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TURN TO PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL SSA: SEAFISH MUST CHANGE REPORT Jacqueline Anne launched at Buckie dimensions of 24.5m LOA and Manufactured in-house by 7.60m of beam. Macduff Shipyards, the trawler’s The second vessel of the same deck machinery package name, and the fourth twin-rig includes three split trawl trawler to be built by Macduff winches, two split net drums, Shipyards for skipper Adam two bagging drums and two Tait, Jacqueline Anne features gear-handling winches. Thistle a Caterpillar C32 main engine BK13 powerblock and MFB8 of 558kW @ 1,800rpm driving landing cranes will also be a 2,700mm-diameter variable- fitted. pitch propeller through a Kumera On completion of final fitting gearbox of 12.3:1 reduction. A out and engine alignment, propulsion nozzle, a triple rudder Jacqueline Anne is expected to system and two Caterpillar C7.1 run sea trials from Buckie in a auxiliary engines running 118ekW few weeks’ time, before starting gensets are also fitted. to fish from Fraserburgh.

‡ Jacqueline Anne is positioned at the bottom of the slipway at Buckie before the specialist low-loaders are removed...

The new Fraserburgh twin-rig Jacqueline Anne from Macduff the trawler was towed a short trawler Jacqueline Anne FR 243 Shipyards’ fabrication yard and distance to her fitting-out berth was launched on a spring tide at down an adjacent slipway at in Buckie’s inner harbour. Buckie last week, reports David low water, when the trawler Built for Fraserburgh skipper Linkie. was supported before the Adam Tait and designed Specialist low-loader units low-loaders were removed. After in-house by Macduff Shipyards, ‡ ... and is then moved to the fitting-out berth, after floating off the were used to manoeuvre gently floating off six hours later, Jacqueline Anne has main slipway on a spring tide. (Photo: John Addison) On their way: Two more new vessels for Scotland

Another two new Scottish fishing vessels reached significant milestones in their build programmes last week, reports David Linkie. On the same day as Jacqueline Anne entered the water, the new midwater trawler Resolute BF 50 was running initial engine trials in the Bay of Biscay. The 68.9m Resolute was built at the Balenciaga shipyard, Zumaia, Spain, for Gardenstown skippers Alexander and Matthew West. Meanwhile, the hull of Fraserburgh skipper Brian Harvey’s new 24.5m twin-rig trawler Orion BF 432 was being prepared to be lifted into the water at Szczecin, Poland, after being built at the Kedat shipyard under subcontract to Macduff Shipyards Ltd. See page 5 for further details. ‡ Resolute heading down the narrow river estuary from Zumaia for

‡ Orion is lifted onto low-loader units at Szczecin. initial engine trials in the Bay of Biscay. 2 NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020 Roles of Seafish and Seafood Scotland ‘need urgent review’ Overlap is hitting marketing, say Scots processors Scotland’s seafood processors are more processed and transported its own marketing body, branding demanding an urgent review into and sold across the UK and and programme. In the case of the role of Seafish and Seafood around the world. Scotland, this is currently the Scotland, reports Tim Oliver. “To seize these opportunities function of Seafood Scotland. The Scottish Seafood and allow every part of our The SSA recommends that Association (SSA), which industry to thrive, we must Seafood Scotland should be represents processors in ensure that our marketing of ‘nested’ within Seafish, avoiding Scotland, says that Seafish has these world-class products is duplication and confusion among become remote to many in the equally world-class. That is why stakeholders. sector. we need an honest appraisal of It says that Seafish has become In a paper designed to kick- the structures, functions and remote to many in the sector ‘due start debate on the issue and funding of Seafish and Seafood to drift and a skewed balancing encourage the UK government to Scotland.” of priorities’ and calls for an embrace change, the SSA notes The SSA says that support urgent review of its strategies that Seafish’s role has become for the seafood sector and and activities. It recommends a blurred with that of other marketing are currently of great change of name to ‘something organisations in the sector such relevance in view of the effects more inclusive and relevant, as Seafood Scotland, ‘leading to of Covid-19 and Brexit, which perhaps the Seafood Industry a confused landscape of bodies will bring ‘radical changes to Partnership’. with overlapping remits’. global markets’. The new fisheries The SSA also calls for a review SSA chief executive Jimmy bill will also establish ‘a new and reform of the way Seafish Buchan said: “The seafood architecture’ for UK fisheries and Seafood Scotland are funded. industry is on the cusp of new management. Seafish is currently funded via opportunities for all sectors – This would enable each a levy paid by the processing more fish caught, more landed, devolved administration having sector, suppliers of imported “The GPS is stuffed, the radar looks like it’s showing repeats of Pointless, and I still have a better idea of Scots MP calls for Seafish reform what’s ahead than Seafish.” seafood, farmers of shellfish board has started preparing A Scottish MP made a strong case spent, and that a remodelled perfect opportunity to reform the and third-party commissioned for a strategic review. Those for the reform of Seafish during Seafish would be able to exercise current system,’ said the Argyll projects. discussions will involve each of a Westminster debate on the new functions separately in different and Bute MP. The SSA says that funding of the government administrations, fisheries bill. parts of the UK. UK fisheries minister Victoria the replacement of Seafish and which we are about to embark Introducing amendments to He highlighted the complexity Prentis replied that Seafish four devolved marketing bodies upon. We’ll be seeking industry the bill, SNP Argyll and Bute MP of the UK fishing industry, with undertakes valuable work, and should be supported by ‘all feedback on proposals and how Brendan O’Hara said that the ‘a whole host of different fishing said that the current model ‘works stakeholders who wish to access we best serve the seafood sector Scottish government and many in interests and practices’. “From well’. the supported services and, in the UK as part of the process the industry believed that Seafish England’s south coast to the most She said that the authority can crucially, use the Scottish (UK) in 2021.” was not sufficiently flexible to northerly point of Shetland, the deliver or fund bespoke services in seafood brand’. A DEFRA spokesperson said: meet the needs of the entire sector industry is multi-layered, complex, each administration, but in many It says the fairest way to fund “We welcome the strategic review and required ‘radical reform’. nuanced and often localised.” cases delivers UK-wide work. Seafish would be through a being undertaken by Seafish to “Seafishhas an intrinsic flaw And given that there are “That is partly because of levy based on a percentage of provide recommendations on its in attempting to represent the also four separate national efficiencies of scale, but also turnover from stakeholders who future purpose and functions. entirety of the United Kingdom governments looking after the because the supply chains choose to subscribe – processor, “Seafish’s campaign to appoint while operating in a policy area industry, it was ‘absurd’ that across the UK are similar and harvester or grower. a new chair and board members, that is wholly devolved,” he said. there was a ‘one-size-fits-all have similar challenges and It would then be ‘optional to which opened on 18 September, He called for devolved control fishing authority’ servicing opportunities.” join the organisation and use provides a tangible opportunity to Scottish ministers of both the catching, aquaculture, processing, The minister that said the the marketing and brand, the for representatives across the funding and the executive powers importers, exporters and proposed amendments would be technical resources, responsible industry to shape the future of of Seafish. distributers of seafood, as well costly and affect the viability of fisheries management, Seafish and how it can best serve He said that Scotland should as looking after restaurants and Seafish. “I am not convinced of environmental schemes and the seafood sectors of the UK.” play a key role in deciding how retailers, he said. the need to legislate on all these R&D programmes’, the paper Donna Fordyce, head of Scotland’s share of the levy was The fisheries bill ‘gives us the matters,” she said. states. Seafood Scotland, said: “There Seafood Scotland is funded is no doubt that the efforts to through the EMFF and Scottish market our world-class Scottish government, and there is already seafood in domestic and discussion underway as to post- international markets deserve to Brexit funding. be properly funded, particularly Kirkwall RNLI rescues In terms of how Seafish as our current source of funding should be run, the SSA says it through the EU will come to an is ‘essential’ that the board of end post-Brexit. a new version of the authority “Seafood Scotland has already crew from stricken vessel ‘should be comprised of active undertaken a major strategic representatives from each sector review which looked at how to Kirkwall’s volunteer crew The lifeboat crew were tow rope for a third time, but as well as non-executive industry sustainably secure and fund our launched at the request of assisted by two other vessels, once again this parted, so the specialists’. activities and the benefits we the Coastguard to the aid of along with the Westray decision was taken for the Responding to the SSA call for offer to the seafood sector. Some a fishing vessel aground on Coastguard team on the crew to abandon the fishing change, Seafish chief executive measures have been implemented rocks on the island of Westray clifftop. vessel. They were recovered Marcus Coleman told Fishing already, but others have been on Friday, 18 September. After launching the by the Y boat and brought News: “Our purpose is to support put on ice while we focus all our The all-weather lifeboat lifeboat’s Y boat and passing safely onboard Kirkwall our seafood industry in the UK to energies on the very practical and launched shortly before a tow rope, the lifeboat lifeboat. thrive. The nature of the industry very urgent help that the sector 10am. It arrived on scene attempted to pull the vessel The lifeboat landed the is evolving, and more change is needs right now to ensure that at 10.50am to find the creel clear from the rocks, only for fishing crew at Rapness, coming as we prepare for a world the impacts of Covid-19, and then boat Kingfisher K 436, which the tow rope to part twice. Westray before returning to of trading outside the EU. Brexit, do as little damage as had two crew onboard, hard A rocket line was fired Kirkwall, where it was ready “We are committed to possible.” aground on a shelf of rock. from the lifeboat to pass the for service again by 3.20pm. helping the industry through Marine Scotland did not respond these changes, and the Seafish to a request for comment. 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 3 Greenpeace dumps boulders on Dogger Bank MPA The MMO is carrying out The activists said they had told unable to provide further comment at investigations after Greenpeace the relevant marine authorities where this time.” activists dumped granite boulders in a they were placing the boulders – and The NFFO said that Greenpeace’s protected area on the Dogger Bank in that ‘the area is now closed to bottom action was ‘outrageous’ and illegal, the North Sea last week in an attempt trawlers’. and could in the worse circumstance to prevent bottom trawling, reports The MMO told Fishing News: lead to manslaughter charges. Tim Oliver. “Following reports of the alleged A Greenpeace spokesman said: On the first day of their activity, laying of boulders within the “The government is failing our marine they said they had placed ‘countless’ Dogger Bank SAC, the Marine protected areas. After months of boulders on the seabed to protect it Management Organisation is currently public and political pressure, they’re from ‘destructive’ bottom trawling, investigating potential breaches of still failing to protect these ecologically and would not stop until they have marine environmental legislation. important places – it’s time to take covered a 47 square mile area. Investigations are ongoing, and we are action.” He said that the Dogger Bank MPA was crucial to the proper functioning of the North Sea ecosystem. “It ‡ Greenpeace aims to cover 47 square miles of the Dogger Bank MPA NFFO: ‘Serious management contains the largest sandbank in the with boulders to prevent bottom trawling. (Photo: Greenpeace) UK, which is home to lots of wildlife, like starfish, flatfish and sand eels. protected area designed specifically to be introduced. needed, not juvenile actions’ These are an important food source protect the seabed? Allowing trawling Slamming Greenpeace’s actions, for whales, dolphins and seabirds. is equivalent to allowing bulldozers the NFFO said that trawling with The NFFO said that Greenpeace’s the federation, adding that the “But despite being officially to plough through a protected forest. bottom gear was the most effective actions were ‘juvenile’ and based Greenpeace action had brought ‘protected’, destructive bottom This must stop.” way to catch species like scallops, on ‘simplistic messaging and the need for trade-offs into focus. trawlers – industrial fishing vessels Greenpeace challenged the Dover sole and plaice when they are superficial understanding’. It said that every fishing that drag weighted nets along the government to take more steps to buried in sand. Commenting on Greenpeace’s method has an environmental bottom of the seabed – are being ensure that the conservation zone is “Dover sole can be caught in static actions, and the defeat of green impact, but fishing has the lowest allowed to fish in the area.” enforceable, and threatened to keep nets and drift-nets, but the European amendments to the fisheries bill carbon footprint of any form of Greenpeace has insisted that the putting down boulders until the Commission has calculated that if that tried to elevate sustainability food production. granite rocks, which weigh up to 3t, reserve is properly protected. bottom trawling was banned, to above all other considerations, “Denying people access to will pose no threat to wildlife or safety, DEFRA said it was proposing new land the total allowable catch of sole the NFFO said that fisheries high-quality protein from the sea but will stop trawlers from operating. powers in the new fisheries bill to from the North Sea would require an management was about trade- would be self-defeating, relying The organisation says that it has better manage and control protected increase of 1,300% in the quantity of offs and judgement between on alternatives which generate caught large vessels fishing in the areas after Brexit. monofilament netting in use,” said the various objectives such as higher emissions of greenhouse MPA switching off their AIS. A spokesperson said that the CFP federation. balancing safe levels of fishing gases. “Our government has utterly currently restricts the government’s “That, in turn, would have on one species, maximising “There is a need for seriousness failed to protect the Dogger Bank ability to implement tougher adverse consequences for cetaceans yield on another, minimising and maturity in how we manage and all our marine protected areas protections, but leaving the EU and like harbour porpoise. That is discards, safeguarding the our fisheries after the end of from destructive industrial fishing,” taking back control of our waters not something mentioned in the security of fishing businesses and the transition period. Juvenile Greenpeace oceans campaigner Chris would mean stronger measures could Greenpeace press statement.” communities, and providing food. gestures, simplistic messaging Thorne said from aboard Esperanza, “That is what the fisheries and superficial understanding the boat dropping the boulders. bill framework provides,” said will not cut it.” “How can you continue to allow Seafood to be ‘prioritised’ trawlers to plough the seabed in a in event of Channel delays Cabinet minister Michael Gove formalities completed for the Single-handed fisherman said that exports of fish and goods onboard. They would shellfish will be prioritised if there therefore be turned back by the is a no-deal Brexit and there are French border authorities, clogging rescued off Dorset as boat sinks delays at the Channel from 1 the Dover to Calais crossing. In January next year, reports Tim that scenario, flows across the A lone fisherman was rescued Hayling via Weymouth down to the Swanage Shannon-class Oliver. critical short-strait crossings could in the early hours of Monday, Cornwall. His vessel Dawn Run all-weather lifeboat George The minister, who is in charge of be reduced by up to 60% to 80%, 21 September after his boat was approximately 28ft long, Thomas Lacy, said: “This no-deal Brexit planning, made his compared with the normal rate, Dawn Run started taking on and a wooden build. really was a textbook incident. comment during a statement in and such circumstances could water off Dorset, reports John Duty controller for HM We have recently been made the Commons last week. lead to queues of up to 7,000 Periam. Coastguard Dai Jones said: aware of the valuable work the Spelling out a ‘worst case’ HGVs in Kent.” It sank very quickly, and “There is no doubt in my MCA and RNLI Fisheries Team scenario, he told MPs there could Responding to criticism of the fisherman ended up in mind that the fisherman are doing to make fishermen be queues of up to 7,000 HGVs in government policy from SNP MP the water. At 2.10am, HM kept his head and did all and other parties up to date Kent when the UK leaves the EU Peter Wishart (Perth and North Coastguard at the National the right things. When his with safety procedures, should single market and customs union Perthshire), the minister said: Maritime Operations Centre at vessel began taking on water, an incident occur – how to be on 1 January if there is no trade “One of the things we will do is Fareham picked up a Mayday he immediately put out the prepared for it, what safety deal. ensure that we prioritise… fish and call from the boat, which was Mayday, which we picked up. equipment there should be He said that the EU Exit shellfish from Scottish harbours situated around half a mile The flares which he set off onboard a fishing boat, and Operations Committee – the to make sure that they reach the southeast of Anvil Point, off the meant that the vessel which what should be worn. Cabinet committee preparing for fishmarket in Boulogne without let Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. came to his aid could pinpoint “We have also often stated the end of the transition period or impediment. As we take back A nearby pleasure vessel where he was sinking within that in such incidents, fishing – was meeting ‘almost daily control of our waters, and access responded to the Mayday, and minutes. vessels can capsize or sink and taking decisions on trader to our marine resources enables also reported seeing red flares. “He had his lifejacket on, very fast. Such was the case and haulier readiness, border Scotland to get thousands of Thanks to this, it was able to and the lights on that lifejacket here. He was a very lucky infrastructure and fisheries new jobs and millions in new get on the scene very quickly made it easy for him to be fisherman, and his personal protection’. investment, we want to be able to and spotted the fisherman in spotted in the water. All of skills and a working knowledge “The scenario builds on an take full advantage of that.” the water, where it remained his actions gave him the best of safety at sea procedures estimate that only 50% to 70% Brexit talks remain deadlocked with him until the two RNLI possible chance of survival were very much on his side of large businesses and just 20% over fisheries and regulatory Swanage lifeboats arrived. and, remarkably, within 25 that night!” to 40% of small and medium- alignment and were continuing as At 2.37am, the fisherman was minutes of making the Mayday The D-class inshore lifeboat sized enterprises will be ready for Fishing News went to press, but rescued from the water by the call, he was safely onboard Phil and Jack, with Becky the strict application of new EU with no statements from either lifeboat crew and taken back the lifeboat, suffering from the Mack at the helm, checked for requirements,” said Michael Gove. side as to their progress or lack to Swanage, where he was cold as well as being in a state any objects in the water, and “In those circumstances, that of it. met by a team from the South of shock. Had he not acted the following day reported that could mean that only between A deadline for a deal has been Western Ambulance Service. in the way he did, things may a submerged wooden fishing 30% and 60% of laden-heavy set for mid-October to allow it to The fisherman was not local, have ended differently.” vessel was found in the water goods vehicles would arrive at be ratified by the EU member state and was on his way from Robert Aggas, coxswain of and towed into Swanage. the border with the necessary and UK parliaments. 4 COMMENT/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020 COMMENT EDITORIAL Call for Seafish future debate timely EMAIL: FISHINGNEWS.ED@ The Sea Fish Industry Authority, to surprising. Nevertheless, perception is important, KELSEY.CO.UK give Seafish its full title, has often The SSA has suggested that there and a review of how the levy is collected been subject to controversy since it should be four devolved bodies. They and the funding of Seafish is needed. Kelsey Publishing Ltd, was established in 1981 following the should be funded only by businesses Another major change since Seafish was The Granary, Editor amalgamation of the former White Fish that wish to use the Seafish services and established has been devolution, and the Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Dave Linkie Authority and the Herring Industry marketing brands, through a levy based management of much of the industry Yalding, Maidstone, email: [email protected] Board. on company turnover. being carried out by the devolved Kent, ME18 6AL 01434 607375 The new Seafish was an explicitly This is a radical suggestion that administrations. marketing-oriented body. Today, in its would entail a total restructuring of the There is also the issue from a Scottish own words, it ‘carries out a wide range current Seafish model. Initial responses perspective of the overlap of functions of activities to promote the consumption to this suggestion made in parliament between Seafish and Seafood Scotland, of seafood, develop and improve the suggest that the UK government would and both bodies have an emphasis industry, and provide information, not welcome such a transformation. on marketing. In the current climate, evidence and advice for decision-making Funding of the authority by a levy when Covid-19 has severely disrupted in the supply chain’. on fish merchants and processors has markets and Brexit threatens to do A lot has changed in the 40 years led to controversy over the years. The likewise, marketing has never been more since Seafish was formed, and the call processing sector complains that it alone important. Managing editor by the Scottish Seafood Association has to fund Seafish while all sectors of Given the presence of people at the News correspondent Gaby Bartai Tim Oliver email: [email protected] (SSA) for a debate on its future is timely. the industry, from catchers to retailers, sharp end of the industry on the board email: [email protected] It is a tall order for a single authority benefit from its activities. of Seafood Scotland, including Scottish to represent the entire industry in all It is inevitable that the businesses PO leaders, it would make sense to its complexity and regional differences, that write the levy cheques will feel that retain this expertise if any amalgamation from catchers to retailers, particularly they are funding Seafish alone while the of the two bodies does eventually take in view of devolution. One of the entire sector benefits. In reality, the levy place. complaints made by the SSA is that is just another business overhead cost Seafish was formed a long Seafish has become remote to many that processors have to build into their time ago, and much has changed in the industry. Given that it has to finances and take into account when over the years. A debate on its Lincolnshire, East Anglia and spread itself so thinly across the whole deciding how much they are prepared to future, as proposed by the SSA, Cornwall correspondent Essex correspondent country and industry sectors, this is not pay for fish and their pricing structure. is to be welcomed. Phil Lockley John Worrall email: email: [email protected] [email protected] 07748 644971 Havara arrives at 01326 340372

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This Phil Haslam added: “Now of improvements to assist the data will help us to support that the UK is set to take sole under-10m fleet in submitting consumer confidence in the responsibility for its seas, we their catch records. sustainability and traceability need to create a productive The licence condition has of the UK’s world-class partnership that sees all been amended so that fishers sea-fisheries produce. parties working together may now legally submit their “Catch recording data from to make a success of the catch records for quota the under-10m fleet means we opportunities that leaving species online, via the Catch can set the standard to help the EU offers, and ensure App or the website, after UK produce to maintain its that superb UK-sourced landing the fish, as long as the reputation, and UK businesses fisheries products take their report is filed before the catch to access as many markets rightful place in competitive is moved from the quayside. and buyers as possible.” international markets.” This is to support fishers The MMO says that data Throughout the Catch who had concerns about derived from all sectors of App’s development, ‡ The new midwater trawler Resolute heading down the narrow river estimating weights or weighing the fishing fleet, including improvements have been estuary from Zumaia for engine trials in the Bay of Biscay. onboard their vessel. catch records from under-10m made as a result of feedback Fishers landing non-quota vessels, is crucial in enabling from the fishing community, The new midwater trawler Mitsubishi six-cylinder units, will species still have up to 24 the government and the MMO says the MMO. These have Resolute BF 50 ran initial sea drive the electrical generators. hours after landing toADVERTISEMENT submit to make effective decisions PROOFincluded removing double trials in the Bay of Biscay last A Mitsubishi 6D24-TC harbour their record. for the industry, including reporting, removing the week, reports David Linkie. genset will also be fitted. The MMO’s helplineFOR on: THEmanaging 11TH stock ARPIL and fisheries 19 needISSUE for additional transport Designed by Wärtsilä Resolute is fitted with two 0300 0203 788 will remain in opportunities, and awarding documents, phasing in a Technology Group for Brunvoll side thrusters of 900kW. place for those who need to FROM:grant funding. 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UK to request copies of financial information of individual businesses unanswered. Your participation is is still time. When the actual survey is accounts to build our economic confidential. essential: no one knows what your Our latest report, based on the complete, our field researchers hand picture of the UK fleet. Collecting financial information business costs are better than you. findings of the 2019 Fleet Survey, is over all the information collected When all the financial accounts on fishing businesses is a key part of We had a reminder of how now available on our website at: bit. and our economics researchers pick are in and processed, the analysis our survey. Information on income important this information can be ly/2RRSskc up. There are survey forms to scan, work begins. From the sample from fishing is readily accessible for earlier this year. The governments There’s still time to take part. digitise and store securely, data to of vessel owners who send us us from the Marine Management across the country used data from The Fleet Survey is running for check and process, and financial their financial information, we Organisation, from your landings last year’s survey to help inform another week, so keep sending information to collect. can estimate costs and profits declarations or logbooks. But Covid-19 support packages for in your completed forms. For Many of you have already sent us for all vessels in the UK fishing earnings are only half of the picture. fishing businesses. While it is more information or support with a copy of your business financial fleet. This information is readily What has been the impact of rising ultimately up to government to completing the survey form, contact accounts or provided us with your available to industry bodies, fuel prices in recent years? What decide what support is offered, your Seafish at: fleet.survey@seafish. accountant’s contact details as government and researchers to proportion of income goes to crew data helps to ensure that the most co.uk or on: 07876 035 759. Minister defends fisheries bill No inquiry into incident between The UK government made a strong – the Irish Sea Nephrops fishery, Celtic defence of the new fisheries bill and Sea plaice and Rockall cod. UK navy and Irish vessel its refusal to back green amendments “If we followed the zero TAC advice that would have made sustainability its for whiting in the Irish Sea, it could close The Irish government has between the fishing vessel Louth coast in April 1982. central objective in a Commons debate the Nephrops fishery that has critical opted not to pursue an and frigate operating within “No lives were lost on on the bill, reports Tim Oliver. economic importance for Northern incident where a British navy the designated exercise area that occasion. However, UK fisheries minister Victoria Ireland, where landings averaged about ship instructed an Irish fishing enabled this lawful exercise to unfortunately that was not the Prentis told MPs: “I reiterate that the £15m a year over the past five years,” said vessel to leave grounds where continue and conclude safely’. case some time later when the government are absolutely committed Victoria Prentis. it was working some 60 miles “The safety of all mariners is Scottish MFV Antares was to leaving the natural environment in a The zero-catch advice on plaice in the off the Donegal coast, reports taken extremely seriously by sunk – all crew men died,” better state than we found it in. Celtic Sea would close the ‘very valuable Lorna Siggins. the Royal Navy. At no time the letter by league assistant “There is no watering down of our anglerfish and megrim fishery, and could The 32m vessel Marlíona, was there a risk to safety to general secretary Bernard commitments to sustainability, which displace those boats into a more intensely registered in Greencastle, either the fishing vessel or Moffatt states. are clearly stated in the bill in the first fished area elsewhere’ and cause even Co Donegal, was hailed by submarine.” He also referred to the objective in Clause 1. However, I do not worse environmental harm. the British navy ship HMS The British Directorate recent towing of the Co Down feel that the amendment helps to take And out at Rockall, the minister Lancaster on 21 July and asked of Defence Communications vessel Karen by a British this further. said there is a very low quota for cod, to leave the area, even though it said that the ship ‘operated submarine, and said that an “I am worried that putting the although the quality of the scientific is well within the Irish exclusive throughout in accordance with inquest in Cornwall has ‘still primacy of sustainability in the bill advice there has been questioned. economic zone (EEZ). the UN Convention of the to determine the fate of the might – inadvertently, I am sure – “Following the advice on cod would close The Irish Independent Law of Sea, having due regard crew members of the Breton cause unnecessary suffering to coastal the valuable haddock fishery that might reported that the Irish for other vessels operating in trawler Bugaled Breizh, lost communities.” itself be taking some of the pressures off Department of Foreign the area’. off the Lizard during a NATO The minister rejected an amendment the fishery in the North Sea.” Affairs was investigating the However, KFO chief exercise’. that would have made achieving rigid She referred opposition MPs who incident, which had been executive Sean O’Donoghue A campaign following an MSY targets legally binding – a change ‘asked repeatedly’ for more clarity on referred to the Sea-Fisheries said that there is now a case Irish government initiative that the industry has argued strongly the fisheries management plans to the Protection Authority (SFPA) for the Irish government led to the adoption of two against, saying it would simply replicate fisheries white paper that the government by the Killybegs Fishermen’s to state that the Irish EEZ International Maritime the inflexibilities of the CFP. had published in 2018. Organisation (KFO). should be protected from Organisation (IMO) She said that boats are now fishing at “It sets out very clearly the direction However, the Department military training exercises by resolutions, he added, arguing about 67% of MSY, compared with 10% of travel that the government are of Foreign Affairs said that submarines on environmental that one of these, A709 (17), in 1990, so progress had been made. determined to follow as we leave the while it is ‘aware of the report’, grounds. put the onus on the British She acknowledged that more needed Common Fisheries Policy and are able to the location was ‘not within The Celtic League navy to move the exercise or to be done, ‘although we are moving take further steps,” she told MPs. Ireland’s territorial sea and non-governmental cease it, rather than request slowly in the right direction’, and fisheries “We are committed to environmental did not therefore infringe our organisation, which is based in the fishing vessel to give way. management plans would ‘make the sustainability, and I hope that, working sovereignty’. the Isle of Man, has written to Asked to comment, situation much better, fast’. together when this great bill becomes “In general, it is not taoiseach Micheál Martin on the Irish Department of “However, I am concerned that if law, we will be able to move forward unusual for naval ships to ask the issue. Agriculture, Food and the we put in the clause which makes the much more quickly than in the past.” other vessels in the vicinity to It said that the dangers Marine said that the issue sustainability objective prime, there The fisheries bill is now due to have its move away from an exercise posed to fishing vessels by was ‘not relevant’ to it, and will be some really serious unintended report stage, when further amendments location for safety reasons,” it the activity of submarines ‘of referred it to the Department consequences for coastal communities,” can be made, and its third reading on a said. all powers’ were ‘highlighted of Foreign Affairs – which said she said. date to be announced. It is anticipated A Royal Navy spokesperson graphically’ when the Irish that the issue was one for the She gave three examples of how rigid that the bill will become law sometime in said that ‘courteous and vessel Sharelga was sunk by Department of Agriculture, MSY targets would hit different fisheries October. professional exchanges HMS Porpoise off the Co Food and the Marine. Irish lifeboat taken off service due to Covid-19 case Arranmore Island lifeboat has All RNLI standard operating crew kit and station has been flanking RNLI lifeboat stations. will not put them or the public at temporarily been taken off service procedures for Covid-19 were undertaken. All crew members with Search and rescue cover will be risk. Arranmore Island RNLI will after one of its crew members adhered to throughout the exercise, contact to the volunteer have been undertaken by other search and resume service once it is safe to do tested positive for Covid-19, reports which involved no other vessels. asked to self-isolate, and the crew rescue assets in the area including so.” Pauric Gallagher. However, one of the eight people will be tested for Covid-19. RNLI lifeboat stations, the Irish The island’s ambulance and fire Based on Arranmore Island off present has since tested positive for “Arranmore Island RNLI is one Coast Guard and other declared service is also off call. Ambulance the coast of Donegal, the RNLI Covid-19. of 46 RNLI lifeboat stations on the assets. services will be provided by lifeboat Myrtle Maud undertook a A statement from the RNLI island of Ireland. The Coast Guard “Our priority is always for the mainland-based units until further lifeboat exercise in mid-September. said: “A deep clean of the lifeboat, has been informed, as have the two safety of our lifeboat crew, and we notice. 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews NEWS 7

UNLOCKING THE FUTURE

APPLEDORE SHIPYARD REOPENING OCTOBER 2020

Harland & Wolff (Appledore) Shipyard is set to reopen for fishing vessels from October 2020. Repairs and new build slots available.

[email protected] 8 LETTERS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020 LETTERS EU not to blame for east coast decline Dear Editor, European legislation gave the pulse fishing. The decline was I do not deny that the UK fishing opportunity to take over companies already happening before the industry has a point regarding in EU member states. Dutch fishing introduction of pulse trawling. controlling its own waters around companies (including companies When I was working and the British Isles. The waters are run by families) took their chance living in Lowestoft for about rich with fish, especially around to continue under the British flag, nine months, and my colleague Scotland and Shetland. As a result, but also under German, Belgian for almost two years, it was very the whitefish fleet of Scotland is and even French flags. I have no difficult to break through. We doing well, as are the pelagic fleets idea why fishing companies from met a lot of friendly people in from Fraserburgh, Peterhead and the UK, Germany or Belgium did Lowestoft, but not many young Lerwick. not do that. The Danish also have ones. This lack of succession is But the fishing ports of East boats under a German flag. Since something that is taking place Anglia are a completely different last year, there is one Dutch fishing almost everywhere. story. Hull and Grimsby did not vessel, Nord-Vista IJM-26, owned I do hope that Lowestoft will decline because of the EU. The by a British company. come back, but I am afraid that it decline of the fleets of both ports Back to the decline of fishing will not work out. June Mummery started when fishing in Iceland ports along the East Anglian ‡ The Danish-registered beamer St Anthony entering Harlingen. and Paul Lines should tell a waters became difficult (the Cod coast. It is really a pity that those completely different story, instead Wars). At the time that the side fishing ports lost their traditional They both were saying that the then quite quickly to Denmark. of blaming the EU and EU fishing trawler fleet became unemployed, character. I know quite a lot about decline was caused by the EU. That It has now fished for many years vessels for the decline of Lowestoft. the offshore industry offered an the history of Great Yarmouth, is complete nonsense. The fact from Thyborøn as St Anthony Start by giving lessons in schools interesting alternative. So many Lowestoft, Whitby, Shields, that Calidoro Trawlers, Talisman L-510, and is still doing very well. to inspire young boys to work in trawler owners decided to choose Scarborough, Blyth, Hartlepool, Trawlers and Colne Shipping Factors such as no succession in the docks and on fishing boats. this booming sector. Southwold and Aldeburgh. My decided to stop their fishing the company, mismanagement, no Invite them for a guided tour. Offer Because of the loss of important library is full of books about the activities had nothing to do with interest in working on fishing boats them a short trip on one of the fishing grounds around Iceland, fishing history of those places, the EU. Not at all! or around the docks, a conservative local boats, and tell them about the the then European Community and I have also visited them a few While Colne Shipping was not attitude and a lack of spirit caused history of Lowestoft. Use a positive (not the EU) offered an additional times. able to run the beam trawlers the decline more than 10 years ago. approach rather than spreading plaice quota as compensation. But I was surprised when I heard profitably, Dutch companies Attempts to upgrade the fish nonsense. That will not motivate Unfortunately, there was no June Mummery and Paul Lines bought them and continue auction of Lowestoft did not young people to get a job on deck interest. So, year after year, the UK from Lowestoft recently talking on successfully. The last new beamer work out because of the above- or in a fish-processing plant. plaice quota was not used. the Dutch television news about for Colne Shipping, St Anthony LT mentioned factors. It also has Willem Ment den Heijer Meanwhile, developments in the decline of their hometown. 1005, moved first to Holland and nothing to do with Dutch electric Scheveningen, the Netherlands Safety innovations in the 21st century Dear Editor, and even promoted when their FISG. What happened then? Well, over time – even with Seafish these are not proposed here, Fishing News readers will have relevance in MAIB reports is nothing. funding. There was the case of and are unnecessary. The seen the heading above (Fishing totally obscure – e.g. Wolfson The detailed GM safety device the Heather Anne, with one life worthless Wolfson marks, which News, 28 November, 2018) and marks unreadable at sea and report has lain on a dusty shelf lost, for example. A more recent the industry has quite logically words of warm encouragement therefore, not surprisingly, with somewhere ever since. Several example was the Nancy Glen, rejected as impractical, are, from successive shipping negligible take-up by the industry. years on, other organisations with the loss of two lives. Years however, still recommended by ministers, publicly endorsed by There is also the MCA policy explored and produced GM earlier, five lives were lost on the MCA. You may wonder at this fishing industry representatives statement that there is no meters. Fishing industry official the Boston Sea Ranger due to muddled thinking. received at Westminster. Good intention to promote modern recognition, however, remains overloading, and the archives Suppose a fishing vessel has a so far, but how much is translated innovative electronic devices, virtually nil. One might think reveal others. gauge in the wheelhouse which into meaningful action? which conceivably could, if that the investigation, legal Can it be said, therefore, that indicates when the freeboard is You may recall vaguely an adopted, largely eliminate fatal and recovery costs and social safety policy is satisfactory, at its lowest acceptable limit and advance notice of a presentation stability and freeboard casualties consequences of a single vessel or that those responsible for can accept no more additional to the Fishing Industry Safety due to weight accretion or fatality would make such a safety it are really focusing properly catch weight? Would that be Group (FISG) on an innovative overloading in certain types of investment appear extraordinarily on these aspects? There useful or not? If the vessel also concept called a freeboard fishing vessels. cheap. seems an obvious confusion had a GM meter integrated, monitor/alarm system to take A bit of history first. Forty years Now, 40 or so years later, between proper design and an would such a modern application place in May 2019. This was ago, the FISG forum supported myself and two colleagues came appreciation of the realities of risk of electronics have the potential sanctioned by the then retiring the research of the concept of up with the freeboard monitor in operation at sea. to save vessels and lives? CEO of the MCA in November an electronic device which could concept in 2014. This is a closed Would a skipper and crew Perhaps fishermen should ask 2018, but was arbitrarily reliably show the current level system device to reveal a vessel’s benefit from knowing that their their FISG representatives or, cancelled and suppressed, until of a fishing vessel’s stability, current freeboard to the skipper vessel’s stability and freeboard better, their dependent relatives? after months of prevarication a so-called GM (metacentric and crew with an alarm if it remained within safe limits? Isn’t research into this kind by the MCA, a short meeting height meter). The latter, as naval declines to an unsafe level. Would devices to confirm safety of innovation what the shipping was reluctantly agreed with a architects can explain, is directly The maintenance of adequate therefore be worth examination minister might have expected? limited group in January 2020. related to a vessel’s other stability safe stability and freeboard and trial? From the current Isn’t this what funds dedicated The latter expressed no technical characteristics. Many may know are legal obligations as well as record, the MCA, MAIB, FISG to safety were at least partly for? criticisms, but had nothing to say about roll tests which reveal the common sense. Some appear and Seafish appear indifferent You may be surprised to learn other than when the MCA wrote period of roll. It’s basically the content with total reliance on and uninterested. Is the subject that the official answer from the to infer that the concept was ‘a same stuff. the skipper’s judgement when too toxic, and one which should MCA was a firm negative. distraction’. Did full-scale trials of a GM loading a heavy catch, but not be mentioned in polite fishing Alan MacNaughton In exchanges with the MCA meter by the then National unfortunately that does not industry circles? Cdr RD** RNR (retd), C Eng, over several years and reading its Maritime Institute engaged by always have a happy ending. Samuel Plimsoll, in the late FRINA, former principal fishing guidance notices, it is puzzling the Department of Transport An important aspect of that is 1800s, had an epic struggle vessel surveyor, chief marine that policies that self-evidently succeed? Yes, they did, and the when stability and freeboard are to have merchant ships adopt surveyor and UK delegate to do not work are persisted with findings were presented to the eroded by equipment additions load line marks – although IMO

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Every year, the Swan Trust is grateful to the volunteers who come together over the winter to help maintain the Swan. This work consists of both the usual annual maintenance and one-off tasks. Over the past couple of years, these have included recaulking the coach roof and dismantling and overhauling the capstan. For several years, Swan trustees had been aware of long splits in the bowsprit gradually getting deeper and more obvious over the full length of the bowsprit – all 28ft of it. This spar is a hefty 11in square at its inner end, tapering to 5in in the round at the forward end, and ‡ The splits in the bowsprit can be seen as it is being taken ashore at ‡ Brian Wishart and Alec Moncrieff working on the final stages of is of Oregon pine, as were all the the end of 2019 for transport to the store. applying epoxy resin to the inserts in the bowsprit. Swan’s spars when renewed during her restoration in the early 1990s. all the other regular maintenance other Swan maintenance tasks, Although not a traditional job was over, ready to be loaded Longitudinal splits are never of varnishing blocks, oiling spars, and some from wider experience of material, we know that the onboard the Swan again next said to be of great concern in and checking and overhauling sails carpentry. alternative would usually be to spring, when we hope to prepare spars, but in this case the bowsprit and cordage by Christmas, with The plan was to router out replace with new – a very costly her for next season. is always horizontal, and the splits our trusty group of volunteers who lengthwise as deeply as possible alternative and a much less ‘green’ A final thought on the part were deep and were potential come from near and far across the splits in the spar, making solution. However, great care played by our volunteers – they water traps. Further doubts arose Shetland for the experience. We them wide enough to take in the must be taken when using epoxy help to maintain Swan to a because the spar felt suspiciously find a cup of coffee during the meanderings of the split grain, and resin during Shetland winters consistently high standard, whilst soft when a thin blade was proceedings mid-forenoon has to divide these up where possible for temperature and moisture contributing thousands of pounds- inserted to the full depth – in come to be an important and into the most clearly defined content to be kept safely within the worth of their time and expertise to some places nearly up to half the congenial pause on a cold winter’s individual splits. In all, there were required tolerances. The adhesion the trust annually. We are hugely spar’s diameter. day, and the camaraderie is always five separate splits varying from and strength of epoxy is recognised grateful to them for this, as we There was a real risk that evident, and very welcome! about 7ft to 3ft in length, and to be second to none, but only if could not continue to operate Swan rainwater had been lying in The bowsprit group was to from 2.5in wide to around an application guidelines are strictly without them. On the bowsprit these recesses for years, causing be smaller, consisting of four inch. The sides of these routered followed. repair alone, it has reduced the unknown damage, which individuals who had some channels were tapered downwards We were all ready to start this cost of a new spar, which would warranted further investigation. background in timber work, and inwards to around half their final gluing stage in mid-March have been over £5,000, to just We started on the bowsprit in especially spars, gained over the maximum width, always at a when Covid-19 struck and our a few hundred pounds for the January 2020, having completed years – some from working on constant angle to make the fillets whole operation came to an materials used. Similar savings more straightforward to produce. immediate halt. were made on the recaulking and The most difficult task turned Eventually, at the start of capstan repairs mentioned earlier. out to be setting up the long August, we were able to resume, One of the things I enjoy about timber guides for the router on the and quickly got back into our taking part in the process of caring spar with its constantly changing stride. Gluing went ahead in for Swan, along with meeting diameter. All the routering was relatively balmy conditions – friends old and new, is that we to a depth of 63mm, the deepest well, 16°C – near-tropical in our are always learning more about bit we could access locally, and usually cold and draughty shed! the traditional techniques needed where splits were deeper than that, In a week or so it was done, and for these tasks. Also, by bringing we cleaned out the remainder by ready for the finishing touches; together people with varying rasp and chisel without making the surface of the repaired area amounts of experience for a given a fresh cut. The good news was was planed and sanded, and then task, but always with a thought that the deepest recesses were not a magic potion was applied to give to sharing the experience, the soft from decay, but because of the new timber a look to match trust helps to keep alive and even years of linseed oil collecting and the near-black of aged linseed oil widen the pool of skills locally. The remaining soft, as a result of the which is the typical colour of these bowsprit was no exception, with liberal annual coatings applied. No traditional spars. Finally, two everyone agreeing that it was a very actual decay was found anywhere, coats of boiled linseed oil were interesting, absorbing and unusual which gave us reassurance that the applied to the whole spar and the task. job was worth doing. ‡ Rab Bicket, Allister Rendall and All the fillets were then cut and Brian Wishart clean out and fair ‡ Some of the bowsprit inserts shaped – of Oregon pine, with up the splits post-router. ready to glue. the end grain orientated with the growth rings of the existing spar – and the ends of each fillet were given scarf joints into the original spar to allow maximum evenness of bend when the spar flexes at sea. We have to keep in mind that even this powerful spar does readily bend under load, and particularly in steep head seas. We were now ready to start gluing. Although working on the Swan usually involves a range of traditional materials, applications and techniques, we have also used epoxy glue successfully now for many years for timber joining where strength and maintaining ‡ Three insert fillets overlapping, and also showing scarf joins on the bending qualities are crucial, ends of the inserts. including for spar repairs. ‡ The finished spar in all its glory. 10 SELSEY POTTING Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020 POTTING ON PREDATOR A day’s potting from Selsey on Predator LI 556 underlined the importance of family and tradition in this south coast fishing community, reportsJohn Periam. Photographs by Geoffrey Lee

‡ Brothers Chris Harvey (left) and Mike Harvey.

‡ Positioning the next pot on deck as dawn breaks on a fine morning. ‡ Predator returning to her mooring off Selsey.

he limestone rocks around boarding of their vessel – so it miles southeast towards Hooe Selsey create an ideal was good to get reacquainted. Bank, where the day’s strings of Thabitat for lobsters and As the Selsey fishing fleet is pots were located. crabs and rich feeding grounds moored at sea, it was first a case Running off gave Chris and for fish, and have provided an of boarding the brothers’ 4.5m Mike the opportunity to income for local fishing families glass-fibre tender, which was familiarise Geoffrey Lee with going back many generations. made from the cast of a wooden Predator, a Gemini GF 9 glass- Inshore fishing from this West rowing boat. Mike Harvey fitted fibre catamaran, and give a Sussex town can be traced back the 9.8hp two-stroke Tohatsu comprehensive safety briefing. as far as 3,200 years, and portable outboard engine onto With dimensions of 8.87m LOA remains at the heart of the local the tender, before bait and some and beam 4m and a GT of 6.09t, community. repaired and replacement Predator is powered by two JCB An invitation to go to sea with parlour pots were lifted aboard. Mermaid J-444 63kW engines, brothers Chris and Mike Harvey Chris and Mike pushed the and is fitted with Twin Disc was an opportunity not to be tender down the pebble beach to Technodrive TM 170A gearboxes missed. Their 9m catamaran the shoreline, where they of 1.5:1 reduction, 2in-diameter Predator LI 556 is a proven boarded for the short trip out to shafts and 19in three-bladed workhorse, built by their father Predator, behind Dave Robinson, bronze propellers that give a – another Chris – in 2004. who was the first Selsey cruising speed of 7-8 knots. Both qualified skippers, the fisherman out that morning. Bulbous bows were added to the Harvey brothers are a Predator slipped its mooring at hull in 2008 to improve bow lift longstanding team who have about 4am and headed seven and fuel efficiency. learnt to anticipate each other’s thoughts and moves. Chris Harvey said: “Teaming up with my brother has been very successful – we have a shared goal to do as well as we can. We can rely on each other, and know what we each need to do to make our day’s fishing as safe as possible. Of course we have our moments, but we get on very well indeed.” The forecast for this early September trip was a WNW wind averaging 3-5mph, with the wind backing to WSW by midday. Geoffrey Lee had met the brothers in April 2016 when he was on the Sussex IFCA patrol vessel Watchful and the ‡ Predator is an 8.87m Gemini GF 9 glass-fibre catamaran. crew carried out a routine ‡ Chris steering Predator to the next string of pots. 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SELSEY POTTING 11

Chris said: “We made sure the deck layout worked well for us, and designed it so there is plenty of room for hauling, stacking and shooting the pots whilst giving us space for storage of baskets and boxes of catch.” In 2019, the previous davit arm arrangement was replaced with a 48in gunwale roller for pot self-hauling, at the same time as a new 1.5t Hydroslave pot hauler from KK Hydraulics was fitted. The Hydroslave hauler is driven off the starboard engine via a clutched hydraulic pump operated by a control lever positioned alongside the engine throttles mounted on the starboard gunwale. A drop-in plywood receiving table is positioned inboard of the rail roller, enabling pots to be smoothly pulled onboard. Chris ‡ A bird’s-eye view of the deck layout on Predator. and Mike said that the new hauling arrangements have made what can be heavy work much easier, and had been money well spent. Wheelhouse electronics equipment on Predator includes a Sodena SoloWin 3D plotter, Raymarine DS600X sounder, Garmin GPSMAP 4012 chart plotter/radar/AIS, Simrad autopilot and Icom IC-M601 DSC VHF. Each string of pots is made up of an AO or A1 buoy, 10 fathoms of 10mm Shamrock Polysteel rope, a double trawl float, which is used depending on the depth of the seabed, a further five fathoms of 8mm Polysteel rope, 15 fathoms of 12mm unleaded rope, 12 fathoms of 14mm ‡ Mike (left) and Chris Harvey with their father Chris in his net-making unleaded rope, and the chain end loft in 2010. (Photo: John Periam) ‡ Mike cutting bait while steaming off from Selsey. weights. Each pot is spaced 12 fathoms apart, and there are work 500 pots, of which 280 to changed roles and Chris took Predator to work the snagged pot which are comfortable for normally 28 to 30 pots on each 300 are fished on a daily basis. control of the engines and free. working and do not impede string. The leg rope is one On approaching the chosen hauling via the outside levers. Once all the pots were movement. fathom long, with 16mm end of the first string, Chris Chris started hauling in the Only a few other fishing Polysteel rope attached via a slowly manoeuvred Predator so pots and slid them along to When the weather is good, boats from Selsey were spinner. that Mike could use the boat the next workstation, sighted over the course of The Harvey brothers use hook to bring the first dahn of where Mike removed the Selsey makes an excellent the day, including parlour pots from Mustang the day aboard. With the boat in catch, checked its size and Nicholas C LI 90, owned Engineering and East Coast neutral, Mike took the rope onto state, put in fresh bait, and base, as the moorings, and skippered by Chris’ Creels Ltd. All are 30in by 22in the hauler and slowly brought in then stacked the pots on brother-in-law John by 15in, constructed in 12mm the double trawl floats followed the port side of the deck fishing grounds, storage and Reeves. steel, covered in 5mm braided by the end weight, before the ready for self-shooting. distribution are all nearby The brothers came netting and fully roped and first parlour pot came over the Occasionally, when a pot ashore with 50kg of rubbered, with a single 8in- or gunwale roller. came fast on the seabed, the onboard, Chris took Predator to brown crab and 15kg of lobster. 10in-diameter bucket eye, end At this stage, the brothers brothers would manoeuvre the chosen point from which the On their return to the mooring, clearing door and bait bag. They first string was to be shot back, the baskets of catch were lifted marking the dahn location on the onto the tender. Once ashore, Garmin GPSMAP 4012 plotter. Chris and Mike used one of two Each string took about 35 Lister Petter single-cylinder LT1 minutes to work from start to diesel engines to winch the finish, and eight strings were tender over plastic rollers to the hauled over the course of the top of the beach. day. Between strings, Mike cut The catch was then transferred up the next basket of bait – they to a truck and taken to their hut use skate backs, smooth hounds next to the newly built RNLI and occasionally gurnard if they Selsey lifeboat station. There it have any – measured lobsters was divided into that to be sold and crabs to ensure they met the at Potters, their family business, minimum landing size, banded and that destined for Viviers the lobster claws and nicked the (UK) Ltd. brown crab. There was also the The latter was driven a few routine maintenance of cleaning hundred yards to Viviers’ mud off the buoys and repairing weighing and storage facility at pots where the netting had been Selsey, where the brothers were damaged. met by general manager Mark Both brothers were Horstead. It was weighed and continuously checking to make recorded before onward sure that ropes did not get transport to Viviers’ tangled as they hauled, stacked headquarters at Camber Dock, ‡ One of the two JCB Mermaid ‡ The 1.5t Hydroslave pot hauler and 48in gunwale roller are and shot the pots. They wore Portsmouth, for sale on the wet J-444 63kW diesel engines. connected by a drop-in receiving table. Spinlock Alto backpack PFDs, fish counter. 12 SELSEY POTTING Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020

‡ Banding lobsters from the first string of pots. ‡ Hauling the second string as dawn begins to break. Harvey family fishing and built their experience up that bought the first of several The Harvey brothers are a that has one main road in Fishing is in the Harvey brothers’ way. Chris said: “Dad small boats. Then, 16 years and one out – so if you don’t blood. Their father Chris went to concentrated on running his ago, their father decided to longstanding team who live in the town, you have a sea in the early 1960s, but later business, which went from build a catamaran with the drive in. Selsey does not sold his boat when he decided to strength to strength. He was help of local boatbuilder have learnt to have a harbour – all our open a net-making business in known as a quality net- and Andy Burgess, based at anticipate each other’s vessels are anchored at sea, the town. As youngsters, Chris rope-maker, eventually selling Sidlesham, to give Chris with tender support. If the and Mike had the opportunity to products all over the UK.” and Mike a proper start in thoughts and moves weather turns foul, all we go to sea with other fishermen, With his support, the brothers their fishing career. can do is head to Chichester An average day for the there used to be. Is this because Marina, where we can berth until brothers can begin any time after we are leaving the EU? I am not we are able to get back to Selsey. 3am, with a day’s fishing lasting sure, but we are finding now that “Plans have been mooted up to eight hours. When the we have to be on the lookout several times for a small harbour weather is good, Selsey makes an more to protect our gear when it at Selsey, but sadly, due to the excellent base, as the moorings, is at sea.” current economic climate, this fishing grounds, storage and Chris is now 38 and Mike 35, has had to be put on hold – distribution are all nearby. and both say that they would maybe one day. Chichester However, when the weather is love to see more youngsters Marina are very fair when it too rough to launch the tender, coming into the industry. They comes to us mooring boats there, they have to moor at Chichester, agree that they were lucky in and they look after us well – it is which adds five hours’ travelling having family support. Gone are just the inconvenience of the to their day. the days when if one of them extra travel involved.” “Things have changed now,” wanted a day off – say to visit the The brothers have invested in said Chris. “When we started dentist – they could get a large tanks from the Fife-based there were about 20 vessels replacement crew member from firm Todd Fish Tech Company, fishing from Selsey – now there Selsey. That just does not happen which they have installed in their are about nine. It is a struggle at now. There are probably about a shed to hold live crab and the moment – fishing for lobster third of the fishermen there lobsters. Chris said: “We is currently very slow, as it is compared to when they started. installed the Lobster Pod in along most of the south coast, “It is the same all around the December 2016, and this was and it is the same with the coast,” said Chris. “Selsey is one followed by a specially made ‡ Mike making a small repair to a parlour pot... whitefish. The weather has been of those fishing communities crab tank in September 2019. inclement to say the least, with some strong winds and bad storms. As a result, we have often not been able to go to sea for several weeks at a time. People forget that weather also acts as a quota.” But survival can be down to determination, and neither Chris nor Mike intends to make a career change. They look towards a more positive future, and as a family are prepared to seek fresh challenges. Mike said: “One of the biggest outlays is the boat itself, never mind its upkeep, the licence and the cost of replacing gear. In the spring we lost 50 pots – both of us feel we know where they ‡ … and rebaiting another pot. went. At times, there are more foreign vessels in the area than ‡ Pot hauling in progress on Predator. 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SELSEY POTTING 13

‡ Chris prepares to take a pot ‡ Mike stands by with the boat hook at the start of a string of pots. aboard… ‡ … before sliding it aft along the gunwale rail to Mike’s workstation.

‡ Mike removing brown crab…

‡ Returning unwanted catch to the sea.

‡ Measuring a brown crab with the IFCA-supplied ‡ … and placing it in a basket. gauge to ensure it meets the MLS… ‡ … and checking the carapace length on a lobster.

‡ Mike rebaits the pots… ‡ … then moves them to the port side… ‡ … where he stacks them in careful order… ‡ … ready to be reshot. 14 SELSEY POTTING Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020

The owners of Todd Fish Tech, Keith and Errin, were very supportive indeed. We can already see signs that this heavy investment is starting to pay off.” The Lobster Pod storage system has 30 trays that can hold up to 300kg of lobster in seawater held at a constant temperature. Chris and Mike normally store between 10 and 15 lobsters per tray. They also have a 125kg crab holding tank. The innovative, patent-pending Lobster Pod and the recently launched Crab Pod have a unique filter with a moving bed biofilter, protein skimmer, mechanical filter, ultraviolet steriliser and energy- efficient recirculation pump and ‡ Mike washes and sizes the ‡ The brothers wear Spinlock Alto backpack PFDs for ease of ‡ Cleaning a buoy – all part of seawater chiller. This keeps the lobsters. movement. routine maintenance. seawater clean, clear and chilled, keeping the shellfish happy and new lifeboat station became catching, cooking and preparation do come to the fore at times.” Home, written by Janet McMeekin healthy. operational, we were able to open is all done by our family makes us Both brothers supported coming with the support of Selsey The stored lobsters and crabs up our stall on the Kingsway. feel incredibly proud. As for the out of the EU, and still do. Chris fishermen, which highlighted the are sold via a beachside café called Visitors love it, as well as many boys, their father has watched said: “We have committed challenges of earning a living in Potters, which is run by their sister locals. Fresh shellfish is cooked them grow up with a ourselves to fishing, and enjoy it. this strong fishing community. Katherine, their mother Trisha and each day by my father, which then determination to succeed. It is Will things change? We will have Tony Delahunty OBE, who used Chris’ wife Sammie. Trisha and goes on sale at the stall. We could what fishing is all about – he to wait and see. It will take a lot of to fish from Selsey and is now Katherine learnt about the fishing do a lot more in supplying local respects and admires them work to get it right. If we have the president of the NFFO, said: “The industry by working with Chris hotels and restaurants, and this is immensely.” support of the MMO, NFFO and traditional Selsey fishing families Snr in his net-making business. something we eventually hope to Mike said: “We also supply a lot IFCAs along with the government are still working in the fishery, but Following its closure, the family expand on. What is also so nice is of our catch to Portsmouth fish and its fisheries minister, and they there is a real and vital need to decided to look to fresh that it gives us the opportunity to wholesaler Viviers (Fishing News, can all work together to protect encourage and support young challenges. meet the public and tell them 27 August, ‘Scallops in the our interests, it will be a real help. people to join the industry. I have Katherine said: “As one door about fishing in Selsey, with the Solent’). Eric McLeod has been As individual fishermen we cannot watched Chris and Mike work closed, another opened, and odd menu discussed. very supportive of us over the past do it on our own.” together over many years, and Potters was launched. Once the “To be able to say that the 15 years, and we are able to Selsey Town Council has been what they have achieved as deliver our daily catch to Viviers’ very supportive, recently running brothers inspires me. The family small outlet in Selsey, which is run the ‘Sea’s The Day’ project, which do not let things deter them. I do by ex-fisherman Mark Horstead. It included an exhibition in admire the fact that they are saves us a long drive, and is then Chichester. It also published an investing for the future at a time taken to Portsmouth and later that excellent book, Bringing the Catch when many others in industries day to Billingsgate in London. This means that – except when weather means we have to go to Chichester Marina – our business is centralised at Selsey, which really helps. “In Selsey the fishermen work well with each other, but go their separate ways. In the event of any incident at sea, they all pull together to support each other. There is a Selsey Fishermen’s Association, but sadly due to the coronavirus we have not met as normal. It is a very stressful time ‡ Mike and Chris transfer the day’s catch to the tender… for everyone, and extra pressures

‡ Guiding the loaded tender up the beach…

‡ … with the Lister Petter engine winch taking the strain. ‡ … and head back to shore. 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SELSEY POTTING 15

‡ Mark Horstead, general manager for Viviers (UK) Ltd at Selsey, weighs and records the day’s catch.

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CONFIRMATION/AMENDMENTS by EMAIL, TEL: zOE wHITEHEAD, CAGE & AVIARy bIRDS TEL: 01732 445301 EMAIL: [email protected] 16 SONDRA LK 365 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020 SONDRA: SCALLOP DREDGING ON SHETLAND INSHORE BOAT David Linkie looks back on a day spent with Burra skipper Billy Jamieson and crewman Konrad Flaws on the Shetland scalloper Sondra LK 365 in November 2014

hat the dredges were shot within 20 minutes of closing Tthe house door quietly to avoid disturbing the owners and walking down to Hamnavoe pier, where Sondra was lying with the engine ticking over and the deck lights on, encapsulates the highly localised pattern of scallop dredging in Shetland. Severe southeasterly gales meant that Sondra had remained securely alongside Hamnavoe pier for the previous three days. Although the 60-knot winds had quickly fallen away to virtually nothing in the early hours of the previous morning, a big swell had still been running as darkness fell the previous afternoon. In view of the exposed location, weather is the biggest factor restricting the Shetland inshore scallop fishery, when – particularly after severe southwesterly winds blowing in across the North Atlantic – the associated heavy swell often lives on in the sea for days after the wind has moderated. Skipper Billy Jamieson and crewman Konrad Flaws’ preference to wait until first light to accurately evaluate sea conditions was why Sondra was still in harbour at 7am, one hour after the dredges could have started fishing under the terms of the Shetland Regulating Order. On leaving Burra light astern to ‡ Crewman Konrad Flaws tipping a port side dredge on Sondra at sunset. come onto a southwesterly heading, Sondra lifted her head to a moderate swell on what was otherwise a fine November morning. Skipper Billy Jamieson was intending to start fishing on the first of a series of small bits of ground just over one mile south of Hamnavoe that had yielded viable catch rates before bad weather brought fishing to a halt in the middle of the previous week. The steel-hulled Sondra was built by Malakoff & Moore Ltd at Lerwick in 1989 for Whalsay ‡ Shooting away the starboard dredges at the start of the first tow. skipper/owner Colin Eunson. With an LOA of 13.48m, registered length of 11.94m and beam of 5.2m, Sondra is powered by a Gardner 6LYTI main engine of ‡ Sondra approaching Hamnavoe pier at the end of another day’s 230kW driving through a Twin Disc scallop dredging. 5:1 reduction gearbox. Since delivery, Sondra has been used issued with an SSMO permit can towing at 3.1 knots in 35 fathoms almost exclusively for scallop work up to five dredges a side. of water. The 3D display provided dredging. Based on 2ft 6in dredges, by the Olex plotting system showed By virtue of having fished scallops Sondra’s scallop gear was Sondra to be towing in a small in inshore waters around Shetland manufactured by John Reid & Son basin-like depression, the small for 10 years before the Regulating Ltd of Brixham. scale and fairly steep sides of which Order was brought, Sondra is one When the Atlas deck crane had required constant helm alterations of two LK-registered scallopers (the been used to smoothly lift the while fishing between half a mile Out Skerries-owned Renown LK 52 scallop gear off the deck and lower and a mile from the shore, where a is the other) that have historical it over the side, 60 fathoms of low groundswell continued derogations to work seven dredges a 24mm wire were run off the HNP breaking with some momentum. ‡ Tipping a port side dredge after the first tow of the morning side. Any new skippers/owners winch drums, before the brakes With Billy Jamieson concerned west of Burra. entering the fishery after being were applied as Sondra started that the swell was probably causing 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SONDRA LK 365 17

‡ Konrad Flaws clips in the crane hook, before lifting the port side set of gear aboard after the first tow of the morning.

quickly underlined the concerns expressed during the first tow in relation to the gear lifting off the bottom. Although a viable number of good-sized scallop shells started ‡ Pulling down the port dredges. to accumulate on the deck, skipper and crewman both independently sheltered grounds, which when (thanks, lads), there was the first the positives needed to be viewed said that the return was probably fished periodically can produce chance that morning to discuss in tandem with the negatives. little more than half of what they acceptable returns for a day or so, topical issues relating to the small Dealing with the advantages taken from the same area four days are of vital importance to the but locally important Shetland first, the main benefit associated earlier. Shetland inshore scallop fleet. scallop sector. with the Shetland scallop dredge Looking to move to deeper water Given the exposed nature of the While acknowledging that fishery securing MSC status was in an attempt to nullify the negative predominately north/south-aligned securing MSC certification for that this achievement helped the impact of the swell, Billy Jamieson coastline, scallop skippers locally caught scallops had led to two main local processors, QA Fish steamed past his next two intended frequently need to work their way them securing more consistent and Blueshell Mussels Ltd, to tows before the dredges were shot between mainland Shetland and prices throughout the year, Billy develop new niche markets for away again in 40 fathoms, as Fitful outlying islands ahead of the Jamieson and Konrad Flaws – who scallops, particularly in France, Head began to open up to the weather, in order to find some had over 20 years’ experience of Italy and Switzerland, where south. degree of workable shelter. scalloping in Shetland – pointed consumers place considerable and Clearing the side decks resulted With some 1,100 miles of out that, as is frequently the case, ever increasing emphasis on ‡ in 400 scallops being bagged – a coastline around mainland ‡ Using the Atlas crane to tip the viable start, provided that it was Shetland and the outlying islands, dredges. the low point of the day. scallop skippers usually have a Rather than running out of the considerable number of options the dredges to lift off the bottom, sea, if anything the swell grew over open to them, providing that their with an obvious loss of catching the course of the next hour, as a starting location is appropriate for efficiency, the hydraulics were result of which Billy Jamieson took the weather conditions prevailing clutched in after 90 minutes, when the decision to haul early, with the at the time. However, even with the dredges were quickly hauled to intention of running four miles these mitigating local factors, a the surface. north past the small islands of considerable amount of fishing When the starboard beam chains Oxna and the Cheynies, situated to time is of course lost, particularly were hauled tight to the outrigger the north of Burra light, in an during the often long winter. block, Konrad Flaws quickly attempt to get away from the swell. The wide geographical spread of clipped in the hook as Billy Taking the third circular tow grounds, allied to a small fleet of Jamieson operated the new deck bounded to the south by the larger traditional scallop dredgers, is in crane – installed one year island of Hildasay – on which itself a major conservation factor. previously to replace the original granite used to be quarried for With fishing effort well matched to unit – to top the dredges before export to America – and the the small areas available, scallops they were pulled down by a warp smaller Sanda Stour and Binna are harvested periodically as boats leading through a snatch block Ness on the north side, succeeded fish the grounds on a random onto the elevated net drum aft. in eliminating the swell. rotational basis, before quickly Starting to tip the dredges Similar small areas of relatively moving on to another bed as soon as catch rates show the first signs of tailing off. ‡ Konrad Flaws emptying a dredge. After a further 440 king scallop shells were picked out from the stones from the second short tow of the morning, Konrad Flaws quickly got the sausages for the brunch rolls cooking in Sondra’s forward cabin. Shortly after the first tantalising aroma drifted up into the wheelhouse, the port side set of gear came fast, and refused to come clear despite skipper Billy Jamieson’s best efforts. As a result, 30 minutes into the tow, the dredges were hauled back to the stern. After a quick look over the side at the contents, which provided some encouragement, the ‡ Skipper Billy Jamieson and crewman Konrad Flaws steadily work gear was dropped again. ‡ A decent return of clean scallops ready to be picked up from their way through the port side dredges. After being suitably nourished Sondra’s deck. 18 SONDRA LK 365 Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020

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1. Skipper Billy Jamieson clearing the port side deck.

10 2. Sondra running north towards Hildasay, to reduce the impact of the swell on the scallop gear.

3. Konrad Flaws starts to fill the first of nine bags picked off the deck after the third tow of the day.

4. Lifting the starboard dredges to 5 the gunwale rail… 5. … before pulling down the 11 dredges…

6. … and tipping the first dredge.

7. Tipping a dredge as the sun sinks to the horizon.

8. Sondra’s scallop dredges are supplied by John Reid & Son Ltd.

9. Lined up for the last tow of the day.

10. Emptying the dredges after the final tow of the day.

11. Picking shells and dumping stones, while underway for Hamnavoe two hours before the regulatory 9pm close. 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews SONDRA LK 365 19 MSC STATUS REAPS LOCAL BENEFITS

‡ A decent last return of scallops… ‡ … are bagged up to end the day. sourcing seafood from fisheries fishing were now involved with they could then use more that are accredited as being management of the fishery they effectively in line with prevailing sustainable and well-managed. depended on – as a result of which weather conditions. One of the upsides of this was some of the regulations now in One of the main reasons for the that every week now, not place stopped local people fishing Shetland scallop dredge fishery ‡ Prime MSC-accredited Shetland scallops. inconsiderable quantities of freshly scallops. obtaining MSC status is the extent caught and hand-shucked Shetland One example cited was that in a to which local fishermen worked hile fishing in Shetland The Shetland inshore fleet scallops were being exported to fishery that is heavily dependent on with staff from the NAFC Marine is perhaps more includes around a dozen Europe in little over 24 hours of favourable weather, crews were Centre at Scalloway over a period Wreadily associated scallop dredgers, which since being landed by local boats, being told when they could fish. of 13 years, during which time a with pelagic and whitefish March 2012 have landed including Sondra. Opening up new The regulation prohibited fishing unique set of recorded catch data vessels, the islands are also MSC-accredited king scallops. markets proved pivotal in avoiding between 9pm and 6am, but with was compiled as part of a Scottish home to a small but locally This notable UK first was a the price drop of up to 25% which, the wind around Shetland regularly government trial on marine spatial important fleet of inshore result of the SSMO making until 2014, while demand strengthening with daylight, boats planning. boats, which by operating a simultaneous and unique remained stable through the often lost a day’s fishing time, During this process, Shetland from widely dispersed triple application for MSC summer, was regularly experienced which they were then prevented scallop fishermen worked with the locations, bring valuable status for the local inshore post-Christmas. from making up overnight, when pilot scheme providing data and socio-economic benefits to a scallop, brown and velvet crab While recognising that the conditions could be more information, and even voluntarily number of remote areas. fisheries. Shetland Regulating Order, favourable. closed areas to fishing to protect established in 1999, was intended Rather than a daily restriction, sensitive marine habitats like horse to keep bigger vessels outside of scallop fishermen like Billy mussel beds. The different nature of bottom 3,000 scallops for the day, the inshore grounds (six miles), Jamieson and Konrad Flaws would In terms of stock levels, the that the dredges had passed over subsequent return of 490 proved concern was expressed that too few prefer to be given a weekly inshore waters around Shetland was immediately evident in the form sufficient. people with direct involvement in allocation of fishing time, which were thought to be home to more of the coating of fine shell grit on Immediately after coming off the scallops than local fishermen had the stones, and what later proved to deck, skipper Billy Jamieson seen for a long time, with crews be a total of 780 scallop shells. switched on the laptop and now starting to see scallops in areas Preferring to leave the steady checked for signal coverage, in where previously there were none. fishing returned by the more preparation for filling out the Clearly this boded well for the sheltered grounds for the poor- mandatory electronic logsheet and future of scallop dredging around weather days that inevitably would filling in the catch returns and Shetland, and perhaps in years to be experienced during the coming associated details for the past 12 come would justify the regulations winter months, skipper Billy hours, before sending the first of now in place being revisited. Jamieson set a course to take four emails to Marine Scotland. A After a more routine two-hour Sondra back towards the area similar paper logsheet was also tow, during which two circuits of where the day had started nine completed for the Shetland the basin were completed, it was hours earlier. Shellfish Management time to haul again. After passing the local and Wick Organisation (SSMO). Predictions about a smaller class seiners Comrades and Opportune Within 30 minutes of the dredges of scallop shell began to prove heading in to land at Scalloway, being taken aboard Sondra, the accurate as the considerably fuller having spent the day fishing in the first net of scallop bags was swung dredges were emptied. Also as Burra Haaf, the dredges were ashore onto the pier at Hamnavoe. expected, the drop in size was more deployed for the fifth time at the A few minutes later, they were than offset by a significant increase start of what proved to be a tight collected by QA Fish, to be ‡ Swinging a landing net of scallop bags ashore at Hamnavoe… in quantity. circular tow. processed the following morning at With Konrad Flaws confidently With Billy Jamieson and Konrad Scalloway ready for export to predicting that the total for the day Flaws keen to exceed a total of Europe. n so far would be doubled by the time the mix of shells, stones and tangles lying on the side decks were cleared, the dredges were quickly shot away again after skipper Billy Jamieson had selected a new starting position and a slightly different tow pattern from the previous one, after studying the numerous tracks displayed on Sondra’s Olex and Fishmaster plotters. A count of 980 shells fully justified the decision to move north for the third haul, as the number of bags stacked across the transom began to mount up. Taken on a slightly softer bottom, and brought to an end fairly close in halfway along the west shore of Hildasay as daylight was fading, the penultimate haul of the day also ‡ … for collection by QA Fish. proved fairly successful. ‡ Freshly caught Shetland scallops for export by QA Fish at Scalloway. 20 QUIZ/NEWS Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020 Can you master BREAK TIME these brain teasers? THE 2-SPEED CROSSWORD SUDOKU You can choose to do either quick or cryptic clues, the answers are the same. 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Ireland is up against nine other submission to have the European The ECMWF is one of the world’s member states competing for Although the full Plymouth Centre for Medium-Range Weather most accurate predictors of global the centre’s relocation, and the Seafood Festival could not Forecasts (ECMWF) relocate part of weather, forecasting about two successful bid will be revealed in take place this year due its operations to Ireland. Currently weeks ahead, as well as producing December. to Covid-19 regulations, the ECMWF is based in Reading, but longer-range forecasts for up to The ECMWF has already taken the a Seafood and Harbour it will have to move to a European a year ahead. It is an international decision to move its supercomputer Market over the weekend of member state as a result of Brexit, intergovernmental organisation of centre to Bologna in Italy – one of the 19 and 20 September saw reports Pauric Gallagher. which Ireland is a member, and largest supercomputer facilities and a wide range of street-food If the bid is successful, it could the country is represented on the meteorological data archives in the vendors and food stands create up to 250 jobs for the centre’s ECMWF council by Met Éireann. world. socially distanced across the Parade and Quay Square on the Barbican. ‡ Mark Hix. Chef and restaurateur Mark Hix MBE brought Lewis Colam of Interfish. More bluefin tuna sightings on south coast his fish truck to Plymouth “It is our absolute to share his signature pleasure to be donating Following the recent recovery of a certainly being blamed for seeing It was off Guernsey that the first no-fuss fish dishes with the the proceeds of our fish bluefin tuna carcass at Chichester off bass locally. One of our 6.5m sightings of larger shoals were noted public. Plymouth company sales to Seafarers UK, Marina (Fishing News, 17 September, chaps came in the other day because in 2017. Since then, they have returned Interfish supplied him with who do so much for those ‘Chichester tuna may point to stock he was concerned that if a tuna on a regular basis, and have extended fish for the weekend, and who work at sea, but in recovery’), more sightings of this breached and landed on his vessel, their feeding grounds closer inshore the proceeds were donated particular have been big species have been reported along he’d be sunk.” right along the south coast. to Seafarers UK. supporters of the home- the south coast from Cornwall to East Sightings have been reported off “It is something we are now “It is great to have Mark grown Call4Fish project, Sussex, reports John Periam. Plymouth – in fact, dozens were seen having to get more used to, and our Hix here, and we are and created a pot of money Beshlie Pool, executive officer together three miles out to sea, having association members appear to be excited to be working with along with Fishmongers’ for the South Devon and Channel a feeding frenzy. Further sightings seeing more in our waters each year,” him to offer something Hall to help fishers through Shellfishermen, said: “The tuna are have occurred off Penzance. said Beshlie Pool. different to Plymouth,” said Covid-19.” 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 21 PORTS & PRICES WELL-SUPPLIED WHITEFISH MARKETS AT PETERHEAD Peterhead last week returned its biggest Gutted whiting were at £1-£2.30 and round of hake, 233 boxes of coley, 185 boxes of 80p-£2.20, lemon sole £2.05-£6.25, 305 boxes of monkfish, 237 boxes of ling, four-day total since 6-9 July, reports whiting 85p-£1 per kg. Monkfish secured monkfish, 155 boxes of flatfish, 139 boxes megrim 50p-£4.15, coley 75p-£1.25, hake 226 boxes of megrim, 151 boxes of flatfish David Linkie. £3.75-£5.10, lemon sole £1.50-£7.70, of ling, 88 boxes of megrim and 69 boxes 65p-£4.65 and ling £1.40-£1.88 per kg. and 138 boxes of squid. Including three 6k-plus-box markets, megrim £1.10-£3.35, plaice £1.30-£1.80, of squid. Nine boats, Castlewood, Attain II, Boy Forty-one boats and 21 consignments landings were consistent on all four ling £2.15-£3.35, hake £2-£5.50, squid Last Wednesday morning at Peterhead, John, Shekinah, Rosebloom, El Shaddai, contributed to last week’s four-day total of mornings, when 25,473 boxes of whitefish £1.80-£8.35 and coley £1-£1.70 per kg. the two largest selections of gutted Opportunus IV, Benarkle II and Prosperity, 25,473 boxes on Peterhead market. This were sold. The following morning, 10 boats, haddock made £2.80-£4 per kg, selected plus five consignments from Ocean tally, the biggest for 11 weeks, included Ten boats, Ocean Harvest, Harvester, Ocean Bounty, Atlantic Challenge, Shalimar £1.85-£3.70, small £1.20-£3.15, chippers Endeavour, Aquarius, Prevail, Just Reward 7,586 boxes of haddock (1,155 rounders), Castlewood, Attain II, Harvest Hope, II, Falcon, Guiding Light, Guiding Star, 65p-£1.75 and metros 50p-75p. Large cod and Chloe Ella, landed 6,485 boxes to last 4,172 boxes of cod, 3,530 boxes of Valhalla, Victory Rose, Our Lass III, Celestial Dawn, Ocean Dawn, Courageous sold at £3.50-£5 per kg, sprags £4.05- Thursday’s market at Peterhead. This sale whiting (2,451 ungutted), 3,272 boxes of Emulator and Fruitful Bough, together with and Aquarius II, plus seven consignments £4.65, medium £3.45-£4.20, selected £3- included 1,243 boxes of gutted and 494 coley, 2,020 boxes of hake, 878 boxes of six consignments from Enterprise II, Fisher from Jubilee Quest, Sparkling Star (UL), £3.65 and small £1.85-£2.95. Monkfish boxes of round haddock, 1,031 boxes of monkfish, 776 boxes of ling, 556 boxes of Boys, Shaulora, Just Reward, Deeside and Opportune, Vision IV, Ocean Rose, Harvest sold at £2.50-£4.10, gutted whiting hake, 998 boxes of coley, 720 boxes of squid, 548 boxes of flatfish and 471 boxes Transcend, contributed 6,823 boxes to the Dawn and Fisher Boys, landed 6,483 90p-£1.85, round whiting 50p-85p, plaice whiting (563 rounders), 608 boxes of cod, of megrim. first market of last week at Peterhead. boxes. This tally included 1,879 boxes of Monday’s sale, the largest of the first cod, 1,100 boxes of gutted and 14 boxes of four days of last week, included 1,856 round haddock, 972 boxes of whiting (684 boxes of gutted and 493 boxes of round rounders), 697 boxes of coley, 349 boxes haddock, 1,344 boxes of coley, 915 of hake, 244 boxes of ling, 213 boxes of boxes of cod, 835 boxes of whiting (614 monkfish, 114 boxes of megrim, 107 boxes rounders), 295 boxes of squid, 197 boxes of flatfish and 54 boxes of squid. of hake, 175 boxes of monkfish, 156 boxes Twelve boats, Phoenix, Helenus, of ling, 135 boxes of flatfish and 43 boxes Serenity, Forever Faithful, Kathleen Ann, of megrim. Renown, Fruitful Vine, Steadfast Hope, On the first market of last week at Emulator, Aalskere, Crystal River and Peterhead, large cod sold at £4.85-£5.95 Faithful, together with three consignments, per kg, medium £4.15-£5.15, selected contributed to a 5,682 box-sale in the £3.90-£4.10 and small £2.25-£4.05. middle of last week. This market, the Large/medium gutted haddock made smallest of the four days, included 2,232 £3.25-£3.75, selected £2.20-£3.95, small boxes of gutted and 154 boxes of round £1.35-£3.15, chippers 40p-£1.70, metros haddock, 1,003 boxes of whiting (590 40p-85p and round haddock 40p-55p. rounders), 770 boxes of cod, 443 boxes ‡ Atlantic Challenge and Guiding Light landing for last Tuesday’s market at Peterhead. (Photo: Ryan Cordiner) BUOYANT WHITEFISH FOURTH WEEK NEAR ACTIVITY IN SHETLAND £1M MARK AT BRIXHAM Twenty-five boats landed 2,552 boxes of whitefish for the first plaice £4.50, saithe £1.75, squid £7.40, turbot £13.65, The market at Brixham saw another healthy were £1. Prime lobsters were £19 and large and largest market of the first four days last week in Shetland. gutted whiting £3.10 and round whiting 95p per kg. week of sales, with projected sales for the £18.20. Mackerel was £5.50 for 1s, £5 for A further 11 boats put ashore 1,923 boxes on Tuesday full week in the region of £950,000, despite 2s and £3 for 3s. morning, before Wednesday saw the characteristic mid-week a couple of days when the day-boats were Megrim was £4.50 for 2s, £3.50 for drop in supplies, when nine boats contributed 1,063 boxes. tied up, and no landings by the netters due 3s and 4s and £1.50 for 5s. Monkfish 1s Twenty-two boats landed 1,286 boxes for Thursday morning’s to unfavourable tides. averaged £10, 2s £10.50, 3s £9.90, 4s market. This took the well-balanced four-day total to 6,824 Over the first four markets last week, bass £8.90, 5s £8.20 and 6s £5.90. Grey mullet boxes from 67 boats, which continued to include high fetched £16.80 for 1s and 2s, £14.80 for 2s and 3s were £4.50. Red mullet sold at numbers of inshore static-gear boats. 3s, £10.60 for 4s and £9.50 for 5s. Blondie £11/kg for 1s, £9.50 for 2s and £4.50 for 3s. Whiting led the way last week with 41,948kg (of which wing 1s and 2s were £4.20, 3s £4.10 and 4s Octopus averaged £2. 17,686kg were rounders), followed by haddock (41,038kg), £3/kg. Black bream made £10 for 1s, £9 for Plaice 1s averaged £5.60/kg, 2s £3.80, saithe (37,593kg), ling (26,254kg), mackerel (15,572kg), 2s, £8.50 for 3s and £5 for 4s. Size 1 brill 3s £3.20, 4s £2.70 and 5s £1.60. Pollack 2s hake (21,515kg), monkfish (19,213kg), cod (16,937kg), averaged £13/kg, 2s £8.90, 3s £7.90, 4s were £6.50, 3s £5.80 and 4s £4.30. Sand megrim (12,171kg), plaice (6,229kg) and lemon sole £7.40 and 5s £4.60. sole 1s were £7.50/kg and 2s £5. Large (1,524kg). Cod made £8 for 1s and 2s, £7.80 for 3s, scallops were £8 and small £4. Dover sole Top prices included cod at £5.55 per kg, gutted haddock £6.50 for 4s and £4 for 5s. Conger 1s and 1s and 2s averaged £15/kg, 3s £16.80, 4s £3.85, hake £5.70, halibut £11.10, lemon sole £10.35, ling ‡ The Wick fly-shooter Boy Andrew landing 2s were £1.80, and 3s 60p. Large cuttlefish £15.50, 5s £12.70, 6s £11.80, 7s £10.30, 8s £2.35, mackerel £1.50, megrim £9.15, monkfish £4.35, into Lerwick fishmarket. (Photo: Sydney Sinclair) averaged £2.30. Size 1 dabs were £3 and 2s £9.30, 9s £8.20 and 10s £6. Squid 1s and 30p. John Dory 1s were £13.50/kg, 2s £12, 2s were £8.20. 3s £10 and 4s £8.50. Red gurnard 2s made Thorny wings averaged £3.30 for 2s and £2.80 and 4s 60p. 3s and £2.70 for 4s. Tubs were £3/kg for 1s GOOD PRICES MAINTAINED AT NEWLYN Haddock 1s and 2s were £4.30, 3s £1.60 and £1.80 for 2s. Turbot averaged £27/kg Last Monday morning, 12.8t was beamer and inshore boats landed notable prices from the morning and 4s 40p. Lemon sole averaged £11.50/kg for 1s, 2s £22, 3s £17.20, 4s £14.50, 5s £13 landed to Newlyn market from one 8.4t. Contributing to the daily were N3 bass £14.83/kg, N2 Dover for 1s and 2s, £10 for 3s, £2.80 for 4s and and 6s £10.90. Size 1 whiting averaged £3/ beamer and inshore boats. Top- volume were 0.1t of bass, 0.8t sole £15.40/kg and N1 plaice £5/ 60p for 5s. Ling 1s and 2s were £2, and 3s kg, 2s £2.40, 3s £1.20 and 4s 40p. volume species were 0.2t of bass, Dover sole, 0.3t John Dory, 1t kg. 0.5t Dover sole, 0.6t haddock, 0.1t mackerel, 1.2t monkfish, 0.2t For auction on Thursday was a hake, 0.7t John Dory, 0.7t lemon octopus, 0.2t plaice, 1.4t pollack volume of 10t from two beamers, sole, 1.1t mackerel, 3.1t megrim and 01t of squid. Again, good inshore trawlers and the hand-line sole, 1.8t monkfish, 0.2t octopus, prices were achieved for most fleet. Highest-volume species were SOLE TRADERS AT LOWESTOFT 0.2t plaice and 0.1t of turbot. species throughout the morning. 1.5t of Dover sole, 0.4t haddock, Demand was good throughout A volume of 3.9t was on display 0.1t John Dory, 0.6t lemon sole, With most of the 12 boats supplying Lowestoft last week targeting Dover sole, the variety on offer at the morning, with standout prices for Wednesday’s auction from 0.1t ling, 0.6t mackerel, 2.6t the market was limited. Total supplies were just under 2t. Prices for Dover sole were down from the being N1 megrim sole £7.90/kg, the inshore fleet, including 0.1t of megrim sole, 0.2t octopus, 0.3t recent highs of £20 per kg to see a still respectable maximum price of £19. N1 John Dory £12.20/kg and N3 bass, 0.3t Dover sole, 0.5t John plaice, 0.1t turbot and 0.3t of Prices for bass were also lower on the previous week, off £1.50 to post a high of £13.50, and Dover sole £15.49/kg. Dory, 1t mackerel, 0.1t megrim whiting. Good prices were again skate saw highs of £2.50, the same as the week before. The only other species seen was the first of For Tuesday’s auction, one sole and 0.5t of pollack. Most achieved for most species. the herring, which came a little early this season, fetching a good price at £3.50. 22 PORTS AND PRICES Visit us at fishingnews.co.uk and on Twitter @YourFishingNews 1 October 2020

PETERHEAD, WEEK Avg Max Max, Max, mth HANTSHOLM, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, 6m BRIXHAM, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr NEWLYN, WEEK TO Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr TO 24 SEPTEMBER price/kg price/kg wk ago wk ago TO 24 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 24 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago 24 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Catfish £2.92 £3.05 £3.00 £2.67 Catfish (1) 719 £5.13 £5.77 £4.82 Bass (1) 22 £15.77 £16.34 £18.34 Bass (1) 15 £15.00 - - Cod (A1) £4.77 £5.40 £6.14 £5.62 Cod (0) 767 £5.78 £6.86 £5.67 Bass (2) 81 £16.64 £15.54 £17.34 Bass (3) 51 £14.43 £13.65 £15.71 Bass (4) 297 £12.43 £13.21 £13.22 Cod (A2) £4.45 £4.79 £6.08 £5.19 Cod (1) 3,256 £6.31 £7.32 £5.54 Bass (3) 267 £14.34 £12.90 £14.94 Bass (4) 846 £10.31 £8.92 £11.04 Bass (5) 132 £11.09 £12.75 £11.99 Cod (A3) £4.03 £4.54 £5.28 £4.62 Cod (2) 10,622 £5.27 £6.92 £5.34 Bass (5) 662 £9.31 £8.36 £10.19 Blonde Ray (L) 314 £2.18 £1.51 £2.23 Cod (A4) £3.54 £3.86 £4.89 £4.43 Cod (3) 18,252 £4.06 £5.69 £4.13 Brill (1) 610 £12.74 £12.76 £12.54 Blonde Ray (M) 168 £1.87 £1.32 £1.92 Cod (A5) £2.72 £3.34 £4.60 £3.75 Cod (4) 18,130 £2.99 £4.35 £3.63 Brill (2) 651 £8.35 £8.27 £7.65 Blonde Ray (S) 8 £0.30 £1.52 £1.40 Haddock (A1) £3.34 £3.64 £6.30 £4.45 Cod (5) 6,666 £2.90 £3.86 £3.20 Brill (3) 1,056 £7.62 £7.52 £7.27 Brill (1) 3 £8.46 £11.76 £11.82 Haddock (A2) £3.20 £3.64 £5.55 £6.58 Haddock (1) 5,694 £3.06 £3.13 £2.82 Brill (4) 924 £7.21 £7.03 £5.36 Brill (2) 45 £11.21 £11.06 £11.32 Haddock (A3) £2.50 £3.09 £3.26 £4.97 Haddock (2) 5,099 £2.32 £2.72 £2.05 Brill (5) 165 £4.30 £3.66 £3.58 Brill (3) 77 £8.68 £8.82 £7.89 Brill (4) 28 £8.40 £7.96 £6.82 Haddock chippers (A4) £1.33 £1.67 £1.69 £2.95 Haddock (3) 1,367 £1.17 £1.59 £1.25 Cock crabs 265 £5.52 £4.99 £4.85 Brill (5) 16 £7.30 £5.94 £5.82 Haddock metros (A4) £0.57 £0.80 £1.01 £1.99 Haddock (4) 534 £0.38 £0.00 £0.31 Cod (3) 13 £6.78 £6.83 £4.79 Conger (1) 604 £1.80 £1.53 £1.26 Claws (9) 20 £4.19 £4.52 £3.05 Hake (A1) £4.65 £5.06 £5.97 £5.47 Hake (0) 13,310 £4.44 £6.11 £4.89 Conger (2) 235 £1.62 £1.67 £1.27 Cod (3) 56 £6.13 £7.00 £5.55 Hake (A2) £3.77 £4.39 £5.06 £4.19 Hake (1) 15,520 £3.54 £5.43 £4.01 Conger (3) 357 £0.57 £0.24 £0.50 Cod (4) 43 £5.21 £4.48 £2.71 Hake (A3) £2.15 £2.93 £3.98 £3.00 Hake (2) 22,673 £2.61 £3.82 £2.90 Cuttlefish (1) 49,872 £2.30 £2.28 £2.55 Cod (5) 27 £5.20 £2.00 £3.01 Hake (A4) £2.00 £2.46 £3.12 £2.00 Hake (3) 1,897 £1.51 £3.13 £2.10 Dogfish 6,433 £0.25 £0.25 £0.25 Cuckoo ray (M) 466 £0.99 £1.34 £1.19 Hake (A5) £0.67 £0.67 £2.26 £1.46 Lemon sole (1) 209 £8.47 £7.84 £6.95 Gurnard (2) 43 £2.71 £2.00 £3.44 Cuckoo ray (S) 70 £0.34 £0.59 £0.34 Lemon sole (A2) £5.63 £6.62 £7.31 £5.57 Cuttlefish (L) 326 £2.21 £2.30 £2.84 Lemon sole (2) 1,155 £4.94 £5.36 £6.58 Gurnard (4) 6,513 £0.61 £0.61 £0.61 Lemon sole (A3) £2.21 £2.68 £2.98 £3.18 Dover sole (1) 58 £15.18 £18.10 £17.77 Lemon sole (3) 2,790 £2.29 £2.30 £3.02 Haddock (1) 56 £4.18 £5.65 £3.69 Ling (A1) £1.79 £1.81 £2.33 £1.48 Haddock (2) 110 £4.24 £4.03 £3.29 Dover sole (2) 167 £14.88 £17.90 £17.68 Ling (1) 2,922 £1.90 £2.99 £2.42 Dover sole (3) 619 £14.77 £17.67 £17.84 Ling (A2) £1.59 £1.61 £2.49 £1.78 Haddock (3) 100 £1.25 £1.50 £1.92 Ling (2) 1,008 £2.47 £3.42 £2.25 Dover sole (4) 1,110 £11.14 £13.22 £14.05 Ling (A3) £2.28 £2.52 £2.74 £1.92 Hake (4) 4 £5.63 £6.11 £4.36 Ling (3) 2,730 £1.91 £2.20 £2.06 Dover sole (5) 767 £8.50 £9.95 £10.22 Megrim (A1) £3.63 £4.50 £5.40 £5.93 Hake (5) 8 £5.52 £5.47 £4.31 Megrim 1,158 £3.76 £4.50 £2.60 Hake (7) 4 £3.49 £3.12 £3.00 Grey mullet (2) 20 £3.26 £2.00 £4.20 Megrim (A2) £2.37 £3.03 £4.54 £4.67 Monkfish (1) 1,770 £4.26 £4.52 £4.72 Hen crabs 1,465 £2.32 £2.08 - Grey mullet (3) 5 £2.60 £2.25 £3.00 Megrim (A3) £1.31 £1.67 £4.69 £3.25 Gurnard and latchet (L) 40 £2.29 £3.26 £3.54 Monkfish (2) 3,255 £4.35 £4.63 £4.89 John Dory (1) 67 £12.32 £12.85 £14.09 Megrim (A4) £0.84 £1.08 - £1.07 Gurnard and latchet (M) 72 £1.72 £1.57 £2.71 Monkfish (3) 3,502 £4.20 £4.47 £5.00 John Dory (2) 125 £11.97 £12.03 £13.46 Gurnard and latchet (S) 366 £0.61 £0.77 £0.57 Megrim (A4) £1.02 £1.50 £3.09 £1.88 John Dory (3) 384 £9.95 £8.91 £10.66 Monkfish (4) 2,315 £3.64 £3.95 £4.93 Haddock (1) 73 £4.43 £4.09 £3.97 Monkfish (A1) £3.99 £4.61 £5.09 £4.07 Lemon sole (1) 208 £11.00 £10.45 £10.89 Monkfish (5) 724 £2.08 £2.20 £3.22 Haddock (2) 288 £4.56 £4.28 £4.08 Monkfish (A2) £4.07 £4.35 £4.81 £3.96 Lemon sole (2) 323 £11.52 £10.33 £11.21 Plaice (1) 3,993 £3.06 £3.27 £3.72 Haddock (3) 605 £3.11 £3.03 £3.20 Monkfish (A3) £3.72 £4.02 £4.45 £3.79 Lemon sole (3) 838 £9.70 £8.32 £10.80 Plaice (2) 12,860 £2.95 £3.15 £3.75 Haddock (4) 205 £0.57 £0.46 £0.69 Monkfish (A4) £3.65 £3.88 £4.21 £3.19 Lemon sole (4) 1,999 £2.48 £2.02 £2.60 Haddock (5) 30 £1.12 £1.70 £0.94 Plaice (3) 21,588 £2.07 £2.14 £2.90 Lemon sole (5) 989 £0.48 £0.33 £0.63 Monkfish (A5) £2.62 £2.86 £3.07 £2.33 Hake (3) 5 £4.80 £4.89 £4.37 Plaice (4) 49,539 £1.75 £1.79 £2.26 Line mackerel (1) 99 £5.21 £4.92 £4.86 Plaice (A2) £1.85 £2.55 £2.62 £3.08 Hake (4) 51 £4.74 £4.78 £4.14 Pollack (2) 1,156 £5.47 £6.41 £5.50 Line mackerel (2) 155 £4.26 £4.19 £4.18 Plaice (A3) £1.56 £1.79 £2.27 £1.61 Hake (5) 71 £4.16 £4.38 £3.29 Line mackerel (3) 77 £2.66 £1.63 £1.14 Plaice (A4) £1.12 £1.39 £1.62 £1.45 Pollack (3) 2,987 £4.88 £4.99 £4.58 Hake (6) 15 £2.40 £2.33 £2.45 Lobster 70 £17.90 £15.85 £15.51 Pollack (4) 773 £3.60 £4.03 £3.65 John Dory (1) 28 £12.93 £11.61 £13.55 Pollack (A1) £4.85 £4.85 £5.40 £4.73 Monkfish tails (1) 342 £9.58 £9.19 £10.89 Saithe (1) 12,129 £1.47 £1.99 £1.74 John Dory (2) 452 £10.85 £11.99 £12.45 Pollack (A2) £5.20 £5.20 £4.29 £4.55 Monkfish tails (2) 1,297 £10.22 £9.62 £10.90 John Dory (3) 914 £8.62 £9.11 £9.57 Pollack (A3) £4.43 £4.57 £5.27 £4.58 Saithe (2) 21,558 £1.43 £2.10 £1.74 Monkfish tails (3) 1,815 £9.72 £8.90 £10.51 John Dory (4) 244 £7.14 £6.16 £7.62 Pollack (A4) £4.35 £4.75 £3.90 £4.13 Saithe (3) 38,401 £1.38 £2.05 £1.69 Monkfish tails (4) 3,196 £8.77 £8.18 £10.22 John Dory (5) 31 £4.19 £8.24 £4.21 Saithe (4) 20,978 £1.19 £1.77 £1.62 Monkfish tails (5) 3,325 £8.09 £7.45 £7.59 Round Haddock £0.42 £0.48 £0.63 £1.51 Lemon sole (1) 68 £9.59 £10.73 £11.76 Squid 2,632 £4.08 £3.93 £4.72 Monkfish tails (6) 568 £5.73 £5.09 £3.93 Saithe (A1) £1.30 £1.32 - - Lemon sole (2) 73 £9.78 £10.59 £11.21 Octopus 2,109 £1.99 £1.84 £2.12 Saithe (A2) £1.19 £1.28 - - Turbot (0) 32 £21.40 £20.99 £20.67 Lemon sole (3) 340 £8.26 £7.95 £9.74 Plaice (1) 1,788 £5.35 £4.33 £4.69 Saithe (A3) £1.09 £1.17 - - Turbot (1) 136 £17.47 £19.33 £16.22 Lemon sole (4) 696 £2.62 £2.20 £2.34 Plaice (2) 2,673 £3.62 £3.28 £3.43 Saithe (A4) £1.04 £1.17 - - Turbot (2) 118 £14.74 £16.30 £14.58 Lemon sole (5) 285 £0.42 £0.42 £0.51 Plaice (3) 3,602 £3.15 £2.70 £3.04 Turbot (3) 472 £10.50 £13.00 £11.29 Ling (L) 351 £1.78 - £2.17 Whiting (A2) £1.90 £2.05 £2.53 £2.64 Plaice (4) 2,578 £2.52 £2.08 £2.20 Ling (M) 3 £2.17 £1.40 £1.94 Whiting (A3) £1.08 £1.38 £1.73 £2.19 Turbot (4) 1,092 £3.15 £3.50 £5.22 Plaice (5) 7,634 £1.59 £1.53 £1.74 Lobster (L) 2 £3.00 - - Whiting (A4) £1.02 £1.08 £1.00 £1.80 Whiting (2) 1,494 £1.38 £1.87 £1.47 Pollock (2) 44 £6.12 £5.31 £5.23 Mackerel (LM) 423 £3.94 £4.13 £2.98 Whiting (round) £0.72 £0.91 £0.85 £1.75 Witch (1) 238 £4.91 £5.97 £3.93 Pollock (3) 24 £5.57 £5.03 £4.55 Mackerel (M) 2,527 £1.95 £1.49 £1.71 Ray wings (blonde, 1) 221 £4.13 £3.14 £5.04 SHETLAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Witch (2) 1,262 £3.56 £4.09 £2.60 Mackerel (S) 784 £0.59 £0.47 £0.49 Ray wings (blonde, 2) 737 £3.95 £2.98 £4.14 TO 24 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Witch (3) 671 £1.00 £0.98 £1.09 Megrim (1) 268 £7.59 £5.90 £6.28 Ray wings (blonde, 3) 275 £4.08 £2.57 £3.70 Catfish 6,687 £0.28 £0.77 £3.49 Megrim (2) 632 £6.64 £5.61 £5.47 ICELAND, WEEK Kg Avg Avg, Avg, yr Ray wings (small eye, 3) 2 £3.07 - £2.88 Cod (2) 80,653 £0.38 £1.23 £3.98 TO 23 SEPTEMBER landed price/kg wk ago ago Megrim (3) 883 £4.82 £4.51 £3.91 Cod (3) 34,414 £0.25 £1.19 £3.50 Ray wings (thornback, 2) 89 £3.21 £2.13 £3.20 Blue ling (gutted) 463 £1.70 £1.13 £0.99 Megrim (4) 1,235 £3.62 £3.51 £3.10 Cod (4) 12,641 £0.20 £0.77 £2.83 Ray wings (thornback, 3) 337 £3.38 £2.05 £3.25 Megrim (5) 2,286 £2.74 £2.10 £2.30 Cod (5) 5,322 £0.47 £0.81 £2.55 Blue ling (ungutted) 29 £1.52 £1.17 - Ray wings (thornback, 4) 201 £2.85 £1.03 £2.44 Monkfish (1) 22 £10.51 £9.84 £10.56 Cod (6) 375 £0.00 £0.07 £2.60 Catfish (gutted) 4,321 £2.06 £1.90 £0.92 Red mullet (1) 87 £4.15 £3.66 £3.16 Monkfish (2) 289 £10.37 £9.33 £11.01 Haddock (1) 24,157 £0.33 £1.12 £2.78 Catfish (ungutted) 560 £1.45 £1.15 £0.74 Red mullet (2) 45 £3.20 £3.02 £2.47 Monkfish (3) 955 £9.00 £9.71 £10.69 Haddock (2) 23,077 £0.32 £1.07 £2.90 Cod (large, gutted) 28,162 £2.63 £3.62 £2.40 Red mullet (3) 17 £10.18 £9.67 £11.41 Haddock (3) 41,355 £0.15 £0.61 £2.53 Monkfish (4) 1,435 £8.53 £9.03 £10.27 Cod (large, ungutted) 80,984 £2.67 £2.59 £2.16 Round pouting 6,964 £0.31 £0.34 £0.46 Haddock (4) 102,479 £0.11 £0.33 £1.96 Monkfish (5) 2,148 £6.64 £6.82 £6.12 Cod (small, gutted) 8,213 £0.84 £1.48 £0.73 Scallop (2) 6,546 £2.11 £1.55 £7.09 Haddock (5) 99,367 £0.06 £0.19 £1.16 Octopus (M) 618 £2.07 £1.88 £2.15 Cod (small, ungutted) 4,256 £1.48 £1.47 £0.97 Scallop meat 2,237 £10.40 £10.68 £11.07 Haddock (round) 10,643 £0.00 £0.00 £0.72 Plaice (1) 259 £4.73 £3.68 £4.10 Cod cheeks 60 £6.38 £6.10 £6.35 Hake (2) 6,804 £0.81 £1.79 £4.13 Sole (1) 770 £14.71 £14.55 £17.35 Plaice (2) 138 £4.01 £3.00 £3.40 Greenland halibut (gutted) 59 £2.42 £2.43 £2.10 Hake (3) 25,026 £0.57 £1.35 £2.80 Sole (2) 1,461 £14.70 £13.56 £17.95 Plaice (3) 201 £3.53 £2.80 £3.26 Haddock (large, gutted) 42,664 £1.73 £1.59 £1.23 Hake (4) 46,192 £0.36 £0.77 £2.02 Sole (3) 1,382 £16.57 £15.54 £18.70 Plaice (4) 118 £2.55 £2.20 £2.06 Haddock (large, ungutted) 50,540 £1.77 £1.66 £1.35 Halibut (3) 1,823 £0.95 £2.32 £10.09 Sole (4) 2,090 £15.34 £14.99 £18.05 Pollack, lythe (2) 167 £5.72 £4.79 £5.47 Halibut (4) 1,336 £1.01 £2.80 £8.61 Haddock (small, gutted) 331 £1.30 £1.07 £0.40 Sole (5) 1,408 £12.59 £12.71 £16.52 Pollack, lythe (3) 731 £5.61 £4.43 £4.43 John Dory 15 £2.77 £3.43 £5.57 Haddock (small, ungutted) 997 £1.11 £1.07 £0.31 Sole (6) 1,578 £11.57 £11.49 £13.62 Pollack, lythe (4) 991 £4.47 £4.28 £3.11 Lemon sole (2) 2,827 £0.80 £2.06 £7.67 Halibut (gutted) 773 £2.10 £1.04 £2.10 Squid (1) 65 £10.05 £10.52 £10.06 Pout whiting, pouting, bib (S) 7 £0.30 £0.20 £0.31 Lemon sole (4) 7,411 £0.18 £0.57 £3.49 Lemon sole (gutted) 2,442 £2.08 £1.97 £1.38 Squid (2) 659 £7.95 £7.81 £9.01 Red mullet (1) 14 £13.13 £13.65 £13.50 Ling 90,617 £0.28 £0.79 £2.07 Ling (gutted) 1,467 £1.37 £1.10 £1.00 Squid (mix) 589 £7.96 £5.59 £7.75 Red mullet (2) 56 £13.36 £8.83 £13.60 Lythe 10,776 £0.25 £1.22 £4.22 Ling (ungutted) 3,811 £1.41 £1.23 £0.86 Turbot (1) 39 £25.15 £24.31 £23.11 Mackerel 81,534 £0.12 £0.36 £0.91 Red mullet (3) 2 £8.00 £4.55 £11.17 Megrim (gutted) 118 £1.00 £2.47 £1.89 Turbot (2) 199 £22.08 £19.07 £18.20 Megrim (2) 20,797 £0.45 £2.30 £6.03 Red mullet (4) 5 £5.62 £5.92 £6.62 Turbot (3) 241 £16.86 £15.84 £18.20 Megrim (3) 17,307 £0.30 £1.70 £4.64 Monkfish (gutted) 382 £3.61 £3.49 £2.85 Saithe (1) 7 £2.20 £1.45 £1.80 Turbot (4) 520 £14.32 £14.19 £14.13 Megrim (4) 20,270 £0.18 £1.04 £3.54 Plaice (gutted) 6,385 £2.06 £1.98 £1.78 Saithe (2) 77 £2.03 - £1.95 Monkfish (1) 4,755 £0.33 £0.99 £3.55 Redfish (ungutted) 13,210 £1.39 £1.34 £0.79 Turbot (5) 936 £12.78 £12.18 £10.21 Saithe (3) 12 £2.20 £1.38 £1.65 Monkfish (2) 34,114 £0.38 £1.24 £4.06 Saithe (gutted) 15,533 £0.97 £0.94 £0.74 Turbot (6) 249 £10.71 £10.24 £7.88 Saithe (4) 18 £1.36 £1.13 £0.79 Monkfish (3) 39,262 £0.41 £1.16 £4.59 Saithe (ungutted) 10,428 £1.01 £0.80 £0.50 Whelks 231 £1.58 £1.30 £1.35 Scallops 222 £2.56 £1.80 £1.33 Monkfish (4) 24,396 £0.32 £1.16 £4.60 Skate (gutted) 205 £0.64 £0.80 £0.10 Whiting (1) 14 £2.71 £4.00 £2.89 Shagreen ray (L) 25 £3.00 - £1.55 Monkfish (5) 9,187 £0.23 £0.92 £3.67 Spotted catfish (gutted) 1,556 £2.16 £1.54 £0.82 Whiting (2) 49 £2.37 £1.80 £2.25 Shagreen ray (M) 24 £1.36 £1.10 £1.58 Monkfish (6) 3,624 £0.11 £0.41 £2.51 Spotted catfish (ungutted) 287 £1.93 £1.16 £0.59 Whiting (3) 116 £1.06 £0.72 £1.77 Shagreen ray (S) 8 £0.20 £0.20 £0.46 Plaice (2) 9,137 £0.45 £0.89 £3.07 Tusk (gutted) 525 £0.72 £0.48 £0.51 SCRABSTER, WEEK TO Min Max Max Avg, yr Smoothhound (M) 8 £0.50 - £0.52 Plaice (3) 12,227 £0.28 £0.53 £2.55 Tusk (gutted) 525 £0.72 £0.48 £0.51 23 SEPTEMBER price/kg price/kg 1m ago ago Squid (L) 75 £8.26 £1.00 £9.30 Plaice (4) 17,772 £0.17 £0.31 £1.63 Squid (M) 58 £9.00 £9.31 £8.55 Saithe (2) 23,950 £0.16 £0.40 £1.61 Tusk (ungutted) 1,987 £0.41 £0.40 £0.27 Cod £2.57 £4.46 £3.96 £4.25 Squid (S) 4 £7.29 £3.00 £6.69 Saithe (3) 53,693 £0.21 £0.42 £1.43 Whiting (gutted) 259 £0.60 £0.14 - Hake £0.71 £4.63 £1.04 £2.57 Saithe (4) 67,425 £0.17 £0.41 £1.27 Whiting (ungutted) 75 £0.31 £0.41 £0.42 Halibut £13.50 £15.00 £11.25 - Thornback Ray (M) 39 £1.12 £2.80 £1.43 Turbot (1) 26 £20.20 £18.04 £16.50 Skate 8,880 £0.04 £0.14 £1.02 Witch (gutted) 33 £1.37 £1.54 - Lemon sole £4.00 £4.36 £2.14 £3.67 Turbot (2) 20 £15.98 £19.03 £16.90 Skate, mixed 631 £0.03 £0.12 £0.48 Witch (ungutted) 542 £1.03 £1.06 £1.23 Ling £1.80 £1.80 £0.96 £2.19 Skate, roker 704 £0.08 £0.34 £1.09 Turbot (3) 17 £19.86 £16.00 £18.73 Megrims £2.47 £2.47 £2.96 £4.13 Squid 7,504 £0.66 £1.41 £4.58 LOWESTOFT, WEEK Price/kg Price/kg Avg, Avg, 4 Turbot (4) 20 £16.45 £15.40 £15.84 TO 24 SEPTEMBER minimum maximum yr ago yr ago Monkfish £2.90 £2.90 £3.85 £4.58 Turbot 664 £0.99 £4.21 £12.96 Turbot (5) 69 £13.02 £12.87 £13.77 Whiting (2) 27,094 £0.25 £0.84 £2.55 Bass £9.00 £13.50 £16.00 £15.13 Plaice £1.80 £1.88 £2.17 £2.68 Turbot (6) 78 £11.43 £10.87 £11.05 Whiting (3) 75,708 £0.15 £0.51 £2.05 Dover sole £5.00 £19.00 £19.00 £17.25 Saithe £0.83 £0.83 £1.00 Whiting (1) 187 £1.96 £2.19 £2.26 Whiting (4) 18,214 £0.01 £0.36 £1.09 Herring £3.50 £3.50 £0.00 £1.10 Squid £3.33 £7.33 £5.17 Whiting (2) 44 £1.15 £1.45 £1.44 Whiting, round 165,254 £0.05 £0.15 £0.90 Skate £0.80 £2.50 £3.00 £1.58 Whiting £0.83 £2.20 £1.11 £1.56 Whiting (3) 216 £0.78 £0.40 £0.68 1 October 2020 Join Fishing News on Facebook http://on.fb.me/fishingnews PORTS AND PRICES 23

English whitefish and shellfish landings, January - June data, last three years

Bass landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Brill landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Gurnard landings and prices, Jan- Jun data 90 £12.00 600 £8.40 400 £1.40 £8.20 80 350 £1.20 £10.00 500 £8.00 70 300 £7.80 £1.00 400 60 £8.00 £7.60 250 50 £7.40 £0.80 £6.00 300 200 40 £7.20 £0.60 £7.00 150 30 £4.00 200 £0.40 £6.80 100 20 100 £6.60 £2.00 50 £0.20 10 £6.40 - £0.00 - £6.20 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019Newlyn 2020 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019Newlyn 2020 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019Newlyn 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 Landings (£'000, left scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Price per kg (£, right scale)

Lemon sole landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Monkfish landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Plaice landings and prices, Jan- Jun data 800 £6.00 2,500 £3.50 900 £3.00 700 800 £5.00 £3.00 £2.50 2,000 700 600 £2.50 £4.00 600 £2.00 500 1,500 £2.00 500 400 £3.00 £1.50 £1.50 400 300 1,000 £2.00 300 £1.00 £1.00 200 500 200 £1.00 £0.50 100 £0.50 100 - £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019Newlyn 2020 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019Newlyn 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020

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Turbot landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Skate & rays landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Sole landings and prices, Jan- Jun data 3,500 £14.00 1,200 £14.00 300 £1.80 £1.60 3,000 £12.00 1,000 £12.00 250 £1.40 £10.00 2,500 £10.00 800 200 £1.20 2,000 £8.00 £8.00 £1.00 600 150 £6.00 £0.80 1,500 £6.00 400 100 £0.60 1,000 £4.00 £4.00 £0.40 200 50 500 £2.00 £2.00 £0.20 - £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn 2018Newlyn 2019Newlyn 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Landings (£'000, left scale) Price per kg (£, right scale) Price per kg (£, right scale)

Pollack landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Cuttlefish landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Lobster landings and prices, Jan- Jun data 1,000 £3.50 6,000 £4.50 450 £20.00 900 £4.00 400 £18.00 £3.00 5,000 800 £3.50 350 £16.00 700 £2.50 £14.00 4,000 £3.00 300 600 £12.00 £2.00 £2.50 250 500 3,000 £10.00 £1.50 £2.00 200 400 £8.00 2,000 £1.50 150 300 £1.00 £6.00 200 £1.00 100 £4.00 £0.50 1,000 100 £0.50 50 £2.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020

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Scallop landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Squid landings and prices, Jan- Jun data Crab landings and prices, Jan- Jun data 3,000 £2.50 400 £10.00 1,400 £4.00 350 £9.00 1,200 £3.50 2,500 £2.00 £8.00 300 £3.00 £7.00 1,000 2,000 250 £2.50 £1.50 £6.00 800 1,500 200 £5.00 £2.00 600 £1.00 150 £4.00 £1.50 1,000 £3.00 400 100 £1.00 £0.50 £2.00 500 200 £0.50 50 £1.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 - £0.00 Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn Brixham Brixham Brixham Newlyn Newlyn Newlyn 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020

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Advertising on these pages is free for fishermen selling used boats and equipment. If you are a commercial supplier, please contact TalkMedia Sales on 01732 447008 SEE INSIDE! Online screening tells An Ocean Story The Scottish Fisheries continue to be sustainable into Museum has teamed up with the future.” Netherlands-based charitable Following the screening, foundation By The Ocean We there will be an exclusive Unite to screen an insightful conversation facilitated by the and moving environmental museum, so virtual attendees documentary. can discuss the themes On Friday, 2 October from explored in the film. 7-9pm, the museum invites you This event forms part of a to join it for an online screening programme of activities linked of An Ocean Story, the feature- to Sea Change, the marine length documentary by environment-themed 50th Kirkwall RNLI rescues crew from Sander Van Weert featuring anniversary Scottish Fisheries stricken vessel National Geographic explorer- Museum exhibition, which is See page 2 in-residence and president/ now on an extended run until chair of Mission Blue Sylvia the end of the year after the Earle, president of Iceland players in the fields of politics, Scottish Fisheries Museum original dates were cut short Guðni Jóhannesson and the environmental research and events officer Andrea Elder by the temporary museum UN secretary-general’s special commerce to explore what said: “The marine environment closure necessitated by the envoy for the ocean Peter people, businesses and is at the forefront of our pandemic. The exhibition Thomson. politicians can do to save our minds, and that is reflected can also be seen online at: At the World Ocean Summit fragile ocean ecosystem. The in our Sea Change exhibition. scotfishmuseum.org 2018, filmmaker Sander Van interviews are interspersed We think it is important that Tickets for the online film Weert, aquatic biologist Nanne with visits to people fighting innovative films like An Ocean screening cost £5 and can van Hoytema and founder to ensure the livelihoods of Story are screened to show be obtained from the Scottish of By The Ocean We Unite all those who depend on the the impact of the threats our Fisheries Museum Eventbrite Thomas van Thiel talked to key ocean. waters face, so fishing can page at: bit.ly/3hWpJFA

Roles of Seafish and Seafood Scotland ‘need urgent review’ Physios reopen Unusual catch See page 2 to fishermen for Troon skipper A skipper fishing 10 miles rescue officer Sheena after lockdown off the Ayrshire coast on 18 MacTaggart said: “This was September was somewhat a very unusual rescue. I’ve The Seafarers’ Hospital available from a local clinic taken aback when a never been contacted about Society (SHS) has at a time that suits the cockatiel landed on his boat. a bird finding its way so far confirmed that seafarer, and it’s all paid for He gave his unexpected out to sea. physiotherapists offering by the society. passenger food and water “Thank goodness the free treatment to fishermen Sandra added: “It’s and, after he landed, handed boat was there so the bird New Resolute runs first engine are now open for business been a tough few months the bird over to the Scottish found somewhere to rest. trials and, with all Covid-19 for fishermen and their SPCA’s Ayrshire animal “We have named him Hei See page 5 precautions in place, it’s families as the market rescue and rehoming centre, Hei after the bird in the film safe to go in for help. for fish hit rock bottom. which has issued an appeal Moana who stows away on Chief executive officer But the fishing industry to locate its owner. her boat. We thought it was Sandra Welch explained: is getting back on its feet, Scottish SPCA animal very fitting!” “The society has been and fishermen are working funding free physio hard to make the most of treatment for fishermen the opportunities while the for over a decade now, weather is good. Of course but when the coronavirus that’s great, but they need to struck, many of the make sure they don’t neglect clinics offering the service their health. had to close. Some “Our message to them is continued to see patients that now’s the time to pay Potting on Predator virtually, but face-to-face attention to your own needs, See pages 10-15 consultations were not and if you think you might available. The good news need treatment, our physios is that physiotherapists are are open for business. So if opening their doors again, you’re worried about your and fishermen need to back or your neck, or your know about it.” knees are giving you trouble Working at sea is one again, go to the SHS website of the most challenging and find a local physio. Tell jobs in the UK, and the your colleagues, tell your number of work-related crew, tell your mates and, injuries is high. Time spent as long as you’re based in Sondra – Scallop dredging on offshore means it can be the UK, the treatment is Shetland inshore boat difficult getting treatment, absolutely free.” See pages 16-19 so the Seafarers’ Hospital For more information, Society funds fast-track go to: seahospital.org.uk/ physiotherapy for working fast-access-physiotherapy or SEE INSIDE! seafarers. Treatment is call: 020 8858 3696. ‡ Hei Hei recovering after his fishing trip. (Photo: Scottish SPCA)