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ISO 9001 Made in Quality Management the UK 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019 Minister: Chokes could tie up boats by mid-year Lords warn of discards ban enforcement problems UK fisheries minister George Eustice has acknowledged that the discards ban, which is now fully in force, could mean that some boats could be tied up halfway through the year, reports Tim Oliver A parliamentary committee of industry and government the law by continuing to fish for that is reporting on the representatives in an inquiry other species and discarding discards ban told the minister into the landing obligation/ anything caught over quota. that industry representatives discards ban, and is due to “One estimate suggests had told them that choke produce its report in February. £165m-worth of fish could species could mean boats But as the ban came fully remain uncaught in 2019 due could be tied up in February. into force for all quota species to fishers having to stop fishing They asked the minister if he on 1 January, after a four- early,” said the committee envisaged this, and what steps year phasing-in period, the (Fishing News, 20 December, would be taken to prevent this committee expressed ‘grave ‘Discards ban could cost happening. concerns’ both about the industry £165m’). George Eustice told the impact it could have on the The committee also heard committee: “Our expectation fishing industry, and about the that enforcement agencies is that it would not present as UK’s ability to enforce the new lack the capability to be able “So what’s brought this on… last night’s 9 pints of early as February, but it is a rules. to implement the landing Guinness or are you choking on the discards ban?” very real problem, in that parts Describing the landing obligation. of the fleet could be choked obligation as ‘a fundamental It said, “Ensuring compliance committee, said the landing would change – fishers will and have to tie up halfway change to fisheries legislation’, with the new rules requires the obligation had been introduced continue to discard, knowing through the ability to monitor to help ensure sustainable the chances of being caught year. fishers at sea, fishing. It was therefore ‘deeply are slim to none, and that to “If the fishing Ensuring compliance with the new to observe if concerning’ that fishermen, comply with the law could industry has a rules requires the ability to monitor any discarding environmental groups and even bankrupt them. When the particular stock occurs. Patrol the enforcement agencies did fisheries minister is making his in a particular fishers at sea, to observe if any vessels are not think the new rules could be new year’s resolutions, I would sector of the “ an expensive implemented from 1 January. urge him to put sorting this discarding occurs. Patrol vessels are an fleet that it resource that can He said: “It is obvious that issue out at the top of his list.” thinks might expensive resource that can only ever only ever cover a the UK government does not A leading figure in the be affected, I small percentage have the resources in place Scottish fishing industry would certainly cover a small percentage of the of the fishing fleet to monitor compliance, nor also warned of the problems look into fishing fleet at any one time at any one time. has it used the opportunity the discards ban will bring. that. It is a “Onboard of the phased introduction to Davie Milne, chairman of very real problem – I am not it said it had heard it could have CCTV is largely held to be the make the changes to quota the Scottish White Fish taking away from that – but I ‘a devastating impact’ on the most effective and efficient way allocations, or promote the use Producers’ Association, said anticipate it being a problem industry. to monitor activity at sea, but of selective fishing practices, that reductions in key quotas, that presents itself in the Being unable to legally few boats in “ the UK currently that might alleviate some of the aligned to full implementation middle of the year rather than discard over-quota fish, have this installed, and the UK risk to fishers’ livelihoods. of the ‘irrational’ landing as early as February.” fishermen could hit their quota government will not mandate it “The first of January should obligation, will pose ‘the The House of Lords EU for some species within a few unless other EU countries do be the start of a new era of biggest challenge we have Energy and Environment weeks. They would then have the same, for fear of putting UK more sustainable, less wasteful seen for a number of years’ subcommittee has been taking to choose between tying up for fishers at a disadvantage.” fishing, but most people we (SWFPA chairman’s statement evidence from a wide range the rest of the year or breaking Lord Krebs, a member of the spoke to thought nothing – page 3). ‘No-deal’ Brexit would be unmitigated Over-18m vessels to be banned from inside Ireland’s 6nm zone The Irish minister for large vessels in coastal waters sprat. This transition is in order disaster for Irish fisheries agriculture, food and the inside 6nm. I am satisfied that to allow a period of adjustment Following publication of the of the government’s contingency marine, Michael Creed, has there are sufficient fishing for these vessels, as this Irish government’s ‘contingency plan states that, ‘A critical issue announced a ban on vessels opportunities for these vessels fishery is concentrated inside action plan’ for a no-deal Brexit, for the fisheries sector in Ireland, over 18m in length trawling outside of 6nm. I also believe the 6nm zone. the Killybegs Fishermen’s and a number of other EU inside six nautical miles of the that these actions will provide He said, “I recognise that Organisation (KFO) has warned member states, is the maintenance Irish coast, reports Pauric wider ecosystem benefits, effective change needs time. that the ramifications of such of reciprocal access to fisheries Gallagher. including for nursery areas and I have had an extensive and an outcome in March next year waters and resources’. The new restrictions are a juvenile fish stocks. I am very prolonged consultation to would be apocalyptic for the Irish “While we had been quite result of an extensive public conscious of the exclusive flag consideration of change. industry. encouraged by the first tranche consultation earlier this year reliance of small-scale and Allowing a transition period for KFO chief executive Seán of documents delivered by which attracted over 900 island fishermen on inshore those vessels involved in the O’Donoghue said: “Ireland’s the negotiating teams, and submissions, and are aimed waters, and the benefits this sprat fishery will ensure that two biggest fisheries, mackerel subsequently approved by the at reducing the impact of change will bring for those the vessels have adequate (60%) and Nephrops (40%) are UK cabinet last month, we are trawling, and providing better fishermen. I firmly believe time to transition to other massively dependent on access now very concerned in light of economic opportunities for that this will, in the medium fishing activities. I am asking to UK waters, with the overall more recent developments – or smaller vessels in inshore term, provide ecosystem and BIM to offer affected vessel percentage of stocks currently lack of developments – in the UK waters. nursery stock benefits for all owners technical assistance to fished from UK waters by the that there is a real possibility of a The announcement from fishermen.” adjust to other fisheries during Irish fleet standing at more than hard Brexit. We are talking about Minister Creed’s department Minister Creed added, “I the transition process.” 30%. We cannot countenance a €1.15bn Irish seafood sector stated: “The minister carefully am mindful of the opportunity Over-18m vessels will a situation whereby this access which sustains 14,500 jobs here. considered the issues raised these measures will provide continue to be permitted inside might stop at 11pm on March 29 “The European council of during the public consultation for further sustainable 6nm to trawl for sprat only until due to a hard Brexit. fisheries ministers, in reaching process and, following a development of the small- 2022. A total allowable catch “Whereas fish are mobile agreement for the 2019 fishing detailed evaluation, has scale inshore and the of up to 2,000t, reflecting a and know no borders nor bear opportunities, made a clear and decided to exclude trawling by sea-angling sectors, which the reduction on recent years, any nationality, our trawlers unequivocal statement that TAC fishing vessels over 18m from government has committed will be permitted for these don’t have this luxury, and must and quota arrangements apply inshore waters inside the 6nm to in the Programme for a vessels during 2020, reducing obey boundaries and exclusion for the entire 2019 calendar year, zone and the baselines from 1 Partnership Government.” to 1,000t in 2021. All trawling zones. Our industry is standing irrespective of what happens with January, 2020.” The minister also activity by over-18m vessels on the edge of a precipice, and Brexit. However, should Britain’s Minister Creed said: “I announced that there will be a for sprat, inside the 6nm limit, everything that we have strived House of Commons fail to agree a believe there is a compelling transition period of three years will end from the beginning for and developed for generations deal, all this is rendered null and case for excluding trawling by for vessels over 18m targeting of 2022. is staring into the abyss. Page 53 void.” 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association – chairman’s statement Reduced quotas, full implementation of the landing obligation, increased international fishing effort in Scottish waters, and Brexit are highlighted by David Milne in his SWFPA chairman’s statement as some of the challenges and issues that need to be addressed by an industry in which enthusiasm continues to shine brightly, due to healthy and stable stocks SWFPA chairman David Milne appetite for operating outside of harm’s way, as the landing in the waters around the Orkney said: “2018 has been a successful the law. The industry came of age obligation may well do to some. and Shetland islands, especially year for a number of our members. and collectively embarked on a That said, we need to find a way when a number of those vessels Many have performed well, both period of rebuilding our stocks. It to operate within the confines of continue to ignore our unilateral in terms of volume of landings and is the spoils of that commitment the landing obligation, in order to measures to protect spawning also as a result of strong demand and endeavor that we harvest protect the stocks from increased cod. We will continue to highlight and firm prices. This has come today. mortality and give confidence to our concerns to the relevant about through a commitment to “With that in mind, we need to the marketplace and the consumer. authorities. quality, sustainability and market be fully aware of the pressures “Enthusiasm within the industry “Competition for space and awareness. It will be lost in a the coming year will bring. continues to shine bright. The gear conflict are now unwelcome moment, however, if we become Reductions in quotas for key ongoing high level of investment regular features of fishing. With complacent and take our eyes off commercial stocks, aligned to in both new and second-hand others, your association will seek the longer-term goal of being able full implementation of the landing vessels is good to see, but we have to build a greater understanding to pass healthy, stable stocks to obligation, will, I believe, pose the to be aware of the collective impact of competing actors and their the next generation. biggest challenge we have seen for of improved efficiency. We need to activities, and hopefully deliver SWFPA chairman David Milne. “Many of us recall long a number of years. be aware of this surge in technical some common understanding and periods of stock decline, and “The irrationality of the landing creep, and the potential long-term a pathway to collaboration and “Your association continues decommissioning schemes when obligation is not lost on me. impact it may have on the stocks if co-existence. to be seen as a very respectable a number of our colleagues lost Landing all catches of regulated we choose to ignore it. “Brexit remains a key focus for partner across a range of policy their businesses and the ability species, and the early choking “While I believe it is important to your association, and with others areas. We will continue to maintain to earn a living from fishing. My of fisheries and underutilised be aware of our own capabilities, we will continue to put pressure on those relationships, and work personal story of loss and hurt opportunities that such a situation we also need to have clear sight of our politicians, so that very soon with others in order to deliver a mirrors that of many. may deliver, runs contrary to any the activities of non-UK-registered we will be a coastal state entering profitable seafood sector, built “The period of transformation sense of fairness or fair play. vessels. I share the concerns of into annual fisheries negotiations, on sensible and sustainable that followed very much shaped Ordinarily, complying with the many of you in relation to the level with all the leverage we require harvesting. our industry of today. As an law would be a safeguard against of non-UK activity currently taking to strike a better deal for our “I wish you all a safe and industry, we no longer held any harm, not put you in financial place to the west of Scotland and fishermen. profitable 2019.” New management REAF in bud measures for Welsh A partnership of fishing industry Further match-funding has interests and local councils in East come from Seafish, Norfolk whelk fisheries Anglia has secured over £130,000 County Council, Suffolk Following a public in funding to identify and explore County Council, and Waveney consultation in 2017 opportunities for the local fishing District and Suffolk Coastal seeking views on the future industry, reports John Worrall. District councils (the latter to be management of Welsh The partnership, Renaissance amalgamated from 1 April, 2019 whelk fisheries, the Welsh of East Anglian Fishing (REAF) to form the new ‘super district’ government has announced (Fishing News, 29 March, 2018), East Suffolk Council). a package of management was established after the EU The project will review the measures, developed referendum with the mantra, current state of the fishing in conjunction with key ‘Fishing must not be traded away industry on the East Anglian and stakeholders, to ensure the – again!’ Essex coasts, and identify what long-term sustainability of It seeks to explore ways that is needed in terms of investment the whelk fishery and the the East Anglian fishing sector and measures to maximise communities it supports. can capitalise on responsible opportunities. It will then prepare Lesley Griffiths, cabinet stewardship of UK waters after a strategy for implementation. A secretary for energy, planning Brexit. East Anglia’s biggest port, consultant has been appointed and rural affairs, announced Lowestoft, now has 15 boats and has begun work. that a new Welsh Whelk landing fish where, at the height The first objective is a full Statutory Instrument will come of the herring fishery in the early understanding of the commercial into force in spring 2019. 20th century, there used to be fishing and aquaculture industries This will include phased hundreds. in the region, and the current increases in the size at which Spearheaded by three long- and prospective state of fish Left to right: Michael Ladd, cabinet member for tourism and whelks can be retained term campaigners for East stocks in the southern North Sea economic development on Waveney District Council, June Mummery, and landed, from 45mm to Anglian fishing – June Mummery, – subject areas in which DEFRA Peter Aldous MP and Paul Lines. 65mm. This increase will managing director of BFP Eastern, acknowledges that its information occur in two parts, with an which runs Lowestoft fishmarket, is patchy and incomplete. years to come. We only hope Lowestoft and other ports along immediate increase to 55mm local fisherman Paul Lines, and REAF will seek to gain a that the government takes note the East Anglian coast. It will from the date the statutory Waveney MP Peter Aldous, REAF holistic view, examining aspects of the findings, and supports establish the current state of the instrument comes into force, has now been awarded a total of ranging from future catch this innovative project for the industry, seek to quantify the moving to 65mm a year later. £130,485, including £97,863.75 potential, quota distribution, regeneration of our coastal ‘Brexit dividend’, and identify The increases in MLS are from the MMO. fleet size and composition,communities. This would not what investment is needed intended to ensure protection and service needs in ports, have been possible without the in infrastructure, equipment of immature whelks, to enable harbours and other landing full support of Seafish,” they said. and skills in order to bring the them to develop and, in time, places, through to other support Peter Aldous MP, who has maximum benefit to our area.” recruit to the fishery. services and transportation, been closely involved with the Aoife Martin, operations A cap of 20t per vessel storage and processing, trading passage of the fisheries bill director at Seafish, is pleased per month from January to and markets, skill needs, training through parliament, most recently that Seafish is able to support the September each year will and recruitment. A clear action in the debates at committee project. “This study will be vital be introduced, applicable to plan can then be formulated stage just before Christmas, also in establishing a strategic plan all vessels fishing in Welsh for a profitable regional fishing warmly welcomed the news. that can help the seafood sector waters. industry, to work within “It is great news that funding in the region to innovate and A monthly cap of 5t per sustainable fisheries policies. has been secured for this thrive. The economic potential vessel will apply to all vessels June Mummery and Paul Lines innovative and locally led study of for coastal communities in the fishing in Welsh waters during are delighted with the funding. the East Anglian fishing industry. area could be significant, and the biologically sensitive “This is wonderful news for the It will enable us to produce a this project will ensure that the period from October to The EU logsheet box at industry and all our partners. plan for making the most of the seafood industry in East Anglia is December each year, aimed at Lowestoft fishmarket – soon to We hope it will pave the way to opportunity that Brexit presents primed to take full advantage of protecting the breeding whelk be sealed? reinvigorating our industry for to revitalise the industry in these opportunities.” stocks. 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019

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A large number of Whalsay residents bravedNew-look gales force winds and driving Kiloran arrives at Rossaveal sleet toCo welcome Galway fatherthe latest and sonaddition Coleman and Aonghus Donoghue berthed the rebuilt to the 26mlocal fly-shooter fleet, the 26.5mKiloran whitefishN 908 in Rossaveal for the first time shortly before The new-look Kiloran, ready Christmas, reports David Linkie. to leave Kilkeel for Rossaveal. trawler Courageous LK 470, into (Photo: Leslie Campbell) SymbisterSince harbour arriving for atthe Kilkeel first timein 2015, at Kiloran has been extensively rebuilt by DR the beginningDiesel. The of thislarge-scale month, modernisationreports project began with the vessel’s deck Davidmachinery, Linkie. gutting shelter, whaleback, masts and lifting gantries all being Momentous year for industry Theremoved, occasion as was the given Campbeltown added 85 was stripped back to the bare hull. significanceRebuild by the work fact included that Courageous fitting a new full-length shelterdeck, extending the has beenwheelhouse bought byand four deck young casing, Whalsay installing new deck machinery and hydraulics, fishermen,renewing skipper the fishroom Ian Shearer and (24),fitting new freshwater tanks. engineerBOPP Malcolm power Reid reels (24) were Christopher fitted forward on the main deck. North Sea net drums Irvine and(19) aand Thistle James Marine Johnston powerblock (18), incrane were fitted aft on the shelterdeck. partnershipThe with Caterpillar LHD Ltd. 3412 main engine was lifted ashore and fully rebuilt, before Withbeing an average repositioned, age of together just 21 with years, a new Reintjes 7:1 reduction gearbox. New The fishing industry can seldom have cup and lip’. If the withdrawal bill is piece of EU lunacy for which fisheries the newBaudouin partnership and Mitsubishi is probably auxiliary one of engines were also installed in the fully rebuilt the youngestengineroom. on record for this class of vessel. Kiloran was built for Lossiemouth skipper Laurent Andrews and partners at TheCampbeltown four partners Shipyard have all in been1983, as Kiloran INS 10. The seiner was renamed crew membersRosemount on in local1999 whitefishafter being boughtboats by Peterhead skipper David Marr. since leaving school, with Ian Shearer aboard Defiant, Christopher Irvine on Tranquility, Malcolm Reid with Arcturus and James Johnston on Guardian started a year with such profound voted through, the industry will have managers throughout the EU are totally Angell before this boat was renamed Courageous. Continued on Page 5 changes in prospect for its future as it to maintain the utmost vigilance and unprepared, and which they will have the FAL ChieF: ‘TeLL MPs Right: Kiloran was stripped back to the bare hull at the start of a large-scale modernisation project… (Photo: Leslie Campbell) Left: … during which the seine-netter wewas bought by Colemanw and AonghusAnT Donoghue of Rossaveal. (Photo:ou Lenny McLaughlin)T oF CFP’ Fishermen’s Association Ltd Chairman calls on fishing industry to put pressure on MPs does in 2019. pressure to ensure its interests are not greatest difficulty in enforcing. FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS NOW! HYGIENICThe Fishing NewsFURNITURE Awards shine a spotlight AND on the EQUIPMENTachievements, expertise, and innovation of the UK and Ireland’s commercial fishing industries in 2018 QUALITY THROUGH MANUFACTURE QUALITY OF SERVICE CATEGORIESQUALITY RANGE BY ACROSSDESIGN THE WHOLE OF COMMERCIAL FISHING NOMINATE YOUR FAVOURITES NOW ONLINE ★ Demersal Fisherman of the Year ★ Fishing Port of the Year High quality stainless steel ★ Pelagic Fisherman of the YearSECRET FIXINGS★ New Boat of the Year – demersal AT FISHINGNEWS.CO.UK/AWARDS ★ Shellfish Fisherman of theREDUCE Year DIRT ★TRAPS New Boat of the Year – pelagic furniture and equipment. See our Next week’s vote on the Brexit whittled away in the long negotiations Under various scenarios, it will force ★ Independent Fresh Fish Retailer ★ New Boat of the Year – shellfish Winners will be announced at a gala awards presentation 100% 304 GRADE full range and endless options STAINLESS of the STEEL Year ★ Trainee Fisherman of the Year dinner in Aberdeen on 16 May 2019, hosted by acclaimed ★ ★ online at teknomek.co.uk CONSTRUCTION Fish Processor of the Year Young FishermanNO PORES of the Year Scottish comedian Des Clarke ★ ★ The Sustainability Lifetime AchievementOR GAPS Award ★ Service Company of the Year ADJUSTABLE NON-MARKING We design. We manufacture. We excel. STAINLESS withdrawal bill has tremendous that would follow. fishermen to choose between illegally STEEL FEET CALL: 01603 788833 ONLINE: teknomek.co.uk EMAIL: [email protected]

ISO 9001 Made in Quality implications for the fishing industry, If the bill does not go through, we will discarding fish for which they have no Editor Kelsey Media, CudhamManagement the UK Dave Linkie whichever way MPs ultimately vote. be entering uncharted waters, and will or little quota, or going out of business. email: [email protected] Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, If the bill goes through, it will mark just have to wait and see what happens If a fishery is choked, they will have no 01434 607375 Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG the start of the most profound change next. Preparations are increasing on choice but to tie up. It is against natural the industry has seen for almost half a both sides of the Channel for a ‘no- justice for fishermen, who are simply century. It will mean the beginning of deal’ Brexit, which would provide the trying to earn an honest living providing the end of the industry’s subjection to opportunity for much more rapid change. healthy food, to be placed in this the hated CFP, with its manifestly unjust The second profound change – position. The entire scheme should be quota shares under relative stability and which has already started, although scrapped and rethought from basics, but our utter inability to control who catches not immediately noticeably – is the the legal rigidity of the CFP will prevent what, and where, in our waters. introduction of the full landing obligation this happening until, at least, its next But although this is a huge prize, that will compel fishermen to land review in 2023 – or, most likely, it will be some years before it can all quota species they catch, with no never. News correspondent Assistant editor Tim Oliver be realised. There will first be the discards permitted. As the House of As with Brexit, we will have to Rachel Graham email: [email protected] implementation period to work through Lords committee that is conducting wait and see how events unfold email: [email protected] before any real change can take an inquiry into the discards ban has as this momentous new year place, and there is ‘many a slip twixt discovered, this is an unworkable progresses. FISHERIES SCIENCE

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The conclusions were compelling For the Scottish pelagic sector impact from climate change – both It is likely to have a whole range of – whether in Alaska, Tasmania there is a lot at stake with climate mackerel and herring are food significant impacts on our everyday or the UK, perceptible change change, given that mackerel and for other marine creatures, and lives, both now and into the future. is happening in our marine herring have an established global are predators in their own right. According to the latest special environment. In UK waters, it is trade that helps ensure food security Changes in their abundance or report on climate change from the resulting in the trend of fish species by providing an affordable protein distribution related to warmer seas Intergovernmental Panel on Climate such as cod moving northwards, in many parts of the world. Scottish can potentially have significant Change, we are already seeing the while warmer-water fish such as red fishermen have invested heavily in knock-on effects for the rest of the consequences of 1°C global warming mullet are coming in from the south, modern vessels, and processors in marine environment. Dr Steven Mackinson. caused by human activity, such as arriving in areas where they were the latest equipment, to ensure a All these are compelling loss of sea ice and desertification. previously scarce. high-quality product that can be reasons why the Scottish pelagic temperature, will also be recorded. The trend is predicted to continue, But the presentations and delivered to market in the shortest industry is so keen to roll up its Analyses from the pilot study will with future warming estimated to workshop also highlighted the possible time. sleeves and become involved be published in scientific literature reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052. scientific challenges of disentangling Such investment in efficiencies in scientific research to help us and used to finalise the design of Such temperature rises may not climate effects from other causes has resulted in Scottish mackerel better understand such changes. a self-sampling programme to be seem like much, but for the sensitive and – importantly Engaging and implemented across the Scottish marine environment it can be the – how science investing in science pelagic fleet. A great start has been catalyst for driving significant and management Scotland’s pelagic vessels are by becoming first- made, with data from the 2018 change in the distribution and might respond to being used as research hand providers of herring and mackerel fishing seasons abundance of fish and other marine them. scientific information already being processed. This self- life. Not only do such changes have The platforms to carry out scientific demonstrates a sampling work contributes to a the potential to harm the marine presentations “ commitment by much larger scientific project called research work ecosystem, they also impact upon particularly our fishermen to PANDORA (pandora-fisheries- food security, at a time when highlighted sustainable and project.eu), which aims to improve seafood is the primary source of the importance of ensuring that and herring delivering a much lower responsible fishing. the quality of fish stock assessments animal protein for an estimated one we have sound data to monitor carbon footprint than other forms From 2018 onwards,“ the Scottish by including new biological billion people. these changes, which, in turn, can of protein production such as beef, Pelagic Fishermen’s Association, information. I recently attended, and made a hopefully lead to management lamb, pork and chicken. NAFC Marine Centre (which is part Committed to engaging in this presentation at, a scientific lecture measures that mitigate their of the University of the Highlands kind of research, it is the vision of and discussion event in Aberdeen impacts. This is one area where Climate change impacts and Islands), and Marine Scotland the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s on climate change and the impacts Scotland’s mackerel and herring As well as distribution and Science are working collaboratively Association to be respected on fish distribution and production, (pelagic) fishermen are beginning abundance, there are other impacts with pelagic fishermen to design and providers of scientifically credible with a particular focus on its to play a lead role, by ensuring that that climate change can have on test a scientific self-sampling scheme data that can be used to assess implications for Scottish fisheries. their vessels are used as research marine life. Metabolic theory to help fill in gaps in our knowledge. fish stocks, monitor changes in the Hosted and organised by the platforms to carry out scientific predicts that changes in the ‘living During the testing phase, a ecosystem, and support management University of Aberdeen as part of research work. costs’ of fish can affect growth, with selection of vessels will collect decisions. a week-long international scientific Two years ago, I was appointed fish becoming smaller, on average, samples of fish length and weight We do, after all, have a special workshop, and funded by Fisheries by the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s over time as waters warm. For the for every haul during the fishing responsibility to maintain fisheries Innovation Scotland, experts from Association as its chief scientific fishing sector, fish size and supply seasons for mackerel, herring and for the health of our society – both the UK, USA and Australia gave officer, to co-ordinate research have an impact on prices, and high blue whiting. The time and location in terms of food security and for their perspectives on the research and data collection using fishing prices affect profit and investment, of catches, and environmental the overall benefit of the marine they are involved in, and how vessels. In essence, my role is to act as well as the ability to compete with data such as water depth and environment. MAIB report on the loss of the Plymouth trawler Solstice The Marine Accident The capsize was rapid, and the stability, but the impact that Investigation Branch (MAIB) crew did not have time to raise fishing methods have on stability Chief inspector’s comment has issued a flyer to the fishing the alarm before they entered cannot be emphasised enough. Andrew Moll, chief inspector of marine accidents, said: “Sadly, industry following its investigation the water. As the vessel was not Talk to your local fishing vessel this was another case of a small fishing vessel that capsized in into the capsize and subsequent equipped with an emergency surveyors, and seek expert calm seas because it had been modified, and its fishing methods sinking of the 9.9m Plymouth position-indicating radio beacon advice if necessary, before changed, without adequate consideration being given to vessel trawler Solstice PH 199, resulting (EPIRB) and the crew did not commencing any structural stability. Solstice’s owner and skipper did not have the stability in the loss of one life. carry personal locator beacons modifications, but especially data required to properly assess the impact of the changes (PLBs), they were wholly reliant modifications to change or alter that had been made to the vessel, and therefore, they did not Narrative on family and friends realizing the method of fishing. fully appreciate the danger associated with lifting a heavy catch The 9.9m fishing vessel Solstice they were overdue and alerting It was obvious that the weight onboard over the stern. capsized in calm weather the coastguard. in the net was excessive, but the “The skipper and crewman were both extremely lucky to conditions about seven miles crew remained determined to lift survive. They entered the water without lifejackets and before they south of Plymouth at 7.38pm on Safety lessons the catch onboard. No catch, no could raise an alarm. Fortunately, they managed to clamber onto 26 September, 2017. The skipper Solstice capsized because it did matter how valuable, is worth a Solstice’s upturned hull, and their families raised the alarm by and crewman were rescued from not have sufficient transverse life. Stop and seriously consider reporting the vessel overdue. the vessel’s upturned hull about stability to safely lift the contents your options and, ultimately, be “The search and rescue mission was hampered because five and a half hours later, but of its net onboard over the stern. prepared to let it go. Solstice’s position when it capsized was unknown. The activation the vessel’s owner was trapped This was primarily because the The survivors were extremely of an automatic electronic position-indicating beacon would have and drowned in the wheelhouse. weight in the net was excessive, fortunate that Solstice’s upturned taken the ‘search’ out of search and rescue. The carriage of such Solstice later sank. and the height of the lifting point hull remained afloat, as they were equipment on all small fishing vessels like Solstice becomes The scallop dredger had at the stern was high. not wearing lifejackets when mandatory in October 2019, but I urge fishing vessel owners not recently been modified to operate The dangers of modifying they entered the water, and it to wait; electronic position-indicating beacons are not expensive, as a stern trawler, and its owner, small fishing vessels and took over five hours for them to and they can save lives.” skipper and crewman were in the changing fishing methods be found and rescued. Personal process of hauling their second are well-known, and the flotation devices should always catch of the day onboard when consequences on stability are be worn when working on deck, and, because Solstice was not have resulted in an immediate the capsize occurred. The net’s often fatal. However, the vessel and emergency-use lifejackets equipped with an automatic and location-focused emergency codend was full of fish, moss had no stability data, and a safe should be readily available. identification system (AIS) response. The carriage of an AIS and sand, and started to move method of fishing had not been It was also fortunate that transceiver, the coastguard could transceiver, in this case, would uncontrollably along the transom developed. the survivors were found. Their not identify the vessel’s last have been of invaluable benefit. as the vessel rolled in the light It is important to have a clear friends and family did not know recorded position. The carriage The MAIB’s full investigation is swell. understanding of your vessel’s where they had been fishing of an EPIRB and/or PLBs would available at: gov.uk/maib 6 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019 Fisheries Innovation Scotland nets new executive director Kara Brydson is the new executive director of Fisheries Innovation Scotland (FIS), which brings together fishermen, scientists, government and other stakeholders to support Scottish fisheries.Kelvin Boot reports Less than two months into her “FIS engages lots of influential be a challenge for another. FIS new job, Kara Brydson spoke people with a genuine interest in wants to expand understanding to Fishing News about what the success of Scottish fisheries. of the fishing industry, especially attracted her to the role, and what It’s not just the board and the in Scotland, and it’s not just her hopes are for the future of this technical advisory council, but all politicians and the media who unique organisation. those from across the industry need educating – even between Kara Brydson brings a wealth who come up with ideas, provide seafood sectors, there can be of relevant experience to her new feedback, and take an active part misconceptions.” role, having held positions at in Scottish fishing’s future.” As Kara points out, much of the Scottish Organic Producers’ the conversation around fisheries Association and the International One size cannot fit all at the moment concentrates on Fund for Animal Welfare before sectors of the industry the consequences of the landing taking up the mantle of head It is this participation that makes obligation and Brexit, but there of Scottish marine policy at the FIS unique, and that particularly are many other issues facing RSPB for 11 years. In 2015, she attracted Kara Brydson to a job fishermen and the supply chain. was appointed as programme that brings all of her experience Accessing crew, ensuring that manager of Seafish’s Responsible together. fishing is seen as a career with Fishing Scheme. “People tend to think of a future, and crew welfare are Her combined 20 years of Scottish fishing as one industry, topics dear to the hearts of many working in the marine sector have a homogeneous group all doing across the industry. Then there The Bi-Annual Scottish Fishing Conference brings a wide range of ensured that she has a broad the same thing, facing the same are ongoing business concerns stakeholders together. knowledge and experience of challenges and gaining the about the costs of quota, fisheries, where she hasworked same rewards. Often, what’s equipment, fuel and bait. with NGOs, government, industry misunderstood is the vast amount Market access is a growing and scientists, at EU advisory of expertise, innovation and worry as the political landscape council level through to marketing knowledge that goes into fishing. changes, and at a local level are and inshore fisheries groups. I’m from a farming family, and I the social and environmental While managing the Responsible know there is no such thing as a issues that impact on fishermen Fisheries Scheme she had typical farmer; I also know there on a daily basis. the opportunity to work with is no such thing as a typical Uppermost in Kara’s mind, fishermen, processors, retailers fisherman. and a message she wants to and fisheries organisations – “The media often portrays spread far and wide, is that, indeed the whole fishing supply the industry as a single type of “Fishing is not just about fish. chain. fisherman following a generalised It’s about food, of course, but “Being executive director of form of fishing. The reality is that also health, technology, jobs and FIS is a natural culmination of the the fishing industry contains communities, and this is where past 20 years of my working life,” a surprising variety of fishing, FIS fits in. The big picture, the she said. fishermen, and the infrastructure political aspects, are of course “FIS brings together some of and supply chain they support. important, but these other the real big hitters from across the The industry is a collection of societal issues are fundamental, Scottish fishing industry, to lead businesses where and we all need to get to a programme of problem-solving one size cannot grips with them.” science to support the fishing possibly fit all; FIS has an industry and its supply chain. It’s a solution for excellent track Developing new technologies for in-water selectivity has been a major focus a brilliant organisation, and I am one sector record over the of FIS projects. delighted to be joining it. might few years since it was set up shared seas. and sustainability. in 2014. By These projects are not only “Fishing is a global industry, Kara Brydson brings a wealth the end of about collecting vital data, they and FIS is already in contact with of experience to her new role as 2019, it will are about informing real changes colleagues around the world,” executive director of Fisheries have delivered in technology, management and she says. “We can learn a lot Innovation Scotland. more than 20 fishing methods. from other fishing nations, and we peer-reviewed Kara does not see the fishing certainly punch above our weight projects, with industry as inward-looking and, in Scotland, so we have much to an overall spend as well as wanting to hear ideas give as well. It is so exciting to be of more than £1.5m from within the industry – which part of that success.” The projects include is already full of innovators and John Goodlad, chair of FIS, is investigations into novel early adopters – she is keen to delighted that Kara has taken up in-water selectivity, Nephrops look beyond to other industries the position of executive director. survivability, fisheries resilience that may have technologies and “Kara brings a wealth of relevant to climate change, industry self- practices that would benefit experience to FIS that can only sampling, and management in fishing by increasing profitability take the organisation to new levels. Working alongside our board to unearth the challenges facing the Scottish fishing industry across the entire supply chain, and by guiding scientific approaches to solving those challenges, Kara’s previous track record at many levels and across many topics will be a tremendous asset. I look forward to working with Kara to provide knowledge and ideas, through our commissioned projects, to continue to contribute to the success of Scottish fishing and those that work in the industry.” Further information about Fisheries Innovation Scotland and details of current and The fishing industry is a complex of different businesses, each with its own Explaining the importance and value of Scottish fishing to a wider audience past projects are available at: challenges. is a key role for FIS. Chair John Goodlad talks to BBC Alba. fiscot.org 10 January 2019 10 January Name: Atlantic Dawn CN 25 LOA: 20.30m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering Teeside 2018 Type: Automated scalloper Home Port: Port Ellen, Islay Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews BOAT OFTHEWEEK 7 8 THE 1904 ‘RUSSIAN OUTRAGE’ Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019 THE 1904 ‘RUSSIAN OUTRAGE’ RUSSIAN NAVY FIRED ON HULL TRAWLERS IN THE NORTH SEA Part 3 in the series ‘A Trawlerman’s Reminiscences’, written by Hull skipper William Oliver in 1953 (Photographs courtesy of Alec Gill)

fter a brief and unfortunate interlude The Hull trawler Desdemona in the Awhen I joined the Marines, river Humber. Skipper Oliver was and a spell when I fished from third hand of the vessel in 1903 Milford Haven, I began sailing when he was aged 19. from Hull again with the late George Fletcher in the St Louis. That winter, trawlers started to operate in Icelandic waters all the year round. Vessels had further increased in size, and an important feature was that two fishrooms were now built, the aft one being used as a coal bunker, connected to the stokehold by a tunnel under the thwart bunker. The procedure now followed was that when the aft fishroom was filled with coal, it was worked through the tunnel into the stokehold. As soon as the fishroom was empty, the tunnel door was screwed down, the fishroom washed out and prepared for fish. Trawlers were now constructed with verandas around the wheelhouse, some with skeleton rails and some iron. The first two that I saw on my return to Hull were the Sea Horse and Sea Lion, both Pickering & Haldane Steam Fishing Co, but when I saw the Desdemona and Othello with their big iron verandas around the wheelhouse, I thought they were the last word in steam trawlers. How little I knew. Trawlers were now capable hove the fish out of the fishroom taken on the market by the mate, catch, got any other assistance was sunk, and her skipper and of carrying 1,500 (10 stone) with the hand winch forrard. so that the skipper was free to which might be required from a mate killed. Four other trawlers kits, and trips had, the previous The third hand and mate were interview the owner, and do his shore gang (later to become the were damaged, and six other winter, passed the £1,000 mark down in the fishroom, picking other jobs, such as ordering now-familiar ‘bobbers’ – why, I fishermen were wounded, one of – Iceland cod and haddock were up and separating the fish in provisions, etc. don’t know). whom died a few months later. finding a ready market. baskets, while the skipper was In the steam trawlers, after A gyn was rigged up on a A few words about landing on the market, barrowing the fish the smacks stopped operating, stay, and a rope with hooks on Hostilities in the operations 50 years ago. When away from the scales, to await the bosun and third hand were it rove through it to lower down North Sea the sailing smacks were single- auction. down in the fishroom and, to the fishroom. The cook and The Gamecock fleet was owned boating, the cook and decky Later, the skipper’s place was according to the size of the decky had to pull on this rope to by Kelsall Beeching & Co, and get the fsh out, other gyns being had come from Fleetwood to rigged according to the size operate from Hull in 1901. The Othello was an advanced trawler for her of the catch, and manned by outrage occurred at the time of time at the start of the 20th century. bobbers. Bobbers were usually the Russo-Japanese war. old retired fishermen, and the The Russian Baltic fleet was work was very hard and tiring. proceeding southerly down the This system prevailed for North Sea when it sighted a many years, and was eventually large number of fshing vessels superseded by that at present on the Dogger Bank. (Editor’s in force, when electricity was note: The Gamecock fleet was installed on the market. Where one of the North Sea boxing at one time half a dozen men fleets operating at this time. were sufficient to land a cargo Trawlers’ boxed catches were of fish, it is not uncommon for taken in rowing boats to a fast 50 to 60 men to be so engaged carrier, which took them to nowadays. Billingsgate market.) On 30 July, 1903, I married. The admiral of the Gamecock I was just over 19, and my wife fleet was sending up rockets was 18. At that time I was third for the benefit of his vessels, hand of the Desdemona, owned and the Russian admiral by Hellyer Brothers and running (Rojenvinsky) mistook the to Iceland. fleet for hostile warships. He In the meantime, still larger opened fire, sank the Crane, vessels were being constructed. and damaged many others. In October, 1904, came the This caused great indignation Russian Outrage, when vessels throughout Great Britain, and of the Gamecock fleet were diplomatic relations between fired on by Russian warships, the two countries became very and one of them, the Crane, strained. It was the subject of a 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews THE 1904 ‘RUSSIAN OUTRAGE’ 9

Court of Inquiry, which resulted and nautical astronomy forms in large sums being paid to a great part of it. A week’s A painting of the Crane, which the fishing industry by way of schooling was all I required, and was sunk by Russian warships in compensation. I passed with flying colours. the North Sea and other trawlers Eventually, I decided I would Now I wanted a ship. One damaged, in what became known stay ashore to try to obtain afternoon, after being in as the ‘Russian Outrage’. my mate’s certifcate, as I now possession of my ‘ticket’ for had the requisite sea service a week, I went on the dock at in. To obtain a second hand’s tide time and was stopped by certificate (miscalled ‘mate’) it the late Mr George Walton, was, and still is, necessary for a managing owner of Marine seaman to have spent four years Steam Fishing Co, who asked at sea, two of which must have me if I would sail as mate of .’been in a fshing vessel. This Cavalier on a ‘tide jump four years must be time at sea, I could hardly believe my as time spent ashore did, and luck, as Cavalier was one of the does not, count. So it is often largest and best trawlers out five or six years from the time of of Hull. I ran all the way home going to sea before a seaman for my gear and ran all the way can qualify. back, in case he should change The examinations in those his mind. days were mainly verbal, consisting of Rule of the Road First trip as mate at sea (both sail and steam); At 4pm, on 4 November, 1904, I uniform system of buoyage; left the dock as mate of Cavalier, the articles and course and bound for Iceland, with the distance from A to B on the late Harry Fletcher as skipper. chart; the principles of latitude Visions of untold wealth passed and longitude; the courses and through my mind, as trawlers at distances from Hull Roads to that time were doing extremely for a ship full of plaice. Alas! – plaice, I didn’t even have any trawler, and her skipper a very sea and reverse; and such local well. New fishing grounds we never caught any more, for liver-money. fine man, and I owed a great deal knowledge as required by the had been opened up off the bad weather set in, and after a The skipper was discharged of my later success to him. examiners. northwest coast of Iceland, few days at anchor, the skipper and another skipper engaged, We made two voyages to In my day there were two and vessels were returning with decided to go south to complete the late Eric Johnson (great- the northwest coast of Iceland, examiners, one an old smack wonderful catches of plaice. our voyage. uncle of female aviation pioneer making £680 and £870, very owner who had been a skipper, We duly arrived at the We shot the gear off the Amy Johnson), and I was allowed good trips in those days, and who took seamanship and local grounds and began fishing off southwest coast, and I suspect to remain with the Cavalier. We then had a few days in dock. At knowledge, while the other was Dyra Fjord. We took 500 buckets we were within the limits, for made several good voyages this time the Oliver Cromwell, a Board of Trade official, usually of plaice on the first day, and the beams of a searchlight were before I left the ship in February, owned by the Yorkshire Steam a retired deep-sea captain. The when I turned in for a rest, I playing on us and several other 1905. Fishing Co, broke all previous curriculum is quite different could not sleep, reckoning how ships, and we hastily got the Then came the turning point in records by making £1,167, with today, and theoretical navigation much money I would receive gear onboard. the late Trygve Enevoldson The skipper ran in command. the engines full We made two voyages to the About this time, my speed, and we one-time skipper, Tom never stopped northwest coast of Iceland, Clarkson, was lost in the until we reached Cleopatra, owned by the island of making £680 and £870, very Hellyers. The vessel ran Rona, 90 miles ashore on the southwest northwest from good trips in those days coast of Iceland after the Pentland completing fishing, and Firth. We shot the gear there, my life. I was out of a ship when all hands, with the exception had one haul, caught nothing, I learned that the Cecil Rhodes, of the second engineer, were and went home. After our small owned by J Hollingsworth, a lost. He managed to cling on to voyage was sold and we had fish merchant, with John Gant some wreckage, and reached settled up, I was £3 17s 6d in as skipper, required a mate. the shore after the boat had debt. I approached Skipper Gant overturned, and the remainder of I was poorer than I had ever (miscalled Tommy Gant) for the the crew drowned. The Anlaby been as a deckhand, for as our job, and to my great satisfaction, was also lost at Iceland with all small trip consisted entirely of was signed on. She was a lovely hands about this time. ■

A statue to commemorate three fishermen who died in the 1904 Russian Outrage was erected on Hull’s Hessle Road in 1906. Huge crowds gathered to see the unveiling of the Russian Outrage statue in 1906. 10 INSHORE CORNER Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019 INSHORE CORNER with Phil Lockley Invest in fishing? o meet three generations of fishermen in force to be reckoned with. If non-fishing committee one day is a rare privilege, rarer still when members were more interested in scoring political Tthose fishermen are from the same family – points than in listening to common sense, Ron the Eglinton family of Newquay in Cornwall. Eglinton and Billy Hocking didn’t suffer fools gladly. To have known them for some time is an even However, they never lost their focus on raising the greater privilege. awareness of the general public, and encouraging Ron Eglinton (90), his son Gary, and his them to support the region’s fishing industry. grandson Ben are part of a determined group of During committee meetings, if a point of fishermen who work from one of the most unlikely, importance was made, their eyes would turn to the and often harshest, commercial fishing ports in the press table – where we reporters sat – and I can UK. The neighbouring port of shelter, Padstow, is assure you, we listened carefully. a considerable distance away, and spending 180 Here’s what Ron Eglinton had to say about 70- days at sea per year is quite good for a Newquay plus years of being a full-time Newquay fisherman. inshore boat. “Newquay is now a totally different place. It has Tol-Bar leaving Newquay. Catching bass by hook and line and/or by net little resemblance to when I started fishing. There’s has, for generations, been a major part of the no comparison between fishing then and fishing more lobsters than before. When I started, you pots that you can fish being one. I favour a limit of calendar year for Newquay fishermen, and contrary now; we now have excellent facilities, an efficient would be lucky to land a box of lobsters per pots per man rather than a quota, and a figure of to the beliefs of DEFRA, Newquay fishermen, like ice supply on site, refrigeration, and cranes to get week; we didn’t fish far off, the shores had very 300 pots per man seems about right. Covering the many other UK inshore fishermen, need to be able the catch ashore. We never had anything like that, little suitable ground, and lobsters were not as seabed with pots is no good for anybody. to switch methods when necessary. Current bass and such progress can only be good. important as they are now. But now, even with the “Looking back, fishing has been good to me. restrictions have hit the Newquay fishermen hard. “In my mind, for the inshore fleet at places boats being far more efficient, fishing further out I’ve no complaints about fishing – look after your The Eglinton family is one example; just one of the like Newquay, there is a good future ahead, but on more suitable ground, and using more gear, boat, look after your gear, and if your heart is in the family’s three boats, Ron Eglinton’s 19ft Tol-Bar SS not while some of today’s regulations are in force. there are plenty of lobsters, and long may it last. job, you won’t go wrong. 40, currently has bass entitlement. Newquay is like most small ports in Britain; every “I remember when, within its region, Cornwall “I think the Newquay fleet is about as big as it Between the three men, there is sufficient boat in its fleet doesn’t carry out just one type of SFC decided to ban the retention of berried can realistically be, and when I see all the things knowledge and experience to make a good living fishing. Inshore fishermen need the opportunity lobsters – I think it was the first SFC to do that. going on, I remember what the port was like in my from catching shellfish and whitefish, driving to move from shellfish to fish, or vice versa. They It was a long time ago, and when it was first younger days. We didn’t have Rolls-Royce trucks a warship and, if necessary, building their own need to have this ability to manoeuvre in order to discussed, I wasn’t sure whether it was the right like the skippers have today; we had old Post fishing boat! survive. When the conditions change, as they now way ahead. For some skippers, it cut down the Office vans, and thought they were fantastic. Featured in Fishing News (24 May, 2018), Ben are doing, different fisheries must be available. income for a while, but it did work, and today’s “It’s always important to add fun to fishing, Eglinton laid down his tools as a chief engineer in “One example is with my boat, the Tol-Bar. skippers, like Gary, are pleased that it did go and see the better side of things, and I think the the Royal Navy to return to the family tradition of Because I have the ‘bass entitlement’, I am allowed ahead. He and many more now welcome anything best times we saw were the days of the winter being a fisherman. His father Gary has considered to catch bass by hook and line only, but Gary like that – on the whole, today’s inshore fishermen mackerel boom in the 1970s – very successful retiring, but that’s on the ‘back burner’, I was told. (skipper/owner of Shannon SS 45) doesn’t have are all for conservation, and that’s a good thing. days. We were all fishing from ports like Falmouth And after serving over seven decades at sea, one a bass entitlement, and neither does Ben on the “I enjoyed my days on the Cornwall SFC; I or Newlyn, and with that fishery there were so would imagine Ron would have retired some years Beryl M SS 8 – but all through their lives, they have learned a lot. I spent a lot of time sitting on a lot of many people taking part that we made lifelong ago. Try keeping him ashore if he spots bass from both fished commercially for bass. committees, but Cornwall SFC was the grandest. friends – and we made very good money. I think the headland! “Bass is an important fish to Newquay I was retired from Cornwall SFC before IFCAs that we were the first boat of its size to make Recently, I asked Ron if he would ‘spill the fishermen, and just because the boats were took over. I was concerned about the changeover, £1,000 in one day. But that was only one day! beans’ on what made him determined to succeed not fishing for bass during the time that the and still worry about how the balance of IFCA “From getting up in the morning, travelling in fishing, and why on earth he chose to do so from government stated, that fishery has now been committees changed so enormously, and how so to Falmouth, steaming to be out on the grounds a harsh port like Newquay. totally closed to them. And I question why my many fishermen with important experience and before first light, then spending an entire day I met Ron over 30 years ago, and recently bass entitlement is for hook and line only. I can knowledge were replaced by people who have hand-lining, and landing the fish, it was very long rediscovered my old black and white pictures no longer go netting for bass, but throughout my much less knowledge of the inshore waters. hours – but for Newquay fishermen, to be working of when the legendary Eglinton boat, the 12m fishing life, for short times each year, I have net- “However, that is now changing, and I now see during the winter months was a new thing, and a Lamorna SS 28, was launched from John Moore’s fished for bass. more members elected from the fishing industry, big boost to the earnings. boatyard at Mevagissey in 1986. “And this unfairness of the bass regulations and that is very good news – people like Newlyn “Before Newquay harbour was improved, you Skipper Ron Eglinton spent many years as a doesn’t just apply to my boys; the bass regulations skipper Andrew Pascoe, with vast experience and couldn’t keep a boat working all year round from member of the Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee are now a disaster for so many small-boat fishing valuable advice. We need more such voices from Newquay. At times, it was a very dangerous place. (SFC), and his ability to put his point across was communities around the UK. Like all of those the industry. Those days on the mackerel were fantastic, though notable. Together with other committee members fishermen, we love our bass fishing, and nobody “But going back to my early shellfishing from I can’t say that it didn’t have worrying times. With like skipper Billy Hocking from Looe, he was a wants to see huge amounts of bass discarded – Newquay – a lot less crab was taken, not because the Lamorna – the first Lamorna – I always felt and that is the only result that will come from these the stocks were lower, but because we just didn’t safe, but that was tested one day. regulations. have the markets. The demand for crab wasn’t “We – four hands – were fishing on the “I can accept that for some markets, like the good enough to support a fleet like we have today. mackerel shoals around Land’s End, and had had high-end restaurants, line-fishing for bass is the There was a summer demand for white meat, and a good day. We began steaming back, and at way forward, but that is a very small part of the we used to keep the big jacks, but many times first things were OK, but the wind strengthened, overall market. there was a lot less call for hen crab. But that it became a nasty sou’west wind, and together “Because the entitlement is linked to the boat changed; shellfish export began, and more crab with the ebb tide, the seas worsened. The waves and not to the licence, if Gary and/or Ben want to was in demand, so hens became important. In the became steeper, and it wasn’t long before I saw a go bass fishing, they have to take my boat and stay early days, a lot of the edible crab had black spots hole – a gap between two waves – that was huge. with hook and line. The present bass restrictions on the shells (black necrotic disease), but harder “I had no time to do anything about it. The boat have taken away from so many men the right to fishing got rid of that, and that too was a good fell down into that hole – a really deep hole. The continue fishing for bass, something they have move. boat shuddered and fell onto its side, and water done for many years.” “One of the biggest changes in shellfishing was came in over the gunwales, and because the boys Shellfish being the mainstay of many Newquay a demand for spider crab. In the early days, spider were grading mackerel on deck, the scuppers were boats, Ron Eglinton reflected on his years of crab was a nuisance, but when the export market blocked with fish – the water couldn’t drain away potting. grew, we could land a tonne per day. Shellfish fast enough. “Potting on the north Cornish coast is now so merchants calling for spider crab was one of the “The only way I can describe it is that for some The 12m Lamorna SS 28 was launched different, and it’s not doom and gloom. If we are biggest boosts to the Newquay fleet. reason, the boat then shook herself and righted – a from John Moore’s boatyard at Mevagissey talking about lobsters, in my mind – and contrary “There are things that concern me about the testimony to John Moore’s boats. Eventually, we in 1986. to what many people claim – there are now far future of shellfishing – a rule on the number of got back to port; we were lucky, very lucky.” ■ 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SQUID DIARIES 11 SQUID DIARIES PART True or false? ELEVEN Here’s the second part of a squid diary inspired by the BBC Radio Four programme, ‘In Our Time’, in which the myths and tales about octopuses, squid and cuttlefish were discussed by three leading scientists ed by presenter Melvyn Bragg, “And if you were walking along to control more or less light coming the scientists revealed how a beach, and saw part of a big in, but one which is square, and not Lthese species of cephalopods cephalopod washed up, it is round like ours. Like us, they can are the weirdest yet the most difficult to not imagine a gigantic change the pupil size. adaptable of almost all animals, animal, a terrible beast; and even “And although the cephalopod and that a lot of the myths about in modern culture – depicted in eye has a lens similar to a them are firmly rooted in truth films like ‘Arrival’ in 2016 – when the mammal eye, instead of changing (Fishing News, 24 May). alien species that landed on earth its shape to focus the image, it The scientists were: was cephalopod-like, having seven moves forward or backward. The ● Dr Louise Allcock, a lecturer in arms, and those aliens squirted ink cephalopod eye operates like a zoology at the National University to communicate, so even today we camera lens, rather than like a of Ireland (in Galway) think cephalopods are fascinating, vertebrate lens, which changes its ● Paul Redhouse, honorary yet they are indeed alien to us.” shape.” professor in the Department Discussing how cephalopods He added something of Zoology at the University of can change their colour, Dr Louise that I find difficult to Aberdeen, and marine living Allcock described how living on believe, though I resources scientist for the British seabed materials like reefs, rocks have no doubt Antarctic survey and even sand, camouflage is of its scientific ● Jonathan Ablett from the required to prevent being eaten. validity – Was it the Kraken of Falmouth Bay? Not really, Department of Life Sciences at the She said: “To do this the that most but it was my biggest that year, 2013, with a Natural History Museum, London, cephalopods use chromatophores, cephalopods are mantle length of 52cm and a weight of 5.2kg. where research into the zoology of little coloured cells present in their indeed colour- The jig teeth are well-attached to the centre molluscs includes the adaptability skin, cells surrounded by a ring of blind! bar, and note the dip of resin at the base to give of cephalopods muscles. In the relaxed state, those Science reveals extra hold. For me, these are the type of hooks and Apparently, cultures around muscles close over the coloured that the cells on a shafts that should be on all jigs – in one piece. the world have stories of giant cell, but when contracted, the cephalopod retina octopuses and/or giant squids, muscle allows the coloured cell to are very different to “These animals your squid gear, retie the traces, and many might be ‘stretched become visible. ours. So, as squidders, are are not only eating, and consider buying more jigs. truths’, but some contain hard and “But there are only three we wasting money on different they can also be defending Don’t wait until late September as frightening facts. different colours of such cells, colours of squid jigs? Would themselves. Some species of every jig will be sold, because there Jonathan Ablett said: “Such yellow, red or brown – but that fact different variations of grey do octopus are even venomous – the might be a decent season ahead. myths in culture are everywhere doesn’t mix with what we know the same as those lovely-looking venom is in their saliva – so when And this is only my opinion – squid that there is sea, but particularly about the colours that octopuses, variations on my favourite DTD they bite their prey, the venom is jigging goes in cycles of feast or in regions like South East Asia, squids and cuttlefishes can show jigs? Is it brutally true that squid jigs injected, and either paralyses the famine, and the last ‘feast’ was in the Caribbean, also in Greek off, a magic array of colours. – like pike lures and/or trout flies – prey or kills it. They may also use the autumn of 2013, so it’s long mythology, and of course the “Other structures deeper in the fool more fishermen than fish? the venom to soften the tissue they past time that we had another hit of mythical sea-monster called skin, called iridophores, reflect But, as I warned you about are about to digest,” he said, and good luck. Kraken in northern Europe. All light. Within the irodophore is a trying squid jigging – or indeed, went on to describe the ‘one bite And lastly, consider this, a jig I these tentacle-like sea-monsters protein called reflectin, a molecule trying to fool cuttlefish by using kills a human’ octopus – the blue have never seen before – a super- represent the once-unknown facts that stacks itself in layers, and coloured plastic shapes in a ring octopus – and how true it is soft glowing rubbery jig made by of such fascinating creatures. depending on how close together trap – you will become addicted that one small bite can be fatal. Hikaru (Japan). It’s not expensive Looking at it, they are indeed alien those layers are, they reflect to the task, yet end up with more At this point I became very (under £3), but it is a strong jig, to land animals like us. a different wavelength of light questions than answers! aware of how little I know about based on a one-piece mount made (producing different colours).” BBC ‘In Our Time’ went on to cephalopods – and that is sad, of stainless steel, with a brass Dr Louise Allcock explained ask how most squid and cuttlefish really, because I spent three years weight hidden inside the body. how the skin surface of many that can change their colour, are studying marine zoology at Bangor It is available from Newtown cephalopods has muscle cells colour-blind, but can clearly tell the in North Wales. Clearly, I spent Angling Centre near Penzance that can either bunch together difference between slight colour more time long-lining for bass or (01736 763721). If you want a or flatten to make the animal’s changes. serving pints in the pub than I did couple to try, order them now, body surface replicate the seabed The scientists gave the example reading books! because shop owner Chris Bird still surface. And with all of that of the legendary Humboldt squid, ‘In Our Time’ went on to explain has a few in stock (plenty more are complexity, the animal can change which uses red in aggression, and jet propulsion used by squid, on order). its colour and texture in as little discussed how these predatory cuttlefish and octopuses, and how Bass fishermen also use them, as 200 milliseconds. Although all squid (found in the Eastern Pacific, cephalopods have complex taste I was told, by removing the spikes of this may be used as a means from California down to Chile) cells on their tentacles. and replacing them with a single of communication, principally it are pack animals, often attacking All sorts of easily-understood treble hook. ■ is used as camouflage to prevent prey in a co-ordinated manner. facts painted a beautiful picture of being attacked. Confirmed reports reveal that on the very animals that I chase for Honorary professor Paul occasion, Humboldt squid have money – or am I going a bit soft Redhouse spoke about attacked and killed fishermen and/ in my old age? Yesterday, I made cephalopod eyes, particularly or divers. ready for my first try for squid, and cuttlefish eyes, which are huge in “They are not aggressive all remembered what a Newbiggin relation to its body size, saying that the time, but do get into a feeding skipper once said to me – if, when most cephalopods have a very frenzy if a human gets in the you start the engine, a small pair of sophisticated eye, one similar to way of the fish they wish to eat,” red horns don’t grow from the back the mammal eye, and an example suggested Jonathan Ablett. of your head, don’t go fishing, go of convergent evolution. He added: He said he can’t believe that home! The front is also well-made – a “In practical terms, very different monster squid have dragged From my diary (of 2009), the strong squid jig – and although structures have evolved to do down boats, but can imagine earliest squid I caught was from the in heavy fishing the body will This Hikaru jig might be very almost exactly the same thing – how an unpredicted change in pit near the Helford river on 22 July, become ripped, keep all of the effective, and is so cheap that advanced eyesight underwater, and the behaviour of a cephalopod but don’t get too excited – it was so shafts and tie your own, or mould replacements won’t break the with mammals, above water. might conjure up such myths and small that I returned it! your own jigs. For little retail cost, bank. “Cephalopod eyes have a pupil legends. However, my advice is to check this jig has lots of potential. 12 MONTEUM Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH A SHOREHAM FISHING FAMILY… CHANGING LIVES AND POTTING IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL ON ROYAL REBEL Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex is one of those fishing communities that, over decades, have seen many changes. At times it has been a struggle, but those who fish from this port are born survivors. John Periam reports. Photos: Geoffrey Lee

ishing News took the opportunity to meet up F with Jim Partridge and go to sea on his 10m potter Royal Rebel SM 3, to see how the young crew onboard work. Jim runs his company Monteum from Fisherman’s Wharf on Brighton Road, and is a dedicated fisherman who wants to see the industry survive. Jim Partridge’s determination to encourage new blood into the industry resulted in him working with the authorities at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Ford and HMP Lewes, to allow inmates to work at his wharf, making pots. One of those who first came along has now been released and, with agreement from the Probation Service, has joined Monteum full-time, and has really taken to his work. James Palmer, from HMP Ford, has achieved such a high success rate in getting inmates to work on day-release – not only with Monteum – that he has now been promoted to encourage other prisons across the UK to do the same. He will be succeeded at Ford by Chris Hawkes, who is responsible for helping prisoners integrate back into society and start life afresh. Jim Partridge said: “At the moment, we have two serving prisoners working with us on a daily basis – they travel to Monteum’s Royal Rebel moored at Fisherman’s Wharf.

Harry Hubbard and Tom Felix onboard Royal Rebel.

Shoreham each day, returning done, and puts a lot of effort to Ford in the evening. The one back in the other direction. It who has now joined our staff is a delight to see him walking full-time is mad keen to become around with a smile on his face. a fisherman. I plan to send him “Coming into the real world is on some fishery courses, and a really big challenge for many he has already been out to sea of them. Having been inmates a few times with our crews, for perhaps seven-plus years, to see just what is involved. the world outside has moved on, He really loves it, even having as has technology. We start by experienced a few choppy seas. paying their daily rail fares and “It is a two-way thing, and it for their lunch. After 12 weeks, has changed his life. He lives they then start to earn the locally, and his family are so minimum wage. After a while, pleased, and the reward is huge. they go home for five days, and Royal Rebel, ready to go on a crisp morning. He appreciates what we have are trusted to come to work from 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews MONTEUM 13

Safety is of paramount importance on Royal Rebel, as Harry Hubbard Harry Hubbard and Tom Felix place fresh bait in the whelk pots as the North Devon trawler Aurelia BD shows the emergency day and night flares and handheld VHF radio. 247 heads in to Shoreham. home – which they always do. It a trade behind me when I left trying to stand up, we returned is restoring their confidence in university, so I joined the local to shore, unloaded the catch, the real world!” cement works – from which I and prepared the boat for the retired at 22, and fulfilled my next day’s fishing, and we were The current industry dream of becoming a fisherman. happy to do it again – they were The feeling of all the Monteum “I started fishing with a friend, such enjoyable times!” team is that the UK will hopefully Peter Storey, in a Yorkshire These days, Jim feels that the get control of its fisheries again coble. In those days it was added work to satisfy the pen- – eventually. “I would not like so easy – there was none of pushers is basically over the top. to see it happen overnight, the endless paperwork and It is so onerous that it would not because investment encourage him to go into in a fishing boat is fishing in current times, extremely high, and I got into fishing because I unless drastic changes it would not be fair were made. for our European loved fishing! At the age “In good times, 18 counterparts to be boats were moored excluded immediately of eight, I was selling fish up on the quay at – it has to be done Shoreham. Now we can sensibly. I am totally Brexit, as a licence requirements we face count them on one hand. Many cousin to the Commonwealth. today. However, common local authorities now do not offer “I got into fishing because sense prevailed when it came much support to fishermen. At I loved fishing! At the age of to returning fish to the sea; we Shoreham we are luckier than eight, I was selling fish. My late fished sustainably. When it was most, as the current harbour father, who was an orthopaedic a nice ‘wobbly day’ and 95% master, Julian Seaman, was a consultant, insisted that I got of our energy was used in just fisherman, and he

Tom Felix preparing bait for the crab and lobster parlour pots...

… before throwing the grapnel to pick up the first buoy.

Shooting a string of whelk pots through a door in the starboard side. Circled: Jim Partridge in the wheelhouse of Royal Rebel. 14 MONTEUM Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019

Hauling underway. understands how our minds be incorrect for me to make any work. Of course there can be personal comments. I think they issues, but we do try to resolve are all well aware of my feelings them by mutual understanding.” regarding the industry,” Jim said, As for the Marine with a broad smile. Management Organisation Jim’s local MP, Tim Loughton, (MMO) and Sussex Inshore is an excellent MP who does Fisheries and Conservation a lot behind the scenes. “I Authority (IFCA), they are have learnt so much about the important. Red tape is a way fishermen work, linked Less favourable conditions were experienced at the first attempt the previous week. bugbear, and you cannot get rid to their concerns about the of it, and things have physically future, which has benefited this, you need young blood, and changed. Jim feels that both me in my parliamentary work, this is something he has worked bodies are needed, with some while restoring my faith in the hard on. approved leeway between all UK fishing industry,” said Tim “Peter Huxtable, who parties. Loughton. received the MBE for his work “Paul Johnson, principal with the Shoreham lifeboat as marine officer with the MMO, Company loyalty coxswain and is now the lifeboat is extremely hard-working, and This is very important to Jim, station’s operations manager, his heart is in the right place. and when he decides to move joined us in 1981, having a half- As for the IFCA – I sit on the on, he would like to leave a share on one of the boats, and Sussex committee, so it would vibrant fishery behind him. To do has worked very hard. “To survive, we need more Peters of this world joining the industry. There are some very loyal families who have stood by us, including the Huxtables and the Hubbards, to name a couple – Charlie Hubbard’s father was a brilliant self-taught marine engineer. “Grandfathers have been followed by sons and grandchildren. I am very proud Harry Hubbard taking brown crab from the end of a parlour pot. that I have effectively employed these people for almost 50 large wind farm developments Fishing off Shoreham years. Peter’s niece Jade is offering employment with high Improved weather conditions now serving in our wet fish wages. However, it is always gave an opportunity for Geoff shop, and helps in making the nice to see those who perhaps Lee to spend time at sea on pots. The temptation is still move on, returning and helping Royal Rebel, potting in the there to see pastures new, with out.” English Channel. Royal Rebel was built in 2010 by Buccaneer Boats as a 9.9m ring-netter, and now works as a dedicated potter/netter. The main engine is a Doosan MD136. Developing 180kW at 2,200rpm, the propulsion unit drives a 700mm-diameter five-bladed propeller through a PRM 1000 gearbox of 3:1 reduction ratio. The vessel’s hydraulic system is driven from a JCB 7444 42kW auxiliary engine. Shellfish are kept in 3 x 12m³ vivier tanks. Electronic equipment in the wheelhouse includes a MaxSea plotter, Furuno sonar, Furuno FCV1150 echosounder, Furuno FR8062 radar, Simrad AP35 autopilot, Furuno GP32 GPS receiver and 2 x Icom VHFs. Jim Partridge at the hauler, as Harry and Tom clear and rebait the Royal Rebel’s crew was pots… … as seen from the wheelhouse roof. skipper/owner Jim Partridge, 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews MONTEUM 15

Harry replacing one of the lost buoys. Tom lifts another parlour pot into position, ready to be shot away again. potting gear. along with his young crew (as short due to a sudden change Later, three dahn buoys he likes to call them), Harry in the weather. “Trying to stand were missing, including two on Hubbard and Tom Felix. “Royal upright while taking photographs the same fleet, as a result of Rebel operates best with a became rather difficult, but I which the trusted grapnel was three-man crew,” said Jim. had to admire the skills of all deployed to good effect. Royal Rebel left Shoreham at onboard in making the deck “It’s all in the life of a working 7.30am on a frosty December area secure while Jim took us inshore fisherman,” said Jim, morning for fishing grounds back into Shoreham, keeping his with a wry smile. 12-20 miles off the south eye on crew safety all the Heading home at a steady coast, where the new Rampion time.” 7.5 knots after hauling six offshore wind farm was always Usually fishing leaders, Royal Rebel docked at in view. in 30-35 fathoms Monteum’s wharf at 5.30pm. Harry said, “Our first task of water, Royal The catch, and unused bait, today is to drop a fleet of whelk Rebel uses were placed in bongos and then pots, before hauling the crab 30in parlour winched ashore, before being and lobster gear.” pots fitted weighed and placed in large Geoff Lee’s first trip, a week with 18in storage tanks. before this one, had to be cut bucket-top Jim and Harry watch the pots as they lead Geoff Lee said, “If only the aft… public realised just how hard … and clear the self-shooting door. our inshore fishermen work, they might have a different entrances, the end of 2018. perspective. Yes, the weather worked in Things did not go particularly was a lot better today than the fleets of 45 smoothly on this trip. One fleet last time I went out with them. at 15-fathom of pots was found to have been However, it is still very hard spacings on work, and I have to admire 16mm-diameter Sicor Jim for encouraging backropes. If only the public youngsters to come into More favourable the industry. Both Harry conditions prevailed the realised just how hard and Tom proved their second time around. skills tenfold today.” While Jim worked the our inshore fishermen work, 1.5t Spencer Carter Company activity hauler and duplicate they might have a Following the trip, engine/steering controls Jim Partridge said, “I forward at the starboard different perspective have a new-build in shoulder, Tom lifted progress. The hull was the pots aboard at the davit parted. Jim then had to call up made by Dale Nelson South arm roller and rebaited them, the skippers of beam trawlers Catamarans, based in Neyland, while Harry emptied the pots fishing nearby to ask them to Pembrokeshire. It is nearly built, before stacking them along the keep clear of Royal Rebel’s but I don’t want to invest money portside ready for reshooting. Selected shellfish were placed into the designated vivier tank for storage. Jim Partridge did not find last year to be one of the best. The hot summer had a diverse effect on their daily catches, due to increased water temperatures resulting in shellfish lying more dormant than usual on the seabed. Almost inevitably, when shellfish did start to become more active again, opportunities to catch them were curtailed by Self-shooting in progress. a run of poor weather towards Left: Checking lobsters for size…Right: … before banding them. 16 MONTEUM Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019

… before Tom places a crab into one of the three vivier storage tanks.

Tom and Harry nicking brown crab...

to go and catch quota fish to keep its whitefish licence. It’s a ‘Catch-22’ situation.” The fish that Jim buys from other boats is affected by quotas, and he has his wet fish shop, La Poissonnerie, on site, which is very busy. He Skipper Jim Partridge sets course back to Shoreham. supplies other markets, some of which take his crab and I have not got. The price of the knots. If I can get the crews, we export it to China. The market fishing licence is the stumbling will run both boats. is changeable, and over many block at the moment – although “The shellfish we fish for is years, Jim has seen a lot of there is light at the end of the generally non-quota, which the changes relating to fish types tunnel, with some planned MMO encourages – but by doing and countries involved. company developments. The this, we don’t fish for quota fish, “We never used to buy hake new boat is a 12m dedicated so we could lose that licence. – now we have it virtually all potter, with a speed of up to 26 The Rebel has therefore had the time in the shop, because

Landing brown crab from the vivier tanks.

the Europeans haven’t got the rather than an asset.” money to buy it like they used to. It has become an affordable Pot manufacture fish in the UK again. Companies The response to the range and countries have to change of crab and lobster pots that continuously, otherwise they get Monteum builds has given the left behind. Europe has been a company some new product Royal Rebel returning to Fisherman’s Wharf. general hindrance to commerce, ideas for the future. Sales 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews MONTEUM 17

Royal Rebel, washed down and ready to go again.

for these are increasing on a regular basis within the UK and overseas, with current orders for 300 pots for Newlyn and others for France. “It is nice to see such a Jade Huxtable displays some of the fresh fish and seafood… positive product response … for sale in Monteum’s La Poissonnerie fishmonger’s shop. in an industry that is fairly competitive. I worry a little that if things don’t go to plan with Brexit, it could have an adverse effect on sales. To put it bluntly, Alex Partridge. the whole industry appears to be in a state of flux. lot more complicated. I want to “Thanks to our helpers from see what we have achieved over HMP Ford and HMP Lewes, we 50 years survive. Loyalty is what are producing a range of high- it is about, and it should work quality pots. Peter Huxtable’s both ways.” brother Chris looks after this Jim recalled a comment side of the company, and we from a friend. “If you earn a owe him a lot of thanks for the fortune with no work, it only in-house training he has given lasts five minutes, as everyone to our new team members,” said else does your job. It is the Jim. difficulties that make one’s job profitable.” Jim has a great The future team around him, and they are Shoreham has seen a lot of new a happy family. property development along Jim’s daughter Alex Partridge he had worked to develop the Peter Huxtable. Chris Huxtable. Brighton Road, and Jim is at came into the Monteum family company. times under a lot of pressure as a result of Jim having some “It has been a learning shareholder, I am able to see the fore the memories of all the to sell his land. “Cash-wise it health issues. Until then, she curve, and what I appreciate why he would not want to sell it fishermen who have fished from makes a lot of sense, but life is a was not fully aware of how hard is that now, as a company for development or self-gain,” this port. I would not have seen she said. “Having a going this, had I not worked here. It concern, and somewhere for has made me respect my dad’s fishermen to land their catch, achievements, proving that we allows us to keep the industry do have a future – one that I alive at Shoreham. It’s about now very much want to be part our survival, and keeping to of.” ■

Monteum’s new potting catamaran in build. Jim Partridge as a young fisherman. 18 READERS’ PHOTOS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019 READERS’ PHOTOS

The selection of photographs The Cheetah Marine shown on this page have been catamaran Good One BS 7 sent in by Fishing News readers. returning to Amlwch Port, Although the number of North Wales. (Liam Thomas) photos currently being received is insufficient to generate a Photo of the Month competition, a selection of readers’ photos will continue to be printed whenever possible. At the end of the year, the reader who sent in the photo judged to be the best by Fishing News will receive £100. Readers are invited to email ([email protected]) photographs of any subject related to the fishing industry – action shots at sea, colour harbour scenes, night-time images, etc.

The Orkney trawler Russa Taign berthed at Kirkwall pier and dressed up for Christmas. (Magnus Budge) The scalloper Jackdaw heading in to Holyhead. (Michael Thomas)

Two-year-old Mya Gillies from Barra reading her dad’s Fishing News. A tranquil night scene at Burghead with the Cygnus 21 Winner INS 7, Lee-Rose BF 43, a Versatility 35, and Westerly Warrior INS (Daniel Gillies) 24, one of the first Cygnus GM33s, alongside.(Andrew May) 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 19 PORTS & PRICES GOOD PRICES AND SUPPLIES ON FIRST TWO WHITEFISH MARKETS OF THE YEAR AT PETERHEAD

Peterhead market started 2019 strongly as Faithful, Beryl, Ellorah, Faithlie, Consortium and boxes of megrim. skippers and crews that fished New Year trips Audacious, together with eight consignments Large cod sold at £3.50-£4.30 per kg, landed 13,028 boxes for the first two sales, from Harvest Hope, Aalskere, Boy John, medium £3-£3.70, selected £3-£3.50 and reports David Linkie. Rosebloom, Keila, Opportunus IV, Caledonia small £2.50-£3.50 of the opening market of the All selections secured good prices on the III and Endeavour IV, contributed 6,641 boxes year. Large gutted haddock made £2.50-£3.25 opening market of the year, although round to the first market of this year at Peterhead on per kg, medium haddock £2.50-£3.10, selected haddock and whiting dropped the next morning, Thursday 3 January. This tally included 2,063 £2.80-£3.25, small £2.25-£3, chippers £1.50- reflecting the fact that some processors were boxes of cod, 1,554 boxes of coley, 1,390 boxes £3, metros £1.50-£2.25 and round haddock not scheduled to start full production again until of gutted and 213 boxes of round haddock, 299 £1.40-£1.65 per kg. Gutted whiting were at the beginning of this week when filleting staff boxes of whiting (213 rounders), 295 boxes of £2.20-£3 per kg, round whiting £1.60-£2.30, returned to work. squid, 158 boxes of hake,149 boxes of ling, 132 coley £1.95-£2.40, monkfish £5-£7.50, Seven boats, Celestial Dawn, Forever boxes of monkfish, 77 boxes of flatfish and 41 megrim £3-£7.50, lemon sole £3-£9.75, ling Faithlie and Audacious were the first pair team to land at Peterhead this year. SUMMARY ANALYSIS OF 2018 PETERHEAD FISHMARKET SUPPLIES £3-£4, plaice £1.70-£3 and hake £3-£5.30 medium £2.60-£3.30, selected £2.50-£3.50, The 1,438,316 boxes of whitefish sold witches), ling (42,005 boxes), squid result of North Sea hake, plaice and per kg. small £2.70-£3.55, chippers £2.40- on Peterhead market in 2018 set a (33,467 boxes) and megrim (25,719 whiting, and West Coast haddock being Eight boats, Bonaventure, Fruitful Bough, £3, metros 80p-£2 and round haddock new port record by surpassing the boxes) were the other main species awarded MSC certification on 3 July, Favonius, Shalanna, Orion, Atlas, Tranquility 75p-£1.15. Monkfish sold at £3-£5.50, previous highest total of 1,324,814 landed. closely followed by Rockall haddock, boxes established 12 months earlier by In a year in which sourcing supplies after being successfully entered for and Beryl, plus seven consignments from gutted whiting £1.30-£2.50, round whiting 113,502 boxes; an increase of 8%. from sustainable and well-managed assessment by the Scottish Fisheries Valhalla, Guiding Light, Guiding Star, Ocean 80p-£1.40, hake £2-£7, coley £1.50-£2.50, Of the 2018 total, haddock fisheries is of particular relevance, Sustainable Accreditation Group. Vision, Carina, Opportune (PD) and Opportune ling £2-£3.25, plaice £2.10-£3 and squid accounted for 376,182 boxes (26%), of the high levels of MSC-accredited In the following six months, some (WK), landed 6,387 boxes for Friday’s market £3-£7.20 per kg. which 316,394 boxes were gutted. whitefish sold on Peterhead market 70,000 boxes of MSC-accredited hake, at Peterhead. This sale included 1,789 boxes Fifteen boats and 15 consignments Cod (314,995 boxes) occupied every morning is particularly 60,000 boxes of whiting and 20,000 of coley, 921 boxes of round and 594 boxes of contributed to last week’s two-day tally of second place, followed by 187,211 noteworthy. boxes of plaice crossed the market gutted haddock, 1,207 boxes of cod, 546 boxes 13,028 boxes on Peterhead market. This total boxes of coley. Whiting (138,479 boxes, The three main species of haddock, floor. These additions take the total of monkfish, 482 boxes of whiting (395 boxes included 3,343 boxes of coley, 3,270 boxes of including 101,051 of rounders) were cod and coley together accounted for number of boxes of fish sourced ungutted), 283 boxes of hake, 218 boxes of ling, cod, 3,120 boxes of haddock (1,136 rounders), narrowly ahead of hake (123,481 over 800,000 boxes of MSC-accredited from independently accessed MSC 171 boxes of flatfish, 144 boxes of squid, and 1,138 boxes of whiting (520 ungutted), 818 boxes). fish traded on Peterhead market last fisheries in 2018 to over 900,000 boxes; Monkfish (73,336 boxes), flatfish year; 56% of all sales. some two-thirds of market sales at 89 boxes of megrim. boxes of monkfish, 441 boxes of hake, 439 (48,622boxes lemon sole/plaice/ This figure increases further as a Peterhead. Last Friday morning at Peterhead, large boxes of squid, 218 boxes of ling, 171 boxes gutted haddock made £2.60-£3.10 per kg, of flatfish and 130 boxes of megrim. BRIXHAM FISH MARKET IN 2018 KEEN DEMAND ACROSS A special focus on trends in volumes and prices It’s seen a consistent increase over the past two Cuttlefish averaged £3.42/kg for 1s and £2.11 for the main species sold at Brixham 2016 - years, from £1.4m in 2016 to £2.1m in 2018, an for 2s. Size 2 dabs averaged £1/kg. John Dory 2018 is shown on page 21. Data supplied by increase of 49%. On the other hand, monkfish 1s were £11.80/kg, 2s £12, 3s £9.30 and 4s THE BOARD IN SHETLAND Brixham Trawler Agents show that over the has seen a consistent decline from £2.1m in £6.50/kg. All selections of whitefish attracted high (15,682kg of which 12,176kg were ungutted), course of 2018 £34.6m of fish were traded 2016 to £1.7m in 2018, a decrease of 21%. Haddock 1s averaged £2.80/kg and 2s prices on the first two electronic auctions of saithe (10,624kg), plaice (4,022kg) and on Brixham market. This was down £5.7m The other species in the top 10 by value at £2.60. Hake 1s averaged £6, 2s £6.20, 3s the year in Shetland. Standout highs included megrim (2,568kg). compared to the £40.3m for in 2017, but up Brixham are hake, brill, squid and bass, all with £6.20, 4s £6.50, 5s £6.20, 6s £5.60, 7s £3.20 cod at £5.44 per kg, monkfish £8.05, saithe Buyer demand was strong across both £4.6m compared to the £30m seen in 2016. In landing values over £1m. The top 10 species and 8s £2.40. Lemon sole averaged £11.50/kg £2.48 and whiting £4.34. auctions, with prices for some selections volume terms, 2018 was lower than both 2016 make up 85% of the total sales seen by value. for 1s, £12.50 for 2s, 3s were £9.70, 4s £3.80 The Skerries trawler Sharyn Louise was rising on Friday morning. Round haddock and 2017, but values were boosted by better Hake has seen the value of sales increase by and 5s £2.30. Ling 1s averaged £1.90/kg, 2s the first boat to land in Shetland this year, peaked at £1.90 per kg, lemon sole £11.94, prices.The average seen for all species sold was 84% in 2018 compared with 2016. Brill has £2.20 and 3s £1.20. when another eight arrivals contributed 2,921 megrim £8.35, plaice £3.24, turbot £14.30 £3.92 per kg, compared to £3.62 in 2017 and increased by 20% over two years, squid is up Mackerel averaged £4.50 for 2s and 3s boxes for Thursday’s market. Five vessels and round whiting £1.66 on Thursday’s £2.94 in 2016. 32% (but down 17% compared to 2017), and £1.20. Monkfish 1s averaged £15.60, 2s landed 954 boxes for Friday’s sale. market. The following morning, catfish sold Cuttlefish remained the main species, with the value of bass sales has declined by 9%. £15.90, 3s £15.70, 4s £12.50, 5s £9.30 and 6s Cod (63,174kg), was the main species at up to £4.24 per kg, cod £5.44, gutted £9.6m of sales. However, this was down £6.8m Last week Brixham held auctions on every £5.80. Red mullet 1s averaged £12/kg, 2s £10 landed in Shetland last week, followed by haddock £3.57, hake £5.54, halibut £13.27, from the £16.4m seen in what proved to be an day except New Year’s Day. 124t were sold, with and 3s £4.50. Octopus averaged £2.15/kg. haddock (21,879kg including 4,232kg of lythe £4.37, saithe £2.48, squid £4.77, outstanding year for landings in 2017. Looking an average price of £2.90/kg and a total value Plaice 1s averaged £4.20/kg, 2s £3.20, 3s rounders), monkfish (19,937kg), whiting whiting £4.34 and witches £3.24 per kg. at the sales through Brixham for all species of £360k. This compares to a total of just £173k £3.50, 4s £3.20 and 5s £1.80. Pollack 1s were excluding cuttlefish, the value of sales in 2018 in the first week of January in 2018. £4.50/kg, 2s £4.20, 3s £3.20 and 4s £2. Sharyn Louise landing actually increased by more than £1m. Sole, the Bass averaged £10/kg for 1s, 2s and 3s, 4s Sand sole 1s were £8.50/kg and 2s £4.90. into Lerwick fishmarket second most important species by value has were £10 on Friday after £4-5/kg at the start Large scallops averaged £8.50 and 2s £4.80. on Wednesday night of seen sales grow from £4.6m in 2016, to £5.7m of the week but averaged £7, and 5s were £6. Dover sole 1s averaged £16/kg, 2s £16.20, 3s last week. in 2017, and £6.6m in 2018. Taken together, Blondie wing 1s were £4.90, 2s £3.50, 3s £3.40 £17.50, 4s £13, 5s £11.40, 6s £7.70 and 7s (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) cuttlefish and sole account for 47% of the value and 4s £1.50. Size two black bream averaged £5.50. Large squid were £6.40 and 2s £5.80/ of all fish sold. £4.50/kg and 3s £4. Size 1 brill averaged kg. The third most valuable species sold was £12.50/kg, 2s £11, 3s £9.80, 4s £6.80 and 5s Thorny wing 2s averaged £3.10/kg, 3s were scallops with £2.8m of sales, up a little on 2017 £4.50. £3.10 and 4s 80p. Large tubs were £2.80/kg and steady compared to 2016. After scallops, Size 1 cod averaged £5.20/kg, 2s £5.80, and 2s £1.70. Turbot averaged £21/kg for 1s, 2s the next three most valuable species are turbot, 3s £5.20, 4s £4 and 5s £2. Size 1 coley £17.50, 3s £16, 4s £15, 5s £13 and 6s £9.50. plaice and monkfish. In 2018 plaice overtook were £1.80/kg, 2s £1.60 and 3s £1. Conger Large whiting averaged £2.20/kg, 2s £1.90, 3s monkfish to claim fifth place in the rankings. averaged £1.20 for 1s, 2s were 30p and 3s 20p. £1 and 4s 50p. GOOD START TO 2019 FOR NEWLYN Two beamers, three netters and hand-line Top prices from the morning were N3 MSC To finish the week, three beamers, four boats supplied the first auction of 2019 on hake £5.27/kg, N1 John dory £12.12/kg and netters and inshore boats landed 45.1t. Wednesday at Newlyn with 46.5t. N1 megrim £8.21/kg. Partly contributing to this volume was 2t Highest volume species were 0.4t of cod, Thursday’s market was supplied with 24.7t of cuttlefish, 1.3t Dover sole, 2.7t haddock, 1.4t Dover sole, 2.4t haddock, 9t MSC hake, from three netters, two beamers and inshore 7.6t MSC hake, 0.2t John dory, 1t lemon sole, ONE-DAY TRADING AT LOWESTOFT 0.4t John Dory, 0.3t ling, 8.6t mackerel, boats. 0.4t ling, 6.9t mackerel, 8.1t megrim, 3.9t Last week saw the first auction of the year for Lowestoft on Thursday, with just 1t of 3.8t megrim, 1.7t monkfish, 0.3t plaice, 4.8t The majority high-volume species were 0.5t monkfish, 0.4t plaice, and 1t pollack. supplies, and nothing for Friday. Seven boats from the local fishing areas of the east pollack. of pollack, 1.6t monkfish, 2.5t megrim, 0.3t Good prices were again achieved for most coast supplied seven varieties to the market, with skate the main species on offer, It was pleasing to see good landings from lemon sole, 2.4t MSC hake, 7t mackerel, 0.8t species, with N2 MSC hake £6.02/kg, N2 with a high of £2.50/kg. A rare sight at the auction was a small supply of pollack the local inshore fleet again, after a barren haddock, 1.5t Dover sole and 4t of cuttlefish. lemon sole £11.87/kg, N2 monkfish £12.50/kg which traded from £2.50 to £4. While the temperatures have dropped, a lack of wind few weeks in the build-up to Christmas due to Demand was high and good prices were being prices most worthy of mention. was expected to result in a busier auction this week. weather conditions. achieved for most species. The total volume for the week was 116.3t. 20 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 10 January 2019

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week mth ago yr ago week mth ago yr ago week mth ago yr ago week mth ago 4wks ago Boxes whitefish 13,028 30,377 16,019 Kg landed 36,647 77,417 124,142 Kg landed 116,355 127,893 13,775 Kgs sold 484,941 425,640 1,568,747 Average price £2.04 £3.92 £2.90 Average price £3.94 £3.07 #DIV/0! Cod large £3.50 £4.60 £3.88 £3.57 Average price £2.28 £1.96 £1.92 Value of sales (£) 74,760 303,475 359,704 Value of sales (£) 457,982 392,562 56,511 Cod medium £3.20 £3.85 £3.38 £2.74 Value of sales (£) £1.08m £0.84m £3.08m Bass (1) 126 £8.86 £19.19 £10.37 Bass (2) 55 £11.57 £11.00 £11.10 Cod selected £3.00 £3.50 £2.96 £2.65 Arctic charr fillets 150 £10.62 £10.33 £10.30 Bass (2) 174 £8.96 £18.00 £10.45 Bass (3) 11 £12.00 £12.06 £11.10 Bass (3) 178 £9.56 £15.50 £9.62 Cod small £2.50 £3.35 £2.82 £2.85 Blue ling (gutted) 484 £1.93 £1.31 £1.34 Bass (4) 102 £9.86 £10.21 £9.67 Haddock chippers £1.95 £3.00 £2.49 £2.39 Blue ling (ungutted) 286 £2.17 £1.91 £1.35 Bass (4) 260 £9.18 £9.17 £6.97 Bass (5) 93 £7.29 £7.16 £9.23 Catfish (gutted) 13,767 £2.64 £1.82 £2.75 Bass (5) 132 £7.92 £8.16 £5.25 Haddock large £2.55 £3.18 £2.97 £2.94 Blonde Ray (L) 447 £1.84 £1.80 £2.27 Catfish (ungutted) 788 £1.92 £2.43 £2.40 Brill (1) 53 £11.99 £14.03 £11.44 Blonde Ray (M) 461 £1.91 £1.23 £1.52 Haddock medium £2.55 £3.20 £2.80 £2.92 Cod (large, gutted) 72,174 £2.82 £2.52 £2.07 Brill (2) 22 £10.69 £11.51 £10.06 Blonde Ray (S) 103 £1.00 £1.51 - Haddock metros £0.90 £2.13 £1.51 £1.71 Cod (large, ungutted) 168,426 £2.48 £2.19 £2.16 Brill (3) 24 £8.62 £10.19 £8.66 Blue Shark (9) 24 £0.50 - - Haddock seed £2.48 £3.28 £2.86 £2.93 Cod (small, gutted) 894 £0.99 £0.22 £1.12 Brill (4) 27 £6.97 £7.54 £6.13 Brill (1) 36 £9.78 £12.39 £11.33 Haddock selected £2.65 £3.38 £2.86 £2.97 Cod (small, ungutted) 7,132 £1.03 £0.85 £1.11 Brill (5) 2 £4.12 £5.22 £3.70 Brill (2) 185 £10.35 £12.01 £13.03 Hake £2.50 £6.15 £4.55 £6.17 Cod cheeks 18 £7.10 £6.68 £6.51 Cock crabs 2 £0.50 £5.10 £5.31 Brill (3) 270 £7.48 £8.92 £10.15 Brill (4) 105 £5.33 £7.24 £10.12 Lemon sole £3.50 £10.88 £9.20 £11.24 Dab (gutted) 312 £0.25 £0.03 - Cod (1) 72 £5.72 £4.86 Cod (2) 114 £5.78 £2.66 £5.74 Brill (5) 5 £8.60 - - Ling £2.50 £3.63 £2.55 £1.79 Greenland halibut (gutted) 48 £1.55 £2.61 £2.74 Cod (3) 80 £5.59 £3.20 £4.96 Claws (9) 10 £1.22 - £2.00 Megrim £3.00 £7.75 £4.82 £5.85 Haddock (large, gutted) 39,104 £1.99 £1.49 £1.90 Cod (2) 134 £7.12 £4.00 - Conger (1) 7 £0.80 £0.48 £0.73 Haddock (large, ungutted) 68,584 £2.40 £1.83 £1.99 Cod (3) 280 £5.79 £5.06 £5.56 Monkfish £4.00 £6.50 £5.58 £5.60 Conger (2) 13 £0.20 £0.40 £0.21 Haddock (small, gutted) 610 £1.17 £0.65 £1.34 Cod (4) 182 £3.66 £2.87 £0.86 Plaice £1.90 £3.00 £2.76 £2.17 Haddock (small, ungutted) 2,182 £0.78 £0.72 £1.08 Cuttlefish (1) 620 £3.46 £3.39 £3.41 Cod (5) 54 £2.67 £2.49 £4.90 Round haddock £1.08 £1.40 £0.47 £1.19 Halibut (gutted) 1,451 £3.77 £4.00 £3.23 Cuttlefish (2) 236 £2.10 £2.02 £2.10 Conger Eels (1) 164 £0.31 £0.40 £0.53 Round whiting £0.90 £1.85 £1.84 £1.18 Lemon sole (gutted) 1,147 £4.29 £2.43 £4.68 Dogfish 3,368 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Cuckoo ray (L) 50 £1.00 £1.00 £1.32 Saithe £1.75 £2.45 £1.67 £1.39 Ling (gutted) 2,913 £1.58 £1.24 £1.24 Gurnard (2) 6 £2.00 £1.48 £2.47 Cuckoo ray (M) 1,341 £1.08 £1.30 £1.27 Gurnard (4) 233 £0.60 £0.60 £0.60 Squid £2.50 £7.60 £7.20 £5.23 Ling (ungutted) 4,485 £1.70 £1.41 £1.29 Cuckoo ray (S) 124 £0.20 £0.05 £0.13 Haddock (1) 651 £2.95 £2.41 £2.71 Cuttlefish (L) 4,092 £3.16 £3.39 £4.19 Whiting £1.75 £2.75 £2.31 £2.01 Megrim (gutted) 457 £0.65 - £1.23 Haddock (2) 5 £2.80 £2.56 Cuttlefish (S) 2,174 £1.98 £2.02 £2.80 Monkfish (gutted) 3,511 £3.49 £4.06 £3.92 Witches £2.25 £3.75 £2.15 £1.88 Hake (1) 15 £6.00 £3.70 £5.92 Dover sole (1) 339 £16.38 £15.86 £16.94 Plaice (gutted) 16,358 £2.61 £2.04 £2.56 Hake (2) 44 £6.64 £3.70 £6.15 Dover sole (2) 610 £15.89 £15.25 £15.99 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Redfish (ungutted) 26,851 £2.02 £1.60 £1.74 TO 4 JANUARY landed price/kg mth ago ago Hake (3) 96 £6.70 £3.57 £6.18 Dover sole (3) 1,227 £16.65 £16.30 £13.89 Saithe (gutted) 38,590 £0.88 £0.84 £0.87 Hake (4) 217 £6.71 £3.50 £6.46 Dover sole (4) 1,150 £12.98 £11.01 £12.49 week mth ago yr ago Saithe (ungutted) 3,296 £0.92 £0.82 £0.75 Dover sole (5) 521 £11.35 £11.77 £11.72 Hake (5) 722 £6.29 £3.30 £6.14 Boxes landed 3,875 8,634 4,227 Skate (gutted) 34 £0.23 £0.26 £0.70 Gurnard and latchet (L) 221 £2.77 £2.69 £1.60 Hake (6) 1,091 £5.43 £3.33 £5.53 Catfish 96 £3.88 £4.35 £3.76 Spotted catfish (gutted) 4,372 £3.24 £2.66 £2.68 Gurnard and latchet (M) 468 £0.98 £0.98 £0.86 Hake (7) 361 £3.14 £2.50 £3.15 Cod (2) 23,891 £3.64 £3.57 £3.06 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 92 £2.21 £1.82 £2.39 Gurnard and latchet (S) 970 £0.50 £0.53 £1.02 John Dory (3) 3 £8.50 £12.40 £9.02 Cod (3) 14,717 £3.07 £3.18 £2.74 Tusk (gutted) 540 £0.95 £0.32 £0.71 Haddock (1) 799 £2.79 £2.38 £2.20 Lemon sole (1) 20 £11.80 £11.60 £11.32 Cod (4) 11,705 £2.71 £2.68 £2.33 Tusk (gutted) 540 £0.95 £0.32 £0.71 Haddock (2) 3,596 £2.77 £2.20 £2.19 Lemon sole (2) 30 £12.10 £11.34 Haddock (3) 1,541 £2.33 £2.33 £1.75 Cod (5) 8,669 £2.57 £2.38 £2.32 Tusk (ungutted) 1,709 £0.67 £0.47 £0.63 Lemon sole (3) 47 £9.80 £9.01 £8.24 Haddock (4) 234 £0.66 £1.41 £0.92 Whiting (gutted) 247 £0.20 £0.11 £0.70 Cod (6) 3,265 £2.37 £2.31 £1.87 Lemon sole (4) 70 £3.54 £3.20 £3.46 Haddock (5) 50 £1.07 £1.40 £0.80 Whiting (ungutted) 139 £0.27 £0.34 £0.47 Haddock (1) 2,181 £2.95 £2.75 £2.75 Lemon sole (5) 94 £2.14 £2.30 £2.05 Hake (0) 61 £0.29 £0.42 £1.00 Haddock (2) 5,352 £3.07 £2.84 £2.95 Witch (gutted) 1 £0.03 - £0.86 Line mackerel (2) 10 £7.29 £2.90 £4.19 Hake (1) 423 £5.54 £3.69 £5.58 Haddock (3) 5,228 £2.66 £2.25 £2.41 Witch (ungutted) 182 £0.81 - £1.36 Line mackerel (3) 52 £1.62 £0.75 £0.46 Hake (2) 853 £5.76 £3.41 £5.83 Hake (3) 2,497 £5.62 £3.47 £5.69 Haddock (4) 3,045 £2.40 £2.07 £1.96 HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m Lobster 1 £20.00 £17.66 £23.94 Hake (4) 5,036 £5.31 £3.12 £5.13 Haddock (5) 1,841 £1.39 £1.38 £1.64 TO 21 DECEMBER landed price/kg mth ago ago Monkfish tails (1) 12 £15.50 £14.74 £15.08 Hake (5) 6,315 £4.48 £2.81 £4.38 Monkfish tails (2) 24 £15.07 £15.25 £15.61 Haddock (round) 4,232 £1.25 £1.42 £1.01 Hake (6) 1,087 £3.30 £2.53 £3.29 week mth ago yr ago Monkfish tails (3) 11 £12.72 £13.57 £15.47 Hake (2) 91 £5.41 £3.87 £5.71 Herring (M) 325 £1.27 £0.66 £1.02 Kgs sold 308,499 566,368 779,306 Monkfish tails (4) 10 £9.68 £12.92 £12.26 Hake (3) 195 £5.14 £3.35 £4.43 Herring (S) 7 £0.20 £0.41 - Average price £2.00 £2.13 £2.04 Monkfish tails (5) 10 £9.00 £12.11 £9.22 Hake (4) 206 £3.25 £2.39 £2.98 Value of sales (£) £0.60m £1.21m £1.56m John Dory (1) 32 £12.04 £11.71 £16.07 Monkfish tails (6) 9 £3.51 £5.70 £5.26 John Dory (2) 115 £10.35 £7.22 £10.18 Halibut (3) 43 £12.68 £12.12 £13.19 Catfish (1) 671 £4.43 £6.30 £3.47 Octopus 138 £2.26 £2.20 £2.10 John Dory (3) 228 £9.16 £9.15 £7.19 Halibut (4) 84 £11.97 £9.82 £9.87 Cod (0) 25 £1.15 £4.90 £3.13 Plaice (1) 24 £4.80 £2.99 £3.84 John Dory (4) 175 £5.37 £6.61 £7.00 Lemon sole (2) 123 £6.32 £10.93 £8.87 Cod (1) 378 £2.56 £4.94 £2.91 Plaice (2) 58 £3.71 £2.69 £2.85 John Dory (5) 66 £3.39 £4.24 £5.27 Lemon sole (4) 428 £3.19 £5.89 £5.84 Cod (2) 2,911 £2.68 £4.47 £2.80 Plaice (3) 52 £3.52 £2.63 £3.10 Lemon sole (1) 254 £10.41 £13.35 £10.99 Ling 3,215 £2.54 £1.86 £1.82 Cod (3) 5,430 £2.85 £4.18 £3.00 Plaice (4) 35 £3.19 £2.27 £2.68 Lemon sole (2) 239 £11.60 £12.99 £10.82 Lythe 632 £3.92 £4.90 £3.25 Cod (4) 3,778 £2.79 £3.13 £2.94 Plaice (5) 94 £1.60 £2.09 £1.80 Lemon sole (3) 429 £11.88 £10.72 £10.75 Megrim (2) 1,190 £7.37 £5.92 £5.40 Cod (5) 1,462 £2.08 £2.62 £2.36 Pollock (2) 105 £4.51 £2.50 £3.94 Lemon sole (4) 673 £3.77 £4.24 £4.97 Haddock (1) 3,287 £2.00 £2.62 £2.26 Lemon sole (5) 210 £2.45 £2.31 £3.00 Megrim (3) 654 £5.48 £4.34 £3.76 Pollock (3) 66 £3.15 £2.00 £2.96 Haddock (2) 863 £1.88 £1.79 £1.96 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 7 £4.50 £6.50 £4.81 Ling (L) 659 £2.20 £2.03 £2.00 Megrim (4) 724 £3.84 £2.76 £2.74 Ling (M) 164 £2.13 £1.99 £2.42 Haddock (3) 250 £1.31 £1.30 £1.73 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 2 £2.50 £4.00 £3.14 Monkfish (1) 460 £4.96 £4.90 £5.22 Ling (S) 42 £1.27 £0.66 - Hake (0) 146 £2.99 £4.97 £2.68 Ray wings (small eye, 3) 6 £3.50 £2.00 £2.96 Monkfish (2) 2,565 £6.14 £5.37 £6.11 Mackerel (LM) 1,675 £2.97 £3.67 £4.73 Hake (1) 775 £3.31 £3.67 £2.26 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 6 £3.20 £3.82 £3.01 Monkfish (3) 12,240 £5.95 £5.58 £4.98 Mackerel (M) 18,857 £1.57 £2.29 £2.96 Hake (2) 995 £3.32 £3.37 £2.01 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 27 £3.15 £3.87 £2.94 Monkfish (4) 3,729 £5.87 £5.44 £4.75 Mackerel (S) 2,072 £0.55 £0.46 £0.56 Hake (3) 452 £2.52 £2.84 £1.53 Ray wings (thornback, 4) 25 £0.85 £1.62 £0.37 Megrim (1) 608 £7.95 £3.72 £7.54 Monkfish (5) 746 £4.00 £3.83 £4.07 Lemon sole (1) 98 £6.92 £13.80 £7.53 Red mullet (3) 1 £10.20 £13.60 £11.90 Megrim (2) 1,300 £7.75 £3.53 £6.29 Monkfish (6) 197 £3.22 £2.95 £3.13 Lemon sole (2) 281 £6.18 £11.56 £7.00 Scallop (2) 3,732 £3.93 £6.30 £3.96 Megrim (3) 1,646 £6.25 £3.88 £5.22 Plaice (2) 1,056 £3.15 £2.71 £2.39 Lemon sole (3) 223 £4.93 £5.50 £4.97 Scallop meat 76 £14.00 £14.00 Megrim (4) 2,234 £4.35 £3.30 £4.77 Plaice (3) 1,636 £2.19 £2.13 £1.68 Ling (1) 4,052 £2.02 £2.66 £1.65 Sole (1) 79 £16.97 £16.58 £15.53 Megrim (5) 5,307 £4.16 £2.28 £3.75 Plaice (4) 1,330 £1.64 £1.66 £1.12 Ling (2) 3,057 £2.24 £2.42 £1.76 Sole (2) 89 £16.14 £15.21 £15.39 Monkfish - Cheeks (9) 17 £7.66 £12.57 £7.91 Saithe (2) 2,094 £2.02 £1.38 £1.63 Ling (3) 3,044 £2.12 £2.01 £1.64 Sole (3) 138 £17.79 £16.75 £16.25 Monkfish (1) 172 £12.82 £15.27 £16.17 Monkfish (2) 1,313 £12.75 £15.58 £17.77 Saithe (3) 2,355 £2.22 £1.34 £1.51 Megrim 536 £2.52 £2.39 £2.13 Sole (4) 63 £13.78 £12.45 £12.53 Monkfish (1) 1,764 £4.84 £6.41 £4.47 Sole (5) 40 £11.10 £9.68 £10.94 Monkfish (3) 2,129 £11.82 £11.79 £16.26 Saithe (4) 6,176 £1.99 £0.78 £1.27 Monkfish (4) 1,806 £10.62 £11.99 £13.72 Monkfish (2) 5,240 £4.57 £6.34 £4.35 Sole (6) 6 £7.50 £8.00 £6.55 Skate 1,809 £0.78 £1.22 £1.17 Monkfish (5) 1,578 £7.61 £8.75 £10.06 Monkfish (3) 8,817 £4.60 £6.16 £4.14 Squid (1) 209 £6.33 £8.00 £5.82 Skate, mixed 159 £0.31 £0.64 £1.22 Octopus (M) 412 £2.20 £2.26 £1.63 Monkfish (4) 1,952 £4.54 £5.76 £4.10 Squid (2) 2,040 £5.72 £5.83 £5.00 Squid 3,168 £1.79 £4.50 £2.73 Plaice (1) 597 £3.23 £3.65 £2.93 Monkfish (5) 190 £3.07 £3.19 £3.21 Squid (mix) 9 £4.00 £5.31 £4.44 Turbot 103 £14.06 £17.85 £13.36 Plaice (2) 220 £2.97 £2.65 £2.19 Plaice (1) 56 £1.13 £4.99 £2.12 Turbot (1) 10 £24.50 £24.14 £19.43 Plaice (3) 130 £3.59 £2.65 £2.38 Whiting (2) 1,715 £3.49 £2.41 £2.22 Plaice (2) 141 £2.15 £5.18 £2.29 Turbot (2) 20 £14.50 £22.81 £14.84 Plaice (4) 119 £2.32 £2.29 £1.66 Whiting (3) 2,656 £2.22 £2.04 £1.75 Plaice (3) 181 £2.16 £4.72 £2.28 Turbot (3) 11 £14.26 £19.32 £14.84 Pollack, lythe (1) 1,636 £3.71 £5.00 £4.19 Whiting (4) 135 £1.33 - £0.92 Plaice (4) 171 £1.59 £3.15 £2.11 Turbot (4) 14 £16.26 £18.10 £13.59 Pollack, lythe (2) 2,154 £3.77 £4.65 £4.25 Whiting, round 12,176 £1.14 £1.50 £1.33 Pollack (2) 1,897 £3.03 £6.28 £3.01 Turbot (5) 52 £14.63 £13.96 £11.73 Pollack, lythe (3) 1,582 £3.53 £4.31 £4.51 Witches, (2/3) 90 £2.51 £3.04 £1.53 Pollack (3) 2,203 £3.02 £5.18 £2.75 Turbot (6) 13 £8.67 £9.57 £8.61 Pollack, lythe (4) 1,025 £2.94 £3.20 £3.40 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (m) 292 £0.28 £0.40 £0.10 Witches, (4) 406 £1.47 £1.15 £1.28 Pollack (4) 291 £2.46 £3.88 £2.39 Whelks 851 £1.30 £1.30 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 212 £0.18 £0.44 £0.45 Saithe (1) 66 £0.66 £1.88 £1.33 Whiting (1) 39 £2.97 £1.76 £2.13 GRIMSBY, THURSDAY Min Max Max, Max, yr Red mullet (1) 50 £11.37 £10.85 £9.86 3 JANUARY price/kg price/kg mth ago ago Saithe (2) 428 £1.06 £1.67 £1.25 Whiting (2) 97 £2.00 £1.42 £1.66 Whiting (3) 353 £1.09 £1.12 £0.84 Red mullet (2) 69 £6.80 £8.23 £8.05 Saithe (3) 1,702 £0.94 £1.30 £1.05 Red mullet (3) 44 £5.04 £9.87 £10.27 Cod (1) £4.50 £4.50 - £3.60 Saithe (4) 428 £0.83 £1.12 £0.72 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Min Max Max, Max, yr Saithe (2) 283 £1.60 £1.35 £1.65 Cod (2) £4.40 £5.00 - £3.40 TO 4 JANUARY price/kg price/kg mth ago ago Squid 269 £5.74 £5.57 £3.49 Saithe (3) 133 £1.44 £1.36 £1.68 Cod (3) £3.30 £4.00 £3.00 £2.10 Turbot (0) 16 £8.72 £21.02 £17.88 week mth ago 4wks ago Saithe (4) 47 £1.65 £1.07 - Codlings (best) £3.00 £3.00 £2.70 - Turbot (1) 59 £11.27 £20.51 £15.23 Kgs sold 1,000 2,050 2,716 Scallops 391 £1.78 £2.00 £2.18 Sea Breams (2) 3 £7.42 £10.23 - Haddock (best) £3.20 £3.40 £2.50 £3.05 Turbot (2) 157 £12.68 £17.78 £13.95 Bass £6.50 £10.00 £15.50 £17.00 Sea Breams (3) 2 £11.61 £8.30 - Haddock (jumbo) £2.80 £3.50 £2.60 - Turbot (3) 180 £11.17 £16.05 £12.57 Brill £10.00 £10.00 £9.50 £11.50 Turbot (4) 34 £9.58 £8.14 £8.71 Small-eyed ray (L) 244 £1.36 - - Haddock (large) £2.80 £3.40 £2.50 £2.65 Cod £1.50 £4.00 £3.50 £4.25 Smoothhound (L) 2,178 £0.84 £1.04 £1.07 Whiting (1) 583 £1.76 £1.50 £1.95 Haddock (medium) £2.80 £3.20 £2.50 £2.55 Dover sole £5.00 £16.00 £20.00 £18.00 Smoothhound (M) 1,281 £0.67 £0.83 £0.69 Whiting (2) 3,146 £1.67 £1.31 £1.96 Haddock (small) £0.70 £2.50 £2.00 £3.10 Herring £1.00 £1.00 £1.50 £0.98 Smoothhound (S) 813 £0.53 £0.62 £0.60 Whiting (3) 174 £1.03 £1.16 £1.70 Squid (L) 111 £5.50 £5.00 £4.80 Plaice (large) £2.00 £3.00 £3.00 £2.00 Pollack £2.50 £4.00 - - Witch (1) 1,137 £3.32 £5.28 £3.82 Squid (M) 166 £5.29 £5.56 £6.82 Plaice (medium) £2.80 £3.40 - £2.75 Witch (2) 3,363 £2.42 £3.58 £2.31 Skate £1.00 £2.50 £3.50 £3.00 Squid (S) 54 £5.60 - - Plaice (small) £2.00 £2.00 - £2.75 Witch (3) 3,710 £1.44 £1.52 £1.21 Sprats £1.00 £1.00 - - Thornback Ray (M) 109 £1.41 £1.30 - 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 Sales of the main species at Brixham Fish Market, 2016 - 2018

Top species by value of sales at Brixham Fish Market, 2018 Monthly cuttlefish sales at Brixham Fish Market, 2016 - 2018 £7.00m 1,200 7.00 £18m 2016 vol (t) £16m £6.00m 2016 2017 vol (t) 6.00 £14m 1,000 2017 2018 vol (t) 2018 £12m 2016 per kg 5.00 £5.00m £10m 2017 per kg 800 £8m 2018 per kg £4.00m £6m 4.00 £4m 600 £2m £3.00m 3.00 £0m Cuttlefish 400 £2.00m 2.00

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With cuttlefish representing 28% of the value of all fish sold through the This chart clearly shows the volumes seen in cuttlefish landings from auction at Brixham, we have to chart it seperately in order to see the detail August to November 2017 were very much higher than last year, and also for the other species in the top ten. A notable shift has seen the value of 2016. With 42% lower volumes, a very slight increase in average prices plaice landings overtake monkfish in 2018 resulted in the total value of sales dropping by 41% compared to 2017.

Monthly sole sales at Brixham Fish Market, 2016 - 2018 Monthly plaice sales at Brixham Fish Market, 2016 - 2018 80 16.00 160 3.20 2016 vol (t) 2016 vol (t) 2017 vol (t) 2017 vol (t) 70 2018 vol (t) 14.00 140 2018 vol (t) 2.80 2016 per kg 2016 per kg 60 2017 per kg 12.00 120 2017 per kg 2.40 2018 per kg 2018 per kg 50 10.00 100 2.00

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Dover sole is the second most valuable species sold through the fish The value of sales of plaice have increased by 49% over two years. This market, having seen sales of £4.6m in 2016, then £5.7m in 2017, and £6.6m has been totally price-led, with the volume of sales having fallen by 4%, in 2018. Aside from July and August, where very high volumes were seen, and average prices up by 56%. 2016 saw an average monthly price per kg prices have been consistently higher in 2018 than 2016 or 2017. of £1.44, this rose to £1.64 in 2017 and to £2.24 in 2018.

Monthly hake sales at Brixham Fish Market, 2016 - 2018 Monthly lemon sole sales at Brixham Fish Market, 2016 - 2018 60 4.80 2016 vol (t) 120 9.00 2016 vol (t) 2017 vol (t) 2017 vol (t) 2018 vol (t) 50 4.00 2018 vol (t) 2016 per kg 100 7.50 2016 per kg 2017 per kg 2017 per kg 2018 per kg 40 3.20 80 2018 per kg 6.00

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This project Management and Monitoring statutory, academic and voluntary across Northern Ireland, the border western Scotland and the border will improve the marine evidence (MarPAMM) project is led and organisations, and with a wide region of Ireland and western region of Ireland to study a wide base, particularly in relation to co-ordinated by researchers from the range of stakeholders, to produce Scotland.” range of marine species and habitats, seabirds, and provide the platform Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute meaningful management plans for Dr Stanley McDowell, CEO of from the seabed to seabirds. 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I am habitats and the wider environment, is available at: mpa-management. vulnerable marine habitats and coast-north channel region), and particularly pleased that AFBI is helping to safeguard the health eu 10 January 2019 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 23 Free dental treatment for working fishermen and their families in Troon Free dental checks and initial Barassie Street, just 15 minutes’ One of its dentists, Chris Grant, from there.” and their families are often treatment are now being offered walk from the harbour. All the is interested in the welfare of This new clinic for fishermen just not being met, and that to all working fishermen and costs of the initial treatment fishermen and has initiated and their families will be run on includes dental health. This their families at Troon as part of will be covered, including this new service. Speaking a first-come, first-served basis, is a great initiative by Troon the SeaFit programme, a joint emergency fillings, scale and about what motivated him to as Chris explained. “The team Dental Studio, and we look initiative by the Fishermen’s polish, and any x-rays. approach SeaFit, Chris Grant is running a walk-in clinic for forward to seeing how the Mission and the Seafarers’ The Fishermen’s Mission and said: “I know how hard it can working fishermen and their local community responds. If Hospital Society (SHS). Seafarers’ Hospital Society are be for fishermen to get access families. There’s no need to it proves to be popular, we’ll The first clinic, held on working in partnership to deliver to dental treatment when it’s book. Just turn up on a clinic do what we can to make sure Friday, 14 December at Troon sustainable day, any time it continues in the long term. Dental Studio, was a great improvements from 2pm to And we’ll be encouraging other success, according to Mission to the health I know how hard it can be for 6.30pm, and dental practices around the UK superintendent Paula Daly. and wellbeing of you’ll be treated to consider adopting similar “We’re really pleased with fishermen and fishermen to get access to dental as soon as schemes.” how it went on Friday, and so their families possible. It’s Paula Daly will be the key were the fishermen who came around the UK, “treatment when it’s convenient to them. first-come, first- contact, and is right behind for treatment. One local man under the banner I’d heard about what they’d been doing served, so be the initiative. “This is a really hadn’t been to the dentist since of the SeaFit sure to arrive important new service for primary school. He had two programme. This in the south, offering free dental checks early!” fishing families in the Troon extractions and was delighted. includes a range and treatment to fishermen on a mobile All the costs area, and I’ve already had lots We hope to see more patients of initiatives of the initial of enquiries. Chris and his at the next clinic on Friday, 11 covering dental unit based in the harbour session will be colleagues at Troon Dental January, 2019, and will be doing physical, dental covered. If you Studio provide an excellent all we can to spread the word to and mental normally pay service, and we couldn’t ask fishermen and their families in health. Free dental checks and convenient to them. I’d heard for your NHS treatment, the for more. My job is to make the meantime.” treatment were provided at about what they’d been doing check-up is free of charge and sure that everyone knows they With initial funding from the launch event in Peterhead in the south, offering free SeaFit will cover“ the cost of any can get free dental checks and Seafarers UK, SeaFit has in October, and at various dental checks and treatment to emergency treatment you may initial treatment, and encourage commissioned Troon Dental locations south of the border, fishermen on a mobile dental need on the day. them to attend the walk-in Studio to provide free dental but this is the first time SeaFit unit based in the harbour. Commenting on this new clinic. The more fishermen who checks and initial treatment to has partnered with a local We don’t have a mobile unit, partnership, David Dickens, go, the greater the chance the fishermen working out of Troon. dental practice. but we’re really close to the chief executive of the service will continue.” The walk-in clinic will be held Troon Dental Studio has harbour, so we’re ideally placed Fishermen’s Mission, said: For more information, on the second Friday of each been providing NHS and private for the fishing community. I “We know from our work in the call Paula on: 07827 966 month from 2pm to 6.30pm, dental treatment to the local contacted the local Fishermen’s community that the health and 023 or email: troon@ at Troon Dental Studio, 27 community for over 50 years. Mission, and it’s just taken off wellbeing needs of fishermen fishermensmission.org.uk

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6 December 2018 Severn Putchers/50 baskets £103 Library, Town Hall Issue: 5441 TURN TO Tues – Fri: 8:30am – 5:30am PAGE 2 FOR Devon and Cornwall Fowey Seine £103 Square, Grimsby, DN31 THE FULL FISHING CENTRAL IN BREXIT REPORT Teign Seine £96 1HG ‘Protect our fishing’ SFF urges politicians REGIONAL NEWS Sat: 9:00am – 1:00pm Politicians from all parties at Holyrood The pledge, which the SFF will urge clear since the referendum in 2016 and Westminster are being urged to all politicians to sign, states: that anything other than full, unfettered Guide Them launched sign a pledge supporting the Scottish ‘I pledge to back Scottish fishermen sovereignty over our own waters would fishing industry’s demand that full and our coastal communities by: be crossing a red line for the fishing on the Clyde Wessex Poole Harbour Seine £103 control of UK waters be taken back ● Voting against any arrangements industry. from the EU. that would extend our membership of “Despite the stated wishes of French Along with the UK fisheries the CFP beyond December 2020, or president Emmanuel Macron, which bill, the Brexit deal and political that would take us back into the CFP we know are shared by the other declaration provide the scope for the after that date large fishing nations – Denmark, the UK to become a fully independent ● Voting against any arrangement Netherlands and Germany – we should Southern NLO Beaulie Estate Seine £103 Sun: Closed coastal state, with its own seat at that prevents the UK from negotiating give a clear and resounding ‘Non!’ to all the relevant international fisheries access and quota shares as a fully the idea of guaranteeing continued negotiations from December 2020. independent coastal state from that access. But a specific fisheries agreement date “Access and quotas must be must also be negotiated, and the EU27 ● Upholding the UK’s right to exercise negotiated annually, not carved up in Any person who wishes to object to the proposed duties must send a statement of their objection in appear determined to try to make complete control and sovereignty over advance. The link between access continued guaranteed access for EU its own waters.’ and trade breaches all international boats to UK waters a precondition of SFF chief executive Bertie norms and practice, and is simply Copies of the application and associated information may be tariff-free trade in seafood. Armstrong said: “We have made it very unacceptable.” writing to The Fisheries Officer, Freshwater Fisheries, Shellfish and Aquaculture. Domestic Fisheries Guide Them, ready to be launched into the Clyde at Ardmaleish…

The 11.95m twin-rig trawler Guide Them, built by viewed online in the Public Register at www.gov.uk/check-marine- Ardmaleish Boatbuilding Company for Alistair Roberts and Reform. Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF or Freshwater.fish@defra. and his son Jamie Roberts of Brora Fishing Company, Renfrew, was launched into the Clyde last month, reports David Linkie. Following the launch, Guide Them was towed by Brora Fishing’s trawlers Guide Us GK 77 and Guide Me 1 KY 227 to Ardrossan marina for completion. gsi.gov.uk to be received no later than 6th February 2019 and must send a copy of the statement licence-register. Two local companies, MMA Scotland of Ardrossan and AJ Autolecs, will now carry out the engineering and electrical wiring work on Guide Them, which is scheduled to start fishing in the spring of 2019. McMinn Marine of Fraserburgh will supply and of objection to The Fisheries Officer (Net Duties), Horizon House, Deanery Rd, Bristol BS1 5AH. install the wheelhouse electronics equipment. continues on page 3

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The George Traves Excellence Award (in memory Concerns about the discards ban, higher than usual of George Traves MBE, a founder director of Whitby numbers of foreign vessels fishing in local waters, and Fishing School), given to the fisheries apprentice Brexit, serve as reminders that challenge is a constant displaying the highest levels of commitment, dedication, Quote the case reference; and spirit and tenacity, was presented to Liam Riley of factor in fishing. A detailed Shetland feature will be included in Fishing The Whalsay creel boat Resolute returning to Symbister in fresh Redcar by Chris Traves. News next week. weather. (Photo: Ivan Reid) Further details in Fishing News next week. Include an address to which correspondence relating to the FISHING NEWS AWARDS 2019 MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS NOW! 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Chartwell launches new Catchwell catamaran design Chartwell Marine, a pioneer Computer image of the new Catchwell catamaran. in next-generation vessel design, has announced the launch of the Catchwell, a brand new vessel design for the small-scale private and commercial fishing sector. Its design responds to extensive feedback from fishermen, alongside operational lessons learnt from advanced maritime industries, such as offshore wind. UK fisheries minister – chokes Headed by Andy Page, could tie up boats by mid-year a renowned naval architect with an industry-leading track See page 2 record designing award- winning high-speed vessels, Chartwell Marine supports ambitious boatbuilders and vessel operators around the world with specialist, independent design and consultancy services. Available in 10m and 12m models, the Catchwell is optimised for carrying high with significantly enhanced to a smoother, safer and more simultaneously, many older loads, with a semi-modular performance and efficiency. fuel-efficient ride. vessels going out of service catamaran hull form that can In particular, many existing Alongside this new hull – we have an opportunity to be adapted to the needs of small catamaran designs are form, the Catchwell brings address this by taking lessons SWFPA chairman’s warning the fisherman or operator. not well optimised for high in a number of tried and learnt from other sectors The first vessel is currently volumes of cargo. With limited tested innovations from larger and applying them in the on irrationality of the landing in build on the Isle of Wight reserve buoyancy, a large catamarans that enhance development of a new breed obligation See page 3 by experienced vessel catch may cause ‘wet deck the long-term reliability of of modern, safe and efficient construction, refit, repair and slamming’ – the results of the vessel, faced with long workboats.” maintenance specialist Diverse which are an uncomfortable operational hours in rough Ben Colman, director of Marine, which has provided ride in rough waters, potential waters. These include Diverse Marine, added: “Having extensive input during the damage to the structural commonality of components worked extensively with fishing design process. integrity of the vessel, and more across the vessel, which makes vessel operators – and taken As many of the existing fuel burnt during operation. conducting repairs onboard years of feedback into the vessels at the smaller end of The new Catchwell design as simple as possible, and development process with the market start to reach the benefits from significant reduces time spent out of Chartwell – we are confident end of their lifetime – and as research carried out in the action. that the Catchwell is the small opportunities emerge for small- development of state-of-the-art Andy Page, managing fishing boat that the market scale fishing in Europe and crew transfer and support director of Chartwell Marine, is looking for. With the first further afield – demand for new, vessels for the offshore wind said: “In light of market vessel in build, we’re applying Boat of the week Atlantic Dawn more capable fishing boats energy sector. The vessel has conditions over the past few the same rigour and principles CN 25 See page 7 is growing. Vessel owners been designed with a higher years, the design of smaller that go into the construction who invested in catamarans freeboard, meaning that the fishing vessels hasn’t really of larger catamarans, to 10 to 15 years ago, and who wet deck between the twin moved on, leaving private and ensure that quality of design is are looking to replace their hulls of the catamaran does commercial operators with matched by quality of build.” boats, alongside new entrants not come into contact with a shortage of high-quality Further details are available to the market, now have an the water, even under heavy options. at: chartwellmarine.com opportunity to take advantage loading. This avoids aggressive “Now, with prospects or by email: enquiries@ of a new generation of vessels vertical accelerations, leading looking a little better – and, chartwellmarine.com Skipper Expo Int Bristol 2019 Skipper Expo Int Bristol The majority feeling was groups, so as to maximise would make sense to move the 2019 will be held slightly that Bristol is the preferred visitor attendance. date to later in the year, so as later than in previous years, venue, but that an event later Sharon Boyle of Mara to enhance visitor numbers.” on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 in the year would attract more Media said: “Skipper Expo Int Skipper Expo Int Bristol November. visitors, given that there is an Bristol is the industry’s show, 2019 will be held at the Show organiser Mara increased likelihood of fishing and we always consult closely Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol Media consulted widely with boats being tied up because with exhibitors and visitors on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 exhibitors and visitors to of bad weather, providing to deliver an event that meets November. Entry will be free, Potting in the English Channel on the 2018 expo, asking about skippers with more free time. their requirements. Following with complimentary parking Royal Rebel See pages 12 - 17 timing and location. It also Mara Media is also the most recent expo, the and Wi-Fi on site. Opening contacted those who didn’t looking to facilitate industry industry view is that Bristol times will be Thursday 10am make this year’s show for meetings at the event for is still the preferred choice in to 5pm, and Friday 10am to SEE INSIDE! their input. fishing associations and other terms of location, but that it 4pm.