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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL BREXIT BATTLE BEGINS REPORT Voting open for Fishing News Long service recognised at the NAFC Awards 2020

‡ Saro Saravanan and Caroline Hepburn of the NAFC. The NAFC Marine Centre in Shetland has marked the long service of two of its staff: Caroline Hepburn, Book now for the Fishing News Awards who has worked at the centre for 25 years, and Saro presentation evening on 14 May. Saravanan, who has worked there for 20 years. Caroline Hepburn joined the then Shetland Fishermen’s Training Association (SFTA) in October The countdown is on to the Fishing News Awards 2020, with 1998, working with the late Gussie Angus to organise the nomination shortlists drawn up and a prestigious new training for the local fishing and aquaculture industries. venue confirmed for the presentation evening on 14 May. Among the new entrants whose careers she helped to Voting is now open for the 10 categories that are decided by start are many of Shetland’s current fishermen. Fishing News readers. The other four – the Sustainability Award, Her industry liaison role continued after the SFTA Young Fisherman of the Year, Port of the Year and the Lifetime was absorbed into the NAFC, and has since expanded Achievement Award – will be decided by a panel of judges. to include support for all students attending the NAFC You can vote once in each category, and voting closes and Shetland College. at midnight on 17 April. Turn to pages 14-19 to read the Saro Saravanan joined the NAFC’s staff as a nomination shortlists and make your choices in the categories hatchery technician in 2000, having arrived at the for pelagic, demersal, shellfish and trainee fishermen, service centre two years earlier to enrol on its HNC course in companies, fresh fish retailers and processors, and new fisheries science. While working on a shrimp farm in pelagic, demersal and shellfish boats. his native India, he had planned to apply to university The presentation evening on 14 May will take place at the in Canada, until a chance sighting of an advert led him four-star Mercure Aberdeen Ardoe House Hotel and Spa, a instead to Shetland. beautiful 19th-century mansion house in Blairs, Aberdeen. Saro worked in the NAFC hatchery for many years Guests will be treated to a drinks reception, sponsored by the on species including lobsters, halibut and cod. During Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, followed by a three-course that time, he became increasingly involved in training meal with wine and live entertainment from top comedian apprentices and students, and he transferred to NAFC’s Simon Evans. ‡ Ardoe House Hotel in Blairs, Aberdeen. Training and Skills Department in 2015. FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2020 PRESENTATION EVENING Book your seat for our celebration of the TICKETS NOW ON SALE best of British and Irish commercial fishing Enjoy a great night out, with: ★ A drinks reception ★ A superb 3-course meal with wine ★ A seat at the awards ceremony and live entertainment, presented by comedian Simon Evans ★ Awards from all aspects of the fishing industry DATE: MAY 14 2020 VENUE: MERCURE ABERDEEN ARDOE HOUSE HOTEL & SPA TREAT YOURSELF, YOUR COLLEAGUES, OR YOUR CLIENTS TO AN EVENING THAT THEY’LL REMEMBER Book your tickets now at: fishingnewsawards.co.uk 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 UK and EU polarised on fishing as trade talks start UK: ‘We’ll walk away if no agreement by June’

The UK government says it will leaving on WTO terms at the end But the UK negotiating Iceland and the Faroes. As an “In a very brief period, you walk away from the Brexit EU of December. document rejects the ‘outdated’ independent coastal state, we can’t do everything. We will trade and fisheries talks if there Fishing is set to be a major share-out of quotas based on will regulate access to our own do as much as we can under is not the ‘broad framework’ of issue in the talks, which started relative stability, and says they waters on our terms.” pressure of time.” an agreement by June that is on Monday this week (2 March), must be based on the principle Mr Gove said that there would French Europe minister capable of being finalised by with both sides expressing their of ‘zonal attachment’, reflecting be ‘no border down the Irish Amélie de Montchalin signalled September, reports Tim Oliver. determination to stick to their where fish actually live. Sea, and the fishing fleets of that fishing would be a flashpoint Announcing the UK’s polarised positions. EU vessels fishing in UK Northern Ireland will enjoy all the over the coming months. negotiating position to MPs The EU, under great pressure waters would be subject to rights that they deserve, similar “The fishermen have the right last Thursday, Michael Gove, from member states with fishing UK licensing and reporting – indeed, identical – to those to be protected. They know very the minister in charge of interests such as France and requirements. of other fishermen, and fishers, well that if we sign a bad deal, delivering Brexit, told MPs Ireland, is determined to ‘uphold’ Mr Gove told MPs: “As well throughout the United Kingdom’. they will lose enormously,” she that the UK wanted to strike the current access and quota as concluding a full FTA [free He said that the government told TV station France 2. a ‘comprehensive free trade arrangements. It also insists that trade agreement], we will require would not accept any alignment In a speech in London agreement’ in 10 months. fishing must be linked to wider a wholly separate agreement with EU laws, as the EU is in February, Boris Johnson But if that cannot be agreed, trade talks. on fisheries. We will take back demanding. “We will not trade announced that, once free of the government’s negotiating The UK is equally determined control of our waters as an away our sovereignty,” he said. the CFP, “British fishing grounds document says it will decide that fishing and trade talks independent coastal state, Michel Barnier, the European are first and foremost for British whether to switch focus to must be separate issues, and and we will not link access to Commission’s chief negotiator, boats.” that the UK, as an independent our waters to access to EU said: “We are determined to sovereign coastal state, must markets. Our fishing waters are reach a deal that protects EU determine the degree of access our sovereign resource, and we interests. We will work hand foreign vessels will have to UK will determine other countries’ in hand with the European waters, and how much they can access to our resources on our parliament and all member catch. terms.” states, and will continue to be On fisheries, the EU said: He added: “We, as an fully transparent throughout this “The mandate outlines that the independent sovereign state, process.” future partnership should uphold regard control of our own But he said that the bloc would the existing reciprocal access to resources as something we not agree a deal ‘at any price’. waters as well as stable quota cannot barter away. Of course He warned that there would shares. The agreement on we want to co-operate in the be ‘complex, demanding fisheries should be established management of stocks with our negotiations’ over the short by 1 July, 2020, to give time for neighbours, but the approach transition period, which ends determining fishing opportunities we take will be similar to that on 31 December. “A short ‡ Lead UK negotiator after the end of the transition of other sovereign states or time, as chosen by the British ‡ … and his EU counterpart David Frost… period.” regimes such as Norway, government, not by us,” he said. Michel Barnier. SUMMARY OF EU AND UK POSITIONS NFFO hammers EU demands Commenting on the EU’s with the EU on fisheries’. “The position, the NFFO said that any UK could only accept these EU expectation that the UK would provisions by breaking the have to shadow ‘every future promises that have been made The EU says that the deal should set out a The UK’s position is that the agreement must requirement of the CFP’ would repeatedly by the prime minister framework for management of ‘shared’ stocks and reflect the fact that the UK will be an independent be to deny the UK sovereignty and Cabinet-level ministers, and ‘common technical and conservation measures’. coastal state at the end of 2020. over the management of commitments on fishing made Also, international conservation principles, including Trade in fisheries products should be covered the fisheries in its waters. during the EU referendum. It those underpinned by the CFP, should apply. by the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). “The UK could not possibly would amount to a betrayal on There should also be co-operation on sustainable The framework agreement on fisheries should accept such a provision in any a scale equivalent to the UK’s fishing and conservation, discards and MSY, data cover access to fish in UK and EU waters, fishing circumstances.” sell-out on fishing in 1973.” collection and research. opportunities and future co-operation on fisheries On the EU’s call for Referring to the EU’s management, including annual negotiations sustainable fishing and demand that a free trade The fisheries deal should: on access to each other’s EEZs and fishing conservation, it said that the deal would depend on UK n Secure responsible, sustainable fisheries in opportunities (TACs and shares). objectives of the new fisheries concessions on fishing rights, line with international and EU law, ‘notably those The UK will no longer accept quota allocations bill include achieving MSY and the NFFO said there is ‘no underpinning the CFP’ based on ‘outdated’ relative stability shares. minimising discards. international precedent for n ‘Uphold Union fishing activities’ and ‘avoid Future fishing opportunities should be based on On quota shares, the including free access to exploit economic dislocation’ for EU fishermen who zonal attachment – i.e. where fish live. federation said they were another country’s natural have been fishing in UK waters EU vessels granted access to fish in UK waters ‘inescapably a zero-sum resources as part of a trade n Uphold existing reciprocal access conditions must comply with UK rules and be subject to UK game, as the UK has learnt deal’. “A trade deal is important to each other’s waters, quota shares and the licensing and reporting requirements. to its cost over 40 years’. for both the UK and the EU. ‘traditional activity of the Union fleet’. Quota The UK is open to co-operation on wider “Rebalancing those shares to Some EU member states will shares ‘can only be adjusted with the consent of fisheries matters outside of annual negotiations, reflect the resources located in be extremely vulnerable if the both parties’ including matters such as data-sharing, science UK waters can be expected to UK is forced to trade on WTO n Enable quota exchanges and the setting of and control and enforcement. have an impact for EU fleets. terms.” annual or multi-annual TACs (or effort limitations) Vessel monitoring data and information should It is the EU’s responsibility to The federation concluded on the basis of long-term management be shared to prevent illegal, unreported and make provision for adequate that it is unlikely there will be strategies unregulated (IUU) fishing. If annual negotiations mitigation measures.” agreement before July, so n Ensure equality of treatment and compliance, provide for access to fish in UK waters, additional It said that conceding to the UK will enter the autumn including joint control and inspection activities. data-sharing would be required for control and EU demands that the current negotiations with other coastal enforcement. access and quota shares must states, including the EU, for a Access to waters and quota shares must guide There should be arrangements for dispute be upheld ‘would eviscerate fisheries agreement for 2021 ‘access conditions under the free trade area’ i.e. settlement, including provision for the suspension the UK’s legal status as an as an independent party. This fisheries and trade deals must be linked. of the agreement on fisheries if necessary. independent coastal state, annual agreement would, as A fisheries deal should be established by 1 July, The UK government is committed to working and would commit the UK to usual, cover setting TACs, 2020, so that fishing opportunities for the first year with the devolved administrations in the remaining in an asymmetrical access arrangements, quota after the transition period can be agreed. consideration of any agreement. and exploitative relationship shares and quota exchanges. 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Immigration plans fail to clarify foreign crewing The proposed new immigration and share fishermen – experienced earn at least £25,600, and need to points system that the UK crew members – are all classed as speak English. government announced last week skilled’. So are fishmongers, fish “If they permit a wider range of has not clarified the situation filleters and fish processors. occupations to be sponsored, then regarding employment of foreign “For all those jobs, and many someone on Barra, for example, crews on UK fishing vessels after more, employers will be able to could bring in workers on a visa, the end of the Brexit transition recruit workers from overseas. The and they could work on a vessel period, reports Tim Oliver. system will be less restrictive than and be paid a salary,” said Darren But it has sparked a clash at present,” said the minister. Stevenson. between the UK and Scottish But Darren Stevenson of “It’s early days yet, and we’ll governments. The UK government Glasgow law firm McGill and Co, be keeping a close watch on how says its new borders and who specialises in immigration law things develop, but it’s good immigration system is ‘good and advises the fishing industry because it’s clarified the direction news for the Scottish economy’. on crewing issues, said that his of travel. If these issues can be But the Scottish government has view is that the code as it stands fixed, it’s looking more positive said the proposals are ‘an insult only says that skippers, and mates than it’s been for a while, I to Scotland’ that disregards the in unlimited areas, are skilled suppose. needs of Scottish employers, public enough, and it makes no mention “For example, we know there services and communities (see of deckhands. will be no lower-skilled route. below). He told Fishing News: “The There was a belief there might be The proposals announced last good thing about the new system a time-limited visa for unskilled week will expand the range of is that it recognises fishing workers, but now we know occupations that can be sponsored as skilled. But being a share you have to use the domestic for a visa. Occupations are fisherman isn’t enough on its workforce for unskilled work.” “There’s some loose talk going about that Michel Barnier’s classified by different skill levels own – it needs to be one of those He said he did not at this stage prepared to consider reciprocal access to Sweaty Betty that will decide which workers grades. Classification as a share believe that the proposals would as part of the final deal.” will be allowed into the UK, and fisherman only concerns their affect foreign fishermen working which will not. Workers classified remuneration, not their skill level. on vessels fishing outside the as unskilled will not be allowed in. Being a share fisherman isn’t a 12-mile territorial limit on transit The proposals also set out salary type of fishing job, it’s just the visas. levels that workers will have to be nature of your contract. However, EU nationals working paid before they are allowed in. “I would have thought that if inside territorial waters would The issue is of huge importance fish processing workers and fish need a visa after the end of to the UK catching sector, which filleters are classified as skilled the transition period under the relies heavily on foreign crew. then fishing crewmen should be – proposed new rules. Current EU The current code says that they need a range of skills.” crewmen could apply for ‘settled jobs classified as ‘skilled’ include He also pointed out that the status’. fishing vessel skippers in inshore skills code may change, and The fish processing sector areas, and limited and unlimited added that changes can be made in Scotland has slammed the offshore areas, and fishing vessel independently of the immigration proposals, as they would affect mates in unlimited offshore areas. bill. The Migration Advisory the supply of foreign workers who It makes no mention of deckhands. Committee said in a report in are essential to the fish-processing But Alister Jack, secretary of January that skill thresholds factories, particularly in North state for Scotland, said in an article should be reviewed. East Scotland (Fishing News, 27 in the Herald that in terms of the There is also the issue of February, ‘Scotland blasts new UK fishing industry, ‘skippers, mates salaries – workers may need to immigration policy’).

Time is money. You have deadlines to UK and Scots governments clash over policy meet and don’t need the hassle of equipment breakdowns. You need products that won’t let you down and a The UK and Scottish Referring to fishing and fish deliver for all of the UK, partner that you can count on. A partner governments have clashed over processing, he said that the including Scotland, yet these that really understands what heavy duty the UK government’s proposed system will be less restrictive proposals do not reflect the means. new points-based immigration than at present (see above). clear evidence from employers, With Valvoline, you can count on premium system. Other benefits were a local authorities, universities quality products that stand up to the Immigration is a crucial issue reduction of the minimum salary and experts about their needs. toughest conditions. Designed for increased durability, efficiency and for many sectors of the Scottish threshold from £30,000 to Indeed, there is not a single performance. economy, including fishing and £25,600, and the scrapping of reference to Scotland in the fish processing, which both rely the Resident Market Labour Test. document.” With our hands-on expertise and service, we do our job so you can complete yours. heavily on foreign workers. He said that Scottish He said that the Scottish Because we know it’s really only about In a statement in the Herald businesses had been clear that government had put forward three things. Blood. Sweat. And oil.

last week, secretary of state they do not favour a separate ‘a clear, workable proposal of For more information contact for Scotland Alister Jack said Scottish immigration system run devolving immigration powers Andrew Cossar on: that the new system was from Holyrood. by introducing a Scottish visa’. +44 782 4537219 ‘good news for the Scottish But Scottish migration This would allow Scotland to or +44 345 266 6055 economy’. minister Ben Macpherson attract the skilled workers it [email protected] www.certasenergylubricants.com “It means we will be able to said that the proposals needs. recruit the people we need to were ‘an insult to Scotland’ He said that the Scottish do the jobs our economy relies that ‘completely disregard’ government’s proposals had upon,” he said. Scotland’s needs. ‘widespread support’ among “Businesses across our key “There is a clear need for Scottish businesses, and that economic sectors will continue a fundamentally different the UK government should to be able to attract the right approach to migration policy listen to them ‘instead of workers. One reason for that is to reflect Scotland’s distinct ploughing ahead with their our decision to redefine what a demographic and geographical deeply damaging proposals, ‘skilled’ job means. Under the needs,” he said. which will devastate the present system, only degree- “The UK government Scottish economy and our SPECIALISTS IN HEAVY level jobs count as skilled.” promised a system that would future prosperity’. DUTY LUBRICANTS 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Industry must attract new entrants EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ At long last, the UK and EU are about to The shellfish sector – which stands to But foreign crews are not going to KELSEY.CO.UK get down to serious talking about their gain nothing in terms of more quota – provide the skippers and investors of the future trading and fishing relationship. would be hammered by export barriers. future that the industry so desperately Kelsey Publishing Ltd, But with both sides taking hard- So would the whitefish sector, which needs. They can only come from more The Granary, Editor line positions, it is hard to see how the exports so much of its catch to the UK young people entering the industry – Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie ‘broad framework agreement’ that the continent. but they are not doing so at present. Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] UK wants to see in place by June can be It is not only current fishermen who The recent TV series on Cornish Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 achieved. stand to gain from a successful deal. fishing and other fishing programmes There is a mass of detail on a wide More quota, better fishing opportunities, show all too clearly that while there are range of issues to be agreed, and four and increasing stocks protected from some keen young men in the business, months is very little time. predatory EU fleets would revitalise the overall picture is one of an ageing Yet Michael Gove has said the industry. It would make a career in workforce that desperately needs unequivocally that the government is fishing a far more attractive proposition new blood. If the older men are not ready to walk away if a deal cannot be than it is at present for young people replaced as they retire, the industry reached. To leave without a deal and who may be interested but do not have a will surely shrink, with an inevitable trade on WTO terms would be damaging foot on the ladder through a family boat economic knock-on effect on the coastal for both sides, but the political pressure or connection. communities and ports that depend on Managing editor on both to stand firm is immense. The government’s new proposals on the fishing industry. News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] Much of the fishing industry stands immigration may improve opportunities The healthy long-term future email: [email protected] to gain a great deal from a successful for skippers to employ the foreign crews of the industry hangs on a outcome, and access to more quota they need in the absence of suitable successful fisheries outcome to than it has now. But no deal would domestic labour, and this would be the Brexit negotiations that are cause problems throughout the industry. welcome. getting underway this week.

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Strategy Framework Directive, it was the scientific advice. “Most of these dolphins bore the up to the Commission and the member “I will also raise this issue in the markings of fishing gear and probably states to ensure ‘they are fully applied www.kelsey.co.uk coming Environmental and Fisheries died in fishing nets. In the Baltic Sea, and effective’. 275 March February 2020 2020 JoinJoin FishingFishing NewsNews on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews IRISH SKIPPERNEWS EXPO 155 Ongoing revolution in trawl door design DronesAt practically any fishing industry used expect the latest technologyto spy on fishing vessels event there’s guaranteed to be and they want efficient gear. 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Fishing News Ad 157x114mm.indd 1 27/01/2017 15:02 6 LETTERS/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 LETTERS TIME TO START FIGHTING BACK OVER FISHING Dear Editor, of being overexploited, especially by Norway would eventually join, and governments’ contributions but also We saw recently in one of As a former distant-water trawler greedy British trawler owners, and so then they would have greater and from our government’s. the papers a Dutch fisherman skipper heavily involved in the conserve the stocks? unbridled access to their rich waters, It is disgraceful that none of them, bemoaning that if we reduced their so-called Cod Wars during the It is worth mentioning that so cancelling out any losses from the Conservative or Labour, were ever quotas, it would affect his way of 1970s, I have picked up on political the negotiations for joining the so-called Cod Wars. But both Iceland honest about what they had done. life. I never saw any sympathy for commentators talking about the Common Market or EEC, as it was and Norway rejected the EEC, They never told us that we had to any of our men when they lost their possibility of a new Cod War after then, coincided with this so-called because of the fishing rights, and boost our ‘historic rights’. We all livelihoods and were put out of work December 2020. This is in reaction war, and to understand the real the rest is history. (See The Great thought that we could fish here to make way for them, as well as the to the French having the brass neck impact of the betrayal of our fishing Deception, The Secret History of because we lived here. Our fathers French, Belgians and Spanish, who to tell us that their fishing rights industry, we need to go back to the the European Union by Christopher and grandfathers had fought for that, seem to be able to fish with impunity within our waters are non-negotiable. 1970s, when Edward Heath was Booker and Richard North, pages but when we woke up, it was too late. while our men are continuously I think that it’s about time our manipulated by the French into 152-153.) Decommissioning schemes to persecuted, because we’ve got to be politicians started to put one or two allowing the best of our fishing It is worth considering just how reduce the British fleet were brought seen to be fair. of our continental friends back in grounds to be given away, without much of that thinking was driving in, and British fishermen were put We have never had one fisheries their box. any proper authority or consultation the lobbying of a gullible government out of work while other nations, minister or fisheries administration I suspect that most people are with parliament or the British people. to not accept any of the very fair with the help of European grants, worth their salt. I was in Brussels ignorant of what really happened During the negotiations, the deals, under the circumstances, that increased and modernised their for several December Councils, and at Iceland during the so-called Cod French hijacked the fisheries Iceland was offering. fleets. The Spanish had the biggest our minister never came out of the Wars, and the final catastrophe meetings and were pushing for The biggest crime of all was that fleet in Europe, bigger than all the Council meeting with the same quota that resulted in us being kicked out fishing to be treated as a ‘common they never told us what they had got rest of the European fleets combined, that they went in with. We always altogether. Maybe questions need to resource with equal access for us into, or how it had come about. and when they joined, they declared came out losing, with our quotas be asked on whether this was a war, all’, which the British and Irish We never suspected that eventually, that they would not decommission cut to the benefit of the other states, and if so, who declared it a war – I governments initially rejected. these European fleets, by using even one vessel. They not only got resulting in us being a minority in don’t recall anybody winning any The deep-sea trawler owners, what some would call imaginative away with that, they also secured our own waters. Can somebody medals – or was it just an argument then the biggest and most powerful bookkeeping to establish ‘historic European grants to scrap, rebuild please explain that? over Iceland seeking to expand its players in the British fishing industry, rights’, would effectively control our and modernise 850 of their fishing territorial limits so as to take control were in favour of the above, because fishing grounds, aided by massive boats – and remember, they were, Tom Watson, of how its fisheries were in danger they thought that Iceland and EU grants, not only from their own and always have been, a net gainer. 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delivered exactly what we three continuous decks: main, wanted: a practical working shelter and forecastle, on vessel in which every piece of which a 60t anti-roll tank is equipment will help us to take located forward, together with out quotas as efficiently and a streamlined compartment economically as possible. housing the anchor windlasses “Particular focus was given and mooring winches. to keeping everything simple In order to provide maximum 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnewsand straightforward, in order to protection for crewmenNEWS 7 ensure maximum reliability at all monitoring the delivery of fish times.” to the RSW tank coamings the deck and internal space the TPC, thereby reducing the Given their preference for Adenia amidships on the shelterdeck, available,WINDSOCK increasing the beam reduction AGREEMENT in freeboard when fish to be built andAMENDED completed at the General FROMarrangement 21when AdeniaMARCH is pumping fish, alsoThe contributes Windsock to Agreement, a vessel the are pumpedthis seven-day into the window RSW tanks. should same yard, George Anderson With a length between the hull sides are continued up retainingconcordat the maximum between mobile amount Themake efficiency contact ofvia the WhatsApp round and his partners, who include perpendiculars of 61.8m, 15.6m to the vessel’s bold sheerline. of freeboardand static-gear throughout vessels a trip,on the bilgeon hull 07900 form 806drawn 358. up by his three sons Josie, Michael of beam, a depth to main deck Continuous side decks run therebyshared further use of promoting the West Shetlandcrew Karl4. Sandvik,Areas of inexclusive which the use and Stuart, opted Position pointsthe full length of the andShelf vessel MPA safety. (Windsock) has been beamThe is carriedarea shaded well forward orange to for the Zamakona A – 59° 30.0’vessel. N, 004° A wide00.0’ Wcentral Navalamended. architects A new calculate agreement the the shoulders,enclosed by in joiningcombination waypoints yard in Bilbao. Two years down the line, Bthis – 59° 16.2’grating N, 005° walkway 31.2’ W is sinkagecomes by into load force for any on 21vessel March, in with X1,the X2,vessel’s B, C, centrelineD, E, F, G, H and Skipper George C – 59° 19.1’arranged N, 005° 39.4’either W side of termsand of is tonnes expected per to centimetre remain in propulsionI will be package, exclusively is shownfor vessels Anderson said: “Two decision has been fully D – 59° 20.0’the N double-ended005° 43.9’ W fish (TPC),place and for this six ismonths. directly by theoperating fact that with Adenia static recorded gear. The years down the line, E – 59° 20.3’separator N, 005° 49.8’ between W the proportionalSubject to to the further waterplane discussions, a toparea speed shaded of 17.6 green knots enclosed on this decision has justified by both the build qualityF – 59° 19.7’anti-roll N, 005° tank 56.5’ and W the area.the Initial following calculations amendments sea trialsby joining off the waypoints north coast K, L, of A, been fully justified G – 59° 18.4’messdeck/day N, 006° 01.9’ W lounge undertakenhave been by made Salt Shipto the current Spain.Z1, Z2 and J is for exclusive use by both the build and the high level of support Hwe – 59° 26.8°in theN. 006° accommodation 05.8’ W DesignWindsock showed Agreement. that increasing Havingof mobile reached gears. general quality and the high I – 59° 30.0’superstructure. N, 006° 00.0’ W the beam and therefore the agreement5. Area of on shared the design, access the level of support we J – 59° 40.0’ N,A 005°profiled 00.0’ boatW deck 1. The agreement contains four The yellow shaded area formed received from the yard K – 59° 51.7’ N, 004° 24.9’ W buoyancy of the underwater owners then considered their received from the extends aft of the separate components: by joining waypoints J, Z2, L – 59° 48.5’ N, 004° 00.0’ W hull would significantly increase options in relation to shipyards. yard throughout the rounded wheelhouse. i. Areas of exclusive use for Z1, X2 and X1 is an area of throughout the project Z1 – 59° 22.5’ N, 004° 52.2’ W ii. vessels operating with joint access, where skippers project. Excellent Z2 – 59° 34.5’Together N, 004° with 37.7’ a W ii. mobile gears and those operating with mobile gear working relations were quickly of 9.5m and a scantling draught X1double – 59° radar37.4’ N, gantry 005° 18’mounted W ii. operating with static gear are encouraged to communicate established for all-round mutual of 7.9m, Adenia’s round bilge X2on –top 58° of 18.5’ a ski-box N, 005° housing, 18’ W this ii. Area of shared access with those vessels operating benefit, as the end result shows. hull was built to Det Norske contributes to Adenia’s stylish ii. subject to communication at with static gear (same contact We would have no hesitation Veritas +1A1 Ice-C Fishing appearance. ii. the vessel level details as listed in point 3). in placing another order with Vessel classification. With a capacity of 2,160m³, iii. Increased VMS pings from Mobile-gear vessels should Zamakona tomorrow. The yard Adenia effectively features Adenia’s 10 RSW tanks are vessels operating within the deploy gear in the area only vicinity of the overall defined when it is confirmed that area conflict will not occur. iv. Ring-fenced monitoring by 6. Increased VMS pings Marine Scotland Compliance As per the initial agreement, Deck Machinery solutions of the area designated as mobile-gear vessels are CONGRATULATIONS to Owners static gear only. encouraged to increase the 2. The new agreement will come frequency of VMS pings when into force on 21 March, 2020 operating within the vicinity of &from Crew MacGregor with the new (GBR) Vessel! Ltd and is expected to remain in the overall area, on the premise place for six months. A that it provides a higher mid-term review will take place degree of transparency and ‡ Cookno Michael later than Anderson’s 21 June, well-equipped2020. accountability. galley… “ADENIA“Girl Stephanie” LK 193” 3. Whereas the agreement 7. Monitoring and notifications VISIT US AT STAND 66 comes into force on 21 March, There is an expectation that mobile-gear vessels should be Marine Scotland will continue WeWeLooking are delighteddelighted forward and toand proudmeeting proud that you MacGregorthat all MacGregor in Limerick! 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he MMO’s already heavily terms for many fishermen – views, which almost entirely and a traditional way of life that some recalling previous criticised Catch App technical in terms of failures in contradict the far more positive will lose out.” promises by government that Troll-out has been further the phone-in aspect for those spin put on its implementation Shadow environment the Proceeds of Crime Act undermined by reprehensible without a smartphone, with one by the MMO. secretary Luke Pollard has powers would only be used comments made by the user having to spend over 50 Under-10m boats, which been equally critical of the app, against serious criminals, drug administration about the honesty minutes on the phone to record account for 80% of all UK calling for it to be scrapped dealers and the like. But the and integrity of under-10m just a few fish; practical in regard vessels, are being forced to use and accusing the government MMO then used the act to operators. to having to report catches the app to record the weight of of implementing the biggest penalise under-10 operators, After an apparently extensive before landing (with the option their catch accurately – or risk a piece of red tape seen by the leading to a danger of period of testing, and with the to go home, report via the home criminal record and fine. industry. bankruptcy for some. support of the NFFO, the MMO computer and then come back The Coastal PO, representing The MMO has promised As a condition of a fishing has implemented its Catch App to land); and personal as the close to 280 fishermen who fishermen that it will not be licence, the MMO has the initiative for the under-10m, app is making a hard job even operate under-10m boats, said heavy-handed when it comes power to levy penalties of up non-sector part of the UK fleet. harder, and keeping fishermen that the threat of criminalisation to prosecuting them. to £100,000 in respect of the It is fair to say that the from their beds after many hours was a danger to the future of MMO chief executive Tom Catch App, and bearing in launch has been problematic in of often gruelling work in difficult fishing communities. McCormack said: “Fishermen mind that the legal requirement technical, practical and personal conditions. Coastal PO chief executive who are recording catches to is for fishermen to be able to Both the Coastal Producers’ Jim Pettipher said: “Just when the best of their ability have estimate the weight of their Organisation and NUTFA have the UK’s fleet of longsuffering no need to worry. If and when catch within 10% – something received numerous calls from day-boat fishermen were there is ever a need to consider that even seasoned fish perplexed skippers to highlight expecting to finally catch a enforcement or prosecution weighers and graders have issues with the system. break with a prospective Brexit actions – for example, someone failed to achieve in trials at In an effort to get to the heart bonus, instead they’re getting persistently misreporting or not a leading fish auction – this of the problem, the Coastal torpedoed by the MMO, which recording at all – that decision is a dangerous time for the PO publicised a survey that has randomly introduced its would be taken on a wide range under-10s. it created to obtain straight Catch App. of evidence.” Dave Pessell, manager answers to straight questions “No other boats under 10m While Barrie Deas of of the Plymouth fish auction put to under-10m operators in Europe are subject to this the NFFO said that he was and a man with decades of regarding the Catch App. regime, or even in Scotland or prepared to take the MMO’s experience behind him, said: The results shown in the Wales. It’s madness. Yet again, assurances at face value, many “What is promised today will ‡ NUTFA leader Jerry Percy. panel below sum up these it is the coastal communities fishermen are less convinced, be forgotten tomorrow, and

Question 2: Do you have/take Question 7: Do you feel the a smartphone to sea with you £1,800,000 the MMO has spent COASTAL PO SURVEY RESPONSES when you go fishing? on Catch App so far is good Yes: 75% No: 25% value for money? The Coastal PO had 208 Of the six respondents for my past landings, as their responses to its survey (which who answered that they system has not saved them!” Question 3: Can you use Catch equates to 10% of English liked the Catch App, one n “It’s easy to use if you have App to notify MMO before you under-10s). It has been able to claimed to be Boris Johnson a signal. Sadly, the app was not land your fish? confirm that the great majority of the Conservative Party, trialled by enough people. My Yes: 42% No: 58% of respondents are genuine four provided no identification problems: 1. No way of landing under-10 fishermen, with many at all, and one is one of the catch that you have stored Question 4: Does your local (139) providing their PLNs, and MMO’s boats that trialled the without saying you went to sea, MMO office help you with many more happy to provide app before its launch. when you haven’t. 2. No way Catch App problems? their names and personal of recording dead catch after Yes: 37% No: 63% details by way of confirmation. Question 1: How do you feel storing, which results in weight n Yes (2%) n No (23%) In summary, where about the MMO’s Catch App? difference between stored and Question 5: Do your local MMO n You must be joking (75%) people answered the relevant landed. For shellfish landing, officers like Catch App? questions: it’s easy to use – not so on Yes: 59% No: 41% Question 8: The MMO says whitefish.” most fishermen are fine with n 83% say that the Catch App n “It is a complete waste of Question 6: Why do you think Catch App. How would you say is bad or worse (48% say time. If the issue is getting the MMO is making you use other fishermen you know feel they hate it) accurate landing records, then Catch App? about Catch App? n 25% do not take a surely the systems of weighing smartphone to sea with them and recording fish on shore has n 58% cannot notify the to improve. This is needless MMO before they land their duplication of what happens fish already in the fridges and landing n 63% cannot get help with quays around the country. Also, the app from their local I fear that it will be the final nail MMO in some of the old timers’ coffins, n 41% say even their local because they will just get fed up MMO officers don’t like it n It’s great (2%) n It’s OK (15%) with it, and most of them don’t n 84% feel that the MMO n It’s bad (20%) n I hate it (48%) have a smartphone.” invented it just to create n Other (15%) n “Impossible to do, a law that n They like it (1%) more ways to prosecute them we cannot abide by.” n They are OK with it (5%) n 98% say it’s not value for The ‘other’ responses included: n “A danger to life.” n To ensure better fisheries n They don’t like it (24%) money (75% ticked the ‘you n “Not fit for purpose, should management (13%) n They hate it (70%) must be joking’ option) n “A disgraceful waste of time be more in line with the over-10m n To make fishing more n 94% say other fishermen and money. Up to 57 minutes paper logbook, only record things sustainable (2%) Question 9 asked respondents either don’t like it (23.65%) phoning in seven stone of catch! over 50kg. Very hard to estimate n It’s another way to prosecute to confirm that they were or hate it (69.95%) Now MMO contacts me, asking weights of small amounts of fish.” fisherment (84%) bona fide fishermen. 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CATCH APP 9 CATCH APP – WHAT DO FISHERMEN REALLY THINK? ‘OLD, BROKE, THICK AND DEPRESSED’ – WHO’D BE AN UNDER-10 FISHERMAN? fishermen will be criminalised have greater catching capacity under-10m are active, capable a daily basis to put fresh fish on of damage done through these for failing to do the impossible.” than many larger vessels. They and seek to be compliant. the nation’s tables. How have scurrilous comments made in To add insult to injury, are faster, and they can more They are successful fishers we moved from that picture its name. operators of over-10m vessels easily escape detection and using smaller vessels to access to the one now, when those in The chiefs of both the Coastal don’t even have to record the inspection than larger vessels. specialist high-value fish stocks authority think quite so little of PO and NUTFA are due to meet catch of any individual species They represent a real threat to using complex technology (GPS, us? with the new chief executive of if the total weight is less than UK fisheries sustainability, and echosounders, radar)’. It appears, then, that if you the MMO shortly. We just hope 50kg. there is significant evidence of It is difficult to know where to have a fast cat or a ‘rule-beater’, he has some credible solutions The Welsh government was unlicensed and unsustainable start with regard to these grossly you are clearly of criminal intent, to the situation his organisation due to launch the Catch App fishing in the more active groups. defamatory comments. DEFRA whereas those using a super has made for itself, and an on 28 February, but will allow The under-10m industry as a and the MMO have denied under-10m have a spotless apology for all those under-10 fishermen a 24-hour window whole tends to be poor, older, complicity in their production, character. But none of us skippers that have been so to submit details of their catch economically marginalised, often but someone in authority had escape criticism as, according sorely abused. after landing. limited in education, with reports clearly briefed the authors of the to the document, ‘on the whole’ of high rates of depression and document on the government we are all old, broke, thick and n Jerry Percy contributed an Insult to under-10 sector suicide.” website. depressed. While some of us article to Fishing News at the Things were already bad The comments also target From a personal viewpoint, may meet one or two of those end of last year that highlighted enough with regard to the ‘rule-beaters’, stating that they the most tragic comment was: descriptors, these ill-conceived the problems fishermen were introduction of the Catch App, ‘consistently seek to evade “The under-10m industry as a comments are not going to help encountering with the new but on 12 February they got regulation’. “They choose to be whole tends to be poor, older, heal the wounds inflicted on Catch App (26 December, 2019, far worse for the MMO, with under-10m vessel owners in order economically marginalised, the already poor relationship ‘E-catch reporting nightmare’). the discovery of comments to avoid recording catch, and will often limited in education, between many under-10s and He also warned of the dangers on a government website often chop off the front of their with reports of high rates of the MMO. of the Catch App in March 2019 relating to the development and vessel to fit that vessel length. depression and suicide.” So the challenge facing the (4 March, ‘Consultation on U10 introduction of the app. They are often unpopular with I’ve been involved in various MMO is not only how it now catch reporting’), where he said The remarks, subsequently the rest of the fishing community guises with the fishing industry improves on its approach to that the proposed app would taken down and deleted from (the term ‘fish for greed, not since the early 1970s, as crew, catch recording in the light of take under-10m fishermen from the site, referenced ‘monthly for need’ is used nationwide). skipper and owner of fishing so many obvious and genuine ‘no catch reporting to a ‘gold- revenue for fast under-10m They are successful, technically boats. At that time, coastal concerns expressed by plated’ impractical system catamarans catching high- capable fishers with a range of fishermen were deemed to be skippers, as illustrated by the that would set them up to fail’, value species in the hundreds equipment on the vessel.” heroes in their communities, Coastal PO’s survey, but also while the catches of big vessels of thousands’. The writer On the other hand, the proud men continuing a proud just how it is going to be able fishing in the Channel were continued: “Such vessels can website stated that ‘super heritage, risking life and limb on to repair the immense amount unmonitored and uncontrolled. NFFO CATCH APP Q&A The NFFO addresses questions that have arisen about the mobile phone-based Catch App for the under-10m fleet

Are there problems with the 3. Some harbours have no phone work systematically until all the Isn’t it inherently difficult to offer a useful tool. But the system new Catch App? signal. The MMO has advised it problems are resolved. estimate catches, especially of must work. The problems that will transmit when back in range. small amounts? are being highlighted must be Yes. After several problems It is, however, an offence to land Doesn’t this still leave the risk resolved. were raised by members about without prior notification. of prosecution? It is. This has been a If we are to successfully get the app at the NFFO AGM longstanding problem in the low-impact vessels out of the in 2018, the MMO delayed 4. A 50kg exemption is available Theoretically, yes, but every over-10m fleet too, especially quota system, the trade-off will be implementation of the new to larger vessels. That makes aspect of control, monitoring and when the margin of tolerance to have confidence that the vessels system. The new version was life a lot easier, but the same enforcement relies on an element between logbook estimate and are truly low-impact, and the Catch rolled out in January, but some concession is not available to the of discretion by the authorities. sales note/landing declaration App will be central to that. small-scale fishermen are still under-10m fleet. was reduced from 20% to 10%. facing problems. How many people face The discretion exercised by the The MMO may be taken to What has the MMO’s response problems? enforcement authorities means judicial review about the What sort of problems? been? that this hasn’t led to endless failings of the Catch App. Will It’s hard to say, but the MMO tells prosecutions. the NFFO support that? The NFFO has submitted this list We are waiting for a definitive us that the app is successfully to the MMO: reply, but in the meantime, the working on around 1,000 of the What’s the NFFO’s view of the We have to look at the big MMO has said that no fisherman active 1,400 under-10s. Catch App? picture. The government 1. The app is missing several will face prosecution if there are supports co-management, ports. The MMO advice in these genuine problems in specific Wouldn’t it be better for the The bottom line is that we need and the fisheries bill, as the UK circumstances is to use the next- fisheries. It has said that it is not MMO to withdraw the app until accurate catch data from all leaves the CFP, provides a huge nearest port. However, on the in the business of criminalising all the problems are resolved? fisheries, including the under-10 opportunity. Co-management face of it, it is an offence to list a whole sector because of sector and recreational fisheries, if means the fishing industry, the wrong port when using the problems implementing a new It’s not unusual for new large- we are to successfully manage our fisheries managers and fisheries app to record catch. system. scale technology projects to fisheries to maximise the benefits. scientists working together as Dispensations have been hit problems. The way forward The under-10 sector has suffered equals to deliver sustainable 2. The app will not accept part issued in cases where it is clear is to systematically resolve the badly in the past because of this and profitable fisheries. If one kilograms, so 250g red mullet is that the design of the new app shortcomings, not abandon the lack of data, in quota share-outs party is being taken to court, rounded up to 1kg, and 2 x 350g is not fit for purpose in particular attempt. Besides, EU infraction and in battles over space to fish. that co-operation will never get John Dory is rounded up to 1kg. circumstances. procedures still have sway if The electronic logbooks off the ground. The NFFO won’t Both roundings, on the face of it, started before the UK leaves used by over-10m vessels aren’t be joining that bandwagon. We create offences, as the estimates What happens now? the EU. There are no signs that appropriate for the conditions on need to resolve our differences in are automatically outside 10% having come this far, the MMO smaller vessels, and the mobile a different way, rather than fund tolerance. The MMO will be urged to will abandon the project. phone-based Catch App seems to overpaid lawyers. 10 RARE SPECIES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 HOW RARE IS RARE? Will species now deemed ‘rare’ be commonly found in British waters a couple of decades from Flying gurnard, found normally in warmer tropical waters, now? Phil Lockley talks to scientist Douglas have been recorded in the UK. Herdson to find out more Two were landed at Newlyn in 2002 and 2004.

ith seawater There is a larger species, temperatures rising, Scyllarides latus, which is also a Wmany scientists predict quarry for Mediterranean inshore dire effects upon sea life. In 50 fishermen, so much so that years’ time, will we have empty its stock has plummeted to a inshore waters, or will we have dangerously low level, say many new fisheries? Will Alaskan king scientists. crab take hold around Shetland, I posted the picture on my or even further south, around Facebook page, to find that a few Orkney? Will hand-line mackerel other fishermen have at some fishermen be winding in more time caught one, but have not lucrative species like bonito? officially recorded it. One such I recently fired such questions find became news some years at eminent scientist Douglas ago: a slipper lobster caught by Herdson, whose lifelong interest skipper Jonathan Hayes from has been rare species of marine St Mawes in Falmouth Bay, life. Cornwall, in September 2011, Our chat was triggered by a featured on local television, and recent message I received from many local newspapers followed Salcombe shellfisherman Adam the story. Cardrew, who together with his In response to my Facebook father, skipper Phil Cardrew, posting, skipper David Stevens caught a small, flat, lobster- of the Newlyn twin-rigger Crystal looking critter, one they thought Sea wrote: “Yes, Phil, we do might be a rare slipper lobster – see them, maybe a couple and it was. per year, but they are hard to Doug Herdson told me that spot. My crewman Jim is a big since 1758, it is the 65th of just ‘rockhopper’ fan at spotting 66 slipper lobsters recorded in sea life, and knows a fair bit British waters. about rare species. He is always Skipper Phil Cardrew and delighted to spot a slipper his son Adam work aboard the lobster, and says that they are Cygnus Marine GM32 potter quite rare.” Hustler. They caught (and South Wales fisherman Mark returned) their slipper lobster just Albery said: “I had one previous a short distance from their home to the one shown here, and it was port of Salcombe on the South berried.” Mevagissey fisherman Devon coast. Michael West added: “I’ve caught At first, they didn’t spot the two, Phil, one off Berry Head slipper lobster. It may have fallen (Brixham) and a couple off the to the deck while a pot was Isles of Scilly.” being cleared, Adam reckons. But there is no doubt that Phil However, once they discovered and Adam Cardrew’s slipper the google-eyed lobster-looking lobster was one of very few in our creature, they took a picture of it waters, and in over 35 years of and passed it to me. reporting for Fishing News and That species of slipper lobster, ‘messing about in boats’ hauling Scyllarus arctus, is described pots, I have never seen one. in the Collins pocket guide to It was time to phone Douglas ‡ Caught on lobster grounds a few miles from Salcombe, Phil and Adam Cardrew’s slipper lobster is one of sea life as ‘rarely found north of Herdson to find out what was only 66 that have been recorded since 1758. Biscay’, and is commonly found really going on. in the Mediterranean. Measuring I asked whether such rare are warming, or are there other Around 100 years ago, that (Thunnus thynnus) – or ‘tunny’, only two to five inches in length, species are now being found reasons for their presence? same species became big as it was known in Britain at the it is fished for commercially. because our coastal waters Strong evidence exists that business in the tourist industry time – is a large and powerful species now considered rare at North East ports like Whitby fish, arguably the strongest fish may in the past have been here and Scarborough. The hard- in the world, which is frequently in abundance – even when the fighting ‘tunny’ attracted rich the target of big-game fishermen. seawater temperature was much trophy-hunting sea anglers from Off the Yorkshire coast in that lower. all over the world, seeking glory era, various records were made A perfect example is the by fighting fish weighing over (including a world record) for size relatively new influx of bluefin tuna 400lb, and doing so with nothing of tunny caught with rod and to South Cornwall, many of them but a rod and line – but they were line. Tunny was present in the here in Falmouth Bay. The local catching those tunny from much North Sea until the 1950s, when stock is now the subject of an colder waters off Yorkshire, not commercial herring and mackerel ongoing and collaborative study warmer tropical waters like those fishing depleted its food supply.” by scientists and fishermen. south of the Bay of Biscay. Here’s So our present Cornish Such trials have uncovered more what Wikipedia says: tunny may not be basking data, both on their distribution “Big-game bluefin tuna fishing in warm seawater, but be and their behaviour patterns. off Scarborough was a sport chasing sardines (pilchards), or Is global warming to blame? practised by wealthy aristocrats anchovies, or what may be left of And what has attracted bluefin and military officers, mostly in the ‘flighty’ mackerel stock. Our ‡ Will tuna species like the Atlantic bonito – seen here on Plymouth tuna to Cornwall? Doug Herdson the 1930s. The British Tunny Club mackerel season has been dire, fishmarket in September 2010 – become the alternative to Westcountry reckons that a change in was founded in Scarborough in and the size range of mackerel is ‘jumbo’ mackerel, which have now moved further north? Line-caught seawater temperature might be 1933, having its headquarters much lower. Is that due to global bonito could become a lucrative and closely managed fishery. just one reason among several. there. The Atlantic bluefin tuna warming? 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews RARE SPECIES 11

In 2008, Newlyn skipper Shaun Edwards (second from right) and his team were the first to return with a catch of line-caught tuna from the Bay of Biscay. The vessel, Nova Spero, successfully line-fished tuna for a few more years.

‡ A yellowfin tuna, very rare in UK waters, was found washed up on a beach near Bury Port in South Wales in March 2013. The only previous record in Wales was in 1972.

I was told that there are many lobster – give me a Devon or factors to consider about the Cornish crab in mid-October, and term ‘rare’, and quite what may I will be a happy customer! become common in 50 years’ So what does the word ‘rare’ time is a tall question to ask any truly mean? scientist. Doug Herdson, who is based But before I get to the rest near Plymouth, has a huge of what Doug Herdson had to database of rare finds from say, let’s rule out American (or the seas around the UK. He Canadian) lobsters. Newspaper warns that many factors must headlines may describe those be fed into the equation before captures as ‘rare’, but they a species can truly be deemed are definitely alien and entirely ‘rare’. unwelcome. Many of those The slipper lobster found unforgiving critters come from by Phil and Adam Cardrew is a growing number of lobster still a very rare species, but ‘lovers’ who have released them Doug believes that it may soon around our coasts, and in some increase in numbers around areas that could spell the end our shores. And because of our native lobster stock (see of overfishing, it is certainly page 13). getting less common in the Rumour has it that initially, Mediterranean, so it is now ‘quite unsold American lobsters that rare’ in that region. were held alive for high-priced He said: “Even rarer is the dinners on passenger ships were larger species, Scyllarides latus, thrown overboard on entering which in its natural habitat lives the Solent – a new batch of live alongside the species caught American lobsters would soon on the Hustler – and so far I replace them. have just one single record of Sadly, American lobsters Scyllarides latus being found in breed fast, are aggressive and the UK. outcompete our stock. They “Another astonishing record also often carry gaffkaemia, a was made last year when a contagious disease that can be slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus An American lobster capture in UK waters deadly to our lobsters. was caught just off the Treshnish was once a rare event – but it was never Serve me an American lobster Isles on the west coast of Mull. ‘rare’ in real terms. The American lobster and I will return it to the kitchen – Before that, the furthest north is an invasive species which is now compared to the British lobster, was recorded off Galway in damaging the native stock (see page 13). it is tasteless! Although speaking Ireland, and a couple of other personally, you can keep your records came from South Wales. It seems to be widespread, but that the red porgy is officially He added: “Yes, tunny were in very small numbers; a lot of declared a rare species, and is fished for by anglers off ports the records I have came from the protected. like Scarborough and Whitby Isles of Scilly. “The red porgy seems to be – two famous anglers were “In terms of what stocks of fish a ‘range-extension or moving the American authors Ernest and shellfish may be available up’ species – following warming Hemingway and Zane Grey. in future years, it is difficult to waters and heading north – During the early to mid 1920s, predict. There are species that which may be a similar reason both pioneered sport fishing in have clearly moved north to to why the Couch’s sea bream Britain for that species. In 1927, warming British waters, but that is now more common around Zane Grey released the book is a very general statement and Britain. The only difference Tales of Swordfish and Tuna. from it, nothing is predictable. between the red porgy and our “So in all likelihood, bluefin “A common example is the Couch’s sea bream is that the tuna have been coming and Couch’s sea bream. I now see red porgy lacks the white tips to going from UK waters for a very them quite regularly on Plymouth its tail that are typical of our fish long time. Quite why that is may fishmarket, but until 1997, – nothing more.” be difficult to untangle. there were only 12 records of a I asked Doug about the “Water bodies move around in Couch’s sea bream ever caught quandary off Cornwall with different ways and according to in British waters. bluefin tuna. He agreed that many different factors, and that ‡ Live American lobsters can “A very similar issue surrounds ‘tunny’ were fished for off is true for the seas around the be obtained from wholesale the red porgy, a sea bream Yorkshire 100 years ago, but entire world. Fish and shellfish food suppliers, enabling ‘lobster ‡ John Payne, owner of Marisco that is the same species as our added that during the same have a totally different map of the lovers’ to release them into Fish Ltd, bought a 10kg Moray eel Couch’s sea bream. It is a reef- period, many commercial world to the one that we have. British waters. Rob Stuckey, pot from Newlyn fishmarket in June dwelling fish found in a wide fishermen from West Cornwall Things like Gulf Stream winds, designer and owner of Mustang 2009, caught by the beam trawler range of areas around the USA and Brittany fished with lines for the North Atlantic Drift current Engineering, wasn’t questioned Trevessa IV just 60 miles from and beyond. In parts of the USA, bluefin tuna. Such fisheries are and other factors will determine when he bought a large number to Newlyn. it has now been so overfished well-documented. which way a water body will go – prove the point. 12 RARE SPECIES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020

Newlyn fish merchant Robin Turner holds a puffer fish that was captured off Cornwall in September 2006.

‡ A rare deep-water octopus – nicknamed ‘Blobby’ by the crewmen – was caught in gill-nets by the Newlyn vessel Silver Dawn in 2008 while fishing on the ‘edge of the shelf’ off Brittany. Fishing News reported: “Plymouth-based rare fish expert Doug Herdson, with the help of Dr Richard Young, a cephalopod specialist in Hawaii, says that ‘Blobby’ may in some ways look a little like a squid or cuttlefish, but is a true deep-water octopus, Haliphron atlanticus.”

Spanish sea bream is a warm- I asked Doug what other reports continue of king crab water species. species might suggest that being found even south of “Sometimes we may reach our warming seas may bring there. conclusions that might not be valuable stocks for future “Another remarkable find in true; migration of the anchovies fishermen. He said: “A recent UK waters occurred last year; now sought by our ring-netters report of an amberjack caught while fishing on mudflats on and midwater boats is an near Milford Haven in South the mouth of the river Severn, example. Many believed that Wales is typical of a warm- the last remaining ‘mud horse’ those anchovies were migrating water species that may become fisherman from North Somerset, north from the Bay of Biscay; more common. Adrian Sellick, caught a tripletail seemingly, that is not the case. “It belongs to the jack or fish in one of his stake-nets – a “Science reveals that back trevally family (Carangidae), tropical fish normally found in in the 1880s, anchovies arrived which I used to catch all the time places like Florida. in Dover, and eventually moved when working in the tropics, “Only one other tripletail has west to Torbay, then on to and they are becoming more been recorded in Britain, and Plymouth, and then further west frequent in our waters. Over 60 that was 13 years before – at to Cornwall – yet those fish amberjacks have been caught in Newport in South Wales, just ‡ Catches from the Devon originated from the Zuiderzee British and Irish seas, 59 of them 30km away from where Adrian sprat fishery are often mixed in Holland where there was a since 1990 (or 51 since 2000). Sellick caught his tripletail. with anchovy, but a few years shallow warm-water bay where Now the related blue runner is “Both tripletails were caught ‡ Caught by my pal Taimor Jolly ago during the winter fishery they bred successfully. But that turning up as well. in stake-nets, both were caught and myself during a fair day of there were often ‘clean’ hauls area was later reclaimed and “And on shellfish, I wouldn’t on mudflats at the mouth of line-fishing, gilthead bream were of anchovy, bringing boats from became land. be surprised to see king crab, the river Severn – the type of once rare in Cornwall but are now far and wide and considerable “Scientists were particularly which are common around habitat that is typical of the quite common in some areas. returns for fishermen. interested in relatively recent Alaska, appearing in deeper tripletail – but the tripletail reports of anchovies being Scottish waters. However, is commonly found in much where it will be, and when it will South West and South Wales, found off Newcastle, from ports previous human involvement warmer temperate seas around be there. If the fish prefer to be the gilthead sea bream is like North Shields, and when may have had a bigger ‘push’ the world, so it is a great shock within that water body, they will commonly found, and it is also identified by DNA sampling, than a changing climate. to find them here in UK waters. stay with it. Temperature may breeding in Ireland. And the those anchovies were found King crab was released off “As yet, seawater be one of the reasons, but not Spanish sea bream (also called to be derived from the original Murmansk in Russia in the temperatures here in Britain are the entire story. the axillary sea bream) is now stock that bred in the Zuiderzee. 1940s. For quite a while, nowhere near the level of where “Another species that has fairly often recorded off the Although smaller, it still remains there wasn’t any sign of the tripletail fish originate from extended into UK waters is Channel Islands and also off and breeds in the waters off the the population of king crab – but over the past 20 years, the gilthead sea bream. Until Ireland, and an angler at Chesil shores in the Waddenzee. So it increasing significantly, but there has been a rise of 1°C in 1957, just one gilthead bream Beach in Dorset has caught a isn’t until science uncovers such by the 1960s, a reasonable the deeper waters around the had been caught in Devon. single axillary sea bream. In patterns that we can be sure of quantity of king crab appeared South West of Britain, which is Nowadays, all around the its natural environment, the what is truly happening.” off northern Norway – and a very significant rise.” Are there great white sharks in British waters? Some years ago, I attended them. There are plenty of seals and/or tuna. For every one of “In 2013, a great white shark even fishermen – hoped that a fascinating talk by Doug for them to eat, and in my mind, those fish caught, there is also a measuring over 4m and weighing Lydia would eventually reach Herdson on shark species the only reason that they are not shark, and Europe is the biggest around 900kg was tagged in the Cornwall, but ‘she’ never did. that now thrive within British here is that in the Atlantic Ocean supplier of shark fins to China – seas off Florida, its moves being “Lydia swam just over waters, which ended with as a whole, there just aren’t but not one of those sharks was a logged via satellite. That shark halfway across the Atlantic one species that captures the enough great white sharks to go great white shark. became known as Lydia. It began Ocean, and at the mid-Atlantic popular imagination – the great around, and not enough for their “But again, the conditions to swim east across the Atlantic, ridge turned back and returned white shark, and whether it is population to settle or increase in around those areas are perfect and brought so much attention to scour the USA coastline. swimming around Britain and our waters. for great white shark, so the only that the media in Europe went “That doesn’t mean to say has just not been officially found. “In about 1890, there was a conclusion is that again, there into overdrive. that the great white shark will I asked Doug whether he single great white shark caught just aren’t enough of them on “Irish newspapers said not reach Britain – it probably believes that the great white off Brittany, and in 1977, one this side of the Atlantic. But on that surely Lydia was heading will, and if it does, I would bet shark is, or has been, here. female great white shark was the other side of the Atlantic towards the Emerald Isles. my money on it having come He said: “In all likelihood, caught off La Rochelle on the Ocean and at a similar latitude, Spanish newspapers concluded across the Atlantic Ocean from Britain has already been host to northern end of Biscay. In that in the seas off New England, 150 that Lydia was on her way the States, and not having the great white shark. Conditions area, there are considerable great white sharks were recorded to Spain. Here in the UK, swum north through the Bay of around the UK are perfect for longline fisheries for swordfish just a couple of years ago. many newspapers – and Biscay.” 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews AMERICANRARE LOBSTERS SPECIES 13 RETAIN AND REPORT AMERICAN LOBSTERS One newcomer to our waters that is definitely not welcome here is the American (or Canadian) lobster.Debbie Murphy and Chris Barrett of CEFAS offer advice on the new DEFRA ‘Retain and Report’ campaign

een-eyed fishers around advantage over the native distinguishing features. They understand the key features are affecting their fishery or not. England occasionally species. will then advise if the animal commonly associated with By collecting this data, DEFRA K notice broad-bodied, American lobsters might must be returned to the sea American lobsters compared to will be in a stronger position orange-tinted lobsters in their also carry the bacterial disease (undersized or berried European European lobsters, along with to make informed decisions catches. While such features gaffkaemia or epizootic shell lobster), can be eaten/placed contact details for reporting regarding policy, and be able to are not always a definitive disease. Transferring these on the market (American suspected American lobsters, work to protect both the trade means of identification, their diseases to native stocks lobster), or is required for have been produced by CEFAS. in American lobsters and wild finds are often the non-native could result in major economic additional testing to determine The project’s lead, Debbie stocks of European lobsters.” American lobster, also known losses to fishermen. There the species (undetermined Murphy, said: “This is a great Go to: bit.ly/32obumO to find as the Canadian lobster. is also a risk of American species). opportunity for us to work with out more. Similar campaigns are DEFRA has funded an lobsters bringing other non- Posters and leaflets the industry to gain information planned in Scotland, Wales and awareness campaign to native species to our waters, A3designed Cefas Lobster poster.qxp_Layout to help 1 13/01/2020fishers 09:10 Page 1 about whether these animals Northern Ireland in 2020. engage with lobster fishermen, such as barnacles and other which is now being launched, small invertebrates that have explaining the legal position, attached themselves to the how to identify an American lobster. IF YOU CATCH AN AMERICAN LOBSTER... lobster, the risks posed by the Reports of American lobsters animals and the importance of caught in our waters have reporting. historically been in low numbers Early discussions identified and generally of single animals, that fishermen were more contributed to by escapes likely to return an American from holding tanks or releases lobster to the sea than report by well-meaning members of RETAIN & REPORT it. Expressing his concern the public or religious groups. AMERICAN LOBSTER DISTINGUISHING FEATURES EUROPEAN LOBSTER on Facebook’s Fishing News The biggest contributor to group, one fisherman reported American lobsters in English throwing an American lobster waters was a mass release in back into the Wash, Norfolk June 2015 of 361 specimens off ‘quickly, before anyone shut Brighton by Buddhist monks as [the fishery] down’. part of their religious practice American lobsters have been known as ‘fang sheng’. In the Location: months following this release, Location: imported to the UK since the Underside claw Underside claw late 1950s for consumption in 136 American lobsters were Distinctions: Distinctions: restaurants and homes. In 2015, removed from the sea in the Orange-red Cream 1,744t were imported, worth surrounding area, making up £15.75m. a large proportion of the 149 Often, it is difficult to American lobster captures tell the difference between reported from 2012 to 2018. an American lobster and Almost five years on from a native European lobster, that mass release, and with particularly if an American less than half of the American and a European lobster have lobsters having been reported Location: Location: bred to produce a hybrid. It as being recaptured, DEFRA Head Head might therefore be common is keen to know what impact Distinctions: Distinctions: for fishers to unknowingly the animals may have had, Spines tipped red Spines tipped white Ventral tooth present No ventral tooth return such animals to the sea if any, and is launching its if they are below the minimum ‘Retain and Report’ campaign. conservation reference size for The campaign is asking European lobster in their area. fishers around the coast of Furthermore, some fishers England to keep a lookout for worry that landing and reporting both potential American and American lobsters might be potential hybrid lobsters, and if detrimental to themselves or any are spotted, to retain and their fishery. report them to the fisheries American lobsters in our officers at their local Inshore waters may have a negative Fisheries and Conservation Location: Location: impact, so must be removed. Authority (IFCA) or the Marine Back & neck Back & neck Distinctions: Distinctions: Knowingly releasing a non- Management Organisation Larger, orange, reddish, Smaller, blue to native species to the wild is (MMO). dark green or black dark blue an offence under the Wildlife All possible American or speckles and Countryside Act, including hybrid lobsters should be put Occasionally American lobsters Please keep all potential returning one to the sea at aside, regardless of their size find their way into our waters. American lobsters or hybrids point of capture. American or whether they are berried This poses a risk of disease, and report them asap. lobsters tend to grow to larger (carrying eggs), and reported outcompeting and sizes than European lobsters, as soon as possible. The interbreeding. have a larger dietary range, fisheries officers will then are more tolerant of different assist with identification and habitats, are more aggressive, collect as much information as For more Report to your local IFCA or information and produce more eggs than possible about the animals – including European lobsters. This means this will include catch location, IFCA & MMO MMO fisheries officers that they are at a competitive size, sex and photographs of contact details 14 FISHING NEWS AWARDS SHORTLIST Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2020 NOMINATION SHORTLISTS After a busy few weeks, the shortlists for each category have been drawn up, and voting is now open Demersal Fisherman of the Year n Daniel Chamberlain Fair Morn BA 19 o now it’s over to you and it really couldn’t be Daniel has been a fisherman since he was 16. He started on the Freedom BA 280, simpler. Just visit: and fishingnews.co.uk/awards then moved on to the Aeolus, where he saved his skipper’s life. Skipper James place your vote. S Jack got caught up in a rope which took him overboard. Danny dived down and Ten of the categories will be decided by you, our readers, while the remaining four – the Sustainability cut him free. Two years ago, Daniel became the skipper on Fair Morn BA 19. Since Award, Young Fisherman of the Year, Port of the Year and then he has ‘worked hard, looks after his crew and is always on hand to help the Lifetime Achievement Award – will be decided by a others in the Troon harbour fleet’. panel of judges drawn from the fishing industry. You may only vote once per category, and the voting closes at midnight on 17 April. n James Jack Bon Ami BA 104 James has been a fisherman since leaving school, working in a family business PRESENTATION EVENING until five years ago, when he decided to buy an older boat. Through sheer hard The finalists will receive their awards at a work, he has managed to upgrade twice, resulting in his current ownership of a presentation evening held at Ardoe House, modern inshore vessel. Aberdeen on 14 May, the day before the opening “His knowledge of fishing is vast, from gear to engineering, electronics and just of the Skipper Int Expo. The evening will be hosted general problem-solving, to net construction.” He has also sat on the executive by comedian Simon Evans, and includes a drinks committee of the CFA, has participated in this, and has great knowledge of reception, sponsored by the Scottish Fishermen’s regulations. Federation, followed by a three-course meal with wine, and exclusive live entertainment. ‡ Simon Evans n Stuart Legge Golden Sceptre PD 50 Skippering the Golden Sceptre, Stuart always has the welfare and safety of crew CHANGE OF VENUE at the fore during his trips, and ecologically he has a desire to manage his catches and impact on the sea. Stuart takes the lead in everyday roles on the boat, which This year’s event will be held at the Mercure Aberdeen Ardoe House include the upkeep, organising other crew members, and making sure the boat is Hotel and Spa, a beautiful four-star 19th-century mansion house in seaworthy and that the crew have everything they need. Blairs, Aberdeen. From when he started as skipper, Stuart is to the core – at home and sea – a North For more details please visit: ardoehouseblairs.co.uk Sea fisherman. He has dealt with crews from different cultures and succeeded in running a safe and harmonious boat. Nominees say that he is ‘one of the cleverest New sponsor and most efficient skippers I know’, and ‘he really does excel in all aspects’.

We are pleased to announce that WASSP will be sponsoring the New Shellfish n David Milne Faithlie FR 220 Boat of the Year award. This small New Zealand electronics company has become a global giant by David Milne has shown that he is a top whitefish skipper, with extensive knowledge helping fishermen to find their catch quickly and efficiently, and map their fishing of the fishing grounds both off the west coast of Scotland and in the North Sea. grounds. In more than 30 years as a skipper, he has demonstrated his skill at many types Multibeam sounder manufacturer WASSP Multibeam is wholly owned by ENL of fishing, including fly-shooting, single-boat trawling and pair-seining. During this Group, New Zealand’s leading marine electronics company. Founded in 1945, time, he has worked extremely hard to meet extreme challenges outside of his and now with 75 years of experience, ENL Group has earned a solid reputation control, while remaining dedicated to fishing, including taking delivery of two new for outstanding service, innovation and supply of quality marine electronic whitefish boats. David is also chairman of the White Fish Producers’ Association in products worldwide. ENL’s presence in the global market – particularly with its development of Scotland, a role in which he is highly thought of and well-respected. WASSP Multibeam – was so strong that WASSP Multibeam joined forces with the global marine electronics giant. While its head office is in New Zealand, at the heart of the South Pacific n Colin Mitchell Beryl BF 440 fishing industry, ENL Group and WASSP have also established an office in Colin has the reputation of not only being a very good fisherman, but his great Maldon, Essex, meaning that its world-leading expertise is at the fingertips of the interest in, and knowledge of, the quota side of things is a real help to others. European commercial fishing industry. Find out more about WASSP and its applications at: WASSP.com He now sits on the SFO committee and is good at explaining the workings of the quotas to other fishermen. He has been at the fishing for over 34 years, and a If you would like to discuss sponsoring one of the remaining categories, please skipper for most of that. He puts in a lot of effort and is always keen to help others email: [email protected] if he can.

PelagicPelagic Fisherman of the Year Shellfish Fisherman of the Year Fisherman of Sponsored by Peterhead Port Authority the Year n Neil Barnard Rachel May LH 23 n Will Burton Neil Barnard trained with his father-in-law, George Gray. He had always been interested in fishing, but when he started going out with George, Girl Rona TH 117 he got the taste for it and has never looked back. Neil worked for seven years on the creel boat Telstar, before buying his first fishing boat, Will has been fishing for about Gratitude (now Rachel May), from William Whyte. Rachel May will be sold in May, and Neil is currently having a new 26ft catamaran built by Audacious Marine. This is a massive achievement for the cove fishermen. 20 years. His father was a fisherman for 45 years before n Stewart Poland Albatross BA 88 him. Will is the skipper of the Having been at sea for over 30 years, Stewart is a treasured skipper in the scallop sector. There are countless men who owe their knowledge Girl Rona and the coxswain of and training to Stewart, and he is widely acknowledged for his professionalism, gentlemanly style and personal desire to see people do well the Teignmouth lifeboat. About and progress. His devotion to the industry and constant drive for improvement to scallop gear resulted in John Reid & Son Scallop Gear 10 years ago, the Girl Rona naming a dredge after him, and he now works for the company in its new warehouse. sank going over the bar into Teignmouth, half full of herrings. n Dominic Welsh J-Sea E 333 Will’s lifeboat training came into Dominic left school at 14 and worked on a crabber in the English Channel. He saved hard and bought his first boat, an Orkney Strikeliner. From good use by making sure the there he went from strength to strength and now owns the J-Sea, an extremely successful scalloper. He has excellent leadership skills, is skipper and the other two crew innovative in using selective fishing methods to succeed in an ever-changing industry, and believes passionately in encouraging youngsters to got safely in the liferaft. choose commercial fishing as a career. He has encouraged and mentored his crew, and has achieved everything through sheer hard work. 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews FISHING NEWS AWARDS SHORTLIST 15 FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2020 NOMINATION SHORTLISTS Fresh Fish Retailer of the Year Fresh Fish Processor of the Year

n The Fish Shop Camberley n Rockabill NI A large selection of very fresh fish and seafood from selected fishermen in Cornwall, Rockabill NI was established in Ardglass in 2014 by the Rockabill group. The processing with very friendly and helpful knowledgeable staff. Described as some of the most plant serves the needs of fishermen from Northern Ireland and Scotland, and enables passionate staff customers have come across, selling produce they’re proud of, they them to supply products to Irish seafood processor Rockabill Seafood Ltd. Specialising offer excellent advice. You leave the shop feeling excited about the produce you particularly in processing whitefish and scallops, Rockabill NI also has offices in Kilkeel have just bought. Passion for food is everywhere, but this team show just what being and Portavogie. The company is praised in nominations for the benefits that the business passionate means. has brought to these ports, and to the fishermen. “Always good prices paid, and 24-hour care of the fishing boats that land direct to Rockabill. What I like best is that when you n Mersea Island Fresh Catch Essex land to Rockabill, you land direct to the factory, which cuts out the middleman.” Mersea Island Fresh Catch sells its fish from a stall on the jetty according to what has been caught. Often more unusual fish are available, such as gurnard, and the helpful n Whitelink Seafoods Fraserburgh friendly staff willingly prepare the fish and give ideas on how to cook it. To beat the Since James and Marie Sutherland established Whitelink Seafoods in 1974, when they queues, it’s now possible to place orders and have them delivered. “Locally landed fish started to buy and pack winkles in the garage at the back of their house, a continual served with a smile and a cheery word in all weathers! Mersea would be a poorer place programme of gradual growth, based on sustained reinvestment in the fishing industry, without them.” has seen the Fraserburgh company develop into both one of the leading processors in northeast Scotland and a major international company. n RX Fisheries Hastings In addition to the Fraserburgh factory, where 180 staff are employed, Whitelink RX Fisheries is a traditional wet fish and seafood retailer, with its fish being the freshest Seafoods has processing facilities at Newlyn and a production, sales and distribution available as the shop is positioned directly next to the fishmarket. It has a wide variety factory in Boulogne, together with sales offices in Germany and Spain and a of fresh fish and shellfish from local fishermen to choose from, with lovely displays, and processing factory in Iceland. is very helpful with filleting and preparation. “Lovely selection of fish, great customer Monkfish, catfish, ling, coley, tusk, pollack, cod, megrim, witches, squid, hake, service and communication – helpful to those less confident in fish cookery.” turbot, prawns and scallops are the main species processed daily by highly skilled workers in Whitelink Seafoods’ Fraserburgh factory. n World of Fish Lowestoft In 2019, Whitelink Seafoods took delivery of its fourth scalloper, Eternal Light, the An extremely wide and varied fish selection including locally caught fish and shellfish, company’s first new build, to further underpin consistent supplies of king scallops, all kept in tip-top condition and always wonderfully presented. The friendly staff are which are processed for niche markets. extremely knowledgeable about the products, and will always provide ideas and suggestions about cooking and serving fish, including cooking tips. “Terrific range; n AGD Duff & Partners Aberdeen consistent quality; fun front of house; value for money,” say customers, and, “A credit Established for over 40 years, AGD Duff & Partners is a wholesale fish merchant, to your industry.” supplying to a range of customers including supermarket chains, hotels, restaurants and shops across Europe. Now run by Paul and Alex Duff, the company was started by their father and is a family business. It is a wholesale company, but now also has a shop where it sells fish directly to customers, and a fish and chip shop too. The Sustainability Award Fish is bought by five buyers from the company direct from the Peterhead fishmarket Sponsored by The Fishmongers’ every morning, before being taken to the company’s warehouse in Aberdeen, where it is processed before being sold to local restaurants and in the shop. Company’s Charitable Trust n Downies of Whitehills Fraserburgh n Odyssey Innovation From a small shed/cutting room to a company now supplying customers both locally Odyssey Innovation Ltd offers free net recycling solutions for polyethylene trawl and and worldwide, Downies has more than 150 years’ experience of selling quality fresh fish. nylon gill-nets through its recycling partner Plastix. The net recycling programme has To ensure that only quality fresh Scottish fish is available to customers, Alan Downie been developed to support both the fishing industry and conservation. There are specially selects fish at the local markets on a daily basis, buying seasonally to ensure no viable net recycling schemes in the UK, so most go to landfill. Plastix, based in that customers receive the freshest product at a fantastic price. Denmark, is the only specialist net recycler in Europe capable of dealing with our nets. Once selected, the fish is quickly transported to the factory in Whitehills for processing The scheme also recycles rigid marine plastics. Net collection services operate at 16 by a skilled team. The company smokes its own fish, and its award-winning cullen skink SW harbour drop-off points, and nets are recycled from the Ocean Recovery Project, is freshly made on site on a daily basis. net-makers, beach clean groups, Keep Britain Tidy, the National Trust, and nets found The factory is BRC, SALSA and MSC-certified, and processes fish for both retail and during dive retrievals by Fathoms Free. Find out more at: odysseyinnovation.com wholesale clients.

n Fishing for Litter Fishing for Litter has operated since 2004 in Scotland, creating a network of 20 harbours with over 300 fishing vessels registered to the scheme, and over 1,550t Service Company of the Year of marine litter has been collected. Participation in the project has grown over the years, and the amount of litter collected has steadily increased as it becomes a firmly Brixham Trawler Agents BTA prides itself on outstanding service to the commercial fishing industry. Provision of established working practice. services is given to all vessels landing their catch at Brixham, whether they are locally Participating vessels are given bags to collect the marine litter caught in their nets registered vessels, or from other ports in the UK or further afield. while fishing (‘passive’ fishing for litter). Filled bags are deposited on the quayside, and This quality service is provided 24 hours every day (some exceptions), and includes: harbour staff move the bags to dedicated skips for collection and disposal. There is no sorting and grading, a daily auction, settlements within 24 hours of market, fuel, ice, cost to the fishermen or harbours (beyond the time taken to collect the litter and place box washing, landing assistance, transport and overland. it in the skips). In June 2019, BTA saw the start of the world’s first ever online clock auction. KOSMOS was developed by BTA with the auction company Aucxis. n The Wash brown shrimp fishery The Wash on the east coast of the UK is one of the most heavily designated and Faithlie Trawl protected areas around the UK coastline. And yet, a viable commercial fishery Fraserburgh net-maker Faithlie Trawl is well-known for supplying all types of high- still operates. The brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) fishery has existed here for quality nets to existing and new customers, from the SW to Shetland. Personal generations, but was given the ultimatum by the buyers that MSC certification would recommendations, based on both the fishing performance of its nets and the minimal be needed as the outlets were demanding it. quayside maintenance required, reflects the high level of skilled workmanship and Working together over several years, a team of organisations gained accreditation for quality of material that goes into its nets. In emergencies, the company will go above and the fishery ‘from the Humber to just short of the Thames’. The industry is still here, and beyond to ensure you’re back fishing as quickly as possible. the environmentalists are satisfied – a win/win situation. In addition to supervising every stage of making a new net, Willie Hepburn, supported by an experienced team of net-makers, places great importance on providing a personal service to deliver quality products, with an emphasis on fast turnaround times. Lifetime Achievement Award Karl Thomsen Sponsored by the Scottish White Fish Karl Thomsen’s willingness and ability to work around vessel movements and Producers’ Association requirements with his rigging services has been a valued service to the industry for 35 years. Customers say that nothing is a problem to this company, which will always Selected by an industry panel, the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award will be go out of its way to get you back fishing as quickly as it can, wherever you are in the announced on the night. country. “Karl should be recognised for his services to the fishing industry.” 16 FISHING NEWS AWARDS SHORTLIST Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020

Fishing Port of the Year n Brixham Brixham prides itself on the excellent service provided to fishing vessels landing at New Boat of the Year 2019 the market, and the quality of the fish offered to the buyers. During 2019, a new landing jetty was built, and the fishmarket continued to develop, seeing sales of £39.2m, making it the largest fishing port in England and DEMERSAL BOATS Wales. There were also major investments, including the introduction of the world’s first ever web-based clock auction, an 11-port fish grading machine – the first of its kind in the UK, allowing Brixham to grade fish to the same grades as European competitors and compete with them on an equal footing – and a new fish box washing machine, capable of washing and stacking more than 400 boxes an hour. Future investment plans include additional storage facilities, additional market and office facilities, and ongoing upgrades to berths. The long-term strategy is to not only look at continued developments for the fishmarket, but to develop the port by potentially providing a dry dock, and a Northern Arm to protect the harbour from bad weather.

n Fraserburgh Fraserburgh enjoyed a very busy 2019, with the largest turnover to date of £3.2m. Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners have continued to invest heavily in infrastructure to improve the services available to the fishing fleet, including the final phase of the ship-to-shore power provision project, which provides shore power and freshwater within easy access of all berths and improves the green credentials of Fraserburgh harbour by allowing vessel engines to be switched off while in port. The shiplift has also undergone extensive refurbishment and n Fruitful Bough PD 109 Built to a new round bilge hull design, the 22.3m twin-rig prawn trawler Fruitful improvements. The Fraserburgh Harbour Masterplan was completed in 2019, Bough is powered by a Caterpillar C18 ACERT main engine driving a 2,400mm- and work will be ongoing in 2020 to develop the business case for the various diameter propeller through a Masson Marine 9.916:1 reduction gearbox. Auxiliary refurbishment projects. power comes from a Cummins QSL9 engine driving the vessel’s main hydraulic Funding from North East Scotland Fisheries Local Action Group (NESFLAG) system and Cummins 6B gensets. allowed the commissioning of access platforms for all berths at the shiplift, providing safer access to vessels for those working at the repair facilities. All of these projects have been instigated by the commissioners with the intention of improving the facilities available to all port users and, in particular, the fishing sector, the core business of the port.

n Peterhead After completing a £52m upgrade to facilities in 2018, the port has turned its attention to attaining the highest standards of quality and sustainability. Having completed accreditations with MSC and BRCGS, the port was the first to be awarded the Responsible Fishing Ports Scheme. These quality standards were then complemented with the SEDEX Members’ Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA), ensuring compliance in labour, health and safety, environment and business ethics. Peterhead port’s 2020 vision demonstrates an ethos to be an environmentally responsible business, reducing its carbon footprint and championing sustainability and renewable energy. These initiatives ensure that the port is positioned to serve future generations of fishermen. n Good Hope FR 891 With the capability of twin-rig trawling for whitefish or prawns, as well as being Nominators said that the new fishmarket, and the maintenance around the equally suitable for either single-boat trawling or pair-seining, the 26.5m Good Hope harbour, make it second to none. is designed to deliver maximum levels of fishing versatility. Two sets of split net drums are positioned on the quarter under two single units atop the shelterdeck. n Scalloway In a year of dramatic transition, Scalloway harbour continued to provide an extremely high level of service to the skippers and crews of local and visiting whitefish boats, even though the port’s previous fishmarket was totally demolished in the process of building a custom-designed £3m facility in the same area. In a seamless transition, a temporary chilled and insulated fishmarket was created inside an existing warehouse, which delivered in all aspects during a year in which whitefish landings at Scalloway exceeded £15m. Continuing to provide ‘service as usual’ in a very unusual and challenging situation represents a unique and largescale achievement by all associated with Scalloway harbour.

n Scrabster Scrabster harbour has invested over the years and built up a huge reputation for great service 24/7. When the local ice factory closed, Scrabster Harbour Trust was quick to apply for funding and build a brand new ice facility for the boats, which took eight months from start to finish. Scrabster is also situated at a dangerous shipping channel, the Pentland Firth, and all the employees of the harbour know n Tilly WD 3 the answers about how to navigate this. Scrabster harbour has never forgotten its Of 26.05m LOA and 6.75m, Tilly has the distinction of being the first new beam trawler to be built for Ireland. A Mitsubishi S6R2-T2MPTK main engine of 324kW @ fishing roots, and whenever you come into land, someone from the harbour is there 1,800rpm drives a Promarin 2,700mm-diameter propeller through a Masson Marine to catch your ropes. Scrabster has also lowered its dues, showing commitment to gearbox of 10.594:1 reduction ratio. Pneumatically operated, the hydraulically driven the fishermen using the harbour. six-drum trawl winch is suitable for single purchase operation. 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews FISHING NEWS AWARDS SHORTLIST 17 New Boat of the Year 2019 New Boat of the Year 2019 DEMERSAL BOATS PELAGIC BOATS

n Adenia LK 193 n Virtuous FR 253 Of 69.90m LOA and with a beam of 15.6m, Adenia effectively features three The 24m twin-rig prawn trawler Virtuous has a totally new hull form, including a high- continuous decks – main, shelter and forecastle, while a profiled boat deck extends profile, parallel-sided bulbous bow, and main deck layout designed to accommodate aft of the rounded wheelhouse. In order to create maximum space when the crew a new concept of aft bagging arrangement. Catches are worked up on the port side are working on the midwater nets, Adenia’s trawl deck is slightly longer than usual. of the main deck, on which three split net drums are mounted forward. At the owner’s request, the 80t topline winch is located on the starboard side of the shelterdeck – an arrangement which keeps the lifeline as low to the water as possible, to promote catch quality by making it easier to spill fish back to the bag.

n Charisma LK 362 Designed for pumping pelagic fish over the stern, the 75m Charisma features 11 RSW n Westro PD 20 tanks with a combined capacity of 2,350m3. The midwater trawler is fitted with 28 The 21.2m Caterpillar C18 ACERT-engined twin-rig prawn trawler Westro features items of AC electric-drive deck machinery, delivering an aggregate core pull of over a selection of new ideas designed to enhance working efficiency and catch quality. 600t. Catches of blue whiting, herring and mackerel are transferred from the bag aft to These include all three trawl warps running under the floor of a wider wheelhouse, a the separator unit amidships by one of two electric fish pumps. A retractable Brunvoll catch-bagging arm and an evaporator-type fishroom refrigeration system. 850kW azimuth thruster fitted forward provides an alternative propulsion facility in the event of main engine or gearbox failure, in addition to transverse thrust.

n Zephyr LK 394 Midwater trawling deck machinery on the 75.4m midwater trawler Zephyr is arranged n Taits FR 229 at shelter, boat and upper boat deck levels. Fish pumping operations are carried With an LOA of 74.8m and a beam of 15.5m, Taits was specifically designed to out at the stern. Zephyr features a custom-designed and fully integrated electrical operate from Fraserburgh harbour. The midwater trawler features a number of power supply system specifically developed to provide optimum levels of running forward-thinking ideas designed to reduce the vessel’s carbon footprint and enhance efficiency and fuel economy. Including six auxiliary generators, the end result is a operational safety and crew comfort. These include a fuel-saving Rolls-Royce Promas significant first for a pelagic vessel. Each Caterpillar engine was specifically selected propulsion and manoeuvring system, a heat recovery system, in which hot water from to run a predetermined range of machinery, thereby eliminating the need to have large the main and auxiliary engines is used to heat all internal areas throughout the vessel, generators running when power requirements are low. two stern thrusters, and a Furuno big bridge system. 18 FISHING NEWS AWARDS SHORTLIST Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 New Boat of the Year 2019 Sponsored by WASSP SHELLFISH BOATS

n Amberlisa UL 30 n Leah III PD 140 The 19m vivier-crabber Amberlisa is the The Gemini 10 displacement hull catamaran biggest vessel Arklow Marine has built for Leah III features a high build specification. the UK, and the yard’s first for Scotland. Vivier holds and seawater ballast tanks, served Two refrigerated bait stores are arranged by two electrically driven clutched pumps either side of the central trunking leading operated through changeover valves, are built to the crabber’s 42m3 vivier hold. The into each hull sponson. Twin hydraulic pumps vessel’s engineroom machinery includes enable the pot hauler to operate with optimum a Scania D1 071M main engine, Reintjes efficiency when Leah III is fishing in deeper 7.44:1 gearbox and two Cummins auxiliary water or close to the shore. engines. n Nicola of Ladram E 1 n Carvela K 751 Operating across South West and mid- This Stromness-based 19m vivier-crabber Channel fishing grounds before landing incorporates a combination of new ideas. into Brixham, Salcombe and Newlyn, the Separate shooting and hauling hatches fully shelterdecked vivier-crabber Nicola of are situated forward to starboard, together Ladram has an LOA of 14.95m and 7m of with a viewing tunnel through the enclosed beam. The vivier hold has a gross volume shelterdeck that provides the skipper of 45,000 litres and is served by twin Desmi with a clear view of pots at the gunwale pumps delivering 270m³/hour at 1.5 bar. rail roller. A second pot retoggling table, Engineroom machinery includes a Caterpillar for use when Carvela is carrying several C18 main engine and two C4.4 auxiliary leaders of gear, is positioned at the engines running 107kVA generators. transom. n Onward PD 349 n Dalwhinnie A 913 The extensive working deck on the under-10m Of 14.65m LOA, Dalwhinnie is based on static-gear catamaran Onward is fully enclosed a Buccaneer 46 GRP displacement hull. by the wheelhouse roof being extended to the The crabber is rigged for pot self-hauling transom, supported by three integral box- and shooting. A 1.5t slave hauler operates section pillar sections separated by two heavy- through a load-sensing pump from the fore duty drop-down screens. In addition to being end of the Doosan V158TI main engine. A arranged for pot self-hauling and shooting, Sole Diesel three-phase genset housed in a Onward is also rigged for auto-jigging, with soundproofed cabinet is also installed. One five computerised machines mounted on the hundred and thirty boxes of shellfish can be underside of the deck canopy. stored in the chilled dry hold amidships. n Pilot Me SH 130 n Dignity D 727 Twin JCB 125 engines coupled to PRM 2.5:1 As the first of a new design of catamaran reduction gearboxes give the Bridlington hull, the Dún Laoghaire-based Dignity 12m potting catamaran a top speed of 12 marks the culmination of an extensive knots. Fishing up to 30 miles offshore, Pilot three-year design and build project by G Me is arranged for pot self-hauling and Smyth Boats in liaison with Ian Macleod. Of shooting. A vertical stainless steel panel 11.95m LOA and 5.5m of beam, the Maxus mounted on the deck slightly outboard of the 12 uses pot self-hauling and shooting slave hauler keeps the hauling station clear systems to fish whelks, brown crab and of backropes at all times. lobster in the Irish Sea. n Southern Spirit LT 1056 n Eternal Light FR 35 Principally built as a beam scalloper, the The 19.2m scalloper Eternal Light is 14.95m Southern Spirit also has the option equipped with an automated catch-handling to switch over to twin-rig trawling, when system, including outer hull tipping doors two net drums elevated across the transom and catch hoppers/conveyors. Featuring come into play. Split trawl and pulling-down a new hull form of under 16.5m registered winches are mounted on the main deck. length, designed to deliver optimum levels Gilson and tipping winches are positioned of stability and fuel economy, Eternal Light at whaleback level abaft the wheelhouse. works 10 dredges a side. The split trawl On tipping the dredges, the contents fall winches are mounted on the main deck onto reception conveyors from which king forward, with the Gilson winches on the scallops are selected. shelterdeck. n White Eagle CY 525 n Golden Dawn FR 8 The 14.95 Outer Hebrides scalloper White The Fraserburgh fast potter Golden Dawn Eagle features customised arrangements is based on a Cleopatra Fisherman 33 hull. designed to give enhanced levels of working A 1.5t slave hauler and a gunwale roller are efficiency, safety and comfort. These include central to the potter’s self-hauling system. running the trawl wires over the top of the Golden Dawn is also rigged with five jigging central shelterdeck walkway, fuel wing machines, strippers and chutes for use tanks built into the sides of the fishroom during the inshore summer mackerel fishery. amidships, and a forward engineroom. An FPT Iveco C90 engine coupled to a ZF Emptied by outer-hull self-tipping doors, 2:1 reduction V-drive gearbox gives Golden catches from the eight a side dredges are Dawn an economical working speed of 12- moved forward by conveyors for selection 15 knots. under the whaleback. 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews FISHING NEWS AWARDS SHORTLIST 19

Young Fisherman of the Year Trainee Fisherman of the Year Sponsored by Seafish Sponsored by Sunderland Marine Insurance n David Clark Reliance BF 800 n Luke Geddes Faithful FR 129 David always said he would never be a fisherman, but one trip with his father in the Luke left school at 16 to pursue a career in fishing. He gained a berth on the summer holidays changed that, and he was hooked. His father says he was hard Fraserburgh pair-trawler Faithful FR 129. He took three months off fishing in on David, starting him as a cook for two to three years before he progressed to the 2018 and spent the time at Jackson Trawls, learning how to splice and mend, fishroom, then net man, the engineroom and engineer. For the past two years, he and gaining experience working with nets. This gave him an excellent grounding, has been in the wheelhouse, learning about the fishing grounds. David skippered and he was able to prove his worth on return to the vessel, as his skill in splicing for the first time this year, when instead of taking the easy option of fishing close Dyneema rope was invaluable. He has also been given sole charge of working the fishroom on several occasions. to the harbour, he headed 360 miles west to Rockall, landing over 500 boxes. He The skipper saw further potential in Luke and allowed him the opportunity asked to go straight back out again, making for St Kilda, and after seven days, to study for his Class 2 Deck Fishing exams in September 2019. Luke was an landed 370 boxes. David has now made eight trips as skipper, and on each one he excellent student who worked hard while at college, and gained good passes in has earned the respect of his father and the crew. all exams in December 2019. He is on course to complete his Class 2 certificate On his last trip (at the time of writing), he was fishing 80 miles west of Shetland of competency in record time when he has achieved the required sea time, which when one of the crew had a seizure and collapsed. David called on his training and will make him one of the youngest skippers the college has ever had. put out a pan pan Mayday call, resulting in the Coastguard dispatching a helicopter to transfer the man to hospital. He made a full recovery, and David was praised by n Campbell Hunter Guiding Light LK 84 the doctors for his actions. Campbell was brought up in Scalloway, where his family was mainly involved in David is helping his father with plans for their new vessel Reliance 3, currently the fish buying and processing industry. Campbell decided his future lay in the fish catching sector, and he has shown a real drive in pursuing his career as a being built at Parkol Marine Engineering, and has come up with several good ideas fisherman. At school, Campbell enrolled on the Maritime Skills for Work course that are being incorporated into the build. at the NAFC Marine Centre and successfully gained five SQA units relating to maritime activities. When he left school, Campbell enrolled on the Seafish n Michael Brendan MacLeod Grianan Òir CY 155 Introduction to Commercial Fishing course at the NAFC, where he showed Michael first went fishing aged eight, on his father’s prawn trawler, Aquarius CY dedication to his studies and real enthusiasm towards the practical activities. 34. By 13, he was out at every opportunity he could get. By 15, he was proficient Campbell gained a berth on the Shetland trawler Guiding Light, where he is with the wire and rope splicing; by 16, he was a dab hand with a needle. Michael making good progress. left school at 16 to work with his father on their new boat Grianan Òir. They found Recognising the benefits of training, Campbell enrolled himself on the it difficult to secure a continuous crew while based between Barra and Stornoway Seafish Safety Awareness course as soon as he was eligible and, keen to take and, in summer 2019, decided to relocate to the North Sea to access a greater advantage of more training, then enrolled on the Modern Apprenticeship (Sea availability of crew and eliminate the transport issues to the Western Isles. Fishing) course. During this training, he has learned safe working practices, marine industry knowledge and seamanship skills, gained a VHF Certificate and However, within a week of relocating, Michael’s mother started treatment for undertaken a high level of net mending. Part of his training included his class cancer, and his father had to go ashore to look after her and Michael’s brother. making a complete rockhopper trawl net from scratch – something few fishermen Without any hesitation, Michael took over the running of the family boat, working have had the opportunity to do. Campbell has been keen to pursue the training hard and maintaining the family’s income during extremely trying times. His short offered to young fishermen in Shetland, recognising the value it adds to himself time in the North Sea was boosted by a few knowledgeable skippers who provided as a crew member and its contribution to safety in the industry. him with advice, and more experienced deckhands whom he had the privilege of sailing with. He listened to them, which is a great trait to have in a skipper, and n Matthew Nicol Steadfast Hope BF 340 they helped him focus on the right things and make sound decisions. His quest for Matthew attended the Scottish Maritime Academy at NESCol during his fourth knowledge and experience, coupled with his island upbringing, have provided him year at Fraserburgh Academy, which involved long travelling hours. He also with the drive necessary to succeed in an extremely challenging industry. attended the college when his school was closed for in-service days and Michael’s mother sadly died in January, but he would like to make her proud of holidays. During this time, he successfully completed the Maritime Skills for Work programme, which includes the three-day Introduction to Commercial Fishing his work and career as a fisherman. course and all mandatory Seafish certification. Matthew showed particular interest in the fishing components of the programme, but was also keen to gain n Keil Spouse Tranquillity S LH 1 as much knowledge as possible in all areas, especially on practical tasks such as Keil has been fishing since he left school. His father and both grandfathers mending and splicing. have always owned their own boats, so fishing is literally in his blood. He got After successfully completing the National 5 Skills for Work, along with the his skipper’s licence in 2016 aged 20, and he was awarded Student of the Year mandatory courses needed to work on a fishing vessel, Matthew left school at at Aberdeen College. This was an achievement in itself, as he has dyslexia and 16, going straight aboard his family vessel Steadfast Hope BF 340. In a short dyspraxia. space of time, Matthew has become a core member of the crew, and is getting He now skippers the Tranquillity S alone, have been handed the reins by his involved in responsible tasks such as being in charge of the catch – selecting, father a year ago, and it has had its most successful year in his hands. washing and stowing the catch, and having responsibility in the fishroom, which ultimately results in the overall pay for all the crew. Keil ensures all crew have safety training and courses up to date, along with His skipper says that Matthew has been paired with other crew members on keeping the boat in its best working order, overseeing repairs and maintenance. watchkeeping duties, where he has learned how to use and understand the He dedicates his life at sea and at home to making the best of his and his crew’s navigation equipment and net-monitoring sensors, and that he hopes in the careers. Some of his crew he is teaching from scratch, as fishing is new to them. near future to undertake the Seafish five-day watchkeeping course. If Matthew His success and the hours he commits make his family very proud. continues in his proactive approach to the fishing industry, there will definitely be a bright future ahead of him. n Stephen West Westro PD 20 Stephen has successfully passed his ticket and is now skippering the Westro. At n Reece Taylor Westro PD 20 just 20, he has a reputation for being smart and forward-thinking – ‘always is three At just 18, Reece been aboard Westro since it was finished in January 2019. steps ahead’. He is expected to excel in his career as a skipper and go on to do Before that, he had just over a year’s experience at sea, but did not feel that he some amazing things. Stephen is a great role model for young fishermen, and he had learned much during that time. Since being onboard Westro, he has been determined to show everyone what he can accomplish, by learning as much as motivates those around him to do well. He was recently seen in Fish Town, where he can and doing everything efficiently, to a high standard and, most importantly, he was a great ambassador for the industry. safely. Reece is the winch man, fishroom man, deck boss and cook. He is also getting very comfortable working with the nets, and is starting to learn more n Max Wightman Georgie Girl LT 1042 about the engineroom. He hopes to do his ticket as soon as possible, and maybe Max has been fishing since the age of six. He has shown real achievement at the one day to skipper a boat. age of 19, going through Whitby Fishing School, and passing his skipper’s ticket Through the North East Fishermen’s Training Association in Fraserburgh, Reece and his yacht master’s, all within 18 months of leaving school. He now skippers has passed the Seafish basic sea survival, basic firefighting and prevention, basic the family-owned 10m Georgie Girl, twin-trawling from Lowestoft, ‘which is a great health and safety, basic first aid, safety awareness, and his ENG medical 1 twice! achievement for someone so young’. – once in Peterhead and again in Aberdeen. 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? THE 2-SPEED CROSSWORD SUDOKU You can choose to do either quick or cryptic clues, the answers are the same. 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Thomas Summers book launch New chair appointed for Seafish rolls back the years at Fraserburgh Wales Advisory Committee Seafishhas announced the The primary role of the Over 100 people attended the built at the Thomas Summers yard appointment of Jon Parker SWAC is to ensure the launch of a new book recording between 1946 and 1962. as chair of its Wales Advisory effective delivery of Seafish the history of the renowned Alexander West’s family Committee (SWAC). services for the benefit Fraserburgh boatbuilder Thomas has strong connections with Jon started his career of the Welsh sector. One Summers & Co, held in the Fraserburgh ripper yawls built in freshwater aquaculture, of Jon’s first tasks will be Fraserburgh Heritage Centre by Thomas Summers. Malcolm and has since worked with to oversee the SWAC’s recently, reports David Linkie. Burge and Kay Nuttall have spent industry levy bodies, the upcoming review of the Wales Relatives of the boatbuilders countless hours restoring their civil service and the private Seafood Strategy, which was and formers skippers of Tommy yawl Amethyst (Fishing News, 21 ‡ Alexander West welcomes people sector. With a background in developed together with the Summers boats attended the February, 2019). to the Thomas Summers book launch, economic development, he Welsh government. widely anticipated event. Interest The well-known fishing author with fellow researcher Malcolm Burge has also supported a number Marcus Coleman, CEO of in the book was such that all Mike Smylie then used the detailed and author Mike Smylie. of seafood businesses in Seafish, said: “Jon Parker’s copies available on the day information and photographs Wales. wide-ranging knowledge and quickly sold out. sourced by Malcolm Burge and experience will be hugely Malcolm Burge and Alexander Alexander West to write the book, New SWAC valuable as he steps into the West used first-hand experience which is published by The History chair Jon role, and carries on from the and their mutual interest in Press. Parker. sterling work of the outgoing Tommy Summers boats to A wide range of displays, chair James Wilson, to deliver painstakingly compile a full listing including half-models, traditional strategic objectives which of new builds at the Fraserburgh shipwright tools, photographs will ensure there is a thriving, yard over a period of several and press cuttings associated with vibrant, safe, and sustainable years. Herring drifters, seiners, Tommy Summers boats generated ‡ Malcolm Burge and Kay Nuttall seafood industry in Wales.” trawlers and longliners, as well lively discussion and evoked many with Lorraine Noble, the widow of For further information as a succession of traditional nostalgic memories. skipper George Noble, the original on the SWAC visit: bit. Fraserburgh ripper yawls ranging A review of the book will be owner of Amethyst. (Photos: Eugune ly/2uBsHgc in size from 30ft to 97ft, were included in Fishing News soon. Rutter) 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BOAT OF THE WEEK 21 Name: Dignity D 727 LOA: 11.95m G SmythBuilt: Boats Ltd, Kilkeel, Co Down Type: catamaran Potting Home port: Laoghaire Dún 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020 PORTS & PRICES SMALLEST PETERHEAD WHITEFISH MARKETS IN OVER FOUR YEARS

In a month characterised by recurring £2.20-£3.30, chippers £1.10-£3.05, Harvester and Favonius, plus one severe weather, February ended at metros 75p-£2.15 and round haddock consignment from Carina, contributed Peterhead with the lowest five-day total 90p-£1.25. Gutted whiting were at 75p- 4,653 boxes to last Thursday’s market at since November 2015, reports David £2.90 and round whiting £1.65-£2.10 per Peterhead. This sale, the largest of a quiet Linkie. kg. Monkfish sold at £2.15-£6.40, lemon week, included 1,402 boxes of gutted and Buyer demand remained high sole £3.35-£11.35, megrim £3.70-£10.80, 355 boxes of round haddock, 1,142 boxes throughout a week that, very unusually, ling £2.35-£3.35, coley £1.05-£2.05, of whiting (940 rounders), 812 boxes of included three sub-3k box markets and plaice £1-£3.50, hake £2.10-£9 and squid coley, 519 boxes of cod, 116 boxes of none over 5k. £1.85-£8 per kg. monkfish, 71 boxes of ling, 49 boxes of Ten boats, Opportunus IV, Guiding The following morning, three boats, flatfish, 40 boxes of squid, 31 boxes of Light, Guiding Star, Gracious, Victoria May, Boy John, Audacious and Westro, landed megrim and 25 boxes of hake. Fruitful Vine, Steadfast Hope, Forever 2,715 boxes. Tuesday’s tally included 919 Twenty-four hours later, four boats, Faithful and Fruitful Bough, together boxes of gutted haddock, 878 boxes of Gracious, Falcon, Sunrise and Tranquility, with three consignments from Venture cod, 509 boxes of whiting (499 rounders), plus two consignments from Deeside and III, Shalanna and Ocean Endeavour, 146 boxes of coley, 17 boxes of squid, 16 Sparkling Star, landed 1,786 boxes to contributed 3,456 boxes to the first market boxes of flatfish, 14 boxes of ling, 10 boxes Friday’s market. This sale, the smallest of of last week at Peterhead. of monkfish and one box of megrim. the week, included 384 boxes of gutted Monday’s sale included 1,149 boxes of Four boats, Harvest Hope, Valhalla, and 155 boxes of round haddock, 523 ‡ Boy John and Audacious landing into Peterhead fishmarket at the coley, 800 boxes of whiting (427 rounders), Golden Sceptre and Victory Rose, landed boxes of whiting (467 rounders), 392 end of another pair-seining trip. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) 505 boxes of gutted and 24 boxes of round 2,974 boxes to Peterhead market last boxes of cod, 84 boxes of monkfish, 79 haddock, 291 boxes of cod, 241 boxes of Wednesday morning. This total included boxes of coley, 30 boxes of flatfish, 27 £3.90 and small £2.45-£4.45. Monkfish This was the smallest full-week tally hake, 137 boxes of monkfish, 67 boxes of 859 boxes of coley, 710 boxes of gutted boxes of megrim, 12 boxes of squid, 10 sold at £2.75-£6.40, gutted whiting £2.45- since 15,168 boxes were landed in the ling, 53 boxes of flatfish, 17 boxes of squid haddock, 508 boxes of whiting (306 boxes of ling and seven boxes of hake. £2.80, round whiting 80p-£2.25, lemon week ending 20 November, 2015. Last and 10 boxes of megrim. rounders), 423 boxes of cod, 92 boxes of Last Friday morning at Peterhead, sole £3.55-£11.20, hake £2.30-£6.20, week’s total included 4,454 boxes of At the start of last week at Peterhead, monkfish, 86 boxes of ling, 91 boxes of large/medium gutted haddock made megrim £3.85-£9.35, plaice 75p-£3.95, haddock (534 rounders), 3,482 boxes of large cod sold at £3.85-£6.35 per megrim, 37 boxes of flatfish, 35 boxes of £3.75 per kg, selected £2.40-£4.60, small coley £1.55-£2.50, ling £2.50-£4 and squid whiting (2,639 ungutted), 3,045 boxes of kg, medium £3.60-£5.20, selected megrim, 30 boxes of squid and four boxes £2.15-£3.45, chippers £1.50-£2.80, £5.55-£10 per kg. coley, 2,503 boxes of cod, 439 boxes of £3.45-£4.75 and small £2.10-£4.30. of hake. metros £1-£2.15 and round haddock £1- Twenty-eight boats and six monkfish, 277 boxes of hake, 248 boxes Large/medium gutted haddock made Seven boats, Our Lass III, Venture, £1.15. Large cod sold at £3.55-£5.95 per consignments contributed to last week’s of ling, 185 boxes of flatfish, 116 boxes of £3.35-£3.60, selected £3-£3.90, small Budding Rose, Lapwing, Ocean Harvest, kg, medium £3.65-£4.20, selected £3.50- total of 15,585 boxes on Peterhead market. squid and 104 boxes of megrim. PRICES STAY HIGH ON BRIXHAM MARKET RETURN OF FIVE-MARKET WEEK Better weather saw more landings Red gurnard 2s were £6.20. kg for 1s, £11.80 for 2s and £9 for 3s. at Brixham last week, though with Haddock 1s averaged £3.20/kg, 2s Octopus averaged £2. IN SHETLAND quantities still limited, prices remained were £3.10 and 3s were £1.80. Hake Plaice 1s averaged £4.20/kg, 2s Five successive electronic whitefish auctions 13 boats. This took the weekly total to 6,779 very high. Total sales for the week were fetched £6.70 for 1s, £6.40 for 2s, £3.60, 3s £3.40, 4s £2.50 and 5s £1.60. were held in Shetland last week for only boxes from 38 vessels. £763,882. £6.80 for 3s, £7 for 4s and 5s, £6.70 Pollack 1s were £5.80, 2s £4.80, 3s the second time in February, following two Whiting (65,137kg, of which 31,661kg were Blondie wing 1s were £7, 2s and 3s for 6s and £4.20 for 7s. Size 1 herring £4.10 and 4s £3.20. Sand sole 1s were successive three-market weeks due to rounders) led the way last week, followed £6.90 and 4s £4.80/kg. Black bream sold at £1. Lemon sole averaged £13/ £11/kg and 2s £8.20. Large scallops severe weather. by haddock (49,745kg, including 2,838kg 2s and 3s were £8.20, and 4s were kg for 1s and 2s, 3s £11.30, 4s £5.10 were £8.50 and small £4.80. Dover The week started quietly in Shetland, of ungutted fish), cod (41,112kg), monkfish £5. Size 1 brill averaged £17.80/kg, 2s and 5s £2.60. Ling averaged £2.80/kg sole 1s averaged £15/kg, 2s £18.70, when six boats landed 848 boxes for (33,021kg), saithe (28,200kg), ling (12,780kg), were £14.50, 3s £13, 4s £10.70 and 5s for 1s, £2.70 for 2s and £2.40 for 3s. 3s £21.40, 4s £20.40, 5s £16.40, 6s Monday’s electronic auction, before 914 megrim (10,749kg), hake (3,555kg), plaice £8.50. Prime lobsters were £26.80 and large £13.80, 7s £11.10, 8s £10.90, 9s £10.20 boxes were put ashore by five boats on (2,346kg) and lemon sole (1,977kg). Size 1 cod were £8, 2s £7.60. 3s £24.60. and 10s £9.30. Large squid were £11.50 Tuesday morning. Supplies increased from The highest prices between Monday and £6.40, 4s £5 and 5s £3.80. Coley was Mackerel sold at £7 for 1s, £5.50 for and 2s were £11. the middle of the week with 1,141 boxes Thursday included cod at £4.98, gutted £3.20 for 1s, £3.10 for 2s and £2.40 for 2s and £1.80 for 3s. Megrim 1s were Thorny wings averaged £6.90 for 2s, from eight boats on Wednesday morning haddock £3.72, round haddock £1.93, hake 3s. Conger averaged £1.40 for 1s and £5.70, 2s £4.80, 3s £4.90, 4s £3.60 £6.80 for 3s and £3.50 for 4s. Large tubs and 1,432 boxes from seven arrivals for £6.51, halibut £14.01, lemon sole £12.04, 2s and 80p for 3s. Cuttlefish averaged and 5s £2.20. Monkfish 1s averaged were £6.60/kg for 1s, and 2s were £6.20. Thursday’s market. ling £2.77, megrim £12.55, monkfish £5.96, £2.46 for 1s and £1.52 for 2s. Size 2 £19.10, 2s £20, 3s £15.80, 4s £12, Turbot averaged £27.50/kg for 1s, 2s were Friday produced the biggest market of the plaice £4.02, saithe £2.20, squid £6.03, turbot dabs were 90p. John Dory 1s were £17/ 5s £10.50 and 6s £7.30. Grey mullet £25.50, 3s £22, 4s £18, 5s £13.90 and 6s week, when 2,444 boxes were put ashore by £16.33 and whiting £3.32 (ungutted £1.90). kg, 2s were £16.80, 3s £15 and 4s fetched £4.80 for 1s, £4.60 for 2s and £11. Large whiting averaged £3.80/kg, 2s £9.90. £2 for 3s. Red mullet averaged £12/ £2.80, 3s £1.90 and 4s 60p. HIGH DEMAND OVER BUSIER WEEK AT NEWLYN Monday’s auction at Newlyn was mackerel, 1t monkfish, 1t octopus, 0.2t haddock, 1.4t lemon sole, 0.2t supplied with 12.5t from two beamers, 1.4t plaice and 0.1t of turbot. Demand mackerel, 2.4t megrim sole, 2.4t one netter and hand-line boats. was high for all species throughout monkfish, 1.1t plaice and 0.1t of brill. Contributing to the day’s volume were the morning. Demand was again good for all species 9.7t of cuttlefish, 0.9t Dover sole, A small volume of 0.6t was landed auctioned. 0.2t haddock, 1.2t lemon sole, 0.3t for Wednesday’s market from one Two beamers landed 11.8t for mackerel, 1t monkfish, 1t octopus, inshore trawler and hand-line boats. auction on Friday. The main-volume 1.4t plaice and 0.1t of turbot. Best The highest-volume species was species were 5.5t of cuttlefish, 0.6t prices from the sale were N1 pollack 0.3t of mackerel. Top prices were Dover sole, 0.1t haddock, 0.7t lemon £4.37/kg, N2 monkfish £19.67/kg and LM mackerel £6.44/kg, M mackerel sole, 0.6t mackerel, 0.7t monkfish, N2 lemon sole £14.75/kg. £3.89/kg and N2 Dover sole £19.60/ 0.5t octopus, 0.8t plaice and 0.4t of Three beamers and hand-line boats kg. pollack. Best prices were N2 John Dory landed 17.2t for auction on Tuesday’s On display for Thursday’s auction £15/kg, N2 pollack £4.80/kg and N3 market. Highest-volume species were was 23.2t from two beamers and turbot £25.47/kg. 9.7t of cuttlefish, 0.9t Dover sole, hand-line boats. Notable high volumes The total volume auctioned for the 0.2t haddock, 1.2t lemon sole, 0.3t were 8t of cuttlefish, 0.9t Dover sole, week was 65.2t. LOWESTOFT MARKET DOMINATED BY HERRING At 5.7t, last week saw the highest volume through the fish auction at Lowestoft so far this year. There was a good variety, with 10 species on offer. This was supplied by five local boats complemented by consignments from North Shields. However, nearly 90% of the week’s supply by weight was herring, which is being targeted now that sole is largely out of season on the east coast. With an abundance on offer, most of the herring sold at 45p per kg, with selected larger fish fetching £1.50. The premium species sold on the market fetched good prices, with brill and halibut seeing highs of £15, and turbot £15.50. Lemon ‡ The Whalsay seine-net boat Resilient landing at Lerwick. (Photo: Sydney sole, which had not been seen for many months, saw highs of £6. Similarly, haddock was seen on the market for the first time in over Sinclair) a year, and this saw highs of £3. Squid prices, with highs of £8, were the best seen for eight months. 5 March 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth ICELAND (RSF), THURS Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 4 Hake (6) 7,160 £6.67 £6.01 £2.75 NEWLYN, FRIDAY Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 28 FEBRUARY price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago 27 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago wks ago Hake (7) 4,690 £4.16 £4.54 £2.43 28 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Hen crabs 76 £2.45 £2.42 £3.29

John Dory (1) 3 £16.41 £16.82 £14.44 Catfish £3.49 £3.56 £3.51 £4.50 Blue ling (gutted) 24 £1.20 £1.47 £1.60 Blonde Ray (L) 67 £4.27 £1.95 £1.98 Cod (A1) £4.43 £5.44 £5.15 £4.25 Catfish (gutted) 4,373 £1.98 £1.81 £2.16 John Dory (2) 14 £16.75 £16.56 £13.67 John Dory (3) 38 £14.88 £13.53 £10.55 Blonde Ray (M) 108 £3.45 £1.83 £1.53 Cod (A2) £4.34 £5.60 £5.16 £3.89 Catfish (ungutted) 312 £1.04 £0.85 £1.65 Lemon sole (1) 151 £12.54 £14.52 £9.13 Blonde Ray (S) 20 £2.08 £0.28 £1.26 Cod (A3) £4.07 £4.73 £4.40 £3.47 Cod (large, gutted) 61,420 £2.41 £2.35 £1.82 Lemon sole (2) 254 £12.98 £13.56 £9.44 Brill (2) 68 £14.66 £11.00 £10.95 Cod (A4) £4.04 £4.52 £4.18 £3.22 Cod (large, ungutted) 122,799 £2.04 £2.15 £1.76 Lemon sole (3) 1,034 £11.25 £13.08 £8.43 Brill (3) 164 £12.12 £8.22 £8.41 Cod (A5) £3.48 £4.27 £3.93 £3.72 Cod (small, ungutted) 160 £1.86 £1.57 £1.06 Lemon sole (4) 4,807 £5.08 £5.48 £3.68 Haddock (A1) £3.30 £3.49 £3.56 £3.05 Cod cheeks 65 £3.69 £3.78 £6.12 Brill (4) 142 £9.45 £6.85 £6.92 Lemon sole (5) 4,417 £2.60 £1.73 £2.58 Haddock (A2) £3.41 £4.09 £4.23 £3.12 Greenland halibut (gutted) 149 £2.89 £2.48 £2.96 Cod (2) 61 £4.66 - - Haddock (large, gutted) 25,747 £1.61 £1.94 £1.16 Line mackerel (1) 9 £6.93 £5.68 £4.33 Haddock (A3) £2.99 £3.70 £3.80 £2.79 Cod (3) 109 £4.73 £4.77 £4.63 Haddock (large, ungutted) 22,360 £1.83 £2.16 £1.24 Line mackerel (2) 69 £5.40 £5.74 £4.04 Haddock chippers (A4) £2.48 £3.02 £3.16 £2.30 Cod (4) 86 £4.28 £3.36 £1.96 Haddock (small, gutted) 801 £0.80 £1.01 £0.69 Line mackerel (3) 269 £1.70 £3.39 £2.67 Haddock metros (A4) £1.54 £2.30 £1.89 £1.14 Cod (5) 51 £3.99 £3.02 £2.69 Haddock (small, ungutted) 432 £1.19 £0.55 £0.79 Lobster 56 £26.63 £25.49 £19.67 Hake (A1) £7.90 £7.99 £8.21 £5.82 Halibut (gutted) 442 £3.54 £3.50 £3.82 Monkfish tails (1) 39 £19.10 £18.50 £10.46 Conger Eels (1) 99 £0.70 - £0.60 Hake (A2) £6.38 £7.22 £6.66 £5.90 Lemon sole (gutted) 1,060 £6.99 £6.96 £5.74 Monkfish tails (2) 265 £19.94 £19.78 £11.97 Cuckoo ray (L) 59 £1.91 - £1.30 Hake (A3) £4.23 £4.84 £5.73 £4.26 Ling (gutted) 8,541 £1.26 £1.13 £0.83 Monkfish tails (3) 402 £15.64 £15.99 £11.12 Cuckoo ray (M) 672 £1.68 £1.13 £1.22 Hake (A4) £3.36 £3.68 £4.24 £2.93 Ling (ungutted) 1,762 £1.27 £1.48 £0.85 Monkfish tails (4) 1,089 £11.93 £11.94 £10.25 Cuckoo ray (S) 67 £0.41 £0.11 £0.24 Hake (A5) £2.67 £2.82 £3.31 £2.16 Megrim (gutted) 434 £2.75 £2.49 £1.43 Monkfish tails (5) 1,122 £10.50 £10.23 £9.14 Cuttlefish (L) 22,861 £2.40 £2.25 £3.11 Halibut £12.14 £13.78 £15.09 £11.59 Monkfish (gutted) 322 £4.30 £4.19 £4.05 Monkfish tails (6) 257 £7.30 £7.18 £4.11 Cuttlefish (S) 6,010 £1.03 £0.90 £1.84 Lemon sole (A1) £11.32 £11.55 £11.49 £11.71 Plaice (gutted) 14,259 £2.94 £2.72 £2.48 Octopus 6,501 £2.03 £2.02 £1.76 Dover sole (1) 359 £13.01 £12.63 £10.79 Lemon sole (A2) £8.68 £9.75 £10.96 £8.66 Redfish (ungutted) 19,520 £1.91 £1.74 £1.40 Plaice (1) 697 £4.13 £4.07 £2.18 Dover sole (2) 430 £17.49 £15.34 £12.43 Lemon sole (A3) £5.29 £6.06 £6.76 £6.65 Saithe (gutted) 7,557 £1.30 £1.26 £1.06 Plaice (2) 1,297 £3.53 £3.35 £2.12 Dover sole (3) 841 £18.90 £17.10 £13.21 Ling (A1) £2.56 £2.59 £2.89 £2.37 Saithe (ungutted) 699 £1.00 £0.91 £0.92 Plaice (3) 1,813 £3.34 £3.22 £2.03 Ling (A2) £3.41 £3.43 £3.06 £2.77 Skate (gutted) 539 £0.30 £0.45 £0.45 Plaice (4) 2,079 £2.44 £2.49 £2.00 Dover sole (4) 801 £13.35 £11.95 £10.51 Ling (A3) £3.29 £3.56 £3.77 £2.89 Spotted catfish (gutted) 989 £2.42 £2.06 £2.55 Plaice (5) 3,520 £1.56 £1.40 £1.42 Dover sole (5) 290 £10.78 £8.52 £8.63 Megrim (A1) £10.03 £10.50 £9.43 £6.49 Turbot (gutted) 3 £5.93 £5.68 - Pollock (1) 19 £5.74 £5.84 £3.64 Gurnard and latchet (L) 122 £4.09 £2.69 £2.91 Megrim (A2) £7.02 £7.38 £8.19 £5.10 Tusk (gutted) 9,347 £0.94 £0.81 £0.71 Pollock (2) 694 £4.74 £6.25 £3.49 Gurnard and latchet (M) 1,020 £1.17 £0.88 £1.96 Megrim (A3) £4.88 £5.93 £5.14 £3.77 Tusk (gutted) 9,347 £0.94 £0.81 £0.71 Pollock (3) 1,665 £4.07 £4.09 £2.97 Gurnard and latchet (S) 140 £1.44 £0.65 £0.57 Tusk (ungutted) 10 £0.12 £0.53 £0.64 Megrim (A4) £3.38 £3.54 £3.53 £2.77 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 142 £6.97 £6.19 £4.73 Haddock (1) 107 £3.87 £2.24 £2.48 Megrim (A4) £4.40 £4.59 £5.31 £3.15 Whiting (gutted) 59 £0.30 £0.88 £0.31 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 359 £6.90 £6.05 £3.86 Haddock (2) 277 £3.77 £1.81 £2.38 Monkfish (A1) £5.85 £6.24 £5.28 £3.92 Whiting (ungutted) 73 £0.49 £0.77 £0.37 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 311 £6.85 £6.34 £3.84 Haddock (3) 186 £3.75 £2.12 £2.70 Monkfish (A2) £6.40 £6.63 £5.56 £4.07 Witch (ungutted) 111 £1.16 £1.31 £0.67 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 22 £5.15 - £2.93 Haddock (4) 57 £0.96 £0.77 £1.30 Monkfish (A3) £5.54 £5.84 £5.35 £4.09 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 38 £6.88 £4.98 £3.09 HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m Haddock (5) 13 £0.72 £0.50 £1.65 Monkfish (A4) £5.26 £5.65 £4.81 £3.81 TO 28 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Ray wings (thornback, 3) 186 £6.71 £5.45 £3.21 Hake (0) 3 £0.50 £0.44 £0.76 Monkfish (A5) £3.14 £3.31 £3.34 £3.05 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 600 £3.44 £3.51 £1.29 Plaice (A2) £3.48 £3.48 - £3.23 Catfish (1) 505 £5.26 £4.77 £4.94 Red mullet (1) 18 £4.77 - £4.21 Hake (3) 21 £5.80 £2.95 £2.63 Plaice (A3) £3.53 £4.18 £2.05 £2.28 Cod (0) 632 £3.89 £5.61 £3.80 Red mullet (2) 8 £4.59 - £3.59 Hake (4) 70 £5.70 £3.06 £2.64 Plaice (A4) £1.99 £2.27 £2.69 £1.48 Cod (1) 1,649 £4.57 £5.30 £3.70 Red mullet (3) 7 £11.45 £11.92 £10.52 Hake (5) 92 £4.87 £2.78 £2.52 Pollack (A1) £4.24 £4.26 £4.00 £4.05 Cod (2) 3,295 £5.33 £5.31 £3.99 Round pouting 8,508 £0.44 £0.44 £0.39 Hake (6) 37 £3.11 £2.54 £2.33 Pollack (A2) £4.36 £4.50 £4.36 £4.15 Cod (3) 6,465 £5.42 £5.58 £4.33 Scallop (2) 17,007 £2.26 £2.60 £3.80 John Dory (1) 4 £12.89 £13.29 £12.66 Scallop meat 53 £12.00 £12.00 £12.67 Pollack (A3) £3.80 £3.80 £5.59 £3.00 Cod (4) 7,482 £4.44 £4.56 £3.44 John Dory (2) 5 £12.75 £11.64 £10.66 Pollack (A4) £3.75 £3.75 £3.50 £3.14 Cod (5) 2,661 £4.48 £3.37 £2.86 Sole (1) 584 £15.04 £13.69 £10.61 John Dory (3) 2 £9.00 £8.77 £8.45 Round Haddock £0.95 £1.21 £1.56 £1.03 Haddock (1) 9,687 £2.61 £2.83 £2.50 Sole (2) 725 £18.66 £17.88 £12.36 Saithe (A1) £1.89 £2.10 £2.35 £1.49 Haddock (2) 2,493 £2.66 £2.15 £2.02 Sole (3) 607 £21.32 £19.73 £14.18 John Dory (4) 32 £5.39 £6.26 £5.79 Saithe (A2) £1.89 £2.04 £2.43 £1.54 Haddock (3) 1,193 £2.31 £2.04 £1.50 Sole (4) 823 £20.32 £19.95 £11.19 John Dory (5) 3 £1.00 £3.34 £3.30 Saithe (A3) £1.88 £1.95 £2.39 £1.49 Haddock (4) 8 £1.14 £0.34 £0.38 Sole (5) 579 £16.35 £16.36 £8.96 Lemon sole (1) 579 £12.47 £9.99 £8.40 Saithe (A4) £1.98 £2.08 £2.53 £1.39 Hake (0) 2,342 £8.39 £7.71 £3.72 Sole (6) 745 £13.70 £13.51 £6.90 Lemon sole (2) 430 £12.62 £10.46 £8.61 Squid trawled £5.04 £7.77 £7.03 £5.52 Hake (1) 2,628 £6.40 £5.80 £3.37 Squid (1) 125 £11.41 £13.13 £7.64 Lemon sole (3) 955 £11.04 £10.16 £7.78 Turbot £14.08 £15.13 £17.36 £13.86 Hake (2) 7,486 £4.80 £5.16 £3.21 Squid (2) 488 £11.04 £12.48 £8.09 Lemon sole (4) 1,384 £4.10 £2.72 £3.56 Hake (3) 2,670 £3.86 £4.01 £2.42 Squid (mix) 170 £10.25 £11.40 £7.12 Lemon sole (5) 324 £0.65 £0.52 £2.35 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Lemon sole (1) 173 £11.81 £0.00 £10.30 Turbot (1) 109 £27.30 £26.38 £21.18 Ling (L) 311 £2.42 £1.00 £1.62 TO 28 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Lemon sole (2) 592 £11.12 £7.86 £9.28 Turbot (2) 318 £25.31 £24.07 £18.20 Lemon sole (3) 653 £5.87 £2.81 £4.32 Turbot (3) 353 £21.99 £21.59 £18.20 Ling (M) 113 £2.41 £1.60 £1.70 Catfish 386 £2.95 £2.78 £2.47 Ling (1) 5,321 £2.91 £2.97 £1.96 Turbot (4) 598 £17.97 £17.58 £14.45 Mackerel (LM) 214 £6.35 £2.80 £3.75 Cod (2) 8,774 £4.40 £4.82 £3.41 Ling (2) 2,857 £3.15 £3.43 £2.16 Turbot (5) 972 £13.83 £15.19 £12.10 Mackerel (M) 816 £4.26 £1.23 £1.57 Cod (3) 12,240 £4.04 £4.46 £3.26 Ling (3) 3,801 £2.83 £3.27 £2.03 Turbot (6) 372 £11.04 £11.83 £9.22 Mackerel (S) 788 £0.59 £0.37 £0.52 Cod (4) 7,331 £3.64 £3.77 £2.86 Megrim 511 £5.29 £3.97 £3.25 Whelks 71 £2.13 £2.03 £1.28 Megrim (1) 123 £7.60 £4.34 £6.35 Cod (5) 3,659 £3.33 £3.36 £2.76 Monkfish (1) 4,248 £6.33 £5.66 £3.92 Whiting (1) 369 £3.77 £3.98 £2.12 Megrim (2) 178 £7.36 £3.52 £5.79 Monkfish (2) 11,293 £6.36 £5.50 £4.02 Cod (6) 7,161 £2.72 £3.19 £2.69 Whiting (2) 222 £2.70 £2.96 £1.47 Megrim (3) 324 £5.94 £2.61 £4.76 Haddock (1) 14,516 £2.86 £3.11 £2.07 Monkfish (3) 9,443 £6.23 £5.71 £4.10 Whiting (3) 218 £1.85 £2.38 £0.97 Megrim (4) 531 £6.04 £2.00 £3.86 Haddock (2) 13,324 £3.14 £3.34 £2.41 Monkfish (4) 3,103 £5.52 £5.44 £4.08 Megrim (5) 537 £3.96 £1.65 £3.61 Haddock (3) 8,442 £2.98 £3.19 £2.11 Monkfish (5) 614 £3.99 £3.32 £2.83 FRASERBURGH, FRI Min Max Max, Max, yr Haddock (4) 4,989 £3.15 £3.26 £1.87 Plaice (1) 859 £5.17 £5.05 £3.69 28 FEBRUARY price/kg price/kg wk ago ago Monkfish (1) 50 £15.15 £10.58 £11.19 Haddock (5) 5,636 £2.00 £2.49 £1.66 Plaice (2) 718 £6.62 £5.78 £4.30 Monkfish (2) 342 £16.09 £10.81 £11.72 Haddock (round) 2,838 £1.63 £2.13 £1.44 Plaice (3) 1,276 £5.93 £6.00 £3.59 Cod 91 4.8 68 4.1 Monkfish (3) 537 £12.43 £9.99 £10.00 Hake (2) 202 £6.17 £5.41 £4.18 Plaice (4) 5,665 £2.74 £2.97 £2.66 Haddock, gutted 108 3 448 2.6 Monkfish (4) 1,218 £11.21 £9.46 £9.66 Hake (3) 624 £5.70 £4.51 £3.48 Pollack (2) 1,963 £5.21 £4.83 £4.20 Haddock, round 30 0.75 204 0.62 Monkfish (5) 2,290 £8.09 £6.03 £7.29 Pollack (3) 4,777 £5.06 £5.01 £3.90 Whiting, gutted 44 2 33 1.8 Hake (4) 2,729 £3.59 £3.34 £2.60 Octopus (L) 200 £2.12 £2.28 £1.84 Pollack (4) 344 £4.24 £3.30 £3.30 Whiting, round 264 1.5 263 1.9 Halibut (3) 253 £13.85 £13.14 £12.65 Saithe (1) 7,600 £2.42 £2.05 £1.67 Saithe 7 0 6 0 Octopus (M) 2,384 £2.03 £1.77 £1.79 Halibut (4) 120 £11.84 £11.39 £10.88 Saithe (2) 37,654 £2.12 £1.87 £1.47 Monkfish 203 6 209 0 Octopus (S) 365 £2.10 £0.93 £1.75 John Dory 32 £9.85 £5.28 £7.08 Whitches 42 3.1 33 0 Saithe (3) 65,340 £2.14 £2.06 £1.48 Pilchard/Sardines (1) 430 £0.78 - - Lemon sole (2) 654 £11.62 £12.07 £8.58 Ling 8 0 5 0 Saithe (4) 66,646 £2.03 £2.12 £1.44 Plaice (1) 139 £3.17 £2.64 £2.69 Lemon sole (4) 744 £7.98 £8.27 £5.54 Megrims 14 4.4 3 0 Squid 500 £3.30 £2.39 £2.25 Plaice 18 0 49 1.2 Ling 12,760 £2.75 £2.49 £1.76 Plaice (2) 374 £3.21 £2.59 £2.22 Turbot (0) 49 £32.71 £0.00 £18.08 Lemon sole 8 3.5 8 5 Plaice (3) 984 £3.00 £2.17 £2.48 Lythe 1,235 £3.22 £3.85 £3.28 Turbot (1) 73 £25.60 £14.71 £15.90 Hake 22 2.5 3 0 Plaice (4) 1,330 £2.20 £1.53 £1.52 Megrim (2) 5,026 £7.58 £7.82 £6.54 Turbot (2) 66 £24.99 £0.00 £14.15 Squid, large 34 5.5 42 8.3 Megrim (3) 3,112 £6.30 £6.24 £4.83 Turbot (3) 352 £18.00 £12.46 £12.27 Other 34 0 86 0 Pollack, lythe (1) 107 £4.37 £3.02 £3.16 Megrim (4) 2,611 £4.16 £4.30 £3.45 Turbot (4) 417 £8.94 £6.74 £7.11 Mackerel, line 0 0 0 0 Pollack, lythe (2) 906 £4.25 £2.56 £3.09 Monkfish (1) 822 £4.73 £3.90 £3.18 Pollack, lythe (3) 1,756 £3.98 £2.33 £2.97 Whiting (1) 361 £2.43 £2.58 £1.60 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Min Max Max, Max, yr Monkfish (2) 9,009 £5.14 £4.77 £3.71 Whiting (2) 2,455 £2.46 £2.36 £1.50 TO 28 FEBRUARY price/kg price/kg mnth ago ago Pollack, lythe (4) 266 £3.99 £2.00 £2.32 Monkfish (3) 14,975 £5.05 £5.09 £3.99 Whiting (3) 495 £1.65 £0.00 £1.28 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (m) 270 £0.43 £0.20

Monkfish (4) 5,400 £4.96 £4.66 £3.90 Witch (1) 258 £5.82 £5.79 £5.20 Bass £0.00 £0.00 £14.00 - £0.34 Monkfish (5) 1,512 £3.48 £2.93 £3.09 Witch (2) 911 £4.64 £5.63 £3.27 Blonde Ray £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 1,829 £0.35 £0.23 Monkfish (6) 1,303 £1.84 £1.49 £2.24 Witch (3) 945 £2.75 £3.23 £1.52 Brill £6.00 £15.00 £11.50 £11.77 £0.28 Plaice (2) 435 £3.56 £3.24 £2.18 Brown Shrimp £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Cod £2.00 £4.50 £4.50 £4.00 Red mullet (1) 1 £8.00 - £10.27 Plaice (3) 502 £2.97 £2.63 £1.69 28 FEBRUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Plaice (4) 1,409 £1.39 £1.22 £1.08 Cod roe £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Red mullet (2) 22 £11.73 £9.13 £8.50 Dover sole £0.00 £0.00 £12.00 £12.50 Saithe (2) 4,510 £1.69 £1.82 £1.42 Red mullet (3) 81 £7.24 £7.31 £7.29 Brill (1) 282 £17.39 £17.30 £11.56 Garfish £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Saithe (3) 10,239 £1.62 £1.85 £1.19 Red mullet (4) 388 £2.23 £0.90 £4.74 Brill (2) 284 £13.96 £14.94 £8.38 Grey mullet £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Saithe (1) 7 £2.34 £1.39 £2.03 Saithe (4) 13,451 £1.57 £1.78 £1.10 Brill (3) 597 £12.85 £12.80 £7.65 Gurnard £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Skate 3,286 £1.96 £1.90 £1.07 Brill (4) 723 £10.40 £11.34 £6.53 Haddock £2.00 £3.00 £0.00 - Saithe (2) 29 £2.10 £1.32 £1.52 Skate, mixed 101 £1.28 £1.39 £0.46 Hake £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Saithe (3) 5 £1.62 £1.30 £1.20 Brill (5) 84 £8.25 £7.21 £5.57 Halibut £12.00 £15.00 £13.00 £11.25 Skate, roker 60 £2.10 £1.50 £1.15 Cock crabs 255 £5.86 £6.26 £5.45 Saithe (4) 2 £0.88 £0.95 £1.34 Squid 3,982 £2.65 £3.35 £4.70 Herring £0.45 £1.50 £0.00 £1.25 Cod (1) 40 £7.57 - £4.40 John Dory £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Scallops 1,346 £3.00 £1.59 £1.11 Turbot 64 £15.12 £15.89 £12.92 Cod (2) 50 £7.51 - £3.87 Lemon sole £2.00 £6.00 £0.00 - Sea Breams (3) 2 £8.00 £11.22 £9.00 Whiting (2) 8,620 £2.71 £2.88 £1.99 Cod (3) 37 £6.19 £6.97 £3.33 Ling £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Shagreen ray (L) 39 £3.10 - £1.14 Whiting (3) 20,531 £2.12 £2.53 £1.48 Conger (1) 251 £1.40 £1.31 £0.64 Lobster £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Shagreen ray (M) 30 £2.81 - £1.20 Whiting (4) 4,325 £1.85 £1.76 £0.93 Conger (2) 236 £1.40 £1.28 £0.66 Makerel £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Whiting, round 31,661 £1.51 £1.76 £1.02 Conger (3) 272 £0.74 £1.09 £0.17 Monkfish £2.00 £4.50 £5.00 £4.00 Shagreen ray (S) 23 £0.40 - £1.00 Cuttlefish (1) 88,225 £2.46 £2.44 £3.21 Pilchards £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Smoothhound (M) 100 £1.15 £0.95 £1.00 SCRABSTER, FRI Min Max Max, Max, yr Plaice £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Squid (L) 5 £8.30 £4.64 £8.08 28 FEBRUARY price/kg price/kg wk ago ago Cuttlefish (2) 6,585 £1.52 £1.72 £2.07 Pollack £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Dogfish 4,824 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Squid (M) 67 £8.88 £7.01 £7.60 Prawn £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Gurnard (2) 103 £6.08 £5.70 £1.93 Red Mullet £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Squid (S) 2 £5.00 £3.21 £6.25 Cod £2.90 £3.90 £6.00 £2.89 Gurnard (4) 6,098 £0.60 £0.60 £0.60 Skate £2.00 £3.00 £2.50 £2.65 Turbot (2) 11 £24.50 £18.34 £19.58 Hake £1.66 £3.76 £7.40 £4.66 Squid £4.00 £8.00 £6.50 £8.50 Haddock (1) 4,563 £2.94 £3.49 £2.99 Turbot (3) 57 £25.35 £17.94 £19.88 Lemon sole £5.48 £5.60 - £5.78 Haddock (2) 358 £3.16 £2.73 £2.25 Turbot £9.00 £15.50 £12.00 £12.75 Turbot (4) 64 £18.44 £14.78 £16.79 Ling £2.67 £2.67 £4.40 £1.66 Haddock (3) 4 £1.50 £2.50 £0.50 Sprats £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £1.25 Megrims £6.40 £6.40 £9.47 £4.88 Hake (1) 21 £6.56 £6.69 £3.54 Whiting £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Turbot (5) 86 £16.47 £12.18 £14.02 Dabs £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Monkfish £3.19 £5.66 - £3.45 Hake (2) 102 £6.24 £5.87 £3.43 Turbot (6) 80 £14.29 £11.69 £12.11 Squid £3.50 £3.66 £4.40 £7.67 Wild Sea Trout £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Hake (3) 381 £6.74 £6.02 £3.45 Tuna £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Whiting (1) 126 £2.48 £1.95 £1.59 Turbot £11.94 £16.25 £12.41 £11.43 Hake (4) 986 £6.99 £6.00 £3.23 Flounder £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Whiting (2) 216 £1.71 £1.15 £1.31 Whiting £2.53 £2.53 £3.56 £1.33 Hake (5) 2,492 £7.02 £5.90 £3.04 Octopus £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 - Whiting (3) 174 £0.89 £0.72 £0.70 24 CLASSIFIEDS/PUBLIC NOTICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 5 March 2020

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UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m Starboard quarter in 2018, according to provisional figures published Starboard quarter in 2018, according to provisional figures published The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total AnyNorthumberland, person wishing to comment, NE24 support4RT. Tel: or object 01670 to the byelaws797676; must email: do so potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of Northumberland, NE24 4RT. Tel: 01670 797676; email: Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the • Fishing Licences • Quota • Valuations Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect son Jamie, Pilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne son Jamie, Pilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to companies. £1,449 from £1,358. companies. £1,449 from £1,358. in [email protected] before 12pm on; 6th website: April 2020, www.nifca.gov.uk to the CEO of the relevant. IFCA at the Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose [email protected]; website: www.nifca.gov.uk. tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, Contact us: cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. above addresses and send a copy to: Fishing News next week. continues on page 2 continues on page 2 Fishing News next week. T: 01779 490500 MarineNorth Conservation Eastern and IFCA: Enforcement Town Team, Hall Marine, Quay Management Rd, Bridlington Organisation,, E: [email protected] LancasterEast Riding House, Hampshireof Yorkshire Court,, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,YO16 4LP. Tel: NE401482 7HY, 393515; www.fishquota.net Email:email: [email protected] [email protected]; website: www.ne-ifca.gov.uk.

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The new 74.8m midwater trawler quickly left Fraserburgh to start fishing ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: UK & IRELAND £122 Taits FR 229 berthed in its home thrusters; and a Furuno big bridge addresses and send a copy to: west of Ireland. addresses and send a copy to: port of Fraserburgh for the first time system, in which five 55in tilting Designed by Rolls-Royce Marine last week, after being handed over displays can be arranged in multiple AS, Taits incorporates a number of to the Klondyke Fishing Company configurations through an embedded new features. These include a heat by Westcon Yards AS at Ølensvåg, video wall controller. recovery system, in which hot water ‡ UK vessels landed an annual record catch value ‡ UK vessels landed an annual record catch value Norway, reports David Linkie . from the main and auxiliary engines Featuring an extensive full-lengthof £1,004m in 2018. † The new Orkney vivier-crabber of £1,004m in 2018. After arriving at Fraserburgh, boat deck, Taits is rigged for pumping Marine Conservation and Enforcement Team, Marine Carvela is named in spectacular is used to heat all internal areas EUROPE £175Marine REST Conservation OF WORLDand Enforcement £190 Team, Marine skippers Peter and Willie Tait and crew pelagic fish both amidships on the throughout the vessel; a fuel-saving UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m style on Teesside. UK vessels landed a total of 696,318t for £1,004m immediately started rigging out for starboard side and at the stern. StarboardRolls-Royce quarter Promas propulsion in 2018, according to provisional figures published Starboard quarter in 2018, according to provisional figures published the blue whiting fishery, before Taits The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by viewand ofmanoeuvring Pilot Me. system; two stern A detailed feature on Taits willby the be MMO last week, reports David Linkie. The first 12m Cougar catamaran built by view of Pilot Me. by the MMO last week, reports David Linkie. Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started included in Fishing News soon. In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total Audacious Marine, Pilot Me SH 130, started In terms of overall catch value, the 2018 total Two new Scottish fishing vessels, potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure of Westro PD 20 and Carvela K potting recently from Bridlington, reports David is 3% higher than the previous year’s figure‡ The of SC McAllister-designed White Eagle incorporates Management Organisation, Lancaster House, Hampshire Linkie. £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the ‡ Waterdance’sLinkie. new vivier-crabber Nichola £981m, while the tonnage is 4% lower than the Management Organisation, Lancaster House, Hampshire 751, were named within one a number of features designed to enable theOwned scalloper by skipper to James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect Owned by skipper James Haxby and his 716,847t landed in 2017. These changes reflect hour of each other in early spring ‡ The memorialof Ladram to the eight will Longhope be fishing lifeboat South men West and operate with maximum efficiency in theson waters Jamie, aroundPilot Me was fully fitted out at a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Mid-Channelson Jamie, Pilotwaters, Me was and fully fittedlanding out at in Brixham, a 7% increase in the average price per tonne Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, which rose to sunshine on Saturday, 23 March, in Kirk Hope cemetery.Filey by the owners, in conjunction with local of all landings from UK vessels, whichthe rose Outer to Hebrides and beyond. reports David Linkie. Salcombe and Newlyn. companies. £1,449 from £1,358. companies. £1,449 from £1,358. Pilot Me continues a well-established Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose The 21.5m twin-rig trawler The eight members ofPilot the Me Longhope continues alifeboat well-established who Landings by foreign vessels into the UK rose lost their lives in horrendous weather on 17 March, tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the Court, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE4 7HY, Westro was christened at NEVER MISS AN ISSUE FREE DELIVERY DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR tradition by being the third boat of the same in 2018 to 53,000t, compared to 48,000t the name to be owned by James Haxby’s family, previous year. Court, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE4 7HY, Peterhead, shortly before the 1969, after launchingname to to assist be owned a disabled by James Libyan Haxby’s family, previous year. the previous two being sailing and motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, 19m vivier-crabber Carvela was vessel in the Pentlandthe previous Firth, weretwo being honoured sailing and by motor Of the overall catch value by the UK fleet, cobles that worked off the beach at Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and lifted into the water and named, commemorations coblesto mark that the worked 50th off anniversary the beach at of Filey. £731m/424,075t was landed into British ports and Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. 300 miles away on Teesside. the tragedy. Further details of Pilot Me will be included in £273m/272,243t abroad. Fishing News next week. continues on page 2 James and Patricia West’s Relatives and friendsFishing Newswere nextjoined week. by continues on page 2 Email:[email protected] six-year-old son Ethan broke the representatives of rescue services, including four Email:[email protected] traditional bottle of champagne lifeboat crews, in a day of remembrance in Aith Voe on Westro, built by Macduff and at Kirk Hope cemetery. Shipyards Ltd. See pages 14-17 for further coverage of the Ronnie and Maureen moving tributes. Norquoy’s daughter Erika named Carvela, built by Parkol Marine Engineering at Middlesbrough. REGIONAL NEWS offer code Continued on page 13 yourfishingnews.co.uk 01959 543 747 FNWP101 Hotline open: Mon - Fri 8am - 6pm. Fishermen! Advertise boats, Fishermen! Advertise boats, equip- equipment and accessories, for sale Email your advert to: [email protected] and accessories, for sale or or wanted, absolutely FREE! FISHERMEN'S FREE ADS! wanted, absolutely FREE! 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TWO COILS £POA. I have two coils polypropylene floating rope to sell, think they are 220 meter x 28mm, size has weathered £105 each. Made by Advance off packaging, been stored for some POA. 2 Jabsco pumps in used Netting, 4z 92 m nylon 17 mesh deep time, no longer needed, open to condition, open to offers for the two. £POA. Good condition, had a new 95 yards long. All brand new with sensible offers, these retail at over Please call 07783 832027. (16.08) belt approx 3 years ago but has got floatline and no 3 lead line. Buyers £250 a coil, will sell separately. Can £100 each. Brand new never been a cut on one side. Top rollers are to sort postage. Please call 07491 be collected in Ayr. Please call 07706 used. There are four of these. Please KODEN RADAR SCANNER in good condition (water has been 060596. (16.08) 444344, Scotland. (16.00) call 07475 472460, Wirral. (16.00) UNIT drained out of them to make the easier to move. Can ship anywhere SPENCER CARTER NET WINCH AND NET DRUM HYDRAULIC CLUTCH PUMP in the UK at buyers cost. Please call HAULER NH03 07966 184177. (16.08)

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£850-£2,750. 3.5 ton Spencer Carter 2+1 gilson drum trawl winch in perfect £1,000. Hauler bought for boat no working condition £2,750. Single net longer needed. Heavy duty. Open to £4,500. Port hand only used a couple drum. Drum 53” wide with 20” flange £400. Like new been in store for a a reasonable price. At annan, near of times all rubber wheels good from boss. Perfect working condition few years. Please call 07557 773958., POA. Please call 07871 500746, Dumfries. Please call 07557 773958., as new Please call 07776 412424, £850. Please call 07771 571379, Scotland. (16.07) Scotland. (16.08) Wigton. (16.05) Whitby. (16.06) Co.Down. (16.07) Advertising on these pages is free for fishermen selling used boats and equipment. If you are a commercial supplier, please contact TalkMedia Sales on 01732 447008 SEE INSIDE! Port to Plate campaign aims to support Welsh seafood industry A new industry-wide project aims to According to figures from DEFRA, in propel Welsh seafood onto the dinner Wales the average person eats 145.9g plates of the nation. of seafood per week. This is lower than Launched on 21 February in Cardiff the UK average of 152.8g per person per Bay, the Port to Plate project carves out a week. distinct identity for seafood products from The project has been developed in Wales and supports the development of conjunction with the Welsh seafood Wales’ seafood industry across the supply industry by Menter a Busnes with the chain. support of Seafish and funding from the The main objectives of the project are EMFF. to increase public awareness about the Working in tandem with the new quality and diversity of fish and shellfish #WelshSeafood campaign, Port to Plate caught off the Welsh coast, and increase will promote the seasonal nature of the Ireland’s crab fishery at crisis its share of the home market. Welsh catch and the stories of those whose lives are shaped by the industry. point as prices plummet According to figures from the Welsh See page 5 Fishermen’s Association, in 2017 there were 315 active vessels, 756 fishermen, 89 NRW cockle licences and 123 seafood processing employees in Wales. Mandy Walters and her husband Len run Cardigan Bay Fish in St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire, and are members of the new project’s steering group. She said: “We want to promote all ‡ Mandy Walters of Cardigan Bay Fish. shellfish and fish caught off the Welsh coast and educate people about what we “I attend local produce markets, and I have in our seas. We have got the best tell people about Welsh seafood and give ‡ The new Port to Plate initiative aims to seafood around, and we want more people them ideas on how to cook simple, tasty see more Welsh seafood eaten at home. to buy, eat and enjoy Welsh seafood. dishes from fresh local produce.” Young Seafood Leaders’ Network recruits 100th member The Young Seafood been selected to attend two Leaders’ Network (YSLN) international networking has achieved an important events later this spring. How rare is rare? milestone with the sign-up of These valuable opportunities See pages 10-12 its 100th member. to build and develop their Backed by Seafish, the knowledge and experience network is aimed at nurturing have been funded by Seafish. and developing young talent In March, Teresa within the seafood industry. Fernandez, George Hooper, The 100th member, Teresa Cameron Moffat and Jordan Fernandez, an aquaculture Muldoon will attend the specialist at Seachill, was North Atlantic Seafood presented with a £50 Forum (NASF) in Bergen. voucher for Alfred Enderby The event is billed as the Traditional Smokehouse, world’s largest seafood Grimsby to mark the conference and, led by YSLN occasion. chair Michael Dick of Seafish, Thomas Summers book Teresa said: “I joined the the network members will ‡ Teresa Fernandez of Seachill is presented with her voucher Young Seafood Leaders’ attend the NASF Young by Gavin Hatton, Seafish regional manager for the Humber and launch rolls back the years at Network because it is a Leadership Summit to North East England. Fraserburgh very dynamic group, with participate in discussions on See page 20 members coming from key topics around the future Membership is growing, industry. It is a platform different backgrounds in of seafood. and we are offering funded for knowledge sharing and the seafood sector – from In April, Tom Crookall, international networking appreciation of best practice, fish to bivalves, farmed Alex Caveen, Nadia Laabs opportunities to help and its goals are to: and wild-caught seafood. and Ashley Phillips will join members build their skills • Provide opportunities for With the global population Seafish’s Hannah Thompson and experience. the exploration of business expected to reach 9.7bn in at the Seafood Global Expo “We’re pleased to be ideas 2050, it’s important that in Brussels. While there, supporting the network and • Provide networking we find sustainable ways YSLN members will join providing these valuable opportunities to feed people, and I think representatives from young development opportunities for • Facilitate partnerships and seafood will play a key role seafood leader networks the next generation of seafood mentoring between young in addressing this demanding in Australia, America and industry leaders. I’d urge professionals and experienced challenge. Canada at an international any other interested young industry practitioners “I feel this network is full seminar with high-profile professionals working in the • Develop leadership skills Lowest five-day Peterhead of interesting people with a speakers. seafood sector to join the • Identify professional whitefish total in over four years common denominator: we Michael Dick said: network.” development opportunities. See page 22 love what we do, and we “As we move into our The Young Seafood For more information, visit: believe in seafood.” second year, this is a really Leaders’ Network is open to bit.ly/2SZmoMT or contact: Teresa is also one of exciting time for the Young those aged between 25 and 40 youngseafoodleaders@seafish. SEE INSIDE! eight members who have Seafood Leaders’ Network. who work in the UK seafood co.uk