 £1.39 £1.56 £1.23 Sole (2) 1,344 £8.69 £8.77 £14.26 Saithe (2) 144 £1.69 £1.50 £1.73 Monkfish (4) 3,529 £2.86 £2.57 £3.88 Sole (3) 1,257 £8.85 £9.07 £15.06 Saithe (2) 36,613 £1.32 £1.62 £1.18 Saithe (3) 143 £1.43 £2.50 £1.23 Monkfish (5) 821 £1.36 £1.73 £3.07 Sole (4) 1,898 £8.34 £8.84 £11.53 Saithe (3) 150,690 £1.19 £1.59 £1.13 Saithe (4) 76 £0.48 £0.50 £1.10 Monkfish (6) 643 £0.81 £0.97 £2.34 Sole (5) 1,234 £8.11 £8.26 £9.77 Saithe (4) 174,354 £1.02 £1.41 £1.01 Scallops 45 £1.60 £1.84 £1.20 Plaice (2) 212 £1.92 £2.38 £2.43 Sole (6) 1,476 £8.10 £7.91 £7.62 Shagreen ray (M) 24 £1.90 - £1.20 Squid 5,681 £2.46 £1.38 £2.10 Plaice (3) 969 £1.16 £1.94 £2.25 Squid (1) 42 £12.92 £14.47 £11.29 Shagreen ray (S) 12 £0.35 - £0.90 Plaice (4) 2,564 £0.75 £0.73 £1.32 Turbot (0) 173 £14.39 £8.97 £18.03 Squid (2) 63 £14.06 £15.21 £12.13 Smoothhound (M) 30 £0.50 £0.98 £0.66 Saithe (2) 891 £1.13 £1.14 £1.25 Turbot (1) 488 £12.62 £8.54 £15.77 Squid (mix) 45 £13.23 £11.07 £9.15 Smoothhound (S) 32 £0.20 - £0.55 Saithe (3) 3,629 £0.96 £1.17 £1.05 Turbot (2) 404 £11.17 £7.75 £14.70 Turbot (1) 108 £8.81 £8.98 £15.00 Squid (M) 19 £5.98 £4.44 £10.46 Saithe (4) 11,732 £0.85 £1.14 £0.80 Turbot (3) 392 £10.96 £8.09 £11.83 Turbot (2) 221 £8.07 £8.41 £13.86 Squid (S) 1 £3.50 - £10.76 Thornback Ray (M) 100 £0.50 - £1.22 Skate 1,599 £0.80 £0.82 £0.76 Turbot (4) 787 £6.86 £5.29 £4.61 Turbot (3) 258 £7.03 £8.04 £13.86 Turbot (1) 21 £6.87 - £15.77 Skate, mixed 46 £0.48 - £0.41 Turbot (4) 523 £6.52 £6.97 £12.29 Whiting (1) 195 £1.49 £1.49 £1.38 Turbot (3) 26 £5.46 £6.94 £15.49 Skate, roker 65 £0.66 £1.07 £0.90 Turbot (5) 799 £7.70 £8.05 £11.32 Whiting (2) 1,020 £1.46 £1.31 £1.24 Turbot (4) 76 £4.89 £7.46 £14.36 Squid 2,871 £1.48 £1.50 £4.17 Turbot (6) 183 £8.41 £7.68 £9.01 Whiting (3) 769 £1.01 £0.38 £0.62 Turbot (5) 139 £5.45 £7.14 £12.36 Turbot 75 £7.29 £8.07 £11.63 Whelks 435 £1.15 £1.15 £1.34 Turbot (6) 120 £7.13 £7.48 £11.37 Witch (1) 1,411 £3.37 £2.77 £2.98 Whiting (2) 2,403 £2.54 £3.58 £2.53 Whiting (1) 147 £3.09 £2.55 £2.55 Whiting (1) 54 £0.84 £1.97 £2.04 Whiting (3) 6,818 £1.64 £1.87 £2.03 Witch (2) 4,679 £2.14 £2.02 £1.62 Whiting (2) 247 £1.35 £1.56 £1.90 Whiting (2) 51 £0.65 £1.51 £1.25 Whiting, round 32,646 £0.69 £1.06 £1.43 Witch (3) 3,428 £1.06 £0.79 £0.78 Whiting (3) 237 £0.31 £0.38 £1.39 Whiting (3) 45 £0.34 £1.07 £0.65 20 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 7 May 2020

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LtdThe at:South West fishing company Waterdance Nichola of Ladram White Eagle launched BREXIT STOCKS DANGERShas taken delivery of the new 15m steel vivier- berthed at Brixham. BREXIT MELTDOWN TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORTcrabber Nichola of Ladram E 1, which arrived at Polruan for Western Isles TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT in Brixham from the Luyt yard at Den Oever in Fraserburgh 01346 518300 The new 15m automated scalloper White Eagle Holland earlier this month. REGIONAL NEWS CY 525 was lowered by hydraulic hoist into the SAVE £££s OFF THE Skipper Richard Carroll and his crew of six river Fowey alongside the quay at Polruan, where wasted no time in getting the new boat to sea Westro and Carvela naming ceremonies Commemorations mark the steel-hulled vessel was built by C Toms & Son, Havantas soon as the paperwork 023 was all completed, 9244 1000 New Taits arrives at Fraserburgh reports Phil Lockley. to start placing Nichola of Ladram’s 3,000 crab ...counts the 50th anniversary of the Soon destined for its home port of Kallin on Skipper James West with his family, pots. North Uist, White Eagle is a step aside from before Westro’s naming ceremony on or emailWaterdance managing directorus Nigel on Blazeby [email protected] the West Pier at Peterhead. Longhope lifeboat tragedy traditional deck layouts of similar-sized scallopers said that the company is delighted with the new used in southwest England. crabber, which represents a milestone for the Having split winches, with full winch control Waterdance fleet, as the company’s first new from the aft wheelhouse, was a request from the build for some considerable time. vessel owners and operators, brothers Konrad and “We’re very pleased her, and also with the Kamil Kosieradzki of K&K Fishing. work done by Luyt in building Nichola of Ladram White Eagle is expected to run sea trials from to such an innovative design,” he said, adding Polruan in the next two weeks. that while Waterdance and a number of other Further details of White Eagle will be included in Fishing News shortly. continues on page xx COVER PRICE

‡ The 74.8m midwater trawler Taits entering Fraserburgh harbour for the first time following its delivery trip from Ølensvåg, Norway. † Taits recorded a top speed of 19.5 knots on Class endurance trials.

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‡ The Ullapool Sea Savers meet local prawn boat Freya UL 81… ‡ … then sort and bag the catch… ‡ … and set out on their delivery round.

Children’s marine conservation charity advisors and groups such as Seafish and doesn’t taste as good.” Ullapool Sea Savers held a community- Marine Scotland, we worked out a way to An online map of local buyers and wide prawn party to support local land the prawns safely and legally, then sellers is available at: fishonfriday.org. fishermen and boost morale last weekend. distribute them without putting ourselves uk/sales-locations The Sea Savers has a record of or others at risk. By the end of the day we successful campaigning on marine were all tired – the kids really got a taste of issues. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, it the effort that goes into landing seafood received a grant from the National Lottery – but they were all really happy, as we got Community Fund to host a community messages and pictures of friends and celebration of everything it loved about the families in Ullapool enjoying their prawn sea, as part of the National Lottery’s 25th meals – everything from traditional prawn anniversary celebrations. cocktails to Cajun and Indian recipes.” East Anglian beach companies – Plans to hold a beach-based seafood, Local seafood supplier and fish shop sharks and saviours music and art party had to be cancelled owner David Mackenzie of DM Seafoods See pages 8-11 as the country went into lockdown. said: “It was great to see the kids out, However, on learning that local prawn not only supporting our local boats but fishermen are facing severe financial promoting our domestic shellfish around difficulties following the collapse of the the village. We are doing our best to French and Spanish markets, the children maintain a local supply chain, but it is hard decided to arrange a socially distanced to keep going, and especially when many prawn appreciation party instead. people are used to getting their fish and After buying two days’ catch of prawns shellfish from supermarkets. from a local creel boat, the children “Our own local produce is some of – with help from a couple of parents – the best in the world, and linking up the inspected and then divided the catch fishermen, boats and local markets is into small bags, made from recycled critical if we are going to keep the industry plastic and donated by the local Tesco going until all this is over – in fact, it could store. They offered these for free online, be beneficial in the long term if we all ‡ Pictures of households enjoying the and distributed them around the village. choose to buy locally rather than what is socially distanced prawn party were Ullapool households then posted photos often imported, factory processed and shared online. of the meals they cooked on social media. Beaming from Brixham Janis Patterson, who organises See pages 12-16 Ullapool Sea Savers, said: “Although conservation and protection of the seas and marine life are the kids’ Unusual Northumbrian main objective, we also recognise the importance of a healthy fishing industry as part of the system, and the place of shellfish double that industry at the heart of Highland communities. In the past we have visited Skipper Jonathan Dawson and the boats in both Ullapool and Gairloch, and crew of the Seahouses static-gear we know a lot of the fishermen and their catamaran Standsure BK 552 were families personally. surprised when their pots yielded not “Many people in the Highlands are one but two unusual catches in quick facing financial pressures as a result of the succession last week, reports David lockdown, but fishermen had an overnight Linkie. stoppage, and many boat owners, crews The first was a pale blue cock and those who buy and sell seafood are lobster. While similar-coloured in serious trouble. Sadly, we can’t help hens are occasionally seen, the them all, but we thought that by helping distinctively coloured cock was one boat, we could raise awareness of only the second Jonathan Dawson Fishing News feature opens the wider situation, while also introducing remembered seeing in over 20 years. drawer to the past for Selsey what is some of the best shellfish in A few minutes later, when fisherman the world to the community. We really continuing to haul the gear 10 miles See page 17 hope that this will encourage people to east of Seahouses, the second usual buy directly from the boats and local specimen was a crayfish – also a ‡ The light blue cock lobster and fishmongers who are struggling to keep fairly unusual occurrence in the crayfish caught by the Seahouses going. North Sea. potting catamaran Standsure. SEE INSIDE! “After a lot of consultation with industry