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9 January 2020 Issue: 5496 fishingnews.co.uk NORTH SEA COD CUT BLAST TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL REPORT Cornwall: This Fishing Life – compelling BBC2 documentary

‡ Life aboard a Newlyn beamer – one of the largest in the W Stevenson & Sons fleet, Billy Rowney. Skipper Steve Moseley and his crewmen decided to ride out a storm – but did they make a bigger profit?

‡ Sardine (pilchard) fishermen hard at work on a ring-netter, fishing a short distance from Mevagissey.

The hopes and aspirations of Cornish Broadcast on BBC2 on 7 January, cameramen have captured some fishermen to revitalise their industry the first of the six programmes superb footage of fishing in all types ‡ One of the oldest fishermen in the UK, Michael post-Brexit are portrayed in Frank featured fishermen at Mevagissey. of weather, to provide a positive take Batten of Penberth Cove, represents a sector of Films Television’s compelling new By spending hundreds of hours at on the British fishing industry. the Cornish industry who were once the trainers documentary series Cornwall: This sea on all types of vessels and using See page 20 for further details of for youngsters looking to become the fishermen of Fishing Life, reports David Linkie. the latest film technology, Frank Films’ Cornwall: This Fishing Life. tomorrow.

At sea on the Brighton inshore netter Delta Star Brighton skipper/owner Steve Eason recently started trammel-netting off the Sussex coast with the inshore boat Delta Star R 31, reports David Linkie. Since being bought from Ramsgate, the vessel has been extensively rebuilt by local boatbuilder Max Munck to Steve Eason’s requirements. Large-scale modernisation work included fitting new GRP deck beams, a Nidaplast deck, bulkheads, wheelhouse and shelterdeck. Delta Star replaces Steve Eason’s previous static- gear boat, the Napier Aquastar 29 Libby Lou SM 11, which he purchased in 2006. Skipper Steve Eason fishes tiers of 8½in trammel nets supplied by Gillam Rigging and Supplies Ltd of Peacehaven. A detailed feature on the rebuilt Delta Star trammel-netting from Brighton Marina will be ‡ Skipper Steve Eason preparing to shoot a fleet of trammel nets from the deck of Delta Star. included in Fishing News next week. ‡ Delta Star hauling trammel nets off the Sussex coast. (Photos: Geoff Lee) 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 N Sea cod cut ‘may end fishery as we know it’ Greens, Brussels and MSY under fire Eight fishermen’s organisations with North Sea interests have blasted the decision taken at the December Fisheries Council to cut the North Sea cod TAC by 50% in 2020, reports Tim Oliver They slam the Commission of protein. also enable the fishermen for ignoring fishermen’s “It is a slap in the face of the to fully exploit other key international efforts to develop fishermen, who pay the price for commercial stocks that thrive cod avoidance and catch other people’s lack of concern in the North Sea and perhaps reduction strategies, and for or willingness to listen to those enable more fishermen to insisting on forcing through affected by the decisions,” say survive.” the huge cut to try to achieve the groups. They point out that ‘contrary MSY in 2020. They warn that They say that when the ICES to what many green NGOs try the cut and the discards ban advice on North Sea cod was to seduce the broader public threaten to choke the North published in June, the European to believe, many of the stocks Sea demersal fishery. fisheries organisations with in the North Sea are actually Green organisations a direct interest in the stock increasing, and the biomass also come under fire for the reacted responsibly by of the most commercially pressure they exerted on deciding to work together to interesting stocks (whiting, the Commission to stick to develop proposals to improve haddock, saithe, cod, plaice and achieving MSY this year and to the situation. This entailed a sole) have increased from 1.3m make the 50% cut in the TAC. significant amount of work tonnes in 1978 to 1.8m tonnes In a joint statement, the spread across a number of in 2019. Catches of Nephrops SFF, the NFFO, the Shetland meetings. increased during the decline of ‡ NFFO delegates listen to a briefing from UK fisheries minister Fishermen’s Association, The groups point out the cod stock in the 1990s and George Eustice during the Fisheries Council in Brussels, before the the Danish Fishermen’s PO, that despite having many have remained high since the decision to cut the North Sea cod TAC by 50% was taken. Dutch groups VisNed and common interests, the different mid-2000s’. Nederlandse Vissersbond, countries’ fleets have different They also point out that the combination of the low cod indeed taken place in some Norwegian association Norges structures and traditions, and despite total catches being TAC and discards ban ‘choking’ periods and areas, but this Fiskarlag and more than the North Sea fishery, and say: is no longer the case for the French group 30,000t in 2006, “It is not possible for the fishing vast majority of activities – and FROM Nord Every country contributed with when the adult fleets to catch the quotas of certainly not for the fishery say that they stock was half abundant other stocks – the in the North Sea, which is fear the 50% proposals that would mean a reduction the size it is green lobby have effectively amongst the most heavily cut in the North in their own activities estimated to be succeeded in depriving society regulated fisheries in the Sea cod TAC in “ now, the stock of thousands of tonnes of world.” 2020 ‘is not the steadily increased protein harvested with very low The fishing industry is end of the fishery, but may well that regulations vary between over the next 10 years. carbon footprint.” deeply engaged in ensuring be the end of the fishery as we Norway and the EU. Even within Stressing the sacrifices the They ask: “Is it really so that fishing is carried out know it’. the EU, there are differences countries were“ willing to make, important to meet the MSY sustainably. “Fishermen, more They say: “With the in the way that common the groups say: “Every country target in a single year, rather than anybody, have an interest combination of an extremely regulations are implemented, contributed with proposals than being approached in in stable stocks producing low TAC, a discard ban, and and huge differences in fishing that would mean a reduction in progressive steps over a few high yields, and have millions stock that is approximately patterns. their own activities. It was seen more years, that the European of euros invested in it. They twice the size of its all-time Their statement continues: as a price that had to be paid fishing industries must be also have the best knowledge low, the result of the Council “Nevertheless, the industry in order to contribute to the strangled in the process? Who of operations at sea. Why are meeting is the ‘chronicle of a managed to agree on measures recovery of the cod stock. Alas, has an interest in this? Who they then totally ignored when death foretold’.” that would bring the cod stock the European Commission and pays for it? Why?” it comes to ways to improve As well as being a disaster closer to the politically agreed member states decided to take The groups say that North the situation? for many small industries in target of MSY, would increase a simplistic view of a complex Sea fisheries have a long history “Disappointing is a remote areas, the groups say the stock size and reduce the situation – they took what was and tradition, and play an diplomatic word in this it will deprive society of one of fishing pressure to the lowest offered and gave nothing back.” important role for many coastal context,” the statement the most sustainable sources level ever experienced. It would They point to the dangers of communities. “Overfishing has concludes. Cod choke risk in 7d ‘may be avoided’ Cod could become a choke risk would, however, be premature to others are in robust health. those rays which are in robust due to budgetary constraints, in the eastern Channel if it is take the brakes off,” he said. “Setting a single TAC for the health.” we seem to have lost important found in any abundance in 2020, “But allowing the trawlers to whole group of nine species is An 11% increase in the eastern information on young fish according to NFFO president keep and land a higher proportion problematic, as has been the Channel sole quota, reflecting the recruiting to a number of Tony Delahunty. of the bass that they catch Commission’s gung-ho application increased abundance being seen important fisheries. Many in the This is because the 50% cut in brings some benefit to the boats of the precautionary approach, on the grounds, is ‘a welcome industry stand ready to provide the North Sea TAC also applies to without increasing mortality, so with successive 20% reductions development’, he said. In the past, their data to improve the quality 7d, the eastern Channel, and the this is a sensible, proportionate over three years,” commented this stock had experienced ‘yo-yo of management decisions,” said UK has only 9% of the TAC in adjustment. TACs’, which made Tony Delahunty. the area. But given the northward “The same planning difficult. He added that discussions were shift in the distribution of cod, cannot be said It is broadly agreed that He said that held in the margins of the Council and the low level of quota uptake, for the increase the 40% increase with the Dutch industry about the a choke may be avoided, says in the bag limit although bass is responding to in the TAC for rollover of the closed areas for Tony Delahunty, who is also for recreational management measures well, it would, North Sea sole, and pulse fishing into 2020. chairman of the NFFO’s South anglers from one “ increasing signs of “The voluntary closed areas East committee. to two fish. That however, be premature to take the abundance on the provide important protection Commenting on the outcome can only lead grounds, ‘hopefully for sensitive inshore areas in the of the December Council, he said to an absolute brakes off signals the end to a Thames estuary and off the East that there was progress towards a increase in bass period of scarcity’, Anglian coast, and have been more sensible by-catch allowance killed, and impede recovery.” Tony Delahunty. and was welcome for the Thames widely welcomed by the fleets for bass caught as unavoidable On skates and rays, he said that “The 5% increase in the 2020 estuary. that work these areas. Final by-catch in the trawl fishery. the management of these species TAC in the eastern Channel Fishermen“ in the South confirmation is expected in the “It is broadly agreed that has been problematic for some is a welcome step in the right East are also ‘very keen’ to see new year, but it is anticipated that although bass is responding to years now. While some species direction, but falls far short of an the CEFAS small fish survey the same arrangements will apply management measures well, it within the group are depleted, effective harvesting strategy for reinstated. “Since it was halted for the whole of next year.” 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 NFFO chief blasts greens’ ‘obstruction’ A UK industry leader has resigned He writes: “This is symptomatic a critical friend to an altogether from the EU North Sea Advisory of a deeper ingrained change more remote and hostile posture, Council (NSAC) because of within the AC. The NGOs have in permanent campaign mode, increasing obstructions to its work sought to block discussion of was not unrelated to the very by environmental members of the core issues. Within the demersal large sums of money made council, reports Tim Oliver. working group, there is strong available to NGOs from charitable NFFO chief executive Barrie resistance from the NGOs to foundations,” writes the NFFO Deas, who was chairman of discussing important questions chief. the NSAC’s demersal working such as whether aspects of “These funds – often from group for several years, says current CFP legislation, including outside the EU – have come that environmental groups on the the EU’s MSY timetable and the with conditions and policy council have adopted ‘obstructive, landing obligation, may have directions. In my view, this has legalistic and increasingly contributed to the downturn in key been an altogether unhealthy confrontational positions’. commercial stocks, after 15 years development.” This is in contrast to the fishing of progress. He says the Commission industry representatives on the “Against this background, I should have investigated ‘this council who, despite the strains have come to the conclusion that significant external influence imposed by Brexit, ‘have worked my time would be better spent on European fisheries policy’. as closely this year as they have working in other arenas, rather He adds: “It certainly has been ever done’. than debating arcane procedural culpable of failing to distinguish He makes his comments issues with people who cannot clearly between stakeholders and in a letter of resignation to the or will not work collaboratively. I opinion holders.” chairman of the NSAC, Kenn Skau therefore tender my resignation These ‘frustrations’ alone might Fischer. as chair of the demersal working not have led him to resign, but he This obstruction has made it group.” points out that after the end of the ‘increasingly difficult for the NSAC He says that environmental Brexit transition period and the UK “Bloody peculiar... can’t think what’s causing it... but the taking control its own waters, CFP to produce the well-thought- NGOs have a role to play, ‘but first trip after New Year’s always the same...” through consensus advice for history will judge whether, legislation will be relevant to only which it has justifiably earned a because of their own choices and about 20% of the North Sea, and solid reputation’. Criticisms of the strategies, they are now part of a minority of the stocks. fisheries authorities in the establish the North Sea and North views of industry representatives the problem rather than part of the “It no longer seems to me to be countries with an interest in West Waters advisory councils ‘as are ‘increasingly expressed in solution in achieving sustainable sensible to labour to try to shape the North Sea fisheries, but it a central feature of a decentralised personalised and strident terms’. management of our fisheries’. the CFP as a means of improving is ‘unlikely that the NSAC in its CFP’, and he believes the work of Barrie Deas tells the chairman He believes there was a the management of the North present form will be the vehicle for the demersal group has made a that NGOs have recently written shift in attitude in the run-up Sea demersal fisheries, when that dialogue’. difference. to the European Commission to to the 2013 reform of the CFP, the key decisions will be made Barrie Deas says it has been However, he says that the complain that industry initiatives – from ‘bottom-up collaborative elsewhere,” he tells the NSAC ‘an honour and a privilege’ to regionalisation of which the including by the NSAC demersal engagement to a top-down chairman. chair the demersal group for so advisory councils were a part working group – to try to maintain coercive and legislative focus’, There will still be a need many years, and he resigns ‘with has been ‘seriously undermined a workable TAC for North Sea cod which was a watershed. for co-operation and dialogue a heavy heart’. He was amongst by changes brought in under the in 2020 are ‘illegitimate’. “The shift away from being between stakeholders and those who worked hard to Lisbon Treaty’.

– and NGOs just chanted their 800t, but for the UK, a cut of over SW leader: Let’s get out of this ‘mad’ system familiar mantra of MSY in one year, 50% is still likely to be way below A South West fishermen’s “There were less dramatic obligation, raised the very real with zero concern for fleets and unavoidable by-catch levels.” leader has blasted the European catch options that were available prospect of a choke, which would communities. He said that the Commission Commission’s obsession with to the Commission that were have tied the South West fleets “This is nonsense, and the had also introduced new technical achieving MSY targets in 2020, consistent with the MSY up early in the year, forgoing sooner we are out of this mad measures for some trawlers that and says that the sooner the UK approach, but these were not a substantial part of the main system, the better. We need are ‘likely to cause significant is out of this ‘mad’ system, the taken – or even considered,” he fisheries for other species,” said responsive and adaptive science- and unnecessary problems and better. said. the CFPO chief. based fisheries management – not challenges for many South West Commenting on the outcome of “Everything was staked “This is a massively dogma disguised as concern.” trawlers. Of that there can be no the Council in an NFFO newsletter, on the arbitrary timetable disproportionate and plainly He said that linked to the cod doubt’. Cornish FPO chief Paul Trebilcock which the EU has set for itself. wrongheaded approach to mixed TAC, there is a ‘welcome increase’ Paul Trebilcock said that said that there was some good The consequences of this fisheries management – but it was of 30% in 7b-k haddock, but a throughout the whole year, news, with increases for monkfish one-dimensional approach are pursued anyway, under its self- 44% cut in whiting, which will bring CFPO members had worked (+7%) and megrim (+3%), and now playing out.” imposed legal constraints and it into the category of a choke risk with scientists and fisheries rollover quotas for pollack, ling On Celtic Sea cod (7e-k), he pressure from NGOs.” in the mixed South West fisheries. administrators to develop a and saithe in area 7. said that the UK was isolated, and Paul Trebilcock said that Paul Trebilcock commented balanced approach to gear But a reduction of 21% in that the Commission ignored the after all the calculations had that ICES MSY advice for haddock selectivity which would make the western hake quota was a fact that cod represents much been made, the Commission’s had allowed for a 100% increase. a serious contribution to disappointment, given the healthy less than 1% of catches in all proposals would have left the UK “The justification for holding down rebuilding the cod stock, while state of the stock. He said that the diverse fisheries in the South with a ‘risible’ share of 8t. the level of the haddock TAC was simultaneously protecting the it reflected the EU Commission West. “Scientists said that level of that it would be part of a trade-off viability of the local fleets. ‘blindly following its MSY rainbow’ “It is only caught as an TAC was nonsensical, fishermen tied to cod and whiting TAC levels “The complicated and while ignoring the wider impacts unavoidable by-catch when were clear it was unworkable, in the mixed fisheries advice,” he unsatisfactory outcome agreed by and consequences for the targeting other species. The ministers said it was ‘challenging’, said. the Council presents a massive fishery as a whole, and for fishing Commission’s proposals, but the Commission said they He said that the Commission challenge for our prospects as an communities. combined with the EU landing were constrained by the legislation claimed throughout the talks that industry next year, and for future its hands were tied by the advice co-operation on progressive of its legal services, and that it was management measures. This is Better news on flatfish quotas ‘legislatively bound to apply the especially disappointing given the There were some positive outcomes for the important South West flatfish quotas, said Paul Trebilcock. Western Waters multi-annual plan’, work and time put in by fishermen A 19% increase in the 7e sole quota reflected the health of this stock, and there is a 96% increase which holds that cod is a target and CEFAS throughout the year to in 7fg sole over the initial 2019 TAC (there was an in-year increase during 2019 following positive stock species, leaving close to zero put forward credible alternatives. assessment advice). But 7hjk sole is cut by 14% – albeit by much less than the Commission’s original room for fisheries management. “We can only hope that, in proposal of a 44% cut. “This is the central failing of time, Brexit will provide us with the A rollover of the 2019 ray quota was a reflection of stable catches, but the prohibition on landing the CFP. Even when the rules are scope to introduce more, better common skate, and restrictions on small-eyed ray landings, remain in place, and ‘continue to be a demonstrably leading us in the designed, selectivity measures frustration that once again was not addressed’, said the CFPO chief. wrong direction, there is no way that actually have a positive effect Commenting on the bass restrictions for 2020, he said that there was some recognition of improving of rapidly adjusting the policy to on fish stocks, fishermen and stock status in the final agreement, with hand-line limits increased to 5.7t per vessel per year, gill-net make sense,” said Paul Trebilcock. fisheries. What we will now have by-catch limits remaining at 1.4t per vessel per year, and the 1% by-catch trawling allowance increased “In the end, the Commission to deal with is window-dressing to 5% per trip ‘to alleviate the pointless discarding of dead bass in the ultra-mixed trawl fisheries in the was forced to move on the cod which will achieve exactly the South West’. This, he said, was not ideal, but ‘a move in the right direction’. quota level to a still problematic opposite of its stated purpose.” 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Momentous but tough year ahead EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ The new year the fishing industry is and quota share arrangements, and that fisheries, most notably in the North KELSEY.CO.UK entering is one of the most momentous trade and fisheries negotiations must be Sea demersal fishery, with all the socio- in its history. It brings the prospect, if all linked. economic loss and hardship this implies. Kelsey Publishing Ltd, goes well, of a bright new future, free for The UK insists that there must be a The Commission argues that it is The Granary, Editor the first time in 40 years of the hated and reallocation of quota shares, and new legally obliged to achieve MSY for all Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie dysfunctional CFP. access arrangements based on zonal quota species in 2020, but it has come Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] The fisheries bill, and freedom to attachment and agreed annually, and that under great pressure from environmental Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 manage our own waters out to 200 fisheries and trade talks must be kept NGOs to take a hard line. miles/the median line, mean that the UK separate. They are warning of legal action government and devolved administrations Our fishery resources are coveted by because the scientific advice has not been will be able to set up a new, flexible the EU, and the government will come followed to the letter – ignoring that the and responsive fisheries management under immense pressure to use them Commission also has legal obligations regime in both inshore and offshore as a bargaining chip to achieve a wider under the CFP to maintain the social and waters. It will enable fundamental reform trade agreement. It must stand firm, economic fabric of the industry and of and, we hope, give fishermen and their and avoid at all costs the disgrace of the fishing communities. representatives a central role in policy Conservatives becoming the party that The self-interested and financially decisions and management. betrayed the fishing industry twice. powerful green NGOs are almost as Sub/proof editor But it also carries the possibility The outcome of the December great a threat to the industry as the News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] of profound disappointment if the Council, with Brussels insisting on cutting dysfunctional CFP. Unfortunately, they email: [email protected] government fails to get a fair deal for the important TACs in blind adherence to will not go away after Brexit, and industry in the intense trade and fisheries achieving MSY targets this year, has will switch their focus to the UK negotiations that will take place in the reinforced how imperative it is for the UK government. first half of the year. industry to be free of the CFP. We must hope that the year The EU has made no secret of the fact Combined with the discards ban, this ahead fulfils the promise it holds that it wants to maintain current access will create the risk of chokes in several as it begins.

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This failure should not be reports Tim Oliver. political horse-trading turn laws and without legal consequences.” Client Earth said immediately after deadlines into a farce by finding ways NFFO chief executive Barrie Deas, the Council: “European ministers around them as soon as they bite.” who has just resigned as chairman of have missed the EU’s legal deadline to The group said that despite the the demersal working group of the Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and end overfishing by ignoring scientific ‘looming 2020 deadline’ to meet MSY North Sea Advisory Council because of Dorset correspondent John Periam advice and setting unsustainable TACs targets, European fisheries ministers green groups’ ‘obstructive, legalistic and Art editor email: periam.photojournalist@ for several stocks in the NE Atlantic. had ‘continued year after year to set increasingly confrontational positions’ Rob Terry btopenworld.com Alarmingly, this includes several unsustainable fishing limits in closed- (see page 3), said that Client Earth’s email: [email protected] 01243 584718 vulnerable stocks, like Irish Sea whiting, door meetings, ignoring science and the press release ‘illustrates quite well some MANAGEMENT and cod in the west of Scotland and in law’. of the reasons why I consider working Chief Operating Officer: Phil Weeden Chief Executive: Steve Wright the Celtic Sea.” Client Earth – a member of the North collaboratively within the ACs to now be Managing Director: Kevin McCormick The group said that scientists have Sea Advisory Council – claimed that a impossible’. 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The MFF is application. 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 5 Discards ban is ‘unsustainable’ and needs a rethink Inshore fishermen’s spokesman Jerry Percy spells out the problems with the discards ban and suggests some possible solutions, in this edited version of a letter he has sent to the European parliament’s fisheries committee It is clear that the landing ● There has been much to be awarded to vessels to The suggestions above and systems ashore to deal obligation (LO)/discards ban excellent work done to improve compensate to some extent for recognise that there will be an with landings not destined for was written very much with the selectivity of mobile gears no longer being able to discard. element of over-quota landings human consumption, and no larger-scale mobile gears in in the past few years, and 3. All fish caught must be landed. initially, but the penalties, opportunities for illegal activities mind. Just one illustration of discards in general have reduced 4. All fish suitable for human especially if they are based centred around the misuse of this this concentration of interest significantly for many fisheries – consumption should be sold for on a progressive sliding scale, element of landings. is underlined by the massive but discarding continues within human consumption. Only those will provide more than enough No fisherman likes to consider difference between discard- the mobile sector. Discarding species caught specifically for encouragement for fishermen – let alone promote – a form of related studies done with regard is illegal, and both ‘carrots’ fishmeal should be excluded – to avoid ‘discards’ very quickly. penalty for the process of fishing, to larger- and smaller-scale and ‘sticks’ are necessary to but should still obviously count At the same time, a backstop but our concern is that unless sectors respectively – 3,760 on encourage and support fishermen against quotas and require could be introduced based on the industry comes up with some large-scale v. 164 on cameras on the vessels a reduction in a vessel’s quota ideas, then officialdom surely will. small-scale. concerned. allocation, to ensure no overall Although there will undoubtedly This makes the The small-scale sector 5. Fishermen must not abuse of the system in the event need to be alterations to the basic requirements of the LO be penalised via their of very significant or continuing initiative set out here – especially clearly inappropriate and should be rewarded for its quota holdings for over- over-quota landings, perhaps with regard to the percentage not fit for purpose with lower impact and lack of quota landings. It is aimed at the quota uplift element. penalties, the potential sliding regard to the small-scale “ counterproductive to The approach outlined scales mentioned and a backstop fleet – especially as about discards reduce quota following a above also solves the – we consider that the basic 80% of them use passive transgression; this, in turn, problems highlighted by many premise is sound, and that the rather than mobile gears. to change their culture as well as means that the fisherman is commentators – namely that there current approach to the landing The combination of a relatively their fishing gears, if discarding further restricted on his next trip, will be no need to separate the obligation is unsustainable. We low impact on stocks, due to both is to be reduced to the lowest and so on. The current inability catch onboard, no additional work urgently need to find a practical vessel size and the resultant lack possible level. of the“ under-10 sector in the UK required by the crew, no danger of alternative, to avoid either of fishing power, and their use of Among a number of ‘elephants to be able to cross-book (swap) cross-contamination, no need to bankrupting fishermen or forcing passive gears – many of which in the room’ referred to by various quotas is a serious impediment carry extra boxes, and an overall them into illegal activities. produce a live catch that can be speakers at the recent hearing to quota and catch flexibilities; improvement in safety over the returned unharmed to the water at the European parliament currently, this is only available present model. Jerry Percy is director of NUTFA – provides a strong argument on the subject, one that was to the over-10 PO sector. This Equally, there will be no and senior advisor to Low Impact against tarring them with the not mentioned specifically is despite having an officially need for additional resources Fishers of Europe. same brush as the larger-scale was that mobile gears are not recognised Coastal PO for the

CONDITIONS sector. inherently selective in the same under-10s. In the light of the EXTREME The small-scale sector should, way as passive gears – hence landing obligation, this is an in fact, be rewarded for this lower the seemingly insurmountable absolutely vital component within Heavy Duty and impact and lack of discards via challenge of making them this aspect of the initiative. the provision of additional fishing substantially selective. 6. A sliding scale should be opportunities, best delivered via The leading gear technology introduced relating to the penalty COMFORTABLE Article 17 of the CFP. This states: expert in the UK, and probably for landing fish in excess of a www.guycotten.com “Within the fishing opportunities the EU, stated recently that his vessel’s quota. Firstly, the value allocated to them, member challenge was not only to develop of the over-quota landing should states shall endeavour to provide more selective gears but also to be immediately subtracted from incentives to fishing vessels persuade fishermen to actually the overall landed value of the deploying selective fishing gear use them. Some of the more trip. Secondly, a sliding scale of or using fishing techniques selective gears inevitably lose penalties directly related to the with reduced environmental some of the target species when weight – or a percentage of the impact, such as reduced energy trying to avoid other fish, hence landing – should be imposed. consumption or habitat damage.” the reluctance of some mobile The initial suggestion is for the No fisherman gets out of bed gear operators to change their penalty to equal the value of the and decides that he doesn’t ways. over-quota element of the landing want to catch much fish today. But change their ways they – i.e. landing £1,000 over quota Manufacturing Our raison d’être is to catch lots must, to avoid breaking the law, results in a £2,000 overall penalty. in France since 1964 of fish, and because we have and also to avoid going bankrupt But consideration should be given become very good at it, we through being prevented from to a sliding scale, perhaps based inevitably need systems in place fishing in a choke species on the premise that the more you SOTRA to deter us from catching too scenario – bearing in mind not land over quota, the higher the much. only the very low catch quotas penalty. This would ensure that a But member states remain for 2020 for some species in landing does continue to provide committed to dealing with some areas, but also the parlous an income irrespective of the size discards. It is also a live issue state of North Sea cod, which of the vessel, but is at the same with both environmental NGOs is shaping up to be a potentially time reduced, and penalises and the public, so as an industry, major choke species for many those who have a greater impact we cannot simply ignore it. vessels. through catching fish in excess of The current failures of the LO their quota. The bigger the over- are largely down to two major Some proposals quota landing, the bigger the factors: 1. At the present time, cameras penalty. ● There has been little genuine (REM) are the only reliable way The basic premise of these KODIAK monitoring or enforcement of monitoring discards aboard proposals is that the fisherman of the LO since its inception. fishing vessels. It is certain that does not benefit financially This is exemplified by a recent technology will improve with time, from landing these fish, and is comment from an official at the but currently, cameras are the increasingly penalised for doing AVAILABLE MMO that 2018-19 was seen most cost-effective and proven so. AT YOUR KODIAK GUY COTTEN as an ‘educational’ rather than option. We recognise that not DEALER an enforcement phase. Despite All mobile-gear vessels over penalising fishermen in quota the LO being in place for the a certain length (12m?/15m?), as terms for landing over-quota [email protected] Baltic since 2015, it is common well as the larger passive netting fish goes against fisheries knowledge – including within vessels, should be required to management logic. But history the member states concerned – have cameras, and perhaps other suggests that this is in fact that discards continue to run at REM, fitted, paid for via EMFF counterproductive, as the over 50% for some species. With and its successors – as well as resultant reductions in access very little real-time monitoring perhaps via any financial penalties to quota generate a downward or enforcement of discards, it is incurred through overfishing. spiral, because less quota equals hardly surprising that fishermen 2. As is currently the case, more ‘discards’, and simply UNO continue to dump fish. uplifts in quota should continue doesn’t work. 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 Swift international agreement needed on mackerel management A responsible approach Norway and the Faroes – sitting place a comprehensive fishing each coastal state can only because of the intransigence of from all countries involved down together as mackerel agreement for sustainable catch its quota in its own fishing Iceland, Greenland and Russia. in the fishery is needed to coastal states to determine catching when other nations zone. We believe that such Interestingly, if Brexit goes ensure a sustainable future catch shares based on the are setting their own quota a move would encourage a ahead and the UK becomes an for the mackerel stock, writes latest scientific stock advice. unilaterally, and with no regard more responsible management independent coastal state, then chairman of the Scottish Pelagic But this has all changed for the overall health of the regime, particularly because of that voting dynamic suddenly Sustainability Group Ian Gatt. in more recent times due stock. the difficulties of monitoring and changes, and there is much The mackerel is a to the fish moving further Furthermore, in the past three control in international waters. greater likelihood of sensible fascinating fish and a real northwards in their migrations years Iceland has taken half its The EU tabled a proposal and pragmatic mackerel nomadic wanderer, with its due to environmental changes, catches in international waters, to limit the level of mackerel management in international huge shoals taking it on vast resulting in Iceland, Greenland a long way from Icelandic catches in international waters waters being agreed. annual spawning and feeding and Russia at the North At the moment, the most migrations that stretch from the having all staked The most up-to-date scientific East Atlantic up-to-date scientific advice southwest of Ireland and then claims for a share Fisheries shows that the mackerel stock right up into northern waters off of the catch advice shows that the mackerel Commission is in a healthy state, and there Norway and Iceland. by setting their (NEAFC) AGM is a good recruitment of young It spends a good part of its own unilateral stock is in a healthy state, and there is held in October fish into the fishery. This is great time in Scottish waters, and as quotas outwith “a good recruitment of young fish – the NEAFC news for the consumer, as it such, mackerel has become an international being the body means that people can still buy the UK’s most valuable catch, management into the fishery charged with mackerel safe in the knowledge worth more than half a billion plan. managing that it is sourced from a fishery pounds annually and supporting This is resulting in waters, which perhaps tells its fisheries in international waters where the stock is flourishing. many jobs, especially in the unsustainable increases in own story about the extent of – and while it has not been But if the irresponsible actions processing and support catches – for example, this the northward movement of the enacted, it is now“ being actively of some countries continue, this sectors. year Iceland set its mackerel fish. Such actions by Iceland considered. At the moment, may no longer be the case in But such far wanderings quota at 107,000t in March, and and others are unsustainable the contracting parties within the future. by mackerel bring an inherent then increased it to 140,000t and totally unjustified. the NEAFC comprise Denmark The only forward-looking problem in managing the in June. Such actions have Therefore, Scottish fishermen (on behalf of the Faroes and approach is for all parties to fishery, with international resulted in the EU, Norway and and processors are calling for, Greenland), the EU, Norway, engage sensibly and positively participants needing to work the Faroes having to cut their as a first step, the limiting of the Iceland and Russia. Under the to ensure a healthy future for collaboratively to ensure catch catches to offset the unilateral mackerel that coastal states can constitution, if four of these the precious mackerel stock. levels are sustainable. In the activities of others. It is very catch in international waters to members support a decision, The time has now come for past, this has been successfully difficult for responsible coastal 10% of their respective quota, then the rest have to abide by it. swift international agreement on achieved, with the main players states, comprising the UK, EU, and then ultimately moving to But at the moment, the NEAFC a plan which achieves exactly involved in the fishery – the EU, Norway and the Faroes, to set in a management regime where is one short of such a majority that. Inshore sector wants management change A key issue for UK inshore ‘broadly positive’. It was broadly acknowledged for UK inshore fisheries will be ‘inshore’ vessels. “Safety can also fishermen with regard to The group said that defining by both fishermen and long and complicated’ and that be an issue if certain grounds are the new post-Brexit fisheries ‘inshore’ fisheries in the UK regulators that UK fishermen ‘negotiation and compromise – only open (coincidentally) when management regime is that may be ‘a pivotal first step’ in are not very effectively engaged on both sides – will be key’. there are challenging conditions fisheries management should be developing appropriate fisheries in fisheries management Another central consideration at sea, as is often the case over appropriate to the varied local management for the inshore decisions. It was felt that while for inshore fishers is their future winter,” said the APPG. inshore fishing regions of the sector. fisheries managers carry out business certainty – including Recruiting young people into UK, reports Tim Oliver. Opinions on definitions consultations, there is scope to the primary need to know that the sector is essential for the Another is that they want varied, but all there will be access future of individual businesses, a greater role in inshore attendees agreed to fish in the future. as well as for the entire inshore management decision-making. that ‘it is time The momentum surrounding At the conference, fishing industry, and numerous These concerns emerged as for the UK to it was widely solutions were discussed at the central points from the major change how the conference and this project acknowledged conference. two-day conference on the inshore fisheries must be put to good use that ‘maintaining “Management of access to fish future of UK inshore fisheries are defined and “ economic security is a complicated issue, and the that was held in London in managed’. “The depends on fish Future of Our Inshore Fisheries October last year (Fishing News, momentum surrounding the explore in detail how fishermen being in the sea, year on year, project hopes to help to guide 17 October, ‘Inshore future conference and this project must can be involved in all stages of so managing access to stocks it. It was clear that everyone highlighted’). be put to good use,” said the policy decision-making. in a sustainable“ way is always at the conference wants UK Reflecting on the conference APPG. “The message was clear – UK essential’. inshore fishers to be able to fish and its follow-up, the all-party Co-management was also a inshore fishers want a greater Access to fish can also sustainably, safely and for long parliamentary group (APPG) on hot topic at the conference, after role in guiding management be a safety issue for inshore into the future,” said the APPG. fisheries said that the conference attendees heard how fisheries decisions for inshore fisheries fishermen. Safety can be linked A report summarising showed that there is momentum stakeholders contributed to in the UK,” said the APPG. to spatial conflict caused by the two-day discussion and for UK inshore fisheries inshore fisheries management in However, it added that attendees area closures, aquaculture, presenting potential future management to change, and that Denmark, Canada, the United acknowledged that ‘the road to wind farms, or the increased directions of the project will be the mood at the conference was States and New Zealand. implementing co-management prevalence of higher-powered published in the coming months. Vessel owner and skipper net large fines for illegal whelk fishing Large fines were given to Durrans and Mr Vass, the skipper Mr Vass was fined £2,000, undertake whelk fishing within Following the hearing, chief MR Durrans Fishing Ltd and of the vessel, pleaded guilty to and was ordered to pay the Eastern IFCA’s district without executive officer of Eastern IFCA Benjamin Vass when they the offence, and were ordered to remaining legal/enforcement a whelk permit. In passing Julian Gregory said: “Long- appeared at King’s Lynn pay financial penalties totalling costs of £1,000 and a victim sentence, the court said that the term sustainable fisheries are a Magistrates Court recently, in a £30,476.46, including the full surcharge of £120. The court owner and skipper had been benefit to everyone. In this case, case brought by Eastern Inshore legal and enforcement costs for ordered an additional penalty ‘reckless’ in the way they had there was a clear disregard for Fisheries and Conservation prosecution. of £3,500, to the value of the gone about their business, and an Eastern IFCA byelaw which Authority (IFCA). MR Durrans Fishing Ltd was 64 whelk pots which had been that in coming to this decision, safeguards whelk stocks. This MR Durrans Fishing Ltd was fined £24,000, and was ordered seized by Eastern IFCA during the court had taken account of behaviour is unacceptable, represented by Mark Durrans, to pay legal/enforcement costs of the investigation. the fact that they had previously particularly to our fishery the owner of the fishing vessel £3,036.46 and a victim surcharge The court heard how the been issued with a financial stakeholders, the majority of Hannah Beth II DH 23. Both Mr of £120. vessel had been used to administrative penalty. whom fish responsibly.” 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7 Stage set for EU-UK showdown on fisheries The NFFO analyses the crucial year ahead for the UK fishing industry In an industry that has framework agreement on quota) In particular, the European trade in fish and shellfish, so experienced many momentous fisheries will be the provisions ● Regulatory autonomy in the parliament’s baleful influence from an economic perspective, years and critical turning points, of the UK-EU withdrawal parties’ respective zones. over fisheries policy will come to both the UK and the EU have 2020 stands to be one of the agreement. However, we can expect an abrupt halt. The Commission a deep interest in smooth and most pivotal in our history. The relevant parts of the that the EU-Norway model will still have to seek negotiating unimpeded trade arrangements. The UK will formally leave withdrawal agreement for will be anathema to the EU in mandates from the Council and This is particularly true of fresh the EU on 31 January, 2020. fisheries: the context of a future EU-UK European parliament, but where and live fish, where the transit We will enter an 11-month ● Accept that after the transition fisheries relationship. The EU – for example in the North Sea – times are of critical importance. transition phase, during which period, the UK will have will argue that the EU-Norway the EU will control less than 20% The question is to what extent negotiations will take place on regulatory autonomy over the agreement covers far fewer of the sea area and a minority of this trade will become a political the future economic and political exploitation of the resources stocks than would require the stocks, its legal or political hostage over fishing rights, relationship between the UK and within its EEZ, and that after the joint management between sway will be much reduced in and what effect short-term the EU. UK fully leaves the EU, there will the EU and UK, and so is not negotiations with third countries. disruptions to trade could have. The aim is to agree a be no automatic right of access appropriate. Adjustments to the UK Should trade talks fail for any framework EU-UK fisheries to fish in each other’s waters The UK will say that the EU’s version of the EU landing reason, the UK could be forced agreement position reflects obligation, to create a workable to trade on WTO terms, which between the UK the fact that the set of arrangements, can be would be far from ideal – but is and the EU by The relative powerlessness EU’s relationship expected to be high on the list of also very far from no trade at all. the end of July with the UK under measures for early revision. The speed with which the 2020. Both the over fishing in its own waters that has the CFP has been massive trade in fisheries UK and EU have been the UK’s fate under the asymmetrical 1973 revisited? products between Iceland and made extensive “ and exploitative, The scene is set for a dramatic the UK was re-established after preparations CFP will end and that the EU trial of strength. Both sides have the cod wars of the 1970s shows for these wants to maintain an interest in securing a trade that disputes over fishing rights negotiations. this uneven deal which minimises trade have little long-term impact on Both sides are keeping their ● Point towards a UK-EU relationship. frictions. The shape of that deal trade. negotiating strategies close to fisheries agreement as part By contrast, the EU-Norway is the issue at hand. The UK In the access negotiations their chests, but it is possible of a wider agreement on the fisheries agreement“ is balanced, government has insisted that when the UK applied to join the from public statements to see future political and economic in the sense that both parties the new arrangements must then EEC in 1973, a conscious an outline of the overall shape of relationship between the EU and benefit more or less equally be agreed in time for the UK to decision was taken on the the forthcoming talks, and the the UK from the arrangement. The leave the EU at the end of the UK side to sacrifice the UK fracture lines that will determine ● Spell out that the UK will not UK will argue that the current transition period in December fishing industry to secure other the outcomes. participate in any EU decision- EU-Norway agreement is 2020. This short timeframe national political and economic As an independent coastal making fora during the transition therefore a relevant and makes the negotiation of a objectives. The legacy of this state, the UK will control period, but will be ‘consulted’ pertinent reference point. comprehensive trade deal less decision has denied the UK the access over who is permitted during the annual quota setting likely. A less ambitious deal, benefits of independent coastal to fish within UK waters, and round (NB: with a shorter Leaving it all behind with much to be agreed in future state status for over 40 years. under what conditions. The transition period to the end of Some things are already clear. negotiations, seems, at present, It also created a deep sense fisheries white paper indicates 2020 than earlier envisaged, After the transition period, the most likely outcome. of betrayal throughout the UK that the government will enter the UK will negotiate quotas for the UK will have regulatory The EU may have the fishing industry and coastal negotiations with the EU 2021 as an independent party). autonomy. This means that strongest hand of cards to play communities that has been with the express objective of When Theresa May’s the decisions, regulations and on trade, because of the sheer shared by many in parliament. closing the gap between the original withdrawal agreement directives of the Commission, size of its economy. On fishing, That sense of grievance has not fisheries resources available for was settled, there were two Council of ministers and the situation is reversed. EU diminished with time. harvesting that are located in UK outstanding issues towards the European parliament will no fleets fish around six times The optics of Brexit, in which waters, and the quota shares end of the negotiations. One longer have any direct relevance as much in UK waters as UK the fishing issue has consistently that it has received under the was Gibraltar, and the other to the fisheries in UK waters. vessels fish in EU waters. To been high on the list of national relative stability principle since was fishing rights. This gives Most CFP fisheries legislation continue to access those waters, priorities, means that the 1983. some sense of the political will be initially retained and concessions by the EU will be government will not want to By contrast, the EU has said significance of the fishing issue incorporated into UK law to required. The UK has made repeat the historic betrayal of that any trade deal with the UK for both the UK and the EU. avoid any legal vacuum, but clear that a rebalancing of quota the 1970s. In this sense, fishing will be contingent on the status the fisheries bill – which should shares to a fairer equilibrium is an important litmus test, quo on access arrangements Norway shortly pass through parliament will be the price of access. And and carries symbolic weight as and quota shares. It will seek Norway is significant because: unimpeded – will provide the that access will be subject to well as political and economic to bind the UK into a long-term ● It too shares stocks that are scope to amend and adapt conditions – as any fleet fishing significance. This is the reason agreement which replicates the exploited by the UK and EU these statutes to meet the in third-country waters would why the UK fishing industry is CFP as closely as possible. fleets UK’s purposes. The relative be. confident that, whatever the The two parties therefore ● It is a precedent and model powerlessness over fishing in its Many businesses in the negotiating challenges ahead, enter the negotiations holding for a long-term fisheries own waters that has been the supply chain on both sides of there will not be a repeat of polar opposite positions – agreement between the EU UK’s fate under the CFP will end. the Channel depend on the 1973. radical change versus status and a third country with shared quo. stocks and joint management Both parties are required arrangements. Selsey lifeboat launched to tow in fishing vessel by UNCLOS to co-operate on The annual EU-Norway the sustainable harvesting of fisheries agreements have On 18 December, the 18.5m viver- coxswain Martin Rudwick at the The Coastguard reported shared stocks, so there will provided a largely successful crabber Pen Glas SE 34 suffered helm, at 1.56am. Making good that Pen Glas was berthed at also be limits on the room model for co-operation on a fouled propeller about 14.8 miles speed, it arrived at the casualty at Portsmouth at 12.40pm, where to manoeuvre. Both the UK fisheries, which has been in southwest of Selsey Bill, reports 3.05am. The sea state was slight, plans were put in motion to and the EU have staked their place for over 40 years. There John Periam. with a force 4 southerly wind remove the object that was fouling reputations on maintaining are five essential components At around 1am, after a under a clear sky. After discussion the propeller. Back at Selsey, the highest standards in to the annual reciprocal concerted effort to remove the with the vessel’s skipper, the crew the lifeboat was washed down, terms of sustainable fisheries agreements: object from the propeller, the crew of four decided to accept a tow refuelled and ready for the next management. Failure to reach ● Joint management of key decided to contact the vessel’s towards Portsmouth harbour. shout by 10.30am. agreement could potentially set stocks and TAC setting, with owner and ask for assistance, as it As the tow got underway, the Pen Glas, one of the oldest up tensions that could only lead ICES scientific advice as the was drifting towards the southwest skipper contacted another local wooden fishing vessels to both parties being losers. It starting point traffic lane 22 miles east of Selsey fishing vessel and arranged for operating in UK waters, is based is an understatement that both ● Access arrangements, which Bill. it to meet up with the lifeboat at at Salcombe and owned by parties have a lot at stake. allow fleets to fish in each The Coastguard contacted the 8.30am and take over the tow Waterdance Ltd. Built in France, other’s waters Selsey RNLI lifeboat station, and approximately one mile west of the it had a full refit by boatbuilder Withdrawal agreement ● Quota sharing based on the its Shannon-class all-weather Looe Channel buoys, enabling the Bobby Cann in 2018 (Fishing The starting point and context principle of zonal attachment lifeboat was launched, with lifeboat to return to station. News, 19 December, 2018). for the negotiations for a ● Quota exchanges (of unused 8 CHARISMA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 CHARISMA – NEW WHALSAY PELAGIC VESSEL STARTS ON MACKEREL KARSTENSENS-BUILT SHETLAND 75M MIDWATER TRAWLER FEATURES MACGREGOR ELECTRIC-DRIVE DECK MACHINERY Skipper Davie Hutchison and the crew of the Whalsay midwater trawler Charisma LK 362 started to prove the new boat’s fishing credentials in December with two quick-fire trips in close proximity to Foula, west of Shetland, reports David Linkie. Photos: Ivan Reid and Sydney Sinclair

Charisma approaching Whalsay from Skagen.

fter spending 24 hours in the following weekend to shelter well-matched fishing gear. Symbister harbour, when from a 60-knot northwesterly This smooth start highlights ACharisma was warmly gale, before returning to sea to the forward thinking and vision welcomed home to Whalsay, take a second similar shot. of everyone who contributed the vessel headed south to The skipper and crew towards the end result of Lerwick to complete rigging expressed their full satisfaction a design and build project out, having already undertaken with the efficiency of the that the Charisma Fishing successful fishing trials from vessel’s engineroom and deck Company initiated by contacting Skagen. Having taken 800t machinery, fish pumping and Karstensens shipyard in 2017. of mackerel on the first trip, storage systems, and electronics Enhancing catch quality, Charisma returned to Whalsay equipment, together with the fishing efficiency, and crew and vessel safety were cited as the main reasons for skipper Davie Hutchison and his partners taking the decision to order a new vessel to replace her 16-year-old predecessor of the same name, which was sold to Iceland in 2018. Although just 4m longer, ‡ … remotely operated through cabinets in a dedicated room on the the new Charisma bears little main deck. resemblance to the previous one, not least in terms of technology that produced a design and specification of significantly increased freeboard top speed of 18.5 knots on midwater vessels. and by pumping pelagic fish acceptance trials from Skagen, After completing two short over the stern – a first for the and the latest wheelhouse trips, skipper Davie Hutchison owners. electronics, supplied by H said: “Hitting the ground running With state-of-the-art catch- Williamson & Son of Scalloway, underlines the reliability and ‡ The 90t split trawl winches and the rest of the deck machinery are handling, refrigeration and Charisma showcases the quality that Karstensens is driven by electric motors… landing systems, propulsion constant advancement in the renowned for delivering, and 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CHARISMA 9

‡ Charisma’s MAN main engine develops 7,200kW @ 750rpm.

‡ General view of arrangements on the trawl decks.

‡ General view of Charisma’s superbly finished wheelhouse.

four. The two middle tiers are seawater ballast tank, sonar positioned adjacent to the hull compartment, azimuth thruster sides, to create a large central room, forward insulated area in which the vessel’s RSW RSW tanks, refrigeration pumping system, refrigeration compressors, aft insulated RSW machinery and vacuum landing tanks, engineroom, laundry and plant are housed over three aft tanks. ‡ Skipper Davie Hutchison in decks amidships. At main deck level, the one of the four wheelhouse seats Below the main deck, the arrangements from forward supplied by NorSap. hull is subdivided into forepeak are forepeak, upper thruster

‡ The spacious messdeck… deservedly so. “From the initial contact, every single member of Karstensens’ team has been THANKS FOR SPLENDID COOPERATION superb to work with. At every stage of the design and build programme, the level of professional co-operation and friendly support we have ‡ … and adjoining day lounge. received has been exceptional. The layout of the boat, together anti-roll tanks. with the quality of workmanship, Of 75m LOA and 67.2m more than speaks for itself. registered length, Charisma’s While the level of finish in the round bilge hull has a beam of internal accommodation areas is 15.3m, a shelterdeck depth of self-evident, it is fully matched 9.2m, and a scantling draught of throughout the boat by the 8.5m. After being built to DNV- equally impressive pipework.” GL +1 Fishing Vessel – Hull: Ice-C class at the Remontowa General arrangement shipyard in Gdansk,´ Poland, the Designed in-house by hull was towed to Skagen for Karstensens, Charisma features machinery installation and fitting three continuous decks – main, out. shelter and boat – together with With a capacity of 2,311m³, Karstensen Shipyard, Skagen, Denmark, Ph.: +45 98 44 13 11 a sleek forecastle deck housing Charisma’s 11 RSW tanks are the anchor windlasses, mooring arranged from forward in four platforms/winches and two 80t tiers of three, two, two and www.karstensens.dk/en/ 10 CHARISMA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 room, RSW trunk section, Cook Roy Huntley has a wide vacuum landing/refrigeration range of modern equipment Port quarter view of plant rooms, aft RSW trunking, available to use in the starboard Charisma arriving at Lerwick. engine control room/electrical stainless steel galley, which rooms/five single-berth leads across the beam to the cabins (starboard), engineer’s customary walk-in dry provisions workshop (port), steering gear store, together with separate compartment and two net fridge/freezer rooms, which can stores. also be accessed off the boat Layout on the shelterdeck deck, where a garbage room is consists of forepeak, electrical also situated. control room, workshops, tank A further four single-berth deck with loading pipes for the ensuite cabins are arranged on RSW tanks, pumping/vacuum the deck above the day areas. landing control room, two single and two twin-berth cabins Engineroom and hospital cabin, crew deck Main engine power on Charisma wardrobe, deck store/workshop is developed by a MAN and trawl deck. 12V32/44CR-TI (common rail/ The boat deck is arranged long stroke) tier II-compliant with the forecastle housing propulsion unit that develops the anchor/mooring winches, 7,200kW @ 750rpm and drives hydraulically operated mooring a Brunvoll Volda 4,200mm- platforms and integrated diameter four-bladed CP roll damping tank. The fish/ propeller system housed in a seawater separator forward high-performance fixed nozzle of the accommodation casing through a Brunvoll Volda two- is surrounded on three sides step gearbox. Respective step by a central deckhouse, the 1 and step 2 reduction ratios starboard side of which houses of 5.77 and 7.14 give propeller a fish-sampling room. speeds of 130rpm and 105rpm. The superbly finished This combination of centreline messdeck, in which two machinery, in tandem with the hexagonal tables are arranged, streamlined underwater hull is positioned in the starboard lines, enabled Charisma to side of the deckhouse, adjacent return an average top speed to a large day room and a of 18.5 knots on engine trials, smaller leisure room to port. underlining the extent to which

the design of this class of vessel of frequency converters for has advanced in recent years. 400/440V and a static converter/ A PTO on the gearbox UPS for 230V. This arrangement drives an AvK Cummins shaft allows the main engine and generator delivering 3,000kWe @ propeller rpm to be reduced by 1,200rpm. 17%. Further electrical power A retractable Brunvoll on Charisma, to meet the 850kW azimuth thruster fitted requirements of the deck forward provides an alternative machinery, is provided by two propulsion facility in the event of Caterpillar 3512B engines. main engine or gearbox failure, Generating 1,570kWe each, the or if the propeller is disabled auxiliary engines are housed in for any reason, in addition to a soundproofed compartment to transverse thrust. A 950kW port in the engineroom. tunnel thruster is fitted aft. Two Caterpillar C9 harbour/ The combination of double emergency gensets of 250kWe bottom and deep fuel tanks are located in the forepeak. allows 515,000 litres of fuel to be The vessel’s electrical power carried. The vessel’s domestic system is fitted for sliding freshwater capacity is 63,000 frequency (60-50Hz), by means litres. An 80t passive anti-roll

‡ Cook Roy Huntley in the well-equipped starboard galley.

Charisma’s 12-cylinder MAN main engine. ‡ The crew change deck wardrobe. 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CHARISMA 11

‡ Two Caterpillar C7.1 harbour gensets are situated in the forecastle.

‡ One of two Caterpillar 3512B engines, generating 1,500kWe, housed in a dedicated compartment on the port side of the engineroom.

‡ ... housing state-of-the-art ‡ Chief engineer Billy Hughson in Charisma’s highly automated engine control panels for the deck control room. ‡ Electrical distribution cabinets… machinery. tank is positioned forward on the machinery, now delivering an and hauling/shooting speeds deck, the winches are driven by drive multi-motor winches. boat deck. aggregate core pull of over 600t of 35-133m/min and 75-182m/ four motors (total power 606kW) The winches are spooled Chief and second engineers on Charisma, were designed min respectively, are positioned and operated through a PTS- with 2,000m lengths of 38mm- Billy Hughson and Larry and custom-built by MacGregor. close to the vessel’s centreline Pentagon Cbus EE system, a diameter Oliveira supplied by Williamson monitor the Charisma is the second new abaft the accommodation sixth-generation trawl system Selstad AS of Måløy. The trawl performance of all the vessel’s midwater trawler in the UK fleet casing on the boat deck. developed and optimised by wires have slightly elevated propulsion and generating to be equipped with electric- Protected by the upper boat MacGregor for use with electric- parallel leads to inboard hanging machinery, electrical supplies drive deck machinery. Research and catch storage from a LK 62, which joined the Whalsay separate soundproofed control fleet in October 2018, was the room and office. first to be equipped with electric deck machinery, the use of Electric-drive MacGregor which has become increasingly CONGRATULATIONS to Owners deck machinery common on international pelagic Including two 90t split trawl and demersal trawlers in recent winches, two 95t net drums and years. & Crew with the new Vessel! two electric fish pumps, the 28 Two split trawl winches, items of AC electric-drive deck with a core pull rating of 90t “CHARISMA“Girl Stephanie” LK 362” WeWe are delighteddelighted and and proud proud that MacGregorthat MacGregor Rapp Marine has supplied, once again, deckhas supplied machinery complete to the hydraulic Charisma deck machineryFishing Company to Irish Owner Ltd. Pauric Conneely, this time to the NEW «Girl Stephanie».

Fishery & Research MacGregor Rapp Marine

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‡ Two 95t net drums lie slightly to port of the vessel’s centreline. 12 CHARISMA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020

‡ Mooring and anchor winches are housed in the enclosed forepeak… blocks suspended within the mounted on the shelterdeck, underside of the stern gantry, slightly offset to port. The net to which companionways give from the forward drum is shot ready access. This arrangement over a large-diameter stainless ensures that the crew have clear steel roller mounted above the and immediate access to the aft net drum. midwater gear from two levels A 71t lifeline winch for when clipping on/off helper handling the bag is located pennants/backstrops, etc. towards the starboard side of Two 95t net drums, each the boat deck aft of the split driven by four motors (total trawl winch. power 817kW) and 8 x 300A A 46t tail-end winch, used frequency converters, are for pulling the bag to the stern ‡ … which includes hydraulically operated mooring platforms.

Benefits of electric deck machinery The greater focus on fuel Another major advantage This is fully apparent on on Charisma 15 years ago. operation, it is necessary to consumption, and on carbon is that electric-drive winch Charisma, where the main Since then, the company has apply extra cooling to the footprint in relation to the efficiency is estimated to electric cabinet control room spent a tremendous number electric winch motor when environment, has contributed vary between 70% and 85%, aft, and the secondary room of hours on workshop- and working at zero to low speed to the growth in popularity compared to an efficiency level for the anchor windlasses and field-testing of various drive during towing, with up to 80% of electric winches, which of 35-60% for hydraulic drive. forward mooring winches, are concepts, to learn new of the maximum torque. This have been widely used in the AC electric drives for considerably smaller than the technology and optimise the is traditionally done by jacket/ offshore industry for many winches comprise of: customary hydraulic pump drives and control system. water cooling or by a separate years. ● A variable frequency drive rooms. The conclusion was quickly cooling unit, and these types New motor technology, ● An AC induction motor Discussing the background reached that new electric of motors are relatively large in enabling more powerful ● A reduction gearbox to the electric-drive deck winches should be based size and weight. electric winches of similar ● A sensor feedback and machinery, it was immediately on the same concept as In order to fit considerably overall size to hydraulic control system clear that, as anticipated given hydraulically driven winches – more compact motors, winches, is also a key factor. ● A cooling system the level of change involved, namely, multi-motor drives with MacGregor started to Electrically driven deck ● A braking system. there is considerably more three or four medium-speed develop a new concept for machinery delivers the The new drive (VFD) required than just replacing the piston motors, connected to motor cooling. This resulted benefits of reduced energy technology has reduced hydraulic motor with an electric the winch drive via a one-step in the fluid-controlled (FC) consumption, reduced the size of the cabinets. motor. gearbox of approximately electric motor, which is now maintenance, less noise, As a result, they require Rapp Marine/MacGregor 4-5.5:1 reduction. internationally patented. precision control, and the fact less space than an HPU at started to develop the electric- This arrangement, which This concept uses a that no hydraulic oil is required. comparable power rating. drive deck machinery installed has a 25-year successful standard high-performance track record, gives a large motor insert (ABB) combined degree of redundancy, low with Rapp ‘packing/housing’, acceleration stiffness, and high which makes it possible to serviceability, with relatively circulate cooling fluid through small and lightweight motors the inside of the electric motor that are easy to replace and (between the rotor and stator) handle. to control the heat. Another Advantages with the multi- benefit from this technology drive concept are: is the ability to increase the ● Redundancy – motors and power/torque rating by more drives are sized to obtain 80% than 250%. The biggest winch pull if one of three or air-cooled motor currently four motor (VFD) drives should used for electric winch drive be out of service can develop around 75kW ● Three or four small FC continuous power as standard, motors give a moment of but FC technology, with the inertia four to five times less same safety margin, can take than single-motor electric 188kW continuous power from drives, and excellent response the same frame size 225 SMD. and fast reaction times for The control system compensation during towing. developed for electric A bevel/planetary two- multi-motor drives ensures step gearbox with a ratio continuous load-sharing of approximately 11-14:1, between the three or four depending on winch size, is motors. positioned between the main The main power system for gearbox and each electric the electric deck machinery motor. on Charisma is divided into To meet the technical two sections of 1,000A/660kW ‡ Lifeline and tail-end winches are positioned either side of the split trawl winches. requirements for autotrawl continuous duty at 440V. 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CHARISMA 13

‡ Stainless steel delivery pipes lead from the bottom of the dewatering unit through the shelterdeck, directly into the RSW tanks. before the sock is taken up and the customary four hydraulically attached to the aft fish pump, operated guiding-on pins and is positioned to port on the the deck tracks for the toe-end upper boat deck, in line with weights. a dedicated sheave mounted Charisma is also equipped within the mid-height trawl with two VFD-driven electric fish gantry. pumps, arranged for pumping Four auxiliary winches, some 1,200t of pelagic fish an mounted on the underside of hour at the stern. Similar units the trawl gantry and on the boat developed by MacGregor are deck adjacent to the net drums, reported to have performed are available to assist the crew exceptionally well on Research when shooting away the bag, during her first year of fishing ‡ Looking down on Charisma’s central dewatering system, to which pelagic fish are delivered through a and for other duties on the trawl mackerel, herring and blue stainless steel pipe on the port side of the boat deck. deck. When fishing in heavy whiting. weather, the single opening former location of amidships on ● It is easier to handle and With the capacity to pump up through which midwater trawls Fish pumping the starboard side, the origins store the power cable. One 2in to 1,200t of pelagic fish per hour are worked can be sealed off by Charisma’s owners are the latest of which go back to the days OD electric cable takes up less (20t/minute), the two electric- raising a hydraulically operated to opt for pumping pelagic fish of purse-seining when, initially, space than two of the larger drive fish pumps on Charisma vertical door, positioned aft of at the stern, rather than the herring were brailled aboard. hydraulic hoses, enabling a are a recent new product from When using the net drum to smaller storage reel to be used MacGregor. The VFD pumps dry up the brailler, the 46t tail- than that required for the two have a new geometric shape, end winch, mounted to port on pipes associated with hydraulic developed to give better fish the upper boat deck, is used to fish pumps. quality and pumping control, haul the bag back to the quarter, before the sock is attached to the fish pump located on the wide boat deck, just forward of the trawl gantry. Charisma is only the second pelagic vessel in the UK fleet to use an electric rather than a hydraulic fish pump. The main WELDING • PAINTING advantages of electric fish pumps are: • WATERJET CUTTING • GRITBLASTING ● They are more energy- efficient ● They are environmentally friendly – there are no hydraulic ‡ Two Johnson Control refrigeration plants generate 2.6mkCal/hr. hoses to leak

Congratulations to Charisma Fishing Company Ltd from all at Nortech Marine Ltd. We wish you safe and successful fishing.

NORTECH MARINE LTD provide a 24/7 welding and painting service to the fishing industry in Lerwick. We have a dedicated team of welder/fabricators available in our workshop located beside the Shetland Catch factory. We stock a full range of fish hose clamps, stub ends, flanges, backing rings, valves, stainless, aluminium and steel plate, section and pipework. Hardox plate and wear parts. Jotun and Sigma coatings stockist. Grit blasting and painting. Crane trucks and net haulage service. Web: www.nortechmarine.co.uk Social Media: www.facebook.com/nortechmarine Main office: 01595 696 118 or 01595 696 145 Stores: 01595 696 388 ‡ Electric-drive fish pumps and cable reels are located on the port side boat deck. 14 CHARISMA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020

SeaQuest Systems deck cranes

‡ Twin IRAS vacuum landing tanks situated to port of the centreline amidships…

‡ Two of the three customised deck cranes that SeaQuest Systems supplied to Charisma.

Charisma is equipped with rotation facility on the SeaQuest cranes, all hinge three customised deck cranes powerblock is an extremely pins, cylinder rods, hydraulic designed and manufactured useful feature for mending fittings and pipework are by SeaQuest Systems of midwater trawls, or taking manufactured in stainless Killybegs. The Co Donegal twists out of the net, brailler steel, while all other parts specialist has supplied a or bridles. were shot-blasted and succession of similar deck The jib sections of the metalised before painting. cranes to Karstensens for gantry cranes are custom- In order to ensure continuity installation on new Danish designed and -built, so that throughout a trip, all three and Norwegian midwater the operator gets maximum cranes were supplied with the vessels in recent years, usage from the crane, to get same style of interchangeable as well as the Fraserburgh down to the main deck to pick radio-control unit. In the ‡ … are served by four 66kW compressors. midwater trawler Grateful. up the net in the powerblock, unlikely event of one control Two identical SeaQuest to get the stern fish pump in unit being dropped in heavy and are driven by an oil-filled Charisma includes electric cable cranes, with a lifting capacity and out with ease, and when weather, this will allow the and pressure-compensated reels and a newly developed of 4t @ 14m, are mounted reaching over the gantry to operator to ‘borrow’ another electric motor. The system on control system. on either side of the trawl the trawl doors. crane’s transmitter by gantry aft. Each crane is The forward knuckle-boom swapping out a SIM card-style fitted with SeaQuest type crane has a reach of 18m chip mounted in the unit. It PB02 powerblocks featuring and is fitted with 4t and 2t also allows a vessel to carry hydraulic tilt and continual winches. a spare transmitter which will rotation. The continual As is customary with cover all three cranes.

remotely controlled from the pump room in the deckhouse. On entering the water separator, fish are directed upwards before sliding either forward or aft into transverse troughs, from which they are The largestThe largest stock stock of Fish of Hose Fish Hosein Europe in Europe directed to the allocated RSW We supply,We supply, design design and installand install Hydraulic Hydraulic Systems Systems tank by remotely operated • Fish Hose 8” - 20” in lengths of up to 80 metres Seaquest vertical gate valves. The large-diameter stainless • Fish Hosefish 8”-20” hose infittings, lengths inserts, of up to quick 80 meter release Seaquest couplings, rail bends, steel pipes that lead from the adaptors to go up or down in hose sizes and leak proof adaptors to go up or down in hose sizes and leak proof separator are routed through the stainless steel swivels to connect directly to hose fittings. shelterdeck to enter the RSW • Fish Pumps 8” dual outlet, 12” 14/16” 18” and our new tanks from the side, thereby • Fish PumpsMega 8”Pump dual 24” outlet, Fish 12”, pump 14/16”, fittings 18” and include our hose inserts, leaving the tops clear for the crewmen to easily observe the hose clamps. quick release fittings, adaptors that go up level of fill. and down in hose size With buyers worldwide down in hose size. • Net sounder cable 3,000 metres in length - ex stock ‡ The hoists for the Furuno FSV25 and 85 sonar units. requiring ever-higher standards • Net sounder cable 3,000 meters in lenght - ex stock of catch quality, the owners To see our pumps and new swivels working click videos on The fish pumps and cable some 35m forward, through a placed particular emphasis on To see our pumps and newwww.seaquest.ie swivels working click videos on reels are located on the port large-diameter stainless steel Charisma landing a top-quality www.seaquest.ie. side boat deck, directly above delivery pipe, inboard towards product, by being able to reduce Best wishes to owners & crew of the new MFV Charisma two larger-diameter reels on the the fish/seawater separator the temperature of pelagic fish Best WishesDelighted to ownersto be chosen & crew for our of SeaQuest Zephyr Deck from Crane all atPackage main boat deck, on which the system. entering the RSW tanks to an SeaQuest Systems fish hoses are stored. A short clear Perspex section optimum storage temperature as We are delightedStay up to date, to be follow once us again on Facebook chosen or check out our The fish hose permanently (the looking glass), incorporated quickly as possible. projects section on our website connected to the pump sits in a into the first section of the main Two ammonia-based for SeaQuest 24” Fish Pumps captive vertical slot in the port pipe, enables the crewman refrigeration plants from side of the transom, allowing the controlling pumping operations Johnson Controls (York/Sabroe), SeaQuestSeaQuest Systems Systems hose to run clear of the stern to constantly monitor the flow of positioned at main deck level Killybegs Industrial Industrial Road, Road, Killybegs, Killybegs, Co Donegal, Co Donegal, Ireland Ireland as the pump is lowered into the fish. to starboard of the centreline, Tel:Tel: +353 +353 (0)7 (0) 4973 4973 1542 1542 - Fax: - Fax:+353 +353 (0)7 4973 (0)7 1573 49731573 water. When pumping, the flow of in the area between the central Email: [email protected] - When the rubber hose is pelagic fish from the separator RSW tank trunking, deliver Email: [email protected] - www.seaquest.ie connected, fish are pumped into the 11 RSW tanks is 2.6mkCal/h of cooling capacity, 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CHARISMA 15 enabling pelagic catches to be first two trips. brought down to the desired The main forward console temperature of -1.3°C/-1.5°C in comprises a Furuno/Böning the minimum timescale. video wall, in which five 55in 4K Pelagic catches from Hatteland pedestal-mounted Charisma are discharged to screens are arranged in a processing factories ashore by shallow arc across the front twin IRAS 4,200-litre vacuum of the wheelhouse, to give pumping systems. Situated an integrated fishing bridge to port of the refrigeration system. The layout of the screen machinery and operated by displays on the video wall is 4 x 66kW compressor units controlled by various presets. located in a dedicated adjoining By using one of three 24in room forward, the system has touchscreen controllers, skipper a delivery rate of 150t/200t per Davie Hutchison can select his hour. preference from these when Charisma is searching for marks, Furuno integrated towing, steaming or entering/ fishing bridge leaving port. H Williamson & Sons Ltd of The touchscreen panels also Scalloway, Shetland designed, have radar and sonar control supplied, installed and functionality. So, for example, commissioned the state-of-the- common functions in sonar art electronic equipment, which operation – e.g. gain/range/tilt performed well on Charisma’s for each sonar – can now be The video wall is located in front of three NorSap Easy skipper’s chairs positioned between wing and island ‡ Charisma leaving Lerwick for her maiden trip. operated from one panel. The fish is performed by Furuno weather, heave compensation consoles, which together form the sonar and radar control units FSV25 BB and FSV85 omni- for the sonars and sounders is are hidden in the console, and sonars, of which the operational provided by a Kongsberg MRU- main navigation position can be pulled out if required. frequencies are centred on 3 motion reference unit. The video wall is located 20kHz and 80kHz. Performance of Charisma’s in front of three NorSap Easy Vertical echo detection is midwater trawls when towing is skipper’s chairs positioned performed by Furuno FCV monitored by a Marport net- between wing and island 1900B and Furuno FSS1 BB fish monitoring system, from which consoles, which together form species discrimination sounders information is received from a the main navigation position. served by Airmar CM599 combination of three trawl-eye Slim wing consoles that transducers. A Furuno CI68 BB units, six hybrid catch, two door come into play when Charisma current indicator provides tidal and two catch-eye sensors. The is manoeuvring in confined data at five different depths. Marport trawl-monitoring system areas are located at the forward When tracking marks in heavy is integrated into the MaxSea corners of the wheelhouse. The central fishing console aft provides a commanding H. Williamson & Sons Ltd view of midwater trawling activities across the stern. Marine Electronic Engineers A further 16 26in Hatteland Scalloway, Shetland, ZE1 0TR screens are fitted on the various consoles. Tel: 01595 880645 Fax: 01595 880535 Charisma is equipped with a Mail: [email protected] comprehensive array of Furuno underwater acoustic equipment Web: www.hwilliamson.co.uk ‡ Charisma’s trawl console. units. Initial location of pelagic

H.Williamson & Sons are delighted to have been chosen for the supply, installation and commissioning of the electronics package to the CHARISMA LK 362. We wish the owners and crew safe and successful fishing in the years to come. ‡ Some of the comprehensive array of electronics equipment supplied by H Williamson & Sons Ltd. 16 CHARISMA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020

Fourth Charisma for Whalsay partners CHARISMA COMPLETES RENEWAL Charisma is the fourth new pelagic boat of the same name OF WHALSAY PELAGIC FLEET to be skippered by Davie Hutchison. The first Charisma arrived at Whalsay in 1979. With an LOA of 107ft and 25.36ft of beam, this fully shelterdecked purser/trawler was fitted out by Sigbjørn Iversen at Flekkefjord after the hull had been built at Hellesund by Bentsen & Sønner. Powered by a 1,100hp Mirrlees Blackstone engine, the first Charisma had six RSW tanks, giving a fish-carrying ‡ The first Charisma pursing. ‡ Charisma entering Symbister harbour for the first time, to capacity of 220t. complete the renewal of Whalsay’s midwater fleet. The first Charisma fished from Shetland until 1995, when When skipper Davie Hutchison and fishermen in Britain in the the boat was sold to Peterhead took Charisma alongside at island’s resident population of and renamed Alert FR 396, Symbister for the first time, it just over 1,000 inhabitants. later moving to Castlebay and marked a notable achievement In the continuing absence being renamed Charisma CY for the small island of Whalsay, of fixed transport links with 88. During the 16 years that where the local pelagic fleet mainland Shetland, residents the vessel was in Shetland, it has been renewed over three are extremely familiar with was extensively altered, being years. the ferry timetable for the lengthened by 49ft, fitted Charisma is the third new 45-minute crossing to Laxo – with a raised wheelhouse and arrival in four months, after or Vidlin when poor weather re-engined in 1985, before a Adenia and Zephyr were both prevails, as is regularly the whaleback was added atop the welcomed home to Whalsay in case. shelterdeck in 1989. September. Inevitably, this puts Davie Hutchison and The new Serene and additional logistical constraints his partners renewed their ‡ Simek AS built the 57.7m Charisma at Flekkefjord in 1995. Research joined the local on skippers, not least in acquaintance with Flekkefjord pelagic fleet in September and relation to trying to meet in 1995 when they took delivery Simek AS. for the Charisma Fishing October 2018, less than a year service engineers, etc, flying of the 57.7m and 2,190kW The second Charisma Company by Flekkefjord Slipp after Antares started the ball into Sumburgh from Norway Wärtsilä-engined midwater was replaced in 2003 with a & Maskinfabrikk AS. Powered rolling in December 2016. and Denmark. trawler Charisma LK 362 from 71m midwater trawler, built by a 6,000kW MaK 12M32 Antarctic II was lengthened At the same time as the engine, the third Charisma was as part of a major upgrade pelagic fleet development was bought by the Icelandic fishing project in 2017. in progress, Whalsay-based company Eskja in 2018, when This largescale reinvestment whitefish partnerships also the vessel was renamed Jón in the pelagic sector firmly invested in new vessels, in Kjartansson. underlines the hugely the form of the fly-shooters The continuity that boats important role fishing Resilient and Tranquility. like Charisma bring to Whalsay continues to play on Whalsay, This level of ongoing is shown by the fact that four and the determination of the reinvestment in an industry of the new Charisma’s crew, island’s fishermen to stay that is the lifeblood of the John Pearson, William Polson, ahead in a highly competitive community is a fantastic James Tulloch and Larry international fishery for the achievement. It is also a Williamson, have sailed with benefit of their families, and ringing endorsement of long- skipper Davie Hutchison for 40 just as importantly, future term confidence in the health ‡ The 71m Charisma away to land a good shot of mackerel, taken years, since the first Charisma generations. of the demersal and pelagic north of Skerries. arrived in Shetland. Lying a few miles to the stocks, which is self-evident east of mainland Shetland, on the rich fishing grounds Whalsay is less than six miles around Shetland, the benefits long and two miles wide, of which should now be further 5 Alexandra Buildings and probably has the largest enhanced by sound fisheries LHD Ltd Shetland Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0LL concentration of vessel owners management post-Brexit.

Contact 01595 693768 TimeZero plotting system, to NT999 dual-head autopilot enable the position of the doors system. to be shown relative to the AIS information is handled by vessel. the latest-model Furuno FA170. Two Furuno omni-trawl A Furuno BR500 watch alarm sounders operate through the system gives peace of mind cable winch mounted atop the to the skipper and crew when gantry. Charisma is steaming to and Navigation requirements from the fishing grounds. For Sale: Trawl Doors are handled by a Furuno A full Sailor GMDSS TECDIS 2138B electronic package was also installed by 1 set NETS SUPER LITE chart display and information Williamson’s, including 6310 MF/ 12.50 SQ metres trawl doors system supported by two type- HF radio telephone, 6222 Class approved Furuno BB radars, A VHFs, Entel HT649 handheld Ex Antarctic LK 145 together with a Furuno solid- VHFs, Furuno Felcom 18 Sat 2004, excellent condition state Doppler DRS6-NXT unit. C and Furuno NX700B Navtex. Can be inspected in Lerwick, This radar is also interfaced Jotron EPIRBs and SARTs are Shetland to one of the two MaxSea also fitted. TimeZero ProFish plotters Man-to-man communication Contact 0044 1595 693768 installed on Charisma. when the crew are working GPS and heading data on deck is handled by Icom LHD Ltd Shetland is provided by two Furuno F1000 PMR units built into Geko 5 AlexandraCongratulations Buildings to Davie Hutchison and crew from GP170 type-approved GPS protective helmets. Lerwick Shetland receivers, three Simrad GC80 Satellite TV is provided all at LHD. We wish you safe and successful fishing. gyrocompasses, a Furuno SC70 by a Sea Tel 120 1.2m TVRO ZE1 0LL satellite compass and a Navitron package. ■ 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews CHARISMA 17 Charisma takes on new Swan Net-Gundry midwater trawl technology Following its recent provision which the front of the trawl is this offers improved water flow, of an extensive package of constructed with a combination greater stability, added strength midwater gear to the new of PE overbraided ropes (PEPA) and increased mesh opening. Whalsay pelagic trawler Zephyr and Danline ropes. With SNG’s Fast Flow system (Fishing News, 7 November), Kraftex frame ropes are taking the international pelagic Irish net designer and used, in conjunction with industry by storm last year, it manufacturer Swan Net-Gundry SNG’s own Prima Overbraided is no surprise that Charisma (SNG) has again been the footrope, which has proven to is now using two SNG 65m popular choice for pelagic gear be excellent due to its abrasion- Fast Flow braillers with DynIce for the new Charisma. resistant qualities. Handle System (DHS) and Supplied from its Lerwick For the trawl tunnel, Charisma 44mm DynIce SK75 used for the and Killybegs depots, SNG’s is supplied with SNG’s eight- splitters. large range of gear for Charisma panel model, which can provide A full report on SNG’s Fast includes a 1,024m dual-purpose added benefits compared to the Flow brailler system will be mackerel/herring trawl, on conventional four-panel type, as included in Fishing News soon. Skipper Davie Hutchison and crew also took delivery of two 1,460m mackerel trawls and a 1,280m dual-purpose herring/ mackerel net from SNG.

‡ Charisma’s crew taking on one of four midwater trawls made by ‡ Pulling a midwater trawl… † … onto the lower net drum. Swan Net-Gundry. MMG GANGWAYS GIVE SAFE BOARDING

‡ Mark McCallaig and Martin McGuiness standing on one of MMG Welding’s vessel-to-vessel Compact Gangway systems. Killybegs company MMG remained largely unchanged Welding supplied one of their during this time is the method patented Compact Gangway used to board vessels while tied systems to the new Charisma. to the pier and, despite this not Since the innovative design sounding like an issue of any was launched in 2018, MMG great importance, increasing Welding has supplied vessel- safety requirements have led to-pier and vessel-to-vessel to officially certified gangways Congratulations to Charisma Fishing Company Ltd gangways to a succession becoming mandatory for all of Irish and Scottish pelagic sizes of commercial craft. and the crew of CHARISMA LK 362. boats, including Father McKee, Recognising the need for Menhaden, Western Chieftain, a safe and versatile method Wishing them every success and safe fishing from the Western Viking, Antares, of accessing vessels from Christina S, Quantus and the quayside, MMG Welding Management and Staff at Swan Net Gundry Ltd Zephyr. focused on finding a solution. Although evolution over Built to the requirements the past 40 years has been of DNVGL-ST-0358/ISO Contact Swan Net-Gundry depots nationwide for information extraordinary in terms of vessel 7061:2015, the patented design, catching capability, Compact Gangway systems on products and prices available on a comprehensive range carrying capacity, hydraulics, feature drainage-perforated refrigeration, electronics, etc, tread plate steps for maximum of Pelagic Trawls & Bottom Trawls, Safety Equipment & some things onboard have safety and, for easy storage Electronics and Chandlery. changed very little, as the ‘old purposes, a unique manual reliable’ way of doing things, or folding mechanism with a particular piece of equipment, collapsible handrails, making Tel: 00353(0)74 9731180 Email: [email protected] has never been improved upon. it an ideal solution for vessels One such item that has with limited storage space. www.swannetgundry.com 18 CHARISMA Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020

CHARISMA LK 362

The Charisma crew pause for a team photo while completing rigging out at Lerwick. Left to right: skipper Davie Hutchison, Magnus Polson, Steve Tulloch, John Pearson, Greig Anderson, Laurence Pearson, Colin Anderson, Stephen Williamson, Richard Hutchison, James Tulloch, William Polson, Billy Hughson, Larry Williamson and Roy Huntley.

DETAILS capacity for 3,130m 38mm-diameter Owners: Charisma Fishing Company Ltd, trawl wire; Rapp PTS-Pentagon Cbus- Whalsay, Shetland EF autotrawl system; 2 x net drums Designer/boatyard: Karstensens ND-3400EB 43m³/95t; 1 x topline winch shipyard, Skagen, Denmark; hull built by TWS-22031TE 71t; 1 x tail-end winch Remontowa shipyard, Gdansk,´ Poland GW-20001BE 46t; 2 x Gilson winches Class: DNV-GL +1A1 Ice-C GW-200E 3.6t; 2 x backstrap winches Agent: LHD Ltd, Lerwick, Shetland GW-200E 2.6t; 5 x mooring winches GW-680E 6.6t; 2 x anchor winches DIMENSIONS and AWW-4000E 6.3t; 1 x net-sounder CAPACITIES cable winch SOW-502RE 3.6t first-layer Length overall: 75m; Length between pull with capacity for 2,950m 12.4mm- pp: 67.2m; Beam: 15.3m; Depth main diameter Dyneema cable; 2 x MacGregor deck: 6.5m; Depth shelterdeck: 9.2m; 20in electric fish pumps CP-3501 20in; Draught: 8.5m; Tonnage: 2,950 GT; fish hose storage reel FHR-480N 3.5t; Fuel: 515,000 litres; Freshwater: 63,000 fish pump electrical cable storage reel litres; Technical water: 150m³ + 88m³ roll RHM326692 1.6t reduction tank; RSW: 11 tanks – 2,311m³ SeaQuest Systems: 2 x 4t/14m radio- control cranes c/w 4t winches and ENGINEROOM SeaQuest powerblocks c/w endless Main engine: MAN 12V32/44CR-TI 360° rotation; 1 x 4t/18m radio-control of 7,200kW @ 750rpm driving through knuckle-boom foredeck crane c/w 4t and a Brunvoll ACG-980/PS750 two-step 2t winches indicator (160kHz); 2 x Furuno omni- 2 x Tron SART 20; Peitel GSM bridge and 5.77/7.14 reduction gearbox to a Brunvoll trawl sounders; 1 x Marport M6 acoustic ECR phones; 16 x Icom F1000 PMR VHFs Volda CP105/4 4,200mm-diameter four- FISH PUMPING/STORAGE receiver c/w 6 x wide-band hydrophones, and 10 x Geko headsets; Sea Tel ST120 bladed CP propeller in a fixed nozzle; Fish pumping system: 2 x 24in 3 x trawl explorers for tunnel, 6 x hybrid satellite TV system; CCTV camera system Speed: 18.5 knots SeaQuest fish pumps;RSW cooling catch sensors and 2 x door sensors with c/w 16 cameras Shaft generator: AvK Cummins DSG plant: Johnson Controls (York/Sabroe) pitch, roll and depth, 2 x catch explorers 114M2 6W 3,000kW/3750kVA @ 1200rpm – 2 x 1,435kW (1,234,000kCal/hr); and 3 x sensor chargers FISHING GEAR 415/3/50 with sliding (50/60Hz) frequency Vacuum landing system: 2 x IRAS c/w Midwater trawls: Swan Net-Gundry, Auxiliary engines: 2 x Caterpillar 3512B 2 x 4,200-litre tanks served by 4 x 66kW Navigation Killybegs – 1 x 1,024m and 1 x 1,280m of 1,570kWe @ 1800rpm driving Stamford compressor units; Vessel monitoring Furuno DRS6A-NXT, FAR3220 BB and dual-purpose mackerel/herring nets; 2 x 415/3/15 generators; 2 x Caterpillar C9 system: Marine Control Services FAR3230 SSD BB radars; Furuno TECDIS 1,460m mackerel nets; 2 x 65m Fast Flow 250kW harbour/emergency gensets system c/w T-2138B dual BB processing braillers; Trawl wire: Selstad AS, Måløy Thrusters: Brunvoll – 1 x 850kW ELECTRONICS unit; 2 x Furuno GP170 GPS receivers; – 2 x 2,000m of 38mm-diameter Oliveira retractable combi azimuth/bow thruster Supplier: H Williamson & Sons Ltd, 2 x MaxSea TimeZero ProFish plotting trawl wire; Midwater trawl doors: and 1 x 950kW stern thruster Scalloway systems; Navitron NT999 dual-head Thyborøn Type 20 Slider 15m² 4,000kg Fuel/lube oil separators: GEA Westfalia; autopilot interfaced to dual Simrad Main engine and hydraulic cooling, Fish detection GC80 gyrocompasses; Simrad GC80 ACCOMMODATION bilge/deckwash/fire ballast and Furuno FSV25 360° low-frequency compact gyrocompass; Furuno SC70 12 x single-berth and 2 x two-berth engine fuel transfer pumps: Bombas (18/20/22kHz) and Furuno FSV85 360° satellite compass; Furuno FA170 AIS; ensuite cabins plus hospital cabin Azcue; Bilge ejectors: Ellehammer; medium-frequency (71/84kHz) sonars; Furuno BR500 bridge watch alarm; Gill Starting/working air compressors: Furuno FCV1900B sounder c/w Airmar Windsonic anemometer GENERAL Sperre HL2/105A; Atlas Copco GA11FF CM599 transducer; Furuno FSS1 Engine controls: Brunvoll BruCon; BB MK2 fish ID sounder c/w Airmar Communications Insurance: British Marine; Lifesaving DECK MACHINERY CM599 transducer; Simrad ES80 Sailor 6310 MF/HF 150W GMDSS RT; appliances: Viking and Ikaros; Paint: Suppliers: MacGregor and SeaQuest 38kHz and Simrad ES80 200kHz split- Sailor 6222 GMDSS VHF; 3 x Entel HT649 Sigma; Skipper’s chairs: 4 x NorSap; Systems Ltd, Killybegs beam sounders; Simrad dual ES80 handheld GMDSS VHFs; 3 x Sailor 6248 Steering: Rolls-Royce Tenfjord SR MacGregor: 2 x split trawl winches processor; Kongsberg MRU-3 motion VHFs; Furuno Felcom 18 Sat C; Furuno SR 662 – 170kNm; Windows: Van TWS-34041RE 90t first-layer pull with reference unit; Furuno C168 BB current NX700B Navtex; Jotron 60S GPS EPIRB; Winderden; Wipers: Wynn straight-line 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews QUIZ/NEWS 19 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? THE 2-SPEED CROSSWORD SUDOKU You can choose to do either quick or cryptic clues, the answers are the same. Fill the grid with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column and 3x3 block contains the numbers 1 to 9. 1 23456 CRYPTIC CLUES 78 ACROSS BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE 1 Laundry equipment removes 910 splotches, eg (7,4) 9 Admit urban development has not begun (3) 41 11 12 10 Person claiming to be academic (9) 825 6753 13 11 Broken spur, Sire – that’s a shock! (8) 4369 8417 14 15 16 12 Cut some surplus awning (4) 29836 12 14 Insect missing, having eaten 17 copper (6) 9 8145 83 18 19 20 16 Invent face paint (4‑2) 18 Finished first in Division 6743139 81 21 One (4) 19 Regards new model put in for 3784 25 84 22 23 type of racing car (8) 22 Clothing in which to hunt 45 8 73 diamonds? 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(7) 721839456 racing car (8) composition (7) DOWN: 2 Undue 3 Tee‑nager 17 Good to stir, bringing 6948 674213598 4 Em‑ploy 5 E‑i‑re 6 T‑on‑ight 22 Jogging gear (9) 17 Grumble (6) complaint (6) 952786143 7 Babes in arms 8 Considering 20 Stupid moment round 14813495267 13 Uncle Sam 15 Over‑run 23 Pub (3) 20 Broad (5) 17 A‑don‑is 20 To‑k‑en 21 Oh‑i‑o 24 American serpent (11) 21 Stage parody (4) hospital (5) 21 Piece of humour in his All puzzles © Puzzler Media Ltd ‑ www.puzzler.com See next week’s edition for all puzzle solutions. kitchen (4) 09/01 Daring to make gear more efficient Seafish gear technologist Mike Montgomerie, who retired last month, looks back on over two decades working in gear technology This month sees me retire from Later on, we were dared to try Europe – over 600 people have doing. It turns out they’d never my role as a gear technologist – a to make gear even more efficient, benefited from the courses in seen some of the gear that I job I have done for Seafish for 22 and it was all about selectivity Hull, and then in Denmark at the had, and they’d been speaking years, and one I have thoroughly and discard reduction. It was Hirtshals flume tank when the about it for years, but had never enjoyed. very interesting to work in the Hull flume tank closed in 2008. made models like we had. It was In those 22 years, many flume tank on the model gear, At first I found it daunting being quite an accolade to see people things have changed within and then take it to sea for trials. with these guys, many of whom I from Norway and Denmark, and fishing. Before I joined in 1997, I’m immensely proud of had been at sea with, who were fisheries scientists, so interested I had been at sea, working on having been at the forefront standing there listening to me in what I was doing. various fishing vessels. I enjoyed of gear innovation in the UK. telling them about gear. What I When I decided to retire, it and caught lots of fish, but the The gear database is one realised was that you’re pointing people asked me if I knew of industry was on a downer, and significant resource I helped things out to them that they can a suitable replacement, and I when I saw the job advertised to develop. It came about as a never see at sea. They put their couldn’t think of anyone. to work at the Hull flume tank, I follow-on from the ‘Basic Fishing nets over the side of the boat However, when I saw the list went for it. It was a big decision Methods’ booklet, which was just into the water, and they have no of candidates and saw Dave to move my family 400 miles, basic information on fishing gear idea what is happening down Warwick’s name on it, I couldn’t from the north of Scotland to the that I produced because there there. At the flume tank, we gave have thought of anyone better. I north of Hull, but it was the ideal was nowhere else to get it. After a them a picture of what their gear never thought he’d leave fishing. job for me. while, we introduced the selective is doing. What has been great Dave’s knowledge of gear, and ‡ Mike Montgomerie. Since that time, there have side of it, listing all the selective is that I’ve been teaching third- his knowledge of the industry been many changes in gear gears and a brief bit about them. generation fishermen – sons, around the country, are probably my training courses at the flume technology. In the early 1980s, it Now fishermen can look at the fathers and grandfathers – and better than mine when I joined. tank in Denmark. I am so pleased was about making fishing gear drawings, and understand what I’m proud of that. He’s been fishing around different that the work on innovative more efficient, and then, into the they are and how to make them. One of my highlights in gears, and I would say that in fishing gear is being continued, late 1980s, it was about selective Over the years, I have also Denmark was when the Danish a couple of years, he’d have especially with someone so gear, such as square mesh been involved in delivering Institute brought staff and been shoving me out of a job knowledgeable, and I wish him panels, to save the smaller fish. training to fishermen from all over students to look at what we were anyway! He attended three of and Seafish all the best. 20 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 Cornwall: This Fishing Life The British fishing industry has and shown his eagerness to been in decline for decades. succeed, Jack West, a young As Brexit brings new hope, can fisherman of Mevagissey, sets a new generation of fishermen out on his future on the inshore save their traditional way of trawler Anne Louise FH 266, life? The first episode of Frank funded as a family investment. Films Television’s new BBC2 Jack is under no illusions: the series Cornwall: This Fishing Life pressure is on to earn money, aired on 7 January, reports Phil and to make Anne Louise a Lockley. top-earning boat. The first of the series’ six Episode one also features episodes captured the busy life of the ring-netter Galwady Mor FH fishermen at the quaint Cornish 76, owned by one of the most port of Mevagissey. successful fishing families of “Whilst other fishing Mevagissey, the Blameys, and communities may be feeling the tells how for hundreds of years, ‡ Just one example of the fascinating aerial shots in the series, showing the hauling-in of the catch from pinch, Mevagissey on Cornwall’s the surname Blamey has been the Newlyn ring-netter Serene Dawn, skippered by David Pascoe. south coast bucks the trend, woven through the history of with over 70 working boats in the Cornish fishing. infrastructure. Sadly, as several harbour,” explained producer Chris Blamey (27) is the Mevagissey fishermen point out, Jamie Balment of Frank Films fourth generation to go to sea. tourism is now the village’s main Television. This season he will take over industry, its properties dominated “Protected from the prevailing skippering Galwady Mor from by second homes and holiday winds, with fish stocks that are his father Peter. The passing lets: “Mevagissey is like a ghost beginning to return, and with down of a lifetime’s knowledge is town during the winter.” boats being handed down from priceless, but Chris knows he’ll Throughout the six episodes, father to son, ‘Meva’ – a local face different challenges. While the Frank Films’ cameramen have term for the port – is blessed. fish stocks are returning, there’s delivered tremendous footage: “Fishing is in the blood there; not the abundance there once fishing shown on glorious flat for more than 250 years, the was. calm days, oyster dredging under men of Meva have followed their Mevagissey is a village whose sail, and beam trawling in gale- fathers to sea, eager to honour history is built on fish, pilchards in force conditions aboard the the family traditions. Now the particular. Until the 1960s, almost Newlyn beamer Billy Rowney. next generation of ambitious every Mevagissey fisherman And a trip aboard the top Newlyn young skippers are ready to fished for pilchards – now hake netter, Ajax, reveals how ‡ The team of Henry brothers from Mylor, aboard the K26 Peter John make a go of it.” known as sardines – and fishing accreditation from the Marine II, who earn a living from over 40 species of fish and shellfish. Left to right: Cameron (Henry), Magnus and Ivor. Having fished with his father was a huge part of the region’s Stewardship Council has turned a species that once depended on industry, which may shock many the elation of a good catch. From export into a top seller in British laymen, because over the past the smallest to the biggest boat, restaurants and fish and chip decades, the general public from young skippers to oldies, shops. have come to expect a fishing it is a remarkable series that Episode two reveals how the programme to be laced with attempts to untangle the web of Cornish sardine now supports a doom and gloom. Not so: it is a the Cornish fishing industry. thriving ring-net fishery,which is joy to watch. In the light of the latest political capped at just 15 vessels. The The cameramen have used the drive to take the UK out of the camerawork is awesome, with latest film technology with aerial EU, one episode reveals that not detailed footage from drones footage from drones, delivering every fisherman voted to leave, showing the ring-net closing a fishing series with a difference and how businesses ashore and the fish being captured, and – not just about fisher folk, and already fear the outcome of a superb footage taken on deck not just about the technical side hard Brexit. throughout the busy hours of of the business, but showing However, unity within the darkness. It shows the highs what goes on within an industry Cornish fishing industry is clear, and lows of hunting sardines, that remains a large part of the and This Fishing Life paints a and how catching the sardines is region’s economy. truly positive future for the years only the first stage in producing Fishermen and lay people ahead. If the series is successful, a product now sought all over from all over Britain will enjoy This a further series may follow. In ‡ The former Mevagissey trawler Valhalla, working as a single-man Europe. Fishing Life, which captures both my opinion, This Fishing Life is operation: viewers will hear how finding suitable crewmen is now a Each episode provides a the stark truth about what it takes a top-level production; it is truly serious issue for West Country skippers. positive take on the British fishing to make a living from the sea and superb. FFL: ‘Industry will never forgive second betrayal’ Brexit campaign group Fishing future trade deal to come’. FFL adds that the political sovereignty over our entire EEZ the international principle of zonal for Leave (FFL) has said that “We still bitterly oppose declaration makes provision for ● No roll-over of current unlimited attachment PM Boris Johnson has ‘a great the deal due to the dangerous associate membership of EU equal access and relative stability ● Any annual access must chance to exorcise the ghost of situation and obligations it puts policies. This means that the UK resource shares only be granted when the EU Edward Heath that still haunts the Britain in,” said FFL. will be unable to impede freedom ● Any agreement on access and recognises the UK’s zonal Tory party’ in the year ahead. “The EU makes no secret that of establishment, and therefore quota shares, as obliged by the attachment shares But the group warns: “He must it demands a roll-over of current unable to curb EU-owned but political declaration, must be on a ● Freedom to reinstate ‘economic deliver, or the Conservatives will access and quota arrangements, UK-registered flagships. strictly annual basis link’ conditions to curb flagships never be forgiven for a second along with CFP associate FFL says that to fulfil its ● Any access or quota swaps and ensure that UK vessels deliberate betrayal of fishing.” membership, as the price for manifesto promises, the must only be granted when the deliver genuine economic benefit This would be made even more any trade deal. The political government must ensure: UK receives a reciprocal value of to Britain bitter if the party squanders the declaration that the withdrawal ● We take back full control of all fishing opportunities ● Freedom to ban electric pulse opportunity of taking back control agreement legally obliges Britain waters and resources within our ● Any fishing agreement fishing and industrial fishing for by signing up to arrangements to ratify as the basis of any trade EEZ must not negate a repatriation sandeels. that would ‘roll over, replicate deal sets up the government for a ● Complete freedom from of the UK’s rightful share of “Nothing less will do!” or bind Britain to the CFP in any sell-out on fishing.” the CFP, to exercise exclusive internationally agreed TACs under concludes FFL. 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 21 Bridlington looks to promote 96% of Ireland’s trawling fleet ‘lobster capital’ status signs up to ‘fishing for litter’ Ireland’s marine minister Michael fishing nets had been collected of which are multipurpose, Creed has paid tribute to Irish for recycling by BIM’s mobile ranging from smaller inshore trawler owners who have signed shredder, known as the Green boats to whitefish vessels. up to the state’s ‘fishing for litter’ Machine. “I’m delighted that the scheme, reports Lorna Siggins. “Fishermen have risen to the fisheries producer organisations Mr Creed said that 96% of challenge I set for them early this endorsed this initiative and are trawlers in the fleet – 168 boats year, and I am sincerely thrilled encouraging their members to – have registered to participate, that 96% of our trawlers are now sign up and get involved,” Mr along with 56 other vessels. signed up and onboard – but we Creed added. All 12 ports in Ireland are need to get every single trawler Protecting oceans is one of involved in the Clean Oceans onboard for this,” Mr Creed said. 17 ‘global goals’ that make up initiative run by Bord Iascaigh When he initiated the scheme the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Mhara (BIM). last January, Mr Creed called for Development. By the third quarter of 2019, the entire trawler fleet to sign up Applicants can sign up online 150t of marine plastic waste by 31 December, 2019. at: bim.ie/fishing-for-litter had been collected from the 12 There are over 2,000 vessels or by contacting BIM on: (01) ‡ Three contrasting styles of vessel – Isobella M, Onward and fishing ports, and 54t of used in the Irish fleet, the vast majority 2144100. Hollie J – are among the strong fleet of potting boats that contribute to Bridlington… Many residents and most lobster and crab expertise Accidental activation causing hoax safety alerts visitors are unaware of will offer the area huge new Bridlington’s status as the opportunities. Work is also Accidental activation of satellite over the past year – slightly down was provided to the national lobster capital of Europe, with underway to secure a long- beacons or expired equipment on the total of 2,647 for 2018 and ambulance service. over £9m of catch landed in term future for the annual meant that the majority of almost 2,503 for 2017. The RNLI was asked to launch 2018. Around 90% of the catch Bridlington Seafood Festival. 200 alerts off the Irish coast in A total of 378 lives were saved, lifeboats on over 815 occasions in is exported to Europe, the Far This year’s dates have now 2019 proved to be false alarms, where assistance was provided Irish coastal, offshore and inland East and even the United Arab been confirmed as Saturday reports Lorna Siggins. that prevented loss of life, waters in 2019. Emirates. 20 and Sunday 21 June. In its end of year statement, the severe risk to life, or protracted Irish Coast Guard director At a recent Open Bridlington Irish Coast Guard has emphasised hospitalisation. Eugene Clonan highlighted Business Forum meeting, a that beacons should be tested Irish Coast Guard units, run the publication of two key team from the University of Hull regularly, and expired equipment by 940 volunteers, were involved documents – a national search presented ideas to develop the should be properly disposed of. in 1,075 call-outs, ranging from and rescue plan, and an oil spill tourist potential of Bridlington’s It says that the COSPAS- coastal and cliff rescues to contingency plan – as ‘significant lobster industry. Further work is SARSAT satellite beacon system shoreline search services. Support achievements’. being carried out with support has a ‘huge role to play’ in alerting was also provided to communities “I want to acknowledge the from the Holderness Coast search and rescue authorities to during periods of bad weather. very constructive engagement Fisheries Local Action Group people in distress. The four Irish Coast Guard that we had with a multiplicity (FLAG), which has also funded Mobile phones should not be search and rescue helicopters, of stakeholders,” Mr Clonan a wide range of projects relied upon as the only means based at Dublin, Shannon, said. He also acknowledged ‘the relating to the fishing sector of emergency communication at Waterford and Sligo, flew over commitment and professionalism along the Holderness coast, sea, it warns, due to limited and 770 missions last year, including of our volunteer members’. including last year’s Bridlington unreliable coverage at sea and the offshore and coastal missions and “In addition to the three core Seafood Festival. susceptibility of such devices to inland searches for missing people services that they provide, they Food tourism is the fastest- water ingress. in support of the Garda Síochána are an integral part of community growing sector in the tourism The Irish Coast Guard’s three and mountain rescue teams. A resilience, and continually act industry, so combining the rescue co-ordination centres total of 123 emergency missions as the eyes and ears of our Yorkshire brand with food at Malin Head, Co Donegal, were flown from offshore islands rescue co-ordination centres tourism and coming up with a ‡ … being the lobster capital of Valentia, Co Kerry and Dublin to the mainland, and helicopter in responding to any coastal strong brand for Bridlington’s Europe. managed a total of 2,487 incidents emergency medical support emergency.” Bespoke safety advice for Cornish fishermen Regional safety advisor of Seafood Cornwall Training “If a fisherman or group of fishermen need advice, just (SCT) Clive Palfrey spent time aboard the recently get in touch with me and I will visit the port and give as launched 15m scalloper Southern Spirit LT 1056 much help as I can. Also, it’s about sharing information. advising skipper Carl Snell on the many aspects of If a skipper shows me a problem that may occur when safety regulations that are now mandatory, reports Phil he tries to adapt the regulations to his boat or his Lockley. circumstances, then we will find the best way to achieve Ex-skipper Clive Palfrey, who is also coxswain of Looe the goal, and the result of it may be valuable to another lifeboat, is heading a one-year project backed by Seafood skipper, then to another skipper, and so on. Cornwall to raise awareness of such regulations and “Our project has a Facebook page and a Twitter provide overall advice on all aspects of safety at sea. account. We realise the importance of social media, and Clive said: “Because I have been a fisherman myself, we are continually improving on that. For instance, there and also an instructor, I will be taking a practical are currently grants available for skippers to purchase hands-on approach, visiting boats and listening to necessary items like personal locator beacons (PLBs) – fishermen closely. We’re here in an advisory capacity to and from 23 October, even boats under 7m must have help, not judge, and to offer a free service to all Cornish one or more PLBs. Also, boats must now have a digital fishermen, from large company vessels to small inshore selective calling (DSC) facility. hand-liners.” “Grants are available to purchase a DSC radio – but Richard Caslake of Seafish, who chairs the South West it may be an advantage to the skipper, if he already Fishing Safety Forum, works alongside the SCT project. owns a fixed VHF without DSC, to not replace that set He said: “Clive’s understanding of the industry in the but to have a handheld DSC set as well, which can be South West, paired with his experience as a fisherman fully waterproof, and even be attached to a lifejacket if and with the RNLI, makes him an ideal candidate to conditions are poor. deliver fishing safety initiatives in Cornwall. Funding to “Another valuable idea is having a grab-bag with deliver this project is thanks to Seafarers UK, and EU safety items inside, so that if a serious situation funding through the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly FLAG.” occurs, fishermen are not searching around looking for Clive added: “I’m not there to preach, but to help the equipment – it’s all there ready to grab hold of. Simple ‡ Safety advisor Clive Palfrey (left) demonstrating the fishermen understand and comply with rules that over the things like that, and sharing information and ideas, is latest safety equipment to Southern Spirit skipper Carl years will, I believe, become more stringent. what all this is about.” Snell. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 9 January 2020 PORTS & PRICES Pollack (3) 2,933 £4.18 £3.62 £5.33 PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth Pollack (4) 1,248 £3.29 £2.50 £4.38 WELL-SUPPLIED FIRST WHITEFISH TO 3 JANUARY price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago Saithe (1) 19,467 £2.80 £1.94 £2.02 Saithe (2) 37,946 £2.74 £2.18 £2.00 MARKET OF THE DECADE AT PETERHEAD Cod (A1) £4.77 £5.57 £4.86 £5.44 Saithe (3) 111,598 £2.62 £3.21 £1.92 Cod (A2) £4.35 £4.83 £3.90 £5.18 Saithe (4) 83,570 £2.61 £2.21 £1.55 Cod (A3) £4.06 £4.38 £3.71 £3.90 Squid 2,175 £2.83 £4.40 £4.24 Cod (A4) £3.47 £3.97 £3.53 £3.60 Turbot (0) 39 £24.97 £17.53 £19.84 Cod (A5) £3.62 £3.97 £3.25 £3.30 Turbot (1) 184 £19.31 £20.48 £19.79 Haddock (A1) £3.81 £4.34 £3.84 £3.56 Turbot (2) 139 £17.59 £22.11 £20.58 Haddock (A2) £3.91 £4.59 £4.10 £3.90 Turbot (3) 215 £12.83 £19.20 £17.41 Haddock (A3) £3.34 £4.05 £4.10 £3.33 Turbot (4) 442 £6.87 £7.38 £6.68 Haddock chippers (A4) £2.40 £3.22 £3.84 £2.30 Whiting (1) 1,120 £2.23 £0.56 £1.35 Haddock metros (A4) £1.25 £1.80 £2.25 £1.00 Whiting (2) 5,713 £1.86 £0.43 £1.45 Hake (A1) £7.00 £7.00 Whiting (3) 3,054 £1.48 £0.34 £0.96 Hake (A2) £6.00 £6.00 Witch (1) 579 £4.80 £11.31 £6.78 Hake (A3) £3.35 £4.00 £5.13 Witch (2) 2,492 £3.23 £6.80 £4.63 Hake (A4) £3.25 £3.25 £3.00 £4.02 Witch (3) 1,655 £1.28 £0.67 £1.65 Hake (A5) £2.88 £2.88 £2.22 Halibut £10.11 £13.75 £15.00 £15.45 Lemon sole (A2) £5.06 £7.25 £5.65 BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Lemon sole (A3) £2.57 £6.00 £2.00 £3.50 3 JANUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Ling (A1) £2.44 £2.44 Ling (A3) £2.99 £3.23 £2.50 £2.90 Bass (1) 117 £12.95 £10.42 £18.32 Megrim (A1) £7.99 £8.75 £6.25 Bass (2) 161 £10.37 £11.01 £17.45 Megrim (A2) £7.82 £8.89 £1.18 £3.83 Bass (3) 395 £7.36 - £14.38 Megrim (A3) £5.34 £5.42 £1.14 £3.50 Bass (4) 1,383 £4.93 £10.85 £9.65 Megrim (A4) £2.49 £3.39 Bass (5) 626 £4.85 £10.91 £8.64 Megrim (A4) £4.86 £5.50 £2.50 Brill (1) 292 £13.12 £14.01 £14.34 Monkfish (A1) £4.88 £4.88 £10.23 £7.07 Brill (2) 197 £10.24 £11.00 £11.08 Monkfish (A2) £5.35 £5.58 £8.00 £6.82 Brill (3) 330 £10.36 £11.23 £9.96 Monkfish (A3) £4.95 £5.24 £7.07 £5.65 The pair-seiners Castlewood and Attain II were the first whitefish boats to land at Peterhead Brill (4) 470 £7.72 £8.09 £7.06 Monkfish (A4) £4.97 £5.16 £6.59 £5.56 Brill (5) 26 £3.75 £3.04 £4.74 this year. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) Monkfish (A5) £3.18 £4.68 £4.39 Cock crabs 255 £5.12 £6.48 £5.67 Plaice (A3) £2.49 £3.17 £2.00 Cod (1) 19 £7.54 - £4.48 Peterhead fishmarket started 2020 strongly when landing at Kinlochbervie and Scrabster, the broad mix Plaice (A4) £1.46 £2.00 £1.00 £1.93 Cod (2) 6 £6.85 - £4.54 Round Haddock £0.54 £0.73 £1.12 skippers and crews who fished New Year trips in some of supplies included 1,842 boxes of gutted and 1,334 Cod (3) 27 £6.44 - £4.19 Saithe (A1) £2.55 £2.75 £1.29 £1.75 Conger (1) 358 £0.98 £0.90 £0.70 poor weather put 8,645 boxes ashore for the first sale of boxes of round haddock, 1,614 boxes of cod, 1,024 Saithe (A2) £2.50 £2.68 £1.53 Conger (2) 142 £0.97 £0.97 £0.61 Saithe (A3) £2.43 £2.59 £0.98 £1.51 the year on Friday, 3 January, reports David Linkie. boxes of whiting (517 rounders), 581 boxes of squid, Conger (3) 189 £0.53 - £0.18 Saithe (A4) £2.42 £2.66 £0.61 £1.48 Cuttlefish (1) 27,210 £2.30 - £3.42 Most selections secured good prices, with the 858 boxes of coley, 492 boxes of monkfish, 149 boxes Squid trawled £3.14 £5.94 £5.16 £6.00 Cuttlefish (2) 4,126 £1.33 - £2.09 exception of round haddock, reflecting the fact that of flatfish, 110 boxes of ling, 42 boxes of megrim and 39 Turbot £12.73 £14.00 £18.96 £15.90 Dogfish 8,554 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 some processors were not scheduled to start full boxes of hake. Gurnard (2) 100 £3.61 £2.00 £1.79 ICELAND (RSF), THURS Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 4 Gurnard (4) 4,542 £0.61 £0.56 £0.61 production again until the beginning of this week, when Large cod sold at £3.80-£4.35 per kg, sprags 2 JANUARY landed price/kg wk ago wks ago Haddock (1) 664 £3.62 - £2.62 filleting staff returned to work. £3.40-£4.60, medium £3.15-£4.40, selected £1.65-£4 Haddock (2) 29 £3.84 - £2.03 Haddock (3) 18 £3.78 - - Thirteen boats, Castlewood, Attain II, El Shaddai, and small £2.50-£4. Large/medium gutted haddock Blue ling (gutted) 202 £1.88 - £1.35 Blue ling (ungutted) 12 £1.47 - £2.07 Hake (2) 19 £8.36 - £5.71 Aquarius (BF), Resolution, Valhalla, Opportunus IV, made £2.90-£4.35 per kg, selected £2.15-£4.60, small Catfish (gutted) 708 £3.29 - £2.43 Hake (3) 68 £9.84 - £5.59 Ellorah, Shalanna, Good Hope, Jolanna M, Arvella £2.80-£4.05, chippers £2-£3.20, metros 70p-£1.80 Cod (large, gutted) 10,173 £3.71 £2.21 £2.91 Hake (4) 212 £10.77 - £5.76 Cod (large, ungutted) 9,241 £3.78 £3.11 £2.27 Hake (5) 436 £10.67 - £5.28 and Aquarius (FR), together with eight consignments and round haddock 45p-75p per kg. Gutted whiting Cod (small, gutted) 909 £1.56 - £1.50 Hake (6) 545 £8.21 - £4.57 from Guiding Light, Guiding Star, Gemma Jane, Russa were at £1-£3 per kg, round whiting 80p-£1.75, coley Cod (small, ungutted) 328 £1.61 £1.40 £1.32 Hake (7) 88 £5.01 - £3.11 Greenland halibut (gutted) 39 £2.64 - £2.81 Hen crabs 242 £2.47 £3.14 £2.89 Taign, Keila, Endeavour IV, Ceol Na Mara and Norlan, £1.60-£2.75, monkfish £3.20-£5.60, megrim £2.30- Haddock (large, gutted) 9,948 £2.12 £1.73 £1.77 John Dory (1) 16 £14.35 - £13.71 contributed to the first market. £8.90, lemon sole £2.50-£7.25, ling £2.45-£3.25, Haddock (large, ungutted) 4,663 £3.18 £3.16 £1.93 John Dory (2) 31 £14.34 - £13.39 John Dory (3) 70 £10.96 - £11.30 Including a number of consignments from vessels plaice £1.35-£3.17 and hake £2.90-£7 per kg. Haddock (small, gutted) 36 £0.07 £0.40 £0.89 Halibut (gutted) 229 £3.91 - £3.29 Lemon sole (1) 103 £12.92 - £13.21 Lemon sole (gutted) 323 £6.69 - £5.74 Lemon sole (2) 124 £13.16 £10.68 - Ling (gutted) 807 £1.86 £0.12 £1.21 Lemon sole (3) 477 £10.25 £11.01 £11.50 Ling (ungutted) 57 £1.52 £1.44 £1.24 Lemon sole (4) 1,373 £3.69 £3.86 £3.80 Megrim (gutted) 858 £0.66 £0.00 £0.94 Lemon sole (5) 773 £0.68 £0.44 £2.41 Monkfish (gutted) 195 £4.19 £0.91 £4.11 Line mackerel (1) 1 £4.85 - £3.59 BIG FIRST SALE IN SHETLAND Line mackerel (3) 447 £1.10 - £0.81 Plaice (gutted) 5,721 £2.50 - £2.49 Redfish (ungutted) 3,067 £1.72 £1.37 £1.47 Lobster 80 £26.44 £31.24 £26.86 Saithe (gutted) 329 £1.19 - £1.00 Monkfish tails (1) 77 £15.44 - £16.36 Saithe (ungutted) 114 £0.86 £0.07 £0.80 Monkfish tails (2) 218 £15.91 £24.82 £16.74 Skate (gutted) 1,127 £0.08 £0.07 £0.09 Monkfish tails (3) 169 £16.00 £15.04 £16.16 Spotted catfish (gutted) 1,531 £3.63 £0.72 £2.40 Monkfish tails (4) 468 £13.43 £14.03 £14.25 Tusk (gutted) 105 £0.65 - £0.86 Monkfish tails (5) 1,255 £7.49 £10.52 £10.77 Tusk (gutted) 105 £0.65 - £0.86 Monkfish tails (6) 229 £4.74 £8.18 £6.20 Tusk (ungutted) 221 £0.52 £0.95 £0.50 Octopus 3,932 £2.07 £2.12 £2.15 Whiting (gutted) 33 £0.05 - £0.64 Plaice (1) 645 £3.60 £3.81 £3.35 Witch (ungutted) 221 £0.93 - £1.20 Plaice (2) 636 £3.46 £3.61 £2.78 Plaice (3) 546 £3.60 £3.62 £2.84 Plaice (4) 409 £3.06 £2.93 £2.62 HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m Plaice (5) 642 £1.64 £1.25 £1.98 TO 3 JANUARY landed price/kg wk ago ago Pollock (1) 122 £5.03 - £4.27 Pollock (2) 1,448 £4.52 - £4.50 CCatfish (1) 327 £5.35 £6.81 £7.55 Pollock (3) 739 £3.63 - £3.26 Cod (0) 1,913 £6.32 £5.80 £5.61 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 80 £4.80 - £5.82 Cod (1) 9,684 £6.76 £6.40 £5.60 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 235 £4.15 £1.50 £4.35 Cod (2) 18,335 £6.15 £5.33 £5.22 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 103 £4.03 - £3.67 Cod (3) 45,093 £4.44 £3.92 £4.58 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 5 £1.98 £0.52 £2.96 Cod (4) 16,107 £3.73 £3.15 £3.73 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 218 £3.29 £2.78 £3.09 Cod (5) 6,011 £3.21 £2.39 £2.69 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 479 £3.32 £2.72 £3.21 Haddock (1) 7,676 £3.31 £2.24 £2.86 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 291 £1.62 £1.51 £0.70 Haddock (2) 8,326 £2.79 £1.36 £2.02 Red mullet (1) 15 £3.77 - £4.14 Haddock (3) 2,800 £1.86 £0.94 £1.37 Red mullet (2) 7 £3.82 - £3.39 Haddock (4) 421 £0.92 £0.36 £0.43 Red mullet (3) 7 £10.69 - £11.56 Hake (0) 685 £7.92 £6.93 £7.76 Round pouting 5,399 £0.42 £0.26 £0.40 Hake (1) 822 £7.05 £4.42 £7.42 Scallop (2) 4,152 £2.23 £2.09 £5.17 Hake (2) 1,467 £4.87 £3.46 £6.85 Sole (1) 660 £17.15 £15.45 £17.68 Hake (3) 1,024 £4.05 £2.16 £3.56 Sole (2) 901 £18.55 £16.35 £16.82 The visiting trawler Jubilee Spirit was one of five boats that landed 1,748 boxes at Lerwick Lemon sole (1) 312 £12.43 £10.85 £11.35 Sole (3) 692 £19.39 £17.90 £17.15 Lemon sole (2) 825 £11.05 £12.71 £9.38 Sole (4) 969 £19.14 £16.04 £12.48 for the first market of the year. Lemon sole (3) 927 £5.74 £5.29 £4.65 Sole (5) 576 £16.94 £14.88 £10.72 Ling (1) 2,517 £3.40 £2.04 £2.88 Sole (6) 669 £13.98 £12.49 £7.33 Last Friday morning saw 3,310 boxes auctioned first market of 2020, followed by whiting (31,574kg, of Ling (2) 1,743 £3.72 £1.62 £3.12 Squid (1) 100 £9.06 £7.50 £6.69 electronically in Shetland, despite severe northwesterly which 16,800kg was ungutted), haddock (11,979kg), Ling (3) 2,957 £3.28 £1.62 £2.35 Squid (2) 708 £7.05 £7.63 £6.16 gales that forced the cancellation of the Aberdeen saithe (11,330kg), monkfish (9,655kg), ling (3,059kg), Megrim 104 £2.94 £1.14 £2.70 Squid (mix) 337 £5.28 - £5.31 Monkfish (1) 3,752 £4.83 £5.78 £7.72 Turbot (1) 41 £16.81 - £26.32 ferries later in the day – although normal service was megrim (2,538kg), plaice (2,233kg), lythe (879kg), Monkfish (2) 10,491 £4.62 £4.77 £7.51 Turbot (2) 32 £15.09 £17.64 £21.60 expected to resume 24 hours later. lemon sole (773kg) and hake (552kg). Monkfish (3) 11,544 £4.39 £4.31 £7.29 Turbot (3) 23 £14.10 £14.50 £21.60 Five boats, Sharyn Louise, Fairway II, Valhalla, All selections of whitefish attracted firm demand Monkfish (4) 4,246 £4.10 £5.28 £6.50 Turbot (4) 60 £13.30 £15.00 £18.57 Monkfish (5) 660 £2.69 £2.81 £3.57 Turbot (5) 72 £11.98 £13.13 £14.99 Prolific and Jubilee Spirit, landed 1,748 boxes at from buyers. Cod sold at up to £5.30 per kg, haddock Plaice (1) 1,141 £3.84 £4.42 £3.96 Turbot (6) 13 £11.90 £7.57 £10.01 Lerwick. Four trawlers, Ocean Reaper IV, Angelina, £4.05, hake £6.75, halibut £13.75, lemon sole £8.72, Plaice (2) 951 £4.51 £5.32 £4.93 Whelks 29 £2.04 £1.30 £1.30 Opportune and Alison Kay, put 1,562 boxes ashore at ling £3.50, lythe £5.25, megrim £8.10, monkfish £5.75, Plaice (3) 1,957 £2.83 £3.11 £4.70 Whiting (1) 29 £2.15 - £1.91 Plaice (4) 4,871 £2.09 £2.09 £3.04 Scalloway. plaice £3.75, saithe £2.65, turbot £13.50 and gutted Whiting (2) 77 £1.67 £1.54 £1.52 Pollack (2) 1,421 £5.00 £4.00 £6.36 Whiting (3) 80 £1.36 £0.35 £0.67 Cod (53,709kg) was the main species landed for the whiting £2.95. 9 January 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23 UK fish landings and prices, latest 12 months and previous year comparisons

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0 0 0.00 Haddock Cod Monkfish Hake Saithe Pollack Haddock Cod Monkfish Hake Saithe Pollack Haddock Cod Monkfish Hake Saithe Pollack 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 UK landings into UK ports (t'000) 3.5 UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 20 14.00 18 3.0 12.00 16 2.5 14 10.00

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12 14 1.80 1.60 10 12 1.40 10 8 1.20 8 1.00 6 6 0.80 4 0.60 4 2 0.40 2 0.20 0 0 0.00 Whiting Plaice Ling Skates & rays Gurnard Witch 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 Whiting Plaice Ling Skates & rays Gurnard Witch Whiting Plaice Ling Skates & rays Gurnard Witch 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 UK landings into UK ports (t'000) UK landings into UK ports (£m) UK landings into UK ports (£ per kg) 90 100 1.40 80 90 1.20 70 80 60 70 1.00 60 50 0.80 50 40 40 0.60 30 30 0.40 20 20 0.20 10 10 0 0 0.00 Mackerel Herring Other pelagic Mackerel Herring Other pelagic Mackerel Herring Other pelagic 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18 12m to Oct-19 12m to Oct-18

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The Application Documents are also available to view online at http://aquindconsultation.co.uk/ and on the Planning Inspectorate’s website at https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/aquind- interconnector/?ipcsection=docs 7. Electronic copies of the Application Documents will be made available free of charge on a USB upon request to the Applicant. A paper copy of the complete set of Application Documents is available to be purchased at the cost of £4,250. Please email [email protected] or phone 01962 893 869 if you would like to request copies of the Application Documents. COMMENTING ON THE APPLICATION 8. Any representations (giving notice of any interest in, or objection to, the Application) must be made on the Planning Inspectorate’s Registration and Relevant Representation Form, which is available through the project page of the Planning Inspectorate’s website at: https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/aquind-interconnector/ 9. If you would like to request a paper copy of the Planning Inspectorate’s Registration and Relevant Representation Form, please telephone the Planning Inspectorate on 0303 444 5000. TO ADVERTISE 10. Completed forms should be returned to: The Planning Inspectorate, National Infrastructure Directive, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Bristol, BS1 6PN. The Planning Inspectorate’s reference number for the Application (EN020022) should be quoted in any correspondence. 11. The Planning Inspectorate’s Advice Note 8.2: How to register to participate in an Examination (December 2016) provides PLEASE CALL TALK further guidance on how to register and make a relevant representation. It is available online at: https://infrastructure. planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Advice-note-8-2v3.pdf 12. Please note that representations must be received by the Planning Inspectorate by 23:59 on Wednesday 19 February MEDIA SALES ON 2020. All representations will be made public by the Planning Inspectorate. 13. Further information about the Project may be obtained from the Applicant at: Address: FREEPOST AQUIND CONSULTATION E: [email protected] 01732 445325 W: http://aquindconsultation.co.uk/ T: 01962 893 869 9 January 2020 Fishermen! Advertise boats, equipment and accessories, for sale FISHERMEN'S FREE ADS! or wanted, absolutely FREE! BOATS FOR SALE 19FT ORKNEY DS 25 KINGFISHER N 280

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New meets old in FPS at Portsmouth HMS Clyde, one of the great workhorses of the Royal Navy’s HMS Clyde returns to Portsmouth Naval Base Fishery Protection Squadron after 12 years in the South Atlantic. (FPS), returned to HMS Naval Base Portsmouth on 20 December after 12 years on patrol around the Falkland Islands, bringing her final voyage as a member of the fleet to a close, reports John Periam. North Sea cod cut ‘may end The latest addition to the fleet, HMS Trent, one of the fishery as we know it’See page 2 new Batch 2 River-class patrol vessels, was there to greet her. HMS Clyde’s last captain, Lieutenant Commander Richard Skelton – serving his second spell on the ship, five years Naval deployment in modern The new Batch 2 vessels will the UK fishing industry, and our after being her executive officer times, achieving over 12 years commence service within the role is to protect our fishermen. – said: “HMS Clyde has been forward-deployed to the South FPS in 2020. Three of the Batch We might not be seen at all a very good ship, so reliable, Atlantic. 1 vessels are also being retained times – however, rest assured and she’s had to be – the “She is steeped in Navy for FPS use. that with the latest onboard South Atlantic’s not a forgiving history, and over 800 members The first Batch 2 deployment communication systems, we place. She was designed for of the FPS have served on HMS has been undertaken by HMS are able to monitor and track a particular task, to be the Clyde, experiencing life in the Forth under the command any vessels within our territorial Falkland Islands patrol vessel, southern oceans for over six of Commander Robert (Bob) waters,” said Commander Simon something which she has done months at a time, providing Laverty. HMS Forth is currently Pressdee. SW leader: Let’s get out of this without return to the UK, and many of them with unique and on the way to the South Atlantic Crew member AB Reece ‘mad’ system See page 3 without major docking, for 12 special memories from an where she will begin her patrol Backshall, who returned on HMS years. The ability to demonstrate outstanding part of the planet. of the Falkland Islands, offering Clyde having been onboard for Britain’s global reach, and to “Her decommissioning this assistance and reassurance to the past seven months, said: provide support to the islanders, afternoon will remember all inhabitants, exploring the outer “It’s hugely bittersweet for us along with their fishing heritage, those who have served in her, reaches of the archipelago, and today. Homecoming is always is what we do, and is precisely before we hand this outstanding maintaining a presence in South emotive, and the separation from what defence is all about.” workhorse of the fleet back Georgia, as HMS Clyde has families is possibly the hardest HMS Clyde was to BAE Systems – who have done with distinction since 2007. part of the job. We are a small decommissioned on the carefully supported her HMS Trent, the newest team, and that is what is so nice same day she arrived back at throughout her deployment – for warship in the Royal Navy, is when it comes to working within Portsmouth. The commanding the next phase of her life.” the third of five Batch 2 River- the FPS – we are so close, and officer of the Fishery Protection It has been a busy month class vessels that will join everyone gets on with everyone Squadron, Commander Simon for the Portsmouth dockyard, the FPS to carry out roles in else. Of course it is great to be Pressdee, said: “It has been a when the FPS welcomed HMS maritime security in home waters back for Christmas – we were Charisma – New Whalsay pelagic real privilege to welcome HMS Trent for the first time, after or globally, including fishery worried that we were not going vessel starts on mackerel Clyde home today, after what construction in Scotland and her protection, border patrols, to make it, but luckily we are See pages 8 - 18 has been the longest Royal initial sea trials. counter-terrorism, and piracy back today as scheduled.” and smuggling prevention. Navy personnel often speak Construction of HMS of their abiding loyalty to the Trent began in October 2014 FPS, with many choosing to when the first steel was cut return to the squadron after their in Glasgow. With a length of initial deployment. They include 90.5m and a flight deck that some of the best RIB crews can accommodate the Merlin in the Royal Navy, as many helicopter, Trent is capable of a fishermen know first-hand. speed of 24 knots and is crewed The squadron’s working by around 40 personnel, with role will be extended with the facilities to accommodate more addition of the Batch 2 vessels. depending on operational roles. HMS Clyde may have gone, but “There will fresh challenges her sister vessels, including HMS for the FPS, with both types of Mersey, will now be retained in vessel working alongside each their roles in order to address other. The Batch 1 vessels will challenges related to leaving ‡ The Batch 2 River-class patrol vessel HMS Trent enters be deployed more in UK waters. the EU and support and protect Portsmouth harbour after her delivery trip from Glasgow. We are the eyes and ears of fishermen around the UK. Daring to make gear more efficient See page 19 Irish trawling ban inside six-mile limit now in place Ireland’s minister for the The new protection of sectors, which is a government Sea to help rebuild the depleted marine Michael Creed has inshore waters will ‘both commitment.” cod and whiting fish stocks reminded the fishing industry support our small-scale and New EU conservation will also provide substantial that all trawling by vessels over island fishermen and provide measures for the Celtic Sea, benefits for all our whitefish 18m in length is prohibited wider ecosystem benefits, agreed at the December stocks, including for our inshore within Ireland’s six-mile zone as including for nursery areas and Fisheries Council, stipulate a waters. from 1 January, 2020, reports juvenile fish stocks’, Mr Creed 25% increase in the size of “As this will involve a change Lorna Siggins. said. mesh in nets used to fish for in the fishing gear used by Irish However, a phased system “This new policy will, mixed whitefish in this area, Mr fishermen, I have asked BIM will apply to vessels fishing for I believe, support the Creed noted. to provide grant aid support to Cornwall: This Fishing Life sprat during 2020 and 2021, development of small-scale He added: “The new them, to reduce the costs of the See page 20 he said. inshore and sea angling measures agreed for the Celtic required fishing gear change.”